The Newtown bee., 1901-07-05

ther Abraham, 3OO,OOO more!" arose and rolled from ocean to ocean until the continent shook with its echoes and with the tread of the million men who sang it. And these men were no ignorant and unprincipled rabble, and asts. They were the sons of the gran ite-like Puritan Pilgrims of New Eng land, the solid and sturdy Knicker- lockers of New York, the quiet but reSolute QuakerS of Pennsylvania, and their enterprising and powerful prog eny from the great prairies of the West.
 THESE WERE THE LEADING AND GU1D-
 ING SPIRITS,
 but among them, also, were men from all the lands of Europe, who had intel ligently come hither seeking improv- ed homes and fortunes for themselves and their children beneath the 8gis of our American liberty; but who now found themselves in danger of direr expressions than those from which they fled, unless they, too, took up arms and earned the liberty they | sought, by helping to defend it. And armies of the old world, but as free volunteers under the flag of their new ly adopted country, and received their baptism of naturalization in a baptism of blood in it's defence. And then grateful America declared that no man, of whatever race of color, who had fought for the Union and free dom, should henceforth be reckoned as either slave or an alien, but as comrade and brother, and a fellow citizen with the saints of liberty.
 And so the great war, like a vast thunderstorm or some other tremen- dous cataclySm of nature, arose, and swelled, and thundered and darkened the heavens, and convulSed the earth. A million human lives and
 THOUSAND MILLIONS TREASURE were sacrificed. The earth was delug- ed with blood, and shook with the South were punished together for both had sinned together. And when, at last, the nations sin had been expiat- ed, and the mountain of guilt had been rolled away, then the storm swept by, the clouds broke away, the sun burst forth once more, and his beams fell on a reunited Nation, to be spelled with a capital N hence forth and forever, a nation stretching from ocean to ocean and from zone to zone, one flag flying unrent above it all, and not slave on all it's soil for evermore! Such, in brief, IS the story never struck blow until it was com pelled to do so, to save the Union, never touched slavery until 1t was compelled to do so to save the Union, never struck another blow after arm- ed rebellion was crushed and the Union saved, and never hung one man as plotter and actor in the most CO., lossal conspiracy and treason known in all history!--a magnanimity, terly unknown before in
 THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD! And then the hero armies whose valor had ended slavery and saved America to be the beacon light of all the ages, came marching home again, l not to grasp supreme power, to Over- throw senates, and to elect their gen. erals Caesars, as the Roman legions did; terrorize the country they had saved, as the armies of oriental despotisms have so often done; but to sublimely and peacefully disband, and quietly re- turn to the ordinary vacations of life, showing that the citizen had all the while been greater than the soldier, | and that the respect and venerat1On of their fellowcitizens for them, as the deliverers of their country, was more precious in their eyes than all tinsel glOrieS of no longer necessary soldier Ship. And so that mighty and invin- cibfe host of armed veterans, at whose frOwn the strongest nations of the world trembled, and for fear of whom France made haste to get out of Mex icO, melted away into the common mass of their fellow citizens as harm lesSly and peacefully as the rainbow crowned thunder cloud melts away when it's mission is ended, the sultry air purified and the fields refreshed for the labors of the husbandman.
 And now, as the result of that war, and of the perils and sacrifices of these men for us, we have here country stretching from Maine to California, and from Florida to Alaska, embrac- ] ing more than 3,6OO,OOO square miles, or about the same as all Europe, and ] containing far more land that is avail ! able for population. This vast empire has sea coast line of more than P, 900 miles, nearly equal to the whole cir conference of the globe, and 4,OOO length of inland navigation than any other nation possesses; and, with it's sea coast line, enabling an American to make voyage in water ruled by his own flag, nearly equal to three times round the whole earth. Were this territory as densely populated as Europe (110 to the square mile and it is capable of being more sol, it would contain nearly 400, 900, GOO souls, nearly one third of the present population of the globe-and it will one day have them.
 SUCH IS THE sTUPENDOUs INHERI-
 TANCE
 which these veteran men before us helped to save from re apsing into political chaos and social barbarism, and to send it onward along the broad highway of the most magnificent de- velOpment known in the annals of all time. A population of the blended blood of all the best branches of the great Aryan stock of mankind, and the lectually and morally; with the freest homes and schools and the best living, the best chances for their children; and in a country of the most bOundleSS present situation that lies around us, and the future that stretches before us. If we did not tenderly and grate- fully decorate the tOmbS of the men who gave or imperilled, ,-their lives to preserve this inheritance for us, and if we do not lovingly revere and cherish the survivors of that heroic host, then we are or would be-the basest and most unthankful of mortals. It would seem impossible, yea, incOnceivable, if we did not know 1t to be an ugly