The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1899-06-02
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prompted the sons to enlist in the war
with Spain. The point made by the
speaker was that the patriotism OF the
man was not to be judged by the num-
Der of battles in which the soldier par
ticipated. The act of enlistment showed
the mans patriotism.
General Webb stated emphatically
that the government should be support
ed with money and men, no matter how
great might be the demand. If poll
| ticians were responsible for the appoint
ment ofincompetentm men in the army we
should down the politicians.
The speaker believed that we should
not forget the lesson of the Civil war,
that their was but one right side al
though we recognize the bravery and
sincerity of those who fought in the
other army.
Atthis evening gathering prayer was
made by Rev. W. II. Kershaw. Miss
Pearl Benham of New York sang two
patriotics solos and Miss Edith j.
Welsh recited "Join Jordan the Scout"
Mitchells band rendered two selections.
DR.. Stephen Pierson's address descrip-
tive Of Picket's charge at the battle of
Gettysburg was feature of the days
observance and is reproduc ed below.
"The morning sun as it rose above the
hills at Gettysburg on the third day of
July 1868, revealed to view two great
armies facing each other with dreadful
purpose. Enemies then, Brothers now.
On the one side the grand old Army of
the Potomac lay curved like great
horseshoe, its right on Culps Hill, its left
on Little Round Top, its centre on
Cemetery Hill, presenting a convex
surface, to its old time antagonist, on
the other side, the army of Northern
i Virginia, which circled about it like
another great horseshoe, with its con-
cave front to the foe.
For two whole days, the battle had
ragged furiously between those lines, with
awful sacrifice of life, but without
decisive result and now upon the third
day every soldier in those two armies,
taught as he had been in the school of
war, knew instinctively that the supreme
moment was to come. The day opened
with an attack upon our right, but
General Greene and the Twelfth Corps
were there and the attack was repulsed
The fearful cost of the minor advantage
which they had won on our left the day
previous, warned the Confederates that
the Fifth Corps and the Third Corps
were there, and ready.
There remained but the centre. At one
p. m. single gun doomed from the
confederate lines. Instantly every battery
| along their front opened. From more
than hundred guns, terrific fire of
shot and shell centered upon Cemetery
Hill; cannon were dismounted, caissons,
exploded, horses dismembered, men
killed. For two hours the fierce cannon
ade ratified and roared, then came a
lull. Instantly every man in the Union
lines jumped to his feet, and Tightening
his belt, leaned forward over the works
I to watch for what he knew was coming
next. See from out of that green
i fringe of woods opposite, comes
! long gray line, then another,
E then another. And when these are well
: cleared, upon the right and left TANKS
= other gray lines, the supports. 1t is
e Pickett's Division of Longstreet's Corps.
q Down the slope and out into the valley
= they come And now our guns open fire
. great gaps are torn in their ranks
b which fill up again, as the water closes
over the stone thrown into pond. Or
they come; longer, deeper, wider are the
burrows made by our shot and shell
n And now STANDARDS Brigade of Yer
i monters has them by the flank. The ail
e sings with the hum of mimic bullets
Il hurting at them in great clouds. Th'
+ men in gray fall as the stalks of rye fal
/. before the reaper. Melting at the front
s melting on the TANKS, thinning every
\ where, but on, on, comes that mass Of
l. gray. And now it is at the fence, right
e into the face of Cushing's guns, as b,
y fires his last shot and falls dead. Nov
n it is over the fence, over our works, il
9 among our batteries and men. Hand Il
n hand, breast to breast, face to face, eye
}, to eye,.a mighty conflict each for thu
e right as God gave it to see the right.
: Oh it was good to have been there, al
= you were, General Webb, right in the
thickest of it, at the head of your brave
Pennsylvanians. 1t was good to hav,
: ing, Emmell, Burroughs, Berry, anC
: others, whom you will forgive me fol
! not calling by name. And for thos,
comrades of yours, Logan, Jolly, Beers
:. and scores of others who were there will
I you that day, shoulder to shoulder, anC
v are there still Aye, it was good, TO-
i them too. For the goodness of a human
/ life consists not in what that life make
r for itself, nay nor of itself, but tn
!. goodness of human life, measured b.
a the Christ standard, is the cost, tn
price of the self-sacrifice, which that lif
pays, that others may live and be tn
better. Judged by that standard, VIII,
shall say that 1t was not good, for then
y too.
Months afterwards, upon that sam
spot was gathered another notable as
semblage of men.
= The fierce human thunderstorm O
:. July had receded from those hills, ant
standing there out from a stiffness, a
V still as the graves by which he was thel
surrounded, Abraham Lincoln spok
z the immortal words;
-Four score and seven years ago on