The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-05-18
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Remains of General William Starks ROsecrans Are Buried il
Arlington Where Hosts of Civil War Heroes Have
Their Last Resting Place.

said that the builder, rather than the
destroyer, is the man most entitled to
honor amongst US: that the man who
builds up is greater than he who tears
down, and that our honor must be in
a lighting man who not only fought
worthily, but fought in worthy cause.
They We're Liberators.
And therefore for ali time the Deo-
pie not only of this reunited country,
but the nations Of mankind who see
the hope for the ordered liberty in
what this country has dOne--they will
fo-ever hold you, the men of the great
civil war and the leaders Like, him
whose immortal remains are to be put
today in their final resting place, in a
peculiar honor. because you were sol
diers who fought TO build you were
upbuilders; you were the men to whose
lot it fell to save to perpetuity, to
make strong the national fabric. the
foundations of which had been laid by
the men who fought under the man
whose home at Mount Vernon stands
as an equally priced memory of the
past with Arlington. It is no chance
that has made Mount Vernon and
Arlington, here in the neighbOrhoOd Of
Washington, the two great memorials
of a nations past, because one COM
memOrates the founding and the other
the saving Of the nation. If it were
not for what Arlington synbolizes.
Mount Vernon would be little or Moth
ing; if it were not for what was done
by Rosecrans and his fellows; if il
were not for what they did, then the
work OF Washington would have crum-
bled into blooded chaos, and the deeds
of the founders of this republic would
be remembered only because they had
been another of the many failures of
the spirit of liberty in this country.
Without the work that you did, the
work of the men who fought TO
successful close. the revolution would
have meant nothing.
Work of the Veterans.
ITO you it was given to do the great
work which if left undone would have
meant that all else done by our people
would have counted for nothing. You
left Us a reunited country and. there
fore, the right, the brotherhood, with
an all pride in the gallantry and self
devotion Of those who wore the gray
and were pitted against US in the great
struggle.
The very fact that We appreciate
more and more as the years go on the
Importance to this country and to man
kind Of your victory. makes il more
and more possible for US to recognize
in the heartiest and the frankest man
ner the sincerity, the self-devotion and
I the fealty to the right as it was given
them 70 see the right of our fellow
I Americans against whom you fought.
And now the reunion is so complete
D rfN fc to oil l. Or
that it is complete. (Applause9 You left
US another lesson in brotherhood. To-
I day come here comrades Of the army
Of the Cumberland, the man who had
command, the men who fought in the
ranks. brothers because each did what
he could and all alike share equally in
/ the glory Of the deed that was done.
! Officer and enlisted man stand al the
bar of history to be judged. not by the
difference in rank, but by whether they
did their duties to their respective
! ranks. CApplause.) And of how little
/ account, looking back. the difference of
rank is, compared with the doing of
I the duty and what was true then is
/ true now. The doing the duty well is
/ what counts.
I'm any audience of this kind. one
/ sees in the highest official and social
( positions men who fought as enlisted
men in the armies of the Union, in the
armies of the confederacy. and all we
ask is, Did they prove their truth by
their endeavOr? II they did. honor 10
! them, and little else, and little we care
( the particular position which they held.
save in so far as the holding of exalted
I position gave the man a chance to do
{ great and peculiar service. 1 should
not try TO eulogize the dead general
I in the presence Of his comrades, in
! the presence of his fellow men who
have come to honor the memory of the
man against whom they were pitted in
( the past, and who come here because
they now. like US. are americans and
nothing else, devoted to the Union and
to one country. (Applause.)
Patriots Of the Post.
Il should not try to speak Of his
/ services in the presence Of those who
fought through the civil war. who
I risked the loss OF life. who endured the
loss of limbs. who fought as enlisted
men, who came out. boys not yet ready
TO enter college, but able TO bear COM
missions in the army OF the United
States, as result Of four years ser
vice, or three years service with the
colors.
There are those Of each class of
whom I have spoken. who have ad-
dressed, or will address, you today.
They are entitled to speak as comrades
of the great dead We. the younger Of
US, are entitled to pay to the great
dead the homage Of those to whom or
dered liberty. has been handed down
as a heritage because Of the blood and
the sweat and tcI Of the men who
fought to a finish the great civil war.
You taught US in war. Great have,
been the lessons you have taught US
in peace since the war. Reverently
and humbly the men who came after
you FASTENED to acknowledge the debt
that is owing 10 you.
You were the men OF the mighty
days who showed yourselves equal 60
the day We have today lesser tasks.
but shame to US if we finch from do