Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-06-05

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The generation of 81 received from
the fathers a good heritage, price
less legacy, and they were not to
waste it, but the duty was laid on them
to preserve it and bequeath it i'm
proved 20 their children. Says DIR.
Elisha milford: GA single generation
in it's furthest advance, achieves but
little in comparison with the long
line of generations in the nation, and
if there is laid on any the necessity of
battle, still the hottest triumph is that
in which the life of the nation in it's
continuity is maintained"
The great civil war was a gigantic
struggle between the South and the
| North; it was case of Separation VS..
Union; it was retrogression disputing
the passage, and trying to turn back
the car of Progress; it was the Con
federate principle contending with
the National principle; it was treason
against the Government; it was Death
graphing with Life.
For years the anti slavery leaders
in the North had studied the consti-
tuition trying to find some avenue that
would lead to the abolition of slavery,
but they could find none leading to it's
abolition in the states where it then
existed. But what the North could
not do in time of peace, the South
made it possible to do in time of war.
On the 1st of Jan. 1868, at the very
time when Rosecranz and Bragg were
graphing with each other in the fiery
furnace of affection at Stone River,
Mr.. Lincoln issued his emancipation
proclamation declaring that all the
slaves in the eleven rebellious states
were free. The war continued and
the time came when those who cried
for peace, peace, when there was no
peace.
One of the brilliant campaignsi of
the war was that of Sheridan in the
Shenandoah Valley in the fall of '64.
And one of the very interesting bat
ties of the campaign was the battle of
Cedar Greek. 1t is related that one of
the Union men at this battle, not a
Vermont soldier, however, that he
suddenly disappeared. Two or three
days afterward he came into camp:
his person covered with mud and
slime, a sight to behold. The captain,
addressing him inquired, "Well, Jim,
where have you been?" to which the
fellow replied, 'sWell, Captain, during
the battle made up my mind that l
had rather be live coward than La
dead hero, and so [ went and crawled
into a hollow log" After Jim had re-
turned from the war, and his best girl
had learned of his actions, she was
thoroughly disguised with him and
said to him, eff all the other soldiers
had conducted themselves as you did,
where would our country have been?"
To which Jim replied, ''They couldn't,
there weren't hollow logs enough"
In the spring Of 1866 Lee and his
lieutenants heard the crack of doom,
then came Appomattox, and the ia
NOUS old army of Northern Virginia,
which, under it's brilliant commander
had fought so many battles and won
so many victories, was no more.
The great war closed. The North
triumphed over the South; the cause
of the union was stronger than that
of separation; the national principle
triumphed over the confederate prin-
ciple; the car Of progress continued
to move and the slaves were free.
Veterans of the war, for the part
that you performed in that great con-
f1ict, for the aid that you rendered in
the achievement of that great tri-
umph, we respect you, and we gladly
honor you today; and in the years to
come posterity will delight to vener-
ate your memory. Because of the
part that they performed in that
great conflict, and the aid that they
rendered in the Achievement of that
great triumph, today grateful ma
ton tenderly places it's tribute of flow
ers upon the graves of it's dead.
In '65 the boys came home but they
left behind them in the South many a
gallant lad, sleeping his last sleep
where he fought his last battle, sleep
ing cold and silent, sleeping while the
banners marched away.
The North triumphed, but at a fear
full cost. Tt cost the Government
nearly three billions of money; the
men lives of three hundred thousand
who were either killed or died from
wounds and disease; and two hun
dred thousand more were manned for
life; it cost unspeakable anguish
throughout the land because of the