The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-05-31


fering, submitting to- injury and insult
rather than see the country plunged into
civil war. 1t was an assault upon the
rights of man, the freedom of speech and
the potency Of the ballot. What other
name can history use when it describes
rightly the awful act of firing upon Stump
ter but treason? Let 1t be writer, and
may never be in doubt, that Jefferson
Davis and his confederacy were. in re-
bellion against the country of Washington
end Adams and jefferson, and that Abra-
ham Lincoln and his generals and soldiers
were the defenders of the right man, the
promoters OF liberty and the preservers
Thus far have spoken of the past
It is fitting that dwell little upon
the present and the future. Nce hath
its dangers and its duties as We. s war.
The security of that magnificent. "a ST
ought to be the foundation upon W. oh
we will build for all time. This mon,
ment stands for the preservation of the
Union.
'"rhe Union must and shall be pre-
served should be made the motto of
every state and the pass word of every
organization. When Lee surrendered to
Grant at AppomattoX Court House, twenty
nine years. ago, it was determined that
this American republic. from Plymouth
Rock to the Golden Gate, from where
the waters of the great northern lakes
dart themselves over Niagara to where
the Father of Waters" roll onward be-
meath tropical sun, shall forever consti-
TUE enc country under one flag under
one law, singing. one song and the theme
OF that law and that song:
i a union of lakes. union of lands,
A union of states none can sever,
! A union of hearts, a union of hands,
| And the flag of the Union forever.
+! 1t may be that we old soldiers are over
sensitive and too suspicious. Be that as
it may, I shall stand guard while there
is a solid south making solid claims on
the party in power. My comrades did
you know that twenty of the United
Nf14 c-.l-
army, and only ten in the Union army?
That twenty-five of the confederate SOL
diers are chairmen of committees in the
Senate and twenty-five are chairmen IN
the House? The Union soldiers have
six chairmen in the Senate and four in
the House These figures and others as
striking were given by the New York
The National Tribune, in a recent issue,
gives the following: The property of the
at $65,OOO, 0600 COO The southern NJ (seceded1
states possess $S,0O0,000,0O0. The border
states 5000, 900. Total S13, OOO 900, 900.
northern states. The committee on ways
and means is composed largely of south
ern gentlemen. Some of whom were con-
federate soldiers. There may not be suffi-
Gent in all this to be worthy of note,
nevertheless while this government is in
the hands and at the dictation of a solid
south Grand Army veterans will remem-
Der that Eternal vigilance is the price
of liberty"
Many of those who come to us make
useful and patriotic citizens. 1 have not
forgotten the 1riShman who fought under
General AIeagher, nor the German who
followed the brave Siegel. 1 welcome any
descent element from any country, who
come here to be loyal Americans. That
wise thinker, Chauncey Depew, has we'll
said: I'VE can still welcome those who
VIII add to our strength and assist in the
should rigidly inquire who these emigrants
are and for what purpose they come We
are no longer in need of the surplus popu-
/ lation of the old world and should care
! cholera, yellow fever and small pox, and
we ought to have national department
OF political health, empowered to search
for paupers and criminals, and by summary
] procedure to seize the open and blatant
enemies OF our government who are not
/ citizens, and send them home"
We are confronted with the most stu
pendous problems that ever appealed to
| any government. Problems" saws Glad
! stone, arising from the complexities and
rerplexities of conserving the integrity of
modern civilization From the sub-arctic
lands of Ireland to the shores of the
! iellesport, from the Spanish peninsula to
not a nation, not tribe or people but
IS sending its mighty contingent, wasted
nv despotsm, and corrupted by vice, into
the eastern portions of the continent,
while, the celestials, REPRESENTATIVE are
numbering at the western portals and
f r2oan f admiz ikH our population has
I millions ~
over sixty millions since the war. George
] Bancroft was born when we had but 0c6 :
wv; when ne died we had $1,000, 600. joseph
S NO I,, says mat IN the year two thousand
Gladstone thinks we will have 800 COZ. (No
Formerly We received the very best ele
ne men OF all Municipalities. 1t does seem
getting down to the very dregs We have
made ourselves the Botany bay of the
tSo d. we nave thrown our doors open
an TO-
! Of garbage. Some one has said There
Is oanger that our boasted republic will
beeetne one vast menagerie, with the
hordes gather ed from the Sums of all
! lands march to the pools, full-fedged citi-
s sfa5 ana elect the president of the United
should from this hour write in broad ls ge
i iS which will shine over ali the world I'D !:
N Xga ainarf fbis r5 need apply, :"
sehool house. Let me quote again from
that clear thinker, Mr.. Depew: dIen 0ri
ahce judges yes the invisible by the visible.
| s sne snip OF state must be the public
! scnooI; 1t is impossible to maintain our
IePttolic Tor any great length of time
W W. are lnt nt We are not slaves.
hnoWs no law but his own will. We
| are Americans with the blood of ances
tors, who fought for liberty at Runne
burg, running through our veins orr re-
pubic IS dependent upon the will of the
people therefore an intelligent people
acne astien can al maintain it The life of the
be not free to all. To guard the sIIf
! Irages OF a free people from the arts of
demagogues, and the insidious encroach-
pace and power with the very money
| OF The state, we must maintain the com
mon school s Home shall teach obedi-
ence, the church shall teach religion, but
the, public school shall teach knowiedge
and patriotism to the state at the eS
pense of the state and no influence must
Ihte1TIere. whoever is an enemy of the
public school is an enemy of our coun1
Try, whether Methodist, Romanist, Chris
tan or infdel.
General Grant, addressing the army of
the tennessee, a a reunion in 1876, said:
/ IF there is going to be another battle
/ in the near future of our national exist
j ence, the dividing line will not be Ma
sons and Dixon SHAT DIVIDING line will
! be intelligence and patriotism on the the one
hand, and ignorance and superstition on
the other. And then adds, Cultivate
as you e love America, free speech, free
church and state distinct. or the time
may come when our republic will fall,
through the apathy of it's citizens
silent hero to Corinth, Shiloh, Vicksburg.
/ Chattanooga, the Wilderness and on to
! AppomatoX. Will you obey, and teach
i your . chlldren to obey, the great com
the high tower, the thick wall and the
moated gate of the republic?"
This monument stands for patriotism
! Brea thes there a man with soul so dead
That never to himself hath said
This is my own, my native land?"
The need of America is patriotism.
! do not mean the loud and frothy sort
that gets itself off in a Fourth of July
racket, and in mere bombast. We need
! the patriotism of principle and intelli-
gence growing out of knowledge of our
history, constitution and laws. We need