The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-31

divide the effects of negotiations Both
parties deprecated war; but one of
them would make war rather than
let the nation survive and the other
would accent war rather than let it
perish. And the war came One-eighth
of the whole POPULATION were colored
slaves, not distributed generally over
the Union, but localized in the southern
portion of it. These slaves constituted
a peculiar and powerful interest All
knew that this interest was, somehow
the cause of the war. To strengthen,
perpetuate and extend this interest was
the object for which the insurgents
would rend the Union, even by war;
while the government claimed no right
to do more than to restrict the terri
torial enlargement of it, Neither party
expected for the war the magnitude or
the duration which it has already at
tanned. Neither anticipated that the
cause of the conflict might cease with.
or even before, the conflict itself should
cease. Each looked for an easier tri-
uniph, and a result less fundamental
and astounding. Both read the same
bible and pray to the same God and
each invokes His aid against the ether.
1t may seem strange that men
should dare to ask just Gods assist
ance in wringing their bread from the
sweat of other mems faces; but let us
judge not that we be not judged. The
prayers of both could not be answered
that of neither has been answered
fully. The Almighty has His own pur-
pose. Woe unto the world because of
offenses, for it must needs be that Of
lenses come; but woe to that man by
whom the offense cometh.' If we shall
suppose that American slavery is one
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dence of God, must needs come-but
which, having continued through His
appointed time He now wills to remove
and that He gives to both north and
south this terrible war, as the woe
due to those by whom the offense
came, shall we discern therein any
departure from those divine attributes
which the believers in a living God al
ways ascribe to Him? Fondly do we
hope-fervently do we pray-that this
mighty scourge of war may speedily
pass away. Yet if God wills that it
continue until all the wealth piled by
the bondsman's $50 years of unrequited
toll shall be sunk, and until every drop
of blood drawn with the lash shall be
paid with another drawn with the
sword, as was said three thousand
years ago, so still it must be said the
judgments of the Lord are true and
righteous altogether With malice to-
ward none; with charity for all; with
firmness in the right, as God gives us
to see the right, let us strive on to
finish the work we are in; to bind up
the nations wounds; to care for him
who shall have borne the battle, and
for his widow and his orphan-to do
all which may achieve and cherish a
just and lasting place among ourselves
and with all nations"
SOME OF THE BENEFITS.
AS the result of that war
today race stands emancipated:
today these United States, one and in
Invisible, with their unlimited resour-
ces, stand as solid phalanx against
foreign invasion, and free from fear of
International disruption; today we
bask in the sunshine of peace, secured
in the inalienable right of life. liberty
and the pursuit of happiness"
These are some of the great bene-
its bequeathed to us as a sacred leg
acy by the soldiers whose heroic lives
and deaths we have this day met to
commemorate.
But, great and far-reaching as these
eneflts are, they do not comprise ALL |
indeed, it would be difficult to deter
mine the extent or the limit of those |
10y, which surely can be, either direct
y or indirectly, attributed to the tri- |
lmphant termination of the Union
:auSe.
AS a direct result we as a people !
Irrespective of geographical section !
Ire made amenable to constitutional !
aw and our state enactments must be |
n conformity Herewith.
This insures great uniformity of /
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S a potential means for preserving |
peace and good order throughout the |
Union.
Again our ability to regulate by law
,ur commercial relations with other
instead of engaging in ruin
JUS state or sectional competition, is
IN advantage now vouchsafed to the
lation.
The pacific policy pursued by the
toward the confederate
orces and their sympathizers after
he close of the war accomplished Won
lers in the way of burying old issues,
enewing mutual confidence and reviv-
ng revolutionary patriotism for our
COMMON country.
The confederacy was not without it's
'atriots Mistaken and disastrous as
We believe the confederate cause to
lave been. yet who can doubt the
antly for it? Are not all patriots who
i've their lives for any cause they
leem just and right?
Even Jefferson Davis, who had been
ent a prisoner to Fortress Monroe,
vas set at liberty as soon as the bitter
ceilings in the north had subsidized
With the lapse of time.
So that today that glorious emblem
f liberty, the stars and stripes, floats
r.. IL - @,.iO
Who wore the gray, as we'll as over
hat of the valiant soldier who wore
he blue.
BY the flow of the inland river
Whence the fleets of iron have fed,
Where the blades of the grave-grass
sleep on the ranks of the dead;
Jnder the sod and the dew
Waiting the judgment day,
Jnder the one. the blue,
Under the other, the gray.
And what shall we say of the noble
women, the wives and the mothers
Who gave their husbands and their
ons for their country? Who can meas
ire the scope Of the sacrifices they
made, or the hardships they endured;
nd the loving sisters who gave their
rothers, yes. and their lovers, too.
We're they not also patriots?
In ioVllS LlLpuee iet Us ocueCh Inc
raves of all, for this world is itself
ground. Life is the battle all
aust hight, and did we but know the
history of all who sleep, what glor-
GUS record we should have of valiant
eeds performed, of noble self-sacri-
ces, OF patriotic devotion.
CHIEF JUSTICE ZANE.
AS soon as the governor had COM
leted his address Chief Justice Zane
yas introduced.
The chief justice said he was not