The Republican journal., 1897-06-03

The Band played Kellar's American
Hymn, Chaplain II. w. Trundy offered
prayer, and after the salute to the dead, by
the Post and Sons of Veterans, Norman
Wardwell Esq, of Bangor, delivered the
Memorial address. as follows:
Jetera,ts Of Thomas II. NarHtaH Post of the
liro7ld 4ymy Of the Repnblic, La,ltes 0ud
Gentlemen:
More than thirty years have elapsed since
the close of the Civil War and the mutations
of the years which have passed since then
have left a vista through which the ordinary
events of human life, of 50 remote a period
can be seen but dlmy, but to you who par
ticipated in that fearful struggle, the stir
ring scenes from siXty-one to siXty-tive, are
as fresh in your memory as though they
We're the happenings of but yesterday. The
companionship of those with whom You
marched shoulder to shoulder to meet the
foe and of those who helped to cheer the
| weary hours of the camp, will never be for
gotten.
To-day, in remembrance of those whose
memory you cherish, you have marched
with solemn tread to their final resting
places and upon the sod beneath which they
lie you have spread AS tokens of your love
the first flowers of the early springtime.
From the earliest times warfare has been
considered a legitimate means OF settling
ulSputcS DeUW t6u udblOuS, duu COIuul Dld dU
different periods in her existence has been
obliged to summons her sons to the field of
battle to defend the principles upon which
the cornerstone of this great republic rests.
To obey the call required courage, but the
reason that our forces have been invlncible
against the assaults of the enemy lies in the
fact that the American soldier realized that
he was fighting for a country which vouch-
safed to him greater privileges than any
other country upon the face of the globe has
granted to its subjects.
The American soldier was imbued with the
spirit of freedom and justice. His soul was
inflated with liberty from the very air he
breathed. Realizing that upoE these prin-
ciples that colossal structure the national
government rested, and that a triumph for
his country was triumph for his home, he
fought as though it were personal battle,
for he loved the land of his nativity.
The wars which have been waged by the
sons Of America have been of such charac-
ter as not to bring reproach upon us as
nation, while other countries have fought to
extend their territory upon tilmsy pretexts
of territorial rights. While other lands have
been drenched in blood that some ambitious
son of royalty might wear crown, our wars
have been waged that our country should
not degenerate from those eternal principles
which impelled our forefathers to sever
| their connection with the mother country,
and which are embodied i'll that suollne
document, the Declaration of independence
The last struggle in which we as nation
were engaged was unique. One sectioh VI
| the country pitted against the other, father
| and son, brother and brother, engaged upon
| different sides of the conflict, and now that
we again exist one country, reunited, WIN
the bitterness of sectional feeling we trust
| forgotten, we can the better view 1t In the
| retrospective without prejudice and without
passion, and gain therefrom lessons which
will be of material benefit to US IN our
national life.
| The introduction of slavery into the
colonies was an act which though small IN
itself was productive of the most 1rightfu
consequences The people of the North
were not from moral standpoint so Tar IN
advance of their southern neighbors that the
institution of slavery could not be tolerated
| Old Massachusetts, since the colonization OF
the country regarded as the nucleus OF
education and morality, once tolerated 1t
within her borders, but owing to the fact
that it proved Improbable it gradually
ceased to exist. With the southern section
of the country conditions were different
Cotton was the great staple product, and as
the agricultural portions of this section de-
yeloped slave labor grew more and more
profitable.
The invention of the cotton gin gave an
other impetus to the production of cotton