The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-05-31

pdtny with those VINO believe that war
should be avoided at the sacrifice of
national honor, at the expense OF hu-
mainly, or the loss of liberty 1 cannot
| love those who turn deaf ears TO the
unceasing cries of victims of tyranny.
! inhumanity and barbarity, because lib
erty and relief can only come through
the shedding of blood. If 1 read Gods
history Alright, civilization and Chris
tianity have not come from the survival
( of the fittest, but by the sacrifice of
| the best. What puny human intelli-
gence dares to assert that the blood
/ of Lexington was not sacred, even as
the blood of Calvary? Warren at Bun
ker Hill, Baker at Balls Bluff. Bagley
at Cardenas all gloriously died to has
Item the coming of Gods kingdom on
earth Yea, and Dewey in the harbor
of Manila was the messenger of Gods
just wrath
/ Il do not know when this war with
Spain will cease. 1 do not know what
sacrifices We may yet be called upon
to make. l do not know how many
headstones may yet be added to this
/ city of the dead. l do not know how
many mothers hearts may mourn.
do not know how many affairs may be
desolated But 1 do know that what
ever the cost, the delivering of the new
world from the barbarity and inhurnan-
lty of SPANS merciless despotism will
be worth 1t all I do know that the
/ cementlng together of the hearts of all
| the people in enduring friendship and
ABIDING love; do know that the con-
| secratlon OF American energies the up
| IlIung or American sentiment in so I'M
seIflsh and holy cause; I do know that
| TINS touching of elbows under the one
nag by the men and the sons of the
men who faced each other on our bat
tIehelds under two flags; 1 do know
that this accomplishment of Gods
great purpose, will bring to the Ameri-
can people Gods choicest blessing and
reward. 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 thew
but speak to us to-day, would fire the
hearts of their old Lieutenants in com
mand of the armies of the United
states with the inspiring cry. on to
| Cubai
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 con-
clusion of Senator Thurston's grafton.
driving almost Immediately back to the
| city.
Hon. John C. CLANCY, ex-Assistant
Attorney General of the United States,
also delivered an Grafton, in the course
of which he predicted that no nation
whose most glorious 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
gathered ON the front porch of the
mansion, where the Confederate chief
tain Lee spent much of his life, to at
tend special naval services at the tomb
of Admiral Porter. Ex-Secretary OF
the Navy Herbert of Alabama was the
speaker of the day and an address was
delivered also by w. H Michael. Chief
rotary Herbert said in part
Here rest 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. and
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 beneficent There
was no compromise. Secession the is
sue and slavery the incident, We're set
tied forever. Nothing was left for dis
pute and as the God Of nature intended
it should be, we became at last one
country, such union of State and peo-
pie as Washington and Franklin and
Jackson fought for, dreamed of and
planned for. but never lived to see
Il would not pluck a leaf from the
chaplet that adorns the brow of any
soldier of that war, Federal or Con-
federate, 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 proportion
to the numbers enlisted in the army
and navy, aye, even out of all proper
ton to the cost of proportions of the
two branches of the service Certainly
no one knows better than the Confeder-
ates the telling effect of the blows de-
livered by the United States navy dur
ing 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 to-day be commanding army
corps on the south side of a line of
forts and custom houses running across
this continent from east to west, while |
Brooke and Shafter commanded on the
northern side of the line
Let us unite, my countrymen in the
prayer that in the war we are now
waging for liberty's and humanity's |
sake. our soldiers and our sailors may
continue to be worthy of those from
whose loins they have sprung. and that |
the future of our beloved country may
be as bright as is the promise of to- |
day."
THE DAY AT CHICAGO
CHICAGO, May 30:-In addition to |
the great number of graves of Union |
soldiers, 5000 Confederate dead lie
buried in cemeteries here. Not one of |
them, Northerner or Southerner was
overlooked to-day.
After the ceremonies at the cemeter- |
les to-day there was a magnificent pa
rade in the heart of the city. The line
of march was decorated with national