The Portland daily press., 1898-05-31
STANDARD CLOTHING co,

tee of we'll earned ease and comfort upon
this anniversary. in order that the child
rem of this day and generation may have
the benefit Of their example in honoring
tence, national honor and national happi-
ness.
In ancient Athens upon great festival
occasions of the state, herald appeared
introducing those orphans whose fathers
had died in battle, and as the noblest and
most effective means of inoiting the people
made a' pproeo s that thu these youths
whose fathers lost their lives in fighting
bravely for their country, the people have
maintained to the age of their maturity,
that now having furnished them With
complete suits OF armor, they dismiss
them with prayers for their prosperity, to
attend to their respective affairs and in
vite them to aspire tn the highest offices
of the State" And so tonight do not
present myself to you in the character of
the orator, but rather in the capacity of
herald, to refresh your recollection and
stimulate your appreciation of the worthy
deeds of..your OVID countrymen, the fathers
sons and brothers of this and other COM
munities, who counted it a sacred duty
and precious privilege to peril life and
limb in the most dreadful war the world
has ever known, to the end that human
slavery might be forever destroyed, the
Constitution and Union OF the United
States maintained, and the most just and
benificent form of government mankind
has ever known, transmitted unimpaired
to our children and our children's child
rem.
1t has been said of the war for the
union that its successful result was due,
not SO much to generalship in the plann-
ing of the battles or the handling of the
troops, as to the Intelligent courage and
magnificent staying powers of the Union
soldiers 10 anyone who traces In the
full light of subsequent history, the COM
mencement, progress and conclusion of
that great struggle, the most important
and far reaching in its results of any war
of modern times, there is much apparent
truth in the assumption, but over all,
through all, and beyond all the mistakes,
misapprehensions and mishsps of leader.
ship, and shining through the splendid
coura ge of the Union soldiers, CONES the
irresistible conviction, that the same
Provid ence that rules alike the fall of the
sparrow and the revolution of the planets,
was guiding the nation through that fiery
wilderness of war.
II the history of the world can show
finer illustration OF patriotism than was
manifested in the fervent zeal with
which the young and vigorous manhood
of the nation sprang to Its defence, it is
afforded in the unprecedented spectacle
of nearly million triumphant soldiers
quietly laying down their victorious arms
and resuming the peaceful pursuits Of
citizenship. The old world monarchies
had looked on with complacency and as
the Union army encountered in siokening
succession Bull Run and Malvern Hill
and Fredericksburg and Charlottesville,
anticipating the tulfllmen6 of their
prophecies that the experiment OF o re-
public even though proof against foreign
attack was to fall at last by the force of
it's own rnwieldy strength, but as the
nation following its pillar OF cloud by day
and pillar OF fire by night, breasted the
red seas of Gettysburg and Chickam au-
qua, there seemed to come q voice as of
old amid the thunders and lightnings of
Sinai, 'Lo come unto thee in a thick
cloud that the people may hear when l
speak with thee and believe thee for
ever. 1hen when IT was apparent that
| the end was sure and near the prophets
of monarchy shook their heads and said,
Wait! Wait little. Your danger point
is not yet passed, you have within your
borders q million triumphant soldiers,
Intoxicated with the supremacy of a mill
| tary power beyond their widest dreams.
| walt and see how you will solve the prob
lem OF their disbandment and aosorp-
| tlon. But Peace was married to Vlcbory
at Appomattox when the great command
! er OF the Union Army, never SO grea0 as
that moment, pronounced the immor tai
bans in those words to his great antago
MIST Let your men retain tnelr priVa1e
property, and keep the horses for the
spring blowing" Never was s.Hs g {Hsa ,r
Illustration of the proVerp' t tao onaI -
and he that ruieth his spirit than he that
S sas s sga s snssss ne"rs
the most nnrelenting warfare that civil
lied nations have known, and yet within
from ssg Fhan tt the fbo U1oa
estory Of nations rsoords
similar transformation of a. victorious
from war psrs It Peace and opv the he s Esas
~ fancy of the clan of Roderick Dhu,
when
"Each warrior vanished where he stood.
In broom or bracken, heath or wood
II seemed as il their mother earth
Had swallowed up her warIike birth.
1t is maxim of war that "the moral is
to the physical as three to one,'' Without