Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-06-01
MUSIC HALL FULL TO HEAR HIM
STRONG PLEA FOR DUE RECoGNI-
TION OF UNION VETERANS.
Eloquent Review of the Struggle That
Put Down Secession and AbOI-
iShed American Slavery
Soldiers in the Ranks
EuIOgized.


| spoke tonight. Both addresses were re
ceived with marked approval.
! Perfect weather, clear atmosphere ana
| cloudless sky blessed the greatest Memoir
| ial day parade that has passed through the
| streets Of Cincinnati. 1t was in six divis'
| ions and included the Grand Army posts
| the Union Veterans Union, the Sons OF
| Veterans and the boys of the public
schools. 1t took an hour in passing. On
both sides of Fourth street the girls OF
| the schools were ranged to witness the pa
! rade. They were all provided with small
| flags. The passing of the gray haired and
! tottering veterans bearing with stern pride
| their cherished battle flags was to the
| children a lesson of patriotism not soon to
| be forgotten. Following them came the
battalions of boys, and flags without num-
| Der. In no other country could there be
| found a pageant so full of significance.
Major Warmers address at Music hall
| tonight was as follows:
Mr.. Chairmen, Comrades, Ladies and
| GeEtlemen:-Stranger that 1 am within
your gates, the welcome you have given
| me makes me feel that am at home, that
1 am in the house of my friend. The ties
Of ccmradeship that bind one to another,
| the survivors of the men who composed the
Onion army and navy from 81 to 3, are
| strengthened with the years that have in
| terVened since Appomattox.
was bond like this, We have drunk from
the same canteen.' The richest jewels in
the halls of memory are the tender re-
membranes of comrades whose lives went
Goo. We remember them while we wor-
ship God, and worship God while We re-
member them, and He accepts our service.
for those memories inspire our song,
ctGsten our thoughts and have nothing in
them to mar our worship or stay the. up
ward fight of prayer The graves of those
nations temples of fame, which this day
are strewn with the choicest flowers Of
spring, by eager, loving hands.
THE exercises of this day are for the
living rather than the dead. While We
place flowers upon the graves OF comrades
deau, let US not forget to minister TO the
health and destitute While we honor the
deeds of heroes dead, let us not fail 10
minister to the necessities of patriots liv-
ing. The helping hand extended to the
comrade living shall count for more in
heavens chancery than stately monuments
of bronze or granite erected to the dead.
Deeds that warm the cold. clothe tie
naked and feed the hungry shall emblazon
the book OF remembrance when funeral
oratiOns, however eloquent, shall have been
forgotten. Amid the rain OF shot ami
shell in battle the touch of a comrades
elbow inspired us with renewed courage.
Let that kindly touch inspire with fresh
hope the comrade who is hard pressed
in the battle of life. True comradeship is
shown by deeds of charity, the daughters
children of the wind it throws the mantle
of charity over the shortcomings of a
cCmrade rather than turn upon him the
searchlight OF criticism; 1t never passes by
on the other side of human suffering and
want. When the comrade who is true to
the trinity of virtues of our noble order,
fraternity, charity and loyalty, shall re-
ceive the command to break camp and
pitch his tent on the other side he will
take up his march through the valley Of
the shadow of death seeing nothing here
thaTn
"Out of the past. from Gettysburg. comes
to the heart of this people a voice of won
drous pathos, saying, "A grateful nation
will care for him who shall have borne the
battle and for his widow and orphans This
prophecy of him, who, with charity for all
and with malice towards none guided the
ship of state through the tempestuous bill
lows OF civil war should be faithfully full
filled. in letter and in spirit. towards the
brave men who rendered the imperishable
fame of a Lincoln possible.
THE men whose deeds in liberty's cause
we commemorate this day, represented the
morality, the integrity, the patriotism and
the Christianity of the American people.
As their surviving comrades it is our proud
boast that in their marches, I'm their bat
ties. in their victories, i'm their defeats, we
touched elbows with them.
1T is said that II is the nobility of a
cause that makes men great; never did man
fight in a holier cause than did the Union
soldier from 81 to '65.
From the men who marched to the front
at the call of him who proclaimed the year
of eternal jubilee to a race came the pa
triotic and ennoblinS strains of the Battle
Cry of Freedom They were not soldiers of
fortune. They loved peace and hated war;
they held loyalty a virtue and treason a
crime: they worshiped liberty and de-
nounced slavery; they revered the 0onstitu-
tfon and believed there was room i'm this
country for but one flag; imbued with these
principles and ennobled by the holy mission
in which they were engaged, they became
triotism and their deeds OF valor will he
an inspiration for American manhood
the ages.
In a spirit OF fraternity. without ques-
lioning the valor and her0ism of the brave
men who fought on the other side, it may
be profitable for the rising generation that
We briefly recall the causes which impelled |
these men. iOving peace. to exchange the |
implements of industry for the weapons of |
'From a time dating back to the adoption |
1f the Federal constitution there were two |
antagonlstic opinions . as 70 the right OF |
state to peaceably withdraw from the |
Union. Statesmen were found championing |
Zach side of this question. On one. side it |
Was asserted that among the rights re- |
served to the states under the constitution |
was the rigst of peaceahle secession. This |
he other side denied. and asserted that the |
lcwer of self-prescrvation was inherent in |
he general government and that ii not /
,nly had the power, but that it was its |
'sry. the union OF the states established by
he fathers.
Early in the controversy between those |
YaIring opinions, the advocates Of human |
.lyyery became fhc ChanDiouS Of I state
,iuhts- while those who believed that life. |
liberty and the pursuit of happiness are |
he inalisnable rights OF all men, aligned /
themselves on the side OF the general gov
,rument. In the spring Of 81 this contro- |
lcrsy had assumed such proportions that II
iv arfed all other issues; entreaty and ar
sLmcnt We're no longer avalling The na-
ioral government was paralSzed: imbe-
'ility was seated IN the executive chair |
)rUCiaiming that tho union OF states was
'ope of sand; those IN fun sympathy with |
he right Of secession were in the councils
u the nation. the confidential advisers OF
he administration. The army was dis
iered. forts dismautled. the treasury bank
upted. while armed rebellion threatened |
he life Of the nation The republic was in
he throeS Of impending dissolution. The
ike pail over our fair land. threatening |
o drenCh II in fraternal blooi. Anxious
leSrts in the midst of the gloom cried out,
what Of the nightg
"In that hour of supreme peril leader
appeared in the person of that American !
VI Americans. the one whose name is
ovingly spoken by every tongue, the child
If poverty, the youth of adversitv. the
nan of the people. the emancipator of a
ace, the exemplar Of American patriotism.
Abraham Lincoln. Being of the people he
rad a sublime faith In their loyalty. Low
ng as a woman. gentle as child. in the
Of danger he had the courage of
Marshal Ney. In the long vista Of the
ibertys cause, possessing physical and
moral courage always true to the right |
Is God gave him TO see the right This |
on of the despised white trash was as
iVinely given the guiding place in the |
omlng storm as the son of the Hebrew |
was the chosen instrument in |
he hand Of Providence to deliver a nation !
rom bondage.
The. 4th of March. 1861, marked an
pooh in history. Abraham Lincoln stand
nE that daN with uncovered head nj tho | :