The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1900-06-13

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Monument Unveiled.
After the presentation speech the mon
ument was unveiled by Miss Mae B.
Hurst. AS the flag which concealed the
shaft fell, a mighty chez: ;Tent up from
the assembled multitude and the United
States revenue cutter Morrill,, in the har-
Dor, fired a salute.
The monument was then formally ac-
cepted by the mayor. A poem, ito the
Silent Soldier" was read by Rev. J. W.
Davidson.
Judge Anderson's Address.
The address of the day was made by
Judge j. s. Anderson of Manitowoc
Judge Anderson said in part:
We come together in time Of great pfyfs.
perity, high national honor, distinction and
power, drawn by love of country, admira-
tion for high exalted character for patriot
ism and by gratitude for patriotic devotion
and signal services rendered by one genera
ton of citizens now passing away to the
nation at large and the generations yet to
come
Our nation at the outbreak Of the Civil
war was less then 100 years old. Thought
full men looked with apprehension upon the
conditions which confronted us. The con-
tinual aggressiOnS of the slave power To-
Gated as it was in the southern half of ouT
country, was incensing and arousing the
liberty loving people to greater opposition.
The doctrine of state rights was pushed to
a dangerous degree. leading thinker and
writer declared the struggle to be an lire
pressible Conflict" And even the thought
full wise and conservative Abraham Lin
coin declared that this country could not
exist half-slave and half-free. Either it
must become all free or all slave, or it must
cease to exist.
The Union was saved, the shackes Of four
and a half millions of slaves were broken
and the land became all free. But at what
a fearful cost! More than three hundred
hons md in6 nd fxxytno
turned to their homes crippled from wounds
or broken by disease, while the material
loss to the nation amounted to millions of
dollars.
Every nation has in it's course developed
some leading characteristic, which we may
call it's ideal, and the topic l desire to dis.
cuss is: What is our national ideal.
What is the ideal of the American people?
nation whose highest ideal Is that of
military glory is neither a lasting nor
beneficial nation. 1t has been written from
of old and it is written large in the pages
Of history that They who take the sword
shall perish by the sword" No. my friends.
the love of war, the love of military glory
is not the ideal of the American people.
What should be the ideal of the American
nation, the true ideal of all nations? The
answer is Liberty
And what is liberty but the law of right
eousness, the golden rule-"Do We unto 9th
ers as We would that they should do unto
you" Liberty in its highest and truest
sense does not mean the right to act as an
may affect another. 1t means only freedom
to act SO far as may be in strict CON
sonance with law and order and the welfare
of society. Unbrided license is as far re-
moved from true liberty as is the veriest
despotism. Liberty means righteousness,
and we read that righteousness exalteth
nation. 1t means exact Justice to all men
1t means social purity and purity in public
affairs.
1t is not the function of this monument,
so grandly conceived and so beautifully
70 inf of
deeds of the citizen soldiery OF this nation.
There is no land where they are not known.
There Is no lar, language in which tehs they are not
honor it is erected is universal. 1t is known
of all men. 1t is entrenched in the univer-
sal sentiment of the American Am, people, and
from father to son and to grandson as o
priceless heritage. It will be embodied in
the traditions of millions of families who
will claim an ancestry among the soldiers
of the Civil war
No monument that we can build will
make their heroism and self-sacrfce. their
more surely perpetuate it in the ages to
come In the words of Horace, They have
buided unto themselves monument more
lasting than perennial BRASS
So long as the knowledge of letters exists
among men, so long as the records of the
past are preserved in books the names Of
Shiloh and Antietam, Chickamauga and
Fredericksburg. Vicksburg, Gettysburg and
ApDOmattOX Will liye.
And these shall recall the names of Grant
and Sherman, Sheridan and Meade, and
Thomas and the hundreds of thousands Of
less illustrious but equally devoted citizen
soldiers who followed where they led, some
to death and all to glory
Emil Baensch followed with an address
in German.
The movement to have a monument
erected in memory of the soldier dead
originated with the G. A. r. post last
fall Committees for the purpose of So
Letting subscriptions were appointed and
met with a hearty response from the peo.
pie. After the money had been raised
the contract for the monument was let
to Chicago parties. The base of the
monument is made of Connecticut gran
lite, upon which the statue, representing a
soldier with gun at rest, is placed The
figure is eight feet in heighth and made
Of bronze.