The Newtown bee., 1896-07-03

embodied in the term, "tho right of ect essiOn." But the War took that right and stabbed it ill the heart and placed it in coffin and dug it's grave aud said ; "F0r the men who died, sincerely but mistakenly, in the defence of this right there shall be a glorious resurrection. but for this right, never" The War, when brought 10 close, said ''Seccs- sion is dead, udiyiduaIism-of the wrong sort -is dead, and these cannot be revived" 1 say the War, when brought to close, declared this It was the close of long struggle. For years that quca. tjou had been Iu dispute, whether we were one Nation or many nations, one unit or collection Of units, one empire O. &n aggregation of inharmouious States. This question went back to the Jin1 of Daniel Wooster and John C. Cal b@uu and Auurew Jackson, and even autelatcd these. South Carolina thought il had the right to sccade, and the other states followed. But when the War closed, these wandering sheep camc back into the fold, and they shall go nc more hence forever.
 This, my friend, is not recalling all olu war issue the time for that has gone by . We look to the War only that it ma2 teach Us something about the present we run back over the saiIing-chart (. 30 years ago only to see how to guid, the old Ship of State now. Withered b, his hand and paIsied be his tongue wh, takes advantage of these memorial Occa. 9ions to call Lo life old ghosts that v all are glad aIc buried. The vete
 ans vhO once wore the blue4and u, veterans who ouce wore the gray tod scatter roses side Dy side.
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 aye, there is no bloody chasm, for eveI } ycstige of It has been wiped out. Bu secession comes up to-day in anothtl form, and that form comes nol. to our mind. Shall there b silver republic in the West: Shall the Rocky Mountains, which seen natural boundary, mark a division-li1 ( between q republic on the east thl i champions a gold standard of value an@ republic on the west that champions 4 silver standard of value! There has been some talk about that, but it seems raChe out of the range of possibility; yet therl is secession of a more iDsidious sort Ii is this: Shall the Italian who comes to these shores always be an Italian il spirit? shall he always want to live here as the Italian lives in his own land, ir filth and rags, in squalor and wretched ness, upon macaroni and black bread Shall an anarchist, who comes from i land where the red flag is Haunted, ana the bomb and dynamite are the cowardly weapons of attack that are used, thinl that he can be an anarchist here? Shall the one who comes out from the land Ot Russia with it's anti.Semitic burden of oppression think that he can Oppress ali whom he chooses here? In other words, is this country to be America, wiCh American ideas--the ideas fostered by our fathers, the principles bequeathed us by the men of Puritan bIood-or is it to be country American in name, but, in fact, little Germany, 8 little Bo- hemia, little Italy, a little Poland, a little Ireland, ali thrown together in a heterogeneous mass, but not united?
 What Is America? What is the type of American manhood, you ask? You come to these 5shores and adopt this country as their country shall make themselves thoroughly American ir spirit and in life, where these are to fine the pattern and the type? We'll, gc back to the! opening of the War. .Sec the young man stand at the gate anC press the hand of his loved one, the on: to whom he has plighted his trCth See him give the last fond kiss and turl away, while the tears, the manly tears course down his cheeks, and the ont left at the gate throws her apron owe her eyes, that she may not see him go There is American. manhood in that. See the father look st his littIe ones as they sleep side by side in their trundIe-beds and then, feeling big lump coming u in his throat, press the wife whom h 1 may never see again to his side, an steal out into the shadows withou saying word There is America manhood in thatl See the smithy leav lhissforge, the student his books, tn farmer his plough, the minister hi sacred desk-for ministers were nc towards in those daysan go to tn front at the call of Lincoln for volur