Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1896-06-04
II these subjects.

of these subjects.
The gentleman's closing words
We're brilliant and n fitting close to
the able address. By his courtesy
we are enabled to reproduce this
peroration, which was as follows:
I'VE need more integrity, more
patriotism, more intelligence among
those who cast their ballots upon
all the great questions that concern
our national prosperity and shape
the destiny of this Republic. lfevery
man were as just and honest and
kept the interests of this great nation
as steadily in view as Abraham
| Lincoln, we would have a govern
ment without a. single flaw. He
was the grandest man that ever
held i'm his sublime hand the symbol
of IA nations power; man of deepest
sympathy for all the penniless poor;
a man whose great charitable heart
throbbed through every hour of his
gentle life for the quivering lips and
trembling hands of all the cringing,
covering slaves: a man who though
sovereign of an imperial Republic
entertained principles which. if
properly put into execution, would
replace every thistle of misery in the
tice and fill this world With rippling
10y; a man who went deeper than
the constitution of his country, and
taking into his peerless hands the
immortal declaration of independ-
ence, justly and profoundly read
'all men are created equal In the
darkest days of sorrow with dread
: full conspiracies upon his life, among
the gravest peIils and fears, he hat
the fearless daring, the unwavering
courage and the magnificent man
hood, to sign his immortal name tt
: the proclamation of emancipation
With the hand of magic he turned q
. government humane in theory an,
made it such in reality. Hebanishet
; from the cotton fields the yoke %
l tyranny and fear. He struck from
the hands of the weak the fetters q
over two hundred years. He de
stroyed the auction block ant
. stopped the sale of human flesh. III
: lifted four millions of beseiged from
4 the depths of calling servitude. III
i. made men of brutcs and women q
covering slaves. He took the blood
D hound from the fugitive's track an
v turned it's feet forever from the chas
n of human flesh. With one stroke G
his charitable hand he cut dow
every whipping post and took frol
ID many bruised and bleeding forI
e (under the possibilities of the law
4 the barbarous, tOrturing lash. Il
the fullness of his great, warm
humane heart he knelt gently owe
, all the cradles of the humble an
II oppressed and unfastened chain
a from dimpled hands, and smoothe
away the inherited scars of the cer
turies. He gave to every colore
/ Ia. To-. n.
t the constitution that allowed hin
g to be enthralled He gave the law
heart and our government a col
. science He buried slavery upon ou
e soil and placed over it's silent dust
,f monument OF shame forever. ii
IN blotted from our nations flag II
great stain and sent il over til
wandering waves Of every sea fioa
P ing from it's mast without an equa
n He did all this to have his countr
n "a nation of justice, equality an
right. A country whose power
y the people, a government of, for an
II by the people, a nation bound by II
3, seas. domed by heavens blue and ]
y by the eternal stars.
The program being concluded I'll
a march to the cemeteries was begu
-, and the graves of two veterans an
# two SONS of veterans were decorate
,a beside those i'm the Catholic buryin
10 ground. The flower girls plays
n their part i'm the program and Il
:, official ritual OF the G. A. X. Wa
h. followed.
al Altogether the observance wa
o. very impressive and complete al
~ the post desires that their thanks
,a publicly extended to one and all WI
participated and added so much
the occasion, not forgetting MI
10 Frank Day who was ommitted
- the vote of thanks extended at &
IN hall. but who expended so mu'
: effort i'm the furnishing of Howe
:. and in decorating the hall