The Portland daily press., 1898-05-31

and together, side by sido, sons of men
who wore the blue and gray marched
away to the music Of the Union, in de-
Tense Of the same country and under the
same starry flag. At the head of their
column we rejoice to see the gray-haired
generals of the Union and Confederate
armies, and the grandson Of the immor
all, now, wearing the loyal blue and ali
soldiers in the cause of liberty.
"The Christian nations of the old world
lost the great and golden opportunity of
the century when they turned a deaf ear
to the pleadings of the down trodden and
oppressed people of Greece and Armenia.
But the young republic of the new world
has heard the cry from the suffering and
oppressed people of an island at its very
door, and has FASTENED to their relief
And our reunited people are standing by
our noble. President in his brilliant efforts
to uphold the dignity and glory OF our
country. His superb courage, profound
patriotism have proven him the master
spirit of the time, and have welded his
name to glory and undying fame. For
victory will be ours. hear 1t.
eve are told that in the disastrous siege
of India, Scotch girl raised her head
from the pallet in the hospital and said
to the sickening hearts of tho English; 1
coming hey.said Jessie, it is delirium' ;
No. she replied, L know it; hear it afar
off, And in an hour, til, pibroch burst
upon thei1 glad cars ard the banner of
England foated, in triumph, over their
heads. se. a.rTg
first nores of the jubilee rising, from the
hearts Of a starving people as they hear
the welcome music Of the Star ysSpangled
Banner, produced by our brave boys, as
proudly they march under the stars and
stripes. which guarantee liberty forever,
that bleeding Cuba shall be free.
"Then the future historian will record
| that as tempest-tossed mariners when lost
on the sea often obtain their bearings by
which they catch through a rift in the
storm cloud), and by it are guided to a
haven OF safety, SO twice during the last
half of the nineteenth century the clouds
of war hung like a pail over fair Column
bla, with unrest and confusion, sadness
| and tears everywhere; but amid the DARK
ness and gloom of each of those storms the
| eyes Of American patriots pierced the
murky atmosphere to the silvery lining OF
those clouds above and beheld glorious
star reckoning them on, following Wnlcn
they anchored bye and bye, in plesseo
harbor of prosperity and peace; they were
the patriotic, the liberty-Ioving, the COO
given, the Am erican stars-'Apran LIN
coin and William Mckinley.
"Today, out of the mystic veil we can
almost see the faces of that patriot band
| looking down upon us from the camps on
! the green fields of everlasting peace.
| Among them are those who fell at Lex
ington and Concord, at Saratoga, Bunker
Hill aud Brandywine; some who at New
world that easier were it to hurl the
| rooted mountain from it's base than to
force the yoke of slavery on men deter
mined to be free; some who bore aloft
| their oountry's flag at Chepultepec, Palo
| Alto, Cerro Gorde and Buena Vista. And
then thore are those who poured out the
crimson tide of their lives at Bull Run
out Mountain, Shiloh, Gettysburg and
on many other battlefelds. And there are
| those noble young Americans who, wrap
ping themselves in liberty's winding
sheet, laid their lives on freedom S altar,
that the brave-hearted, plucky Cubans
shall be free.
Glove gratitude and tears we owe them
all. Their deeds can never die. Future
nations will read them, deep-cut, defying
the tooth of time, on the marble of our
greatness. They will blaze on the pillars
Of our Union. And in the springtime of
each year grateful people, bearing
choicest f1owers-nature's sweetest en-
DleDlS OF love ana aHectlon-WllI come TO
decorate their graves; for those graves will
be known as shrines forevermore; shrines
SO long as chiyalry girds on q sword;
shrines so long as the Republic shall ten-
dure; shrines where patriot knees will
bend and patriot eyes will weep so long
as freedom has worshipper and equality
of rights deyotee."
Rev. Mr.. Glenn of the III. e. church
church, this place, closed with the bene.
diction.