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their faces turned towards the

new light, their faces turned towards the
Southland.
Hearts pulsating with patriotism. never
pausing for hunger. cold, wounds or even
death until their mission should be ac-
complished and the banner Of the Union
float once more in security from the Po-
tomac- to the Gulf; never halting, never
wayering, until duty done, they resumed
their ordinary avocations among the
ranks of the people. The history Of the
6. A. r. is written In patriotism, sacri-
nee, devotion-a history never equalled In
the annals of the human race.
War without ideas is brutal In few
of the histories of the wars of the great
continents of the world can 1t be boasted
that every soldier was animated by pa
triotic motives alone or knew why he
followed the flag. Ask of ancient Rome
in her conauests of Africa or Gaul. The
centurion and the soldier only knew that
he fought because it was the win of Cae-
sar. In present recollection few of those
who fought at Sedan knew the true
causes of the Franco-Prussian war
But with our country and her heroes
there was principle behind every com
batant brains behind each bayonet. ALI
knew the issues involved for the unity of
the nation, for the freedom of the colored
race. All during the war, from Sumter
until Appomattox was reached every one
comprehended the Issue.
Behind the Confederate stood the cav
alier, caste rule and the perpetuation of
slavery. Behind the Federal stood the
Puritan, the rule of the majority, the
freedom of speech and equal rights and
privileges to all. In the doctrine of the
Confederate each part of the Union was
distinct, each part a greater than the
whole. To the Federal the Union was
perfect whole. 1t was a contest between
the civilization of the seventeenth and
Z the nineteenth centuries, between civili-
zation and waning barbarism--the school
house and the slave corral
Never since the first great cataclysrn
that obliterated all signs of human oc-
cupation from the world has such an
epoch been known as when the Union
Army went forth in the panoply of
their strength and might of purpose; not
for power or. plunder, not for extension
of boundary or-fule, not to clothe some
royal adventurer in the purple or to ce-
nnent with blood the crumbling founda-
tions OF throne; but that the govern
ment of the people, by the people, for
the people, should not perish from the
earth.
That a man should eat in peace that
which he earns that civil rights should
not be taken away that each man may
become the equal of his neighbor IL 1t
lays in himself to be 50, and that slavery
be abolished.
Thus armed and panoplied, what pic
lures that Army brings upon the can
vas of memory!
An old man with grey hair streaming
in the breeze, dashed to the maintop OF
his vessel sailing into the flame. A SOL
der astride black steed, galloping to
fri tha fa1 nf a haT
fought field. A General writing history
with his sword point on American sol,
from Atlanta to the sea.
A silent General hurting battalion
against battalion in stubborn and victo-
rious effort and whose first task afte
entering Richmond was to extinguish -
flames lighted by the fleeing Confed4 n
ates, thus the destroyer of armies -
coming the protector of property anfORI
vanguard of victory proving the p1V"i
of peace. Best picture of all
wise President writing the death
of slavery. What mighty cam Woods.
lures photographed upon the
paper of history with crimson 49,
never to fade while the woi o6
roundi {Applause) ,ox n.,
Besides the battle-ields, where i1'
gallant combatant fell to find its
last pillow, let us not forget trruATv
where weary feet followed theo
the firesides where the busy Nc
piled for the boys beyond the
the contingencies where
turned her face while the che
signed that Capital gave to CT
Everywhere from farm and
tory and fireside wherever the
the nation throbbed and thei.
cleaned, they wrote upon the pt
of the eternal ages the title to the ca.
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