The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-18

only because they had been another of the
failures OF the spirit of liberty in this
country. Without the work you did. the
work Of the men who fought TO a success
full close the revolution wOuld have meant
nothing. To you il was given to do the
great work which. II left undOne. would
have meant that all else done by our poo
pie would AVE counted for nothing. And
you left US a reunited country and. there
fore, the right, the brotherhood. with an
al-pr1de in the gallantry and Selt-oeVolOn
OF those who wore the gray and were
pittcd against you in the great struggle.
THE very fact that we appreciate more
and more as the years go on the all-impor-
lance 10 this country end TO mankind of
your victory makes IL more and more pos
sibIe Tor US 10 recognize in the heartiest
and the frankest manner the sincerity, the
devotion and the fealty TO right as il was
given them 10 see the right Of our fellow
Americans against whom you fought. AND
now the reunion is so complete that it is
useless 10 allude TO the fact that Ii is COM
plete. lApplause.l You left US another
lesson In brotherhood. To-day you come
mere as comrades Of the Army of the Cum
Derland, the man who had a commission,
the man who fought in the ranks, brothers,
because each did what there was in him to
90 Tor the right. Each did what he could,
and all alike share in the glory Of the deed
that was done. Officer and enlisted man
STAND at the bar OF history TO be judged
not by the difference in rank, but whether
they dld their duties in their respective
ranks Applause. And Of how little &C
count. looking back. the difference of rank
is compared with the doing of the duty,
ana what was true then is true now. The
uolns the duty well is what counts
In any audience Of this kind one sees
IN the highest official and social positions
men who fought as enlisted men in the ar
mics of the Union, in the armies of the
Confederacy. and all we ask is, did they
prove their truth by their e~ndeavor? II
they did, honor 10 them, and TO little else,
and little we care the particular posi-
tlon which they held save in so far as the
holding Of exalted position gave the man
a chance TO do great and peculiar service.
L should not try to eulogize the dead
general in the presence OF his comrades,
in the presence of his Acknowledged
who have come to honor the memory of
the man against whom they were pitted in
the past and who come here because they
else, devoted to the Union and to one coun-
try. lApplause.l / should not try to speak
OF his services in the presence of those who
Fought through the civil war, who riSked
the loss Of life. who endured the loss of
limb. who fought as enlisted men or came
out boys not yet ready to enter college,
but able 10 bear commissions in the army
of the United States as a result of four
years service or three years service with
the colOrs. There are those of each class
Of whom / have Spoken who have addressed
or will address you to-day. They are en-
titled to speak as comrades Of the great
dead. We, the younger among us, are
entitled only to pay to the great dead the
homage of those to whom ordered liber-
~ has been handed down as a heritage
because of the blood, and the sweat, and
the toll of the men who fought TO a finish
the great civil war. You taught us in
war. Great have been the lessons you
nave taught us in peace since the war.
Reverently and humbly the men who came
after you hesitated to acknowledge the
debt that is owing to you. You were the
men of the mighty days who showed your
selves equal to the days. We have to-day
lesser tasks, but shame to us II we finch
from doing or fail to do well the lesser
tasks where you carried to triumphant vic
tory a feat as difficult as that which was
set you.
And here in the presence Of one Of the
illustrious dead whose names will remain
forever more on the honor roll OF the great
est Republic on which the sur has ever
shone; here in that presence it behOoves all
of us, young and old, solemnly and rev.
dimmed the traditions you left us. To do
the work necessary, whatever that work
may be; to make good the work that you
did; to acknowledge the inspiration of your
careers in war and in peace and TO remind
ourselves once for all that lip loyalty is not
the loyalty that counts; that loyalty that
counts is the loyalty that shows iself in
deeds rather than in words, and that,
therefore, we pledge ourselves to make
good by our lives what you risked your
lives to gain and keep for the Nation as a
whole" GGreat a~pplause.l
The exercises at the pavilion over, the
cortege moved slowly to the grave, where
the commitment service was read by DR..
Stafford, closing with Nearer, my God, to
Thee by the quartet. Taps was sounded,
followed by a salvo Of artillery, and the
last sad rites over the distinguished soldier
had been performed.