The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-09-14
PATRIOTIC MEMORIES THE
sTEESGTH OF sATIos.

sTEENGTH OF A sATI0S.
The vensrabls Judge T. Z. Hoar opened
hts stirring speech at the Concord centsn-
niaI. April 70, ISIS. banquet with this
sentence, which rang like the call Of .
cavalry bugse sounding the charge:
"Pat1otic memories are the strength Of .
nation" James @. Blaine followed Judge
Hoar in an eloquent speech. but nothing
that be said woke more applause than this
short. stern sentence Of that grim Puritan
patriot. Judge Hoar, speaking. rs he did,
In tones Of solemn fervor that sounded
like the deep grumbls OF gathering thun-
der, or, IS bitter enemy Of Judge Hosr
put IL. like the rumble or an artillery
wagon over q corduroy road"
Sure enough. patriotic memories are the
strength Of g nation, and = nation il in .
healthy state according as patriotic memo
Ireland is an illustration; there Is no more
vital, indsyidnaIistic race in Europe than
ths Irish: there is none more intensely
patriotic; the Independence Of Ireland Is
poetic dream, bat home rule for Ireland is
practicable, and 10 sure TO come because
these ardent Irishmsn from the days Of
Grsttan and Flood. Of Burke and Fox in
the last century. down TO the days of
Gladstone and Justin Mccarthy, have
never lost heart and hope for Ireland.
The test of the vitality OF a race is the
capacity to do all and risk all '.for the
- .x,sffsor. -.
The words of Judge Hoar that We have
quoted as our text are freshly called TO
mind when We read of the spectacle Of
1000 old soldiers Of the great war for the
Union marching through the streets Of
Pittsburg. Pa. amid the cheers of thou
sacrifices. These 90 900 old soldiers stepped
proudly, II feebly, to the old war music at
whose peremptory call they had q genera
ton ago rushed to the rescue of the old
flag
That bugis blast, so wild ana strong,
That stirred so many hearts 90 long,
speloeueut of right 'gaiust wrong.
ssill echoes in the hearts Of men
And plays the same old tunes again.
IL Is reassuring 10 know at this hour,
when the veterans of the great war for the
Union are beginning to grow faint, II not
few. that the hearts of the people still
keep time with the dying drum beats of
the q. A. R
There is another side to this iine picture
Of national life: IL Is the spectacle of a
president OF the United States so dull and
''fat witted, with drinking OF old sack and
unhuttoning him after supper and sleep
ing upon benches after noon" that he
never has any time TO visit any patriotic
reunions. nor inclination to speak any
patriotic words either in his first term or
his second term. Confederate Gen. Cor.
don is genial and high-souled enough to
visit Pittsburg and bare his head to the
old flag and the old soldiers whom he
manfnlly fought and who as manfully
fought him. The Republicans in congress
are ready to vote for Gen. Longstreet's
application for an increase of his Mexican
war pension because they honor him as an
oath-ksepIng. peace-seeking, country-sus-
tanning Confederate since he laid down
bis arms There IL common, manly
sympathy between the brave survivors,
North and South. Of the great civil war.
IL Was Col. Marshall. the military and
confidential secretary Of Gen. Robert +.
Lee, the grand nephew Of the great Chief
Justice Marshall. who May so. 1892 deliv.
cred the Grafton over the tomb of Gen.
Grant Among other things, Col. Mar.
shall said:
Gen. Grant said 10 Gen. Lee. with great
emphasis and strong feeling: Gen Lee.
! want this war 10 end without the shed
ding Of another drop OF American blood
Not Northern blood, not Southern
blood, bat American blood. for in his
eyes all the men around him and al those
who might be then confronting each other
on other fields ever the vide area Of war
were Americans
These words m ds q great impression
upon all who heard them. as they did
upon Gen. Lee. who told as, with no little
emotion. that he took occasion to express
10 Gen. Grant his appreciation Of the
noble and generous sentiments uttered by
him. and assured him that he would rem
der all the assistance Ia bis power TO brin {
ahont the restoration Of peace and good
will without shedding another drop OF
American blood.
81 doubt II the self.abnsgatlon Of Wash
ington 81 Annapolis Was greater than that
OF Grant at Appomattox, and il is the
glory OF America that her institution.
breed men who are equal 20 the greatest
strain that can be pas upon their courage
and their patriotism.
There Was never nobler knight than
the Grant Of Apron knight
mere magnantmous or more generous
Here upon this sacred spot. my breth,
rcn, raise a noble and grand temple, The
hope and assurance OF the defenders oi
our national faith. and upon this altar In,
scribe for the teaching Of the comins
generations Of Americans the ilnstrlous
name: Grant Of AppomAitoz-Grant the
mAgnanimous.
There Is q common ground where meH
Of the North and men Of the South cas-
aud do meet today 30 reiieEate the wordi
Of Judge Hear: patriotic memories ars
the strength OF = nation-" Longssreet
Jos Johnston, BeaErsgard and Bucknei
we're al able % occupy this ground. bal
outside its pale has always stood Groves
| Cleveland. In his frst term he showed &C
utter ABSENCE Of patriotic feeling By select
/ Ing notorious eoppeTheAds for oface. H'
/ wss urged 20 send var Democrat &
I sena Mcclellan or Siocam as minister
10 Eaglsnd, bat be decided TO send az
/ eloquent dsfamer and eer.der OF Lincoln
/ aad bis war policy from Sumter 90 Appo