The herald., 1898-05-31
ALI HONOR TO THE NAJlON'S DEAD

sible. But have not sympathy with those
who believe that war should be avoide ed
| at the sacrifice Of national honor at the
| expense of humanity or the loss Of liber.
| ty. cannot love those who turn deaf
ears to the unceasing cries, Of the victim,
| of tyranny, inhumanity and barbarity, be-
! cause liberty and relief can only como
through the shedding Of blood. II I read
Gods history. Alright. civilization and
| Christiantty havt no, come from the sur
| vival Of the fttest. but by the sacrifice Of
the best. What puny human intelligence
dares to assert that the blood of Lexington
was not sacred, even as the blood OF Cal.
vary. Warren at Bunker Hill, Baker at
Balls Bluff. Bagley at Cardenas, all gio-
rio,isly died to hasten the coming Of Gods
kingdom on earth. Yea, and Dewey, in
the harbor of Manila, was the blessed mes
serger of Gods just wrath.
II do not know when this war with Spain
will cease. do not know what sacrifices
we may yet be called upon to make. 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. l do not know how many affairs
nay be- desolated. But !. do, know that
whatever the cost. the delivering Of the
new world from the barbarity and inhu-
mainly of Spain's merciless despotism will
be worth 1t all. do know that the ce-
menting together of the hearts Of all the
people In enduring friendship and abiding
love; l do know that the conservation OF
American energies. the uplifting of Ameri-
can sentiment In so unselfish and holy a
cause; do know that this touching of ell
bow under the one flag. by, the men and
the sons of the men who faced each other
on our battiefields under two flags; l do
know that this accomplishment Of God
great purpose will bring to the American
PEOPLE Gods choicest blessing and reward.
and have faith to believe that erom above
The opened heavens the great war presi-
dent, Abraham Lincoln, looks down APP
rrovingly upon our great war president,
" lillian Mckinley, while Grant and Lee.
could they but speak to US to-day, would
fire the hearts of their old lieutenants
now in command of, the armies OF the
L nited States with the inspiring cry, On to
to Cuba.
"Rest in peace, oh mighty dead. The cause
fer which you fought can never be asasiled
again. Rest in peace-the race whose free
dom you achieved will bless you with their
la test breath. Rest in peace-the union
you preserved remains forever, and liber-
ty, equal rights and justice is the heritage
OF your descendants to the judgment day.
God bless the meN who followed tho flag.
Other Orations
The presidential party left at the conclu-
sion of Senator Thurston's Grafton. driving
almost Immediately back to the city. Hon.
John z. CLANCY, ex-assistant attorney
general of the United States, also deliv-
cred an grafton, in the course of which he
predicted that no nation whose most glo-
rious boast is the feats Of its bull fighters,
can long Withstand the advancing columns
OF our military hosts.
simultaneously with the exercises in the
Amphitheater a small assemblage gath
| cred on the front porch of the mansion
where the Confederate chieftain. Lee
spent much of his life, to attend special
naval service at the tomb of Admiral Por.
| ter. Ex-Secretary of the Navy Hilary 4
| Herbert of Alabama was the speaker of tbs
day, and an address was delivered also by
!. W. H. Michael, chief clerk of the stat,
department. Secretary Herbert said, IL
part:
Here rest the hallowed remains Of he
roes of the army and navy Of the Union
but here are also heroes Of the Confeder
acy, all sleeping In the same soil and GOV
cred by the same flag, and ex-Union ant
ex-Confederate soldiers and sailors ar;
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
| fr,,t nf rto1a
beneficent. There was no compromise. Sc
cession the issue and slavery the inciden
were settled forever; nothing was left fol-
dispute, and, as the God Of Nature intend
ed 1t should be, we became at last one coun
try. such a union Of state and of people II!
Washington and Franklin and jackson
fought. for, dreamed Of and planned for
but never lived to see. would not plucl
4 leaf from the chaplet that adorns tn,
brow of any soldier Of that war Fedora
or Confederate; yet 1t is only fair to sa,
that. while history has done no more thai
justice to them, 1t has not done full jus
lice to the sailors of the civil war. TIL
Union navy. better supplied, achieved re
suits out Of all proportion to the number
enlisted in the army and navy-aye, eve,
ont of all proportion to the cost of tn
two branches of tho service. Certainly, n
one knows better than the Confederate
do the telling effect Of the blows delivere,
by the United States navy during the civi
war, and 1t may be that without them W
should have had two governments wher
we now have one, and that Wheeler an,
Fitzhugh Lee would be today commandin
army corps on the south side of line o
forts and custom houses running acros
this continent from east to west, wit
Brooke and Shafter commanding on tn
north side of the line.
LET us unite, my countrymen, in tn
prayer that in the war we are now wagin
for liberty's and humanity's sake, our sol
diers and our sailors may continue to b
worthy Of those from whose loins they hav
sprung, and that the future of our belove
country may be as bright as Is the promis
of today"
At Chicago
CHICAGO, May 3O.-In addition to tn
great number of graves of Union soldiers
5000 Confederate dead lie buried in GENE
teries here. Not one of them, northern o
southerner, was overlooked today. Ate
the ceremonies at the cemeteries toda.
there was a magnificent parade in tn
heart of the city. The line of march wa
ablaze with national colors. The city ha
never before on Decoration day seen sucl
an outpouring as greeted the old soldier
to-day. Practically the whole population
turned out to honor the veterans and chez
the volunteer defenders. The parade wa
composed Of six divisions and was partici
pated in by about all the military organi