Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-05-28

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country as much as he and who believed
profoundly in the consttutionality of the
/ Union.
! And. members of Seth Williams Post |
cannot think of that awful conflict
through which you passed to defend the
| Union. without feelings OF mingled pride
gratitude and sadness; 1t was glorious
| in its self-sacriiice and devotion 1t was
magnificent in its support and defence of
| the constitution. 1t was unsurpassed in
the alacrity with which You pushed to the
front. For four long years and at awful
cost you rroved your loyalty. and when
the victory was won for liberty and
union. as if to complete the appalling
sacrifice YOU made, that most majestic
figure Of oiir time. vested with the power
Of 4 triumphant gOVernment-thdt great
American whom all men delight to honor
Abraham Lincoln-stood between the
North and South binding up its wounds,
recOnciling brother to brother and father
to som ana while his hands were yet ex-
, tended in the work Of love the cowardly
arm of an assassin struck him down, but
with his dying hands he throttled sec
tionalism ana buried it forever. That was
dying for principle as 2OOU9O OF your
comrades died ana for which you were
willing to die. Such death was glorious,
for it is better to be right and die than
to be wrong and live. Through the Provi-
dental arrangement of God during the
last three years love for the Union mas
been created so broad and deep in North
and South. East and West. that. the
question of dissolution need not give Us
ANXIOUS tHpuSNt.
1t is not because Americans love war
that they are ever ready to defend their
country. 1t is because they justly love
their Countrywide only country among
the great powers where government is on
the whole so wisely and unScliiahlY adj
ministercd in the interests Of the people
the only country that recognizes equal
rights and justice to all men as Of para
mount Importance. Americans will sac
rifce fortune ana life for these principles.
And yet they recognize that war Is the
saGde7t necessity ana approach il only
as last resort. No one realizes this. !
am sure. more kCculy than the soldiers
who have faced the dread reality, and
thos" nUbit. patriotic women who sent
their husbands and sons and lovers to
the war ANA endured in the quiet lpneli-
ness nf their homes away from the ex-
citement of campfire ana battle the sac
rhce they hAd been called 10 make.
War IL the trade N haEhIrnnS, said
Napoleon. VINO was master NJ that trade.
Wellington wrote from Waterloo. Moth
Ing except a battle lost IL half so mclan-
chOly as "A battle won" WAR il he'll
sail sherman.
An OH veteran who passed through the
awful carnage Of Gettysburg says that
no one can realize the awful loneliness
ana anguish Of , dying soldier Jn thu
field Of battle away from All hiS loved
ones After the frightful slaughter IF
that memorable day. IE they Were leav-
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