The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1899-06-03
NATIONS DEAD HEROES
ARE REMEMBERED
Spanish american War Gives al,
Added Significance to Memoir
ial Day 0bseryances.
wAT1EasoA's ELOQUENT WORDS
brilliant Kcntuckian orator OF the
Day Mt Observation-Disclosures
More Generally Observed
Than for Years.

louisville, Ky, May a0.--Although
the day was gloomy and the rain
threatening the graves of union SOL
diers in the cemetery in this city and
in the national cemetery ut New Al
bany, Ind, were decorated by the e..
A.. r. posts and school children, and
literary exercises We're held at both
places, a general holiday being OBJ
served. Hon. Henry W~atterson deliv-
cred the Grafton on this side Of the
river, and Hon. Charles L.. Jewett, late
judge advocate general of the Philip
pines, at New Albany.
Watterson's Address.
Mr.. Watterson spoke as follows:
The duty which draws us together, and
the day-salthoush appointed by law
come to us laden with Il deeper meaning
the place which witnesses our coming
Invests the occasion with Increased SOL
emnity and Significance. Within the pre-
cinets OF this dread put beautiful city.
homes-for here lie our loved ones-two
plots OF ground. with but a hillock be-
tween, have been set aside to mark the
resting place of the dead of two armies
that In life were called hostile, the army
of the union, the army of the confeder-
acy. We come to decorate the graves of
Presently others shall come to decorate
the graves OF those who died fighting for
the confederacy. Yet. II these flower
covered mounds could open and the brave
disembodied spirits, but in the sentient
flesh and blood which they wore when
they went hence. they would rejoice as
we do that the hopes Of both have been
swallowed up by the union, lives again
In American manhood and brotherhood.
such as were contemplated by the maxi
erS of the republic.
To those of us who were the comrades
and contemporaries of the dead that are
buried here. who survived the ordeals of
battle and who live to bless the day,
there Is nothing either strange or UNI
natural in this. because we have seen It
coming for a long time; we. have seen 1t
coming in the kinship of ties even as
close as those of q common country; in
the robust intercourse OF the forum and
the market place; in the sacred inter-
changes of domestic affections: but, above
all. in the prattle of children who can
not distinguish between the grandfather
who wore the blue n the grandfather
who wore the gray.
1t is required of no man-which ever
flag he served underSthat he make any
Remuneration shameful to himself. and
therefore ~dishonoring to these grand
children. and each may safely leave to
history the casting OF the balance be-
tween antagonistic schools of thought
essentials Of fidelity and courage We're
so amply met. Nor is fl the part of wis
issues hat evoked the strife of sections
are dead issues. Thu conflict. which was
thought to be irreconcilable. and was GER
tainly inevitable. ended more than thirty
years ago. 1t was fought to Its bloody
conclusion by fearless and honest men,
To some the result was logical-to others
1t was disappointment all 1t was final.
AS no man disputes 1t. let no man de.
plore 1t. Let us rather believe that 1t
was needful to make us a nation. Let us
the rather look upon 1t as into a mirror.
seeing not the desolation of the past, but
the radiance Of the future: and In the
heroes of the new north and new south
who contested in generous rivalry up the
flre-swept sleeps of Ell caney. and side
by side re-cmblazoned the national char
acter in the waters about Corregidor ISL
and n under the walls of Cavite. let us
behold hostages for the old north and the
old south blent together in a union that
knows neither point of the 0mpass and
las flung its geography into the sea.
Great as were the issues we have put
behind us forever, yet greater issues still
rise dimly upon the view.
Who shall fathom them? Who shall
forecast them? l seek not to lift the veil
on what may lie beyond. 1t is enough for
me to know that ! have a country and
that my country leads the world. | nave
lived to look upon Its dismembered frag-
ments whole again; to see it. like the ia
bled bird OF wondrous plumage upon the
fAtdDih ntSSIt. - SloNlS PC llSSIL apcSS
the plains and ashes OF a c~onfiagration
that threatened to devour IT.; have
watched 1t gradually unfold its magniti-
cent proportions through alternating
tracks of light and shade: I have stood
in awe-struck wonder and fear lest the
glorious fabric should fade into darkness
and prove but the insubstanttal pageant
Of a vision: when, 10. out of the misty
depths of the far away Pacific came the
booming Of Dewey's guns, quickly fol-
lowed by the answering voice of the guns
of Sampson and Shafter and Schley, and
1 said: ut is not a dream. 1t is Gods
promise redeemed. With the night OF sec
tional confusion that is zone, civil strife
has passed from the scene, and. in the
light of the perfect day that is come, the
nation finds. as the first fruit of Its new
birth Of freedom. another birth of great
ness and power n renown."
Fully realizing the responsibilities Of
this. and the duties that belong 10 1t, l
for one. accept 1t. and all that 1t brings
with 1t and implies. thankful that l. too.
am an American: Wheresoever its star
may lead. I shall follow: nothing 10th,
or doubling: though 1t guide the nations
footsteps to the furthermost ends of the
earth. Believing hat in the creation and
the preservation of the American union
the hand of the almighty has appeared
from first to last: that his will begat 1t.
the war OF the revolution and in the civil
war the incidents and accidents OF battle
LETT no doubt where providence inclined:
II the star that now shines over. us, at
once a signet OF Gods plan and purpose
and a ~heaven-sent courier of civilization
and religion, shall fix itself above the
steppes OF Asia and the sands of Africa.
II shall but confirm me in my faith that
The Judgments of the Lord are true and
righteous altogether