The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-09-04

rison and Harriet Stowe had come; because
Lincoln and Seward and Stanton had come;
because Grant and Sherman and Sheridan had
come; because two million soldiers of the flag
had come; because the great and terrible day
of the Lord had come, and not all the powers
of evil could longer buttress the bafled in
EQUITY of the ages.
The soldiers of the Union onlv did their
share. Stupendeus- their aggregate of
honor is, to each can come but a fractional
inconsiderable part. Yet it is enough And
ty of encomium who went up in chariots of
fire, through sulphurous battle-clouds to adj
vance lines in the battalions of the blessed.
Together they marched and camped and
fought and conquered Dying they sealed
their sacrifice with martyrdom. Surviving
they. had proved their willingness to die, and
lived to clasp with joy the sweetness of re-
stored affection, pride and hope.
They marched through wildernesses and
across mountains; through blooming farm
steads and reckoning orchards Redeemed for
the clutch of hungry hands. They marched
through burning sands or sitting lime-dust
white shredded alkali; through shoreless
marched through settlements of frowning.
alienated countrymen toward embattled
legions which blindly, bravely warred against
right and light. They marched through
iron letters, up to the shining heights of
fame.
They camped in cotton fields and cane
brakes; in groves of magnolia and myrtle
where jack pots were juicy; in Towering
suburbs where sweet hams blossomed in the
smoke house, and fat turkeys ripened in the
open air. They camped in shelter tents of
abbreviated area, or in huts of brush and
straw, on the levees of murmuring rivers
and on the shore of the sounding sea- They
camped in still forests, where the fond melod-
ious mule could saturate seven cubic miles
of atmosphere with opera music in seventeen
seconds without rebuke. Their morning drum
beat belted half the continent with
tinuous strain of jubilant reveille; their
bugle-calls ring through the air today, awak-
ening echoes in our hearts that are tuneful
song of triumph on the lips Of cherubim.
They fought the aged ancient mildews of
q hideous past and fused whole glad new
century of aspiration into four years of
matchless achievement. They fought against
monstrous error for eternal truth. On land
and sea they fought the battles CT humanity
fought against bayonets and bullets against
grape and shell. against howitzers and column
biads. against turrets and torpedoes, against
breastworks and bastions bristling with
sharpened steel. They fought across en-
fladed valleys kissing with hot death bolts
and red with volcanic wrath UP rugged hill
sides crested with flames of hell
They conquered armed rebellion and won
glorious peace. They conquered those who
tore our banner down. and they lifted it to
peerless eXatatioI. They gained victory
so complete, so incontestible that they could
safely restore the vanquished to a full share
IN the guardianship of repudiated heritage.
They conquered slavery with It's multiples of
horror. They conquered navies and armies
generals and admirals. seaports and citadeis
end capitels, senator's, cabinets and presi-
dents: They conquered states. and built
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