Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-06-03

person or nation forward in the line
of lawful duty at peril Of the loss OF
power, forward at all cost must be the
answer. No time or place for perfidy in
the march of Divine emancipation. 10
trust alone in military or naval strength
is mental vanity and political pride in
viting defeat. The cause of most wars
in the past was selfshness, bigotry, ig
norance, and greed. The progress OF
Christian civilization caused such moral
deformity to pass away, and thus enable
man to be more and more like God.
The higher civilization of Divine pro
gress will continue to be In conflict with
all dark forces Of evil for the bettering
of moral and social condition to the end
Of time. Thus will come the survival of
the fttest. Some persons have no coun-
try, they have no conviction for duty.
always busy for self, cannot find time
even to attend memorial service. To
the boys in blue who went at their
country's call, and in SO doing made it
possible for others to liSs AZ home ia
peace. Wsr is very costly to any peo-
Pile. Homes are left, life plans are
broken, business neglected, loved ones
pass away unattended in hours of pain,
Cash part is but small. Some make it
their business to talk against the SOL
diers' pension. There was no fun in be-
ing shot at, | would not give one finger
for all the pension. 1t is an honor to
know that Uncle Sam is doing Sc nobly
by his boys In blue. The French war of
80 years was a great trial to that people
but it was light as compared to the hard.
ships Of the fifty years that succeeded
il. War comes in the wake of wrong
doing. Brothers, your numbers are
year by year becoming less Soon the
time will be here when the last shall
answer the roll call for the other side.
not dead, but gone on before, and when
Old Glory shall pass from yours to
other hands may it be your comfort to
know that the old flag is in safe keeping,
still climbing higher and higher, never
bowing to foe. God bless you. Hav-
ing been true to your country be true to
your countrv's God, and your own soul as
true soldiers, then shall you be able to
say, "God has saved US from all our
enemies" AS he was with our fathers
and us, so may he be in all the unborn
future plans.
hDDhISS D1 IbOluh.
Following is a synopsis of the Memo.
rial address delivered by DR.. Clough oi
Deadwocd on Tuesday, May Both:
This is the passion week of fpatriotism
and today is loyaity's Good Friday,
wherein we regard the atonement for
national sins, and recall those who free
ly offered themselves as a sacrifice upon
the altar of their country's need. BY
patriotism we mean intelligent appre.
citation of ones country. Loyalty is
conservation to and sacrifice for ones
country and its flag. Have we patriot
ism2 Are we loyal? Patriotism is not
peculiar to sex, neither is loyalty the
property Of men only Fer as patr lot
ism is the inspiration of loyalty, so the
loyalty of any nation can meyer exceed
the patriotism Of its womanhood. AS
"A years have elapsed since the great
war of the rebellion, it is now necessary
as a matter of information to the young
that we consider the causes that led
up to the war. The different social con-
ditions and political principles were
the largest factors. In the north manual
labor was honorable, ideness discredit-
able. In the south labor was servile,
and to work with ones hands discredit-
able. Hence the diverse social coRdi-
tions. The south held that the states
were the source Of power, the Union a
voluntary compact. The north held
that the Union was supreme, THAT it
was now and forever one and INSOFAR
able" The south said, we will extend
slavery. The north said, its metes and
bounds are set and beyond these 1t
shall not 60. Seward called this differ
ence, the irrepressible conflict. Lin
coin said, "that the Union could not
exist half slave and half Free" Agita-
tion became fierce. The north believed
it 10 be bluster on the part Of the south,
while south believed that the patience
of the north was due to timidity. But
after the election in 1860 different states
ia the south called conventions, passed
ordinances of secession, organized q
southern cOnfederacy, elected officers and
planned the machinery of government
similar to that Of the United States
The south became military camp, and
still the north looked on with but little
believing it to be impos-
sible that the southern states did not
mean war, but only a big bluff for the
purpose of obtaining concessions But
when on the l4th of April, 1861, Sump-
ter was fred upon, it was like a spark
in powder magazine. There was one
explosion and revulsion OF sentiment.
In single day the war feeling rose to
fever heat. In a month the north was
camp. In three months it had created
an army, and slaughter began which
ragged for four years. In the north
2,24O,000 men enlisted 2,749,000 times.
In the navy about 1000 men were also
enlisted, creating an army of about q
millions Of men. They were young
men in 1865 when mustered out, the
average age was 2S, so that "a years
must haye been the average age.
Though Is was the minimum age and
IS the maximum. The mean average
must have been "a. These were the
physically perfect young men-as naked
we camet into tie world, so naked we
went into the army. AS Moses requir-
ed that only the physically perfect be
offered upon Jehovah's Altar, so onlv
the physically perfect young men could
be allowed TO die for ones country. The
southern army numbered about mil
lion and three quarters, some younger
and some older than ours, but on both
sides there were enrolled more than Al
millions Of Americas young men. These
met OH more than 662 different battle
fields of that wide extended front.
About 10000 were killed, maLy thous-
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