The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-02-13
NONE MORE Loyal
Continued From First Page.

France and Austria intriguing for a renewal
of empire on our Southern border the awful
losses in the Chicahominy swamps; the sew
en-day battles; and Fredericksburg; and the
campaigning about second Bull Run; great
people stung to frenzy by unmerited defeat
dragged to the verge Of despair by losses
they could not comprehend and would not
forgive; Withdrawing the full measure of
their confidence and threatening to transfer
their fealty; doubt and disaster and gloom
and storm, lightened only by the steady roll
of the drums that went down the Mississippi
and in the West far from the capitol and the
nations life, while about that capital aye, up
to its very gates, pushed the grey-coated vic
tors, led by their triumphant chiefs.
And through all these months Of agony the
president on whose heart fell every blow,
wrested with fate, watching, urging, restrain
ing cheering, over him on guard, the long
night dragged on and the gloom was deepen
ing Not yet had 1t seemed to him that he
must give its final color to the war; not yet
draw from the arsenal the tremendous re-
serve power of emancipation; but his resolve
was made when our broken regiments re-
turned for safety in the later summer of
1862 to the bank of the Potomac, and he de-
termined that If victory did crown our arms
again he would in its light proclaim liberty
throughout the land and to all the Inhabitants
thereof.
On the 18th of September was won the
battle of Antietam, and four days thereafter
came the preliminary proclamation, with us
hundred days notice, and then on the New
Year of 1863 the grave and majestic act by
which liberty restored to four million
people and their children yet unborn. Study
1t well. oh, children. Of the oppressed! Oh
children Of the free-Oh, all we that love
mankind! For greater words are never
breated by man into the trumpet Of immor-
tally.
And thus he, who when a fiatboat man, had
with horror seen a slave auction in New
Orleans, who had seen the efforts to annul
the ordinance of 1857, the character of liberty
to the Northwest; who had seen foreign strife
add to our domain enormous territory, sub
ject to slavery; who had borne a part in all
the agitations over it's extensions or its re-
strictions now in the midst of the great war
spoke it's doom; saw 1t perish by the decree
Of a fugitive from its blight; saw his own
act unite the purposes of eternal justice ana
of the national life, and saw his own CONT
nent reserved for the triumphs Of free men.
For such surely is the great result; mere Dy
human sacrifice has been made ready con-
tinental field wherein labor and law shall at
tain in harmonious ways their highest de-
velopment
From the proclamation until the end,
reached as that end was, in spite OF great
and devoted opposition, presented by gallant
foes, striving as they believed for their most
dear country and their sacred rights; al
sturdily defended as was Thurmopydae, ana
though the mountains were hlled with passes
a score Of plains were like that OF Marathon,
yet despite all misguided valor devotion and
sacrifice, unto the end the Union cause
moved resistlessly; checked here, retarded
there it moved on-on-on, and at last Nlndi-
Gated anew the eternal law that good Hour
ishes even out OF evil and Will IN the emo pre-
vail.
Many swift years are gone since the last
note OF war died away; the vast edihces OF
peace are builded where the fortresses
frowned the railroads stretch where the
armies marched and their whistles waken
the echoes that once answered the call or
the bugle; a peaceful era uSurps and obllter-
ates all traces of destruction, even the sub
born hearts OF men acknowledge the wisdom
that brought the great cause to success, ana
children cry out, This is history; close me
hxt hn
new one, wherein the pen of love shall tell
the greater glory of our beloved land SO
mote it be; for this We fought, and this being
done, arms and the flags Of war rust and
drop their silken tatters on the grave Of
every passion.
From this high point we, all the American
people, may look back without bitterness to
the day and the place when the great pres:-
dent fell. his work done, his course complete,
the last and greatest victim of strife.
The end was reached in strife; insane NAL
plunged the whole land, North and South,
in sorrow and deep horror.
What horrible dream that 18th of April
seemed. Peace had come-the battle banners
were furled; the lines of hostile camps were
broken, and hte blue and gray, stern sur
vivorS OF the teqnpestuous days were forget
anew the familiar lineaments of each others
war-worn faces to find in them brothers
looks. The flag was spread abroad IN joy
Gus splendor over the whole American land,
hearts of the great hosts of the Union were
yearn.ng for the gay, glad time Of rest at
home and the hour Of success, amid their
rejoicing and civic pomp, amid the roar Of
guns celegrating victory, the whole people
echoed and re-echoed the last words Abra-
ham Lincoln ever spoke to that whole people:
With malice toward none, with charity for
all, with firmness in the right as God gives
us to see the right, let us strive to finish the
work We in; to bind up the nations
wounds; to care for him who shall have
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his orphan, and to do all which may achieve
just and lasting peace among ourselves
and with all nations
And while these high, tender, immortal
words were still being waited about the
globe, and to every shore, after them sped
the news of the death of their most consum
mate author dead in the hour of highest
fortune; dead while his heart glowe)d for
returning children of the Union dead with
out bitterness; dead while still his busy
thoughts were running on from the passing
shadows to the sunny future wherein he
foresaw the whole vast united nation in con-
cord and contented; dead by a maniac hand.
Then fell the best and wisest friend Of the
South who can say how her fortunes would
have been affected had the mantle of his
great authority been spread above her strfck-
en- form?
AS his towering frame fell. all the people
North and South, al the world, caught and
lifted him on high laid him to rest with the
unfCrgetable few whose names are dear in all
lands and all times; clothed him with the
TUUeS OIL uIulOSC pure E6uOWH, anu
kindled at his mighty pyre the torch that
lSerty and civilization ever bear onward in
TIER ceaseless progress.
For him, then, to die was gain; 1t would
have been nothing to have lived a few
years Of toll and fierce contention, or nothing,
that pleasantest days might have crowned
his age; or nothing, that gentle honors might
have gar.anded his brow. That for which
he lived was established. The Union saved
and every man was free.
He only preceded the vast hosts that he
had summoned to battle from all OF free
doms domain: at their head he entered
the sunny plains of rest and glory. Fancy
has placed him there in their midst, ION
the other side Of the river amongst the
trees" name that human weakness might
have furnished is safe and bright.
On this side. we who remain, and those
that shall follow US, when weary with petty
striving or beset with doubts, may raise
eyes, from temporary gloom and m:sts, and
shall see. on the receding horizon of that
great time uplifting on the splendid mount
ain tops of our history, in its middle morn
ing. tht gravA heroic, loving figure Of him
who was saver of the Union and emanc.pator.
While all about him, as he stands near the
father Of the country, the clamorous- ages
in their eternal march shall say:
This man was Liberty's MARTYR
This man was humanity's friend!
Marching Through Georgia" was
sung by the audience, after which Gen.
Brooke introduced Archbishop Ireland.
referring to him as lone you all know
well, revere and love-" Bowling to the
chairman, the archbishop said:
A PRELATES TRIBUTE.
Fortunate Is the nation that has names