The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-31

/ Spain will cease. do not know what
sacrifices we may yet be called upon
! to make. I do not know how many
! headstones may yet be added to this
city of the dead. / do not know how
many mothers hearts may mourn |
do not know how many affairs may be
deSolated, but / do know that whatever
the cost, the delivering of the new
world from the barbarity and inhu-
mainly of SPANS merciless despotism
viii be worth it all. | 90 know that the
cementing together of the hearts OF all
the people in enduring friendship and
abiding love; do know that the conse-
Grafton of American energies, the up
lifting of American sentiment in so
holy a cause; 1 do know that this
touching of elbows under the one flag
by the men and the sons OF the men
who faced each other on our battle
folds under two flags; l do know that
this accomplishments of Gods great
purpose viii bring to the American
people Gods choicest blessing and re-
ward. And 1 have faith to believe
that from above the opened heavens
the great war president, Abraham Lin
coin, looks down approvingly upon our
great war president, William McKin-
ley, while Grant and Lee, could they
but speak to US today, would fire the
hearts of their old lieutenants now in
command of the armies of the United
States. with the inspiring cry, On to
Cuba
Rest in peace, Oh mighty dead. The
cause for which you fought can never
be assailed again. Rest in peace the
race whose freedom you achieved will
bless you with their latest breath. Rest
in peace-the Union You preserved re-
mains forever, and liberty, equal rights
and justice is the heritage of your de-
scendants to the judgment day. God
bless the men who followed the flag"
The presidential party left at the
conclusion of Senator Thurston's ora
ton. driving almost Immediately back
to the city. Hon. John c. CLANCY, ex-
assistant attorney general of the Unit
ed States, also delivered an grafton, in
the course of which he predicted that
no ration whose most glorious boast
is the feats of it's bull fighters can long
Withstand the advancing columns of
our military hosts.
AN EX-CONFEDERATE SPEECH.
simultaneously with the exercises in
the amphitheatre, a smaller assemblase
gathered on the front porch of the man.
sion where the confederate chieftain,
Lee, spent much of his life, to attend
special naval services at the tomb of
Admiral Porter. Ex-Secretary of the
navy Hilary A. Herbert of Alabama
was the speaker OF. the day, and an
address was delivered also by w. H.
Michael, chief clerk Of the state depart
ment.
Secretary Herbert said in part: Here
lies the hallowed remains of heroes OF
the army and navy of the Union, but
here also are heroes of the confederacy,
all sleeping in the same soil and covered
by the same flag. ana ex-Union and ex-
confederate soldiers and sailors are here
alike to pay united tribute to the deeds of
those who made forever glorious the
epoch of our great civil war. Never was
there a civil war like ours, and never
were the fruits of a war richer or more
Secession the issue and slavery the in
cideut, were settled forever, nothing left
for dispute and as the God Of nature
intended it should be we became at last
one country, such union of state and
people as Washington and Franklin and
Jackson fought for, dreamed OF and
planned for. but never lived 20 see. 1
would not pluck a leaf from the chaolet
that adorns the brow of any soldier Of
that war, federal of confederate yet it Is
only fair to say that while history has
done no more than justice TO them, it has
not done full justice TO the sailors of
the civil war. The Union navy. better
supplied, achieved results out Of all pro-
portion 10 the numbers enlisted in the
army and navy, ayeaevsn out of all pro-
portion to the coast of the two branches
Of the service. Certainly no one knows |
better than the confederates the telling
effect Of the blows delivered BY the United
States navy during the civil war. and it |
may be that without them we should have /
had two governments where we now have |
One. and that Wheeler and Fitzhugh Lee !
would be today commanding army corps /
on the south side of line of forts and I
custom houses running across this con-
tinent from east to west, while Brooke /
and Shafter- commanded on the northern 4
side oe the line.
Let as unite. ny eountryn1en. in the |
prayer that in the war we are now wag- |
ms, for liherty's and humanity's sake. /
our soldiers and our sailors may continue /
to be worthy of those from whose ioins 1
hey have sprung and that the future of /
our beloved country may be as bright as /
s the promise OF today"