The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-06-06

"a VI wax GAA4CS. 1AO1 ESlOIN 10 dS
thrilling and important a part of war
history as is recorded. No student
should overlook the story of Clara Bar
ton, of brave Mother By%ckerdyke whose
presence on field and in hospital was as
welcome as an angel, or fail to read of
that thigh born lady Mother Angela,
who was a Eweing, a. cousin of Mrs.
General Sherman. 1t was she who did
much to perfect the hospital system of
the Union army. And there was the
eloquent n talented Mrs. Livermore
whose labors for the betterment of the
sanitary condition OF the army, has
made her name immortal We might
mention Dorothy Dix and Amy Bradley
and Aunt Betsey Young and Jennie
Wade and scores equally sacrificing 1t
is we'll that the noble women of Iowa
should rear a monument upon the fieldof
Gettysburg and the name of Jennie
Wade be immortalized Not only would
we honor these noble women, but also
the thousands of lonely mothers and
wives and sisters and sweethearts whose
names do not appear on their country's
roll of honor, but whose suffering
was as great as the wounded soldier
in the hospital. The heart.achss of
these ONE will never be known,
except to their God.
When we think of the soldier whose
life was ebbed away on the field of
battle, also remember the anguish of
the women at home. Whea placing
flowers on his grave, decorate the one
of she whose loyalty and suffering was
equal to his own. Perhaps in wal times
the pathetic sight of a soldiers family
in distress was unavoidable, today it is
avoidable Topermit a veterans widow
to suffer for the necessities OF life, is an
insult to the flag, to the veteran soldier,
to the women of wal times and a dis
grace to the community which permits
1T. When the wal was over woman's
work did not cease She still maintains
her organization for her country and
humanity. To my mind the g%randest
society OF women on earth today, is the
u having its origin in var times 1t is
one TO which my mother is devotedly
attached, the 'Woman's Relief Corps"
The war was a school master and its
lessons are many. 1t has taught that
"a state can not seceed." 1t has taught
us that "the nation could not exist, part
slave and part Free" 1t has taught us
that the common people who furnished
the country with a Lincoln and the
soldiers for his army, can be trusted in
an emergency. Ii has taught us that
both Lincoln and Jefferson were right,
and though wealth and its overs might
sulk like towards, the common people
could and did save the nation from de-
struction. 1t has taught us that, Ameri-
can versatility and genius can adopt it
.self to almost any condition; that, al
most any difficulty can be oyercome;
that the military strength of this re-
united republic is so great that no foe
threatens u shore today. 1t should
teach us IN times of financial stringency
which visits all nations, that a country
with recuperative power sufficient to
overcome the material loss of the war,
will in time. unaided by ally nostrum
labeled remedial legislation build
upon the wreck of the panic a business
structure more substantial than the
one it replaces. 1t should teach us,
raised more valiant than the followers
of any plumed knight in the days of
chivalry. 1t has shown us a race of
men and women as patient and long
suffering as the apostolic martyrs. 1t
has shown the world patriotism such
as it had never known and produced an
army without a pier in history 1t
settled a question which like a phantom
had haunted our people from the day
that Rutledge and Pinckney forced
slavery upon the infant Republic. 1t
has placed upon our shoulders the re-
sponsibility of transmitting to pros
perity the nation intact and free. as we
have received it.
That these lessons have not been en-
tirely lost upon the generation follow
ing the Civil War, was proven when an
army Of Sons of Veterans responded to
President McKinley's call. transmitted
to the Sons of Iowa through a distin-
gulshed citizen of your town So upon
the annual recurrence of this date, the
old volunteer is reinforced by the new,
and we who heard the call of Mckinley
and Shaw, Join in the observance of the
day with our fathers who supported the
position of Lincoln and Kirkwood. In
the cemeteries of the Republic, our
dead slumber beside their heroic sires
and the day made sacred by the sacri.
fees of the men and of '6l
comes with a new significance to the
boys of '9S.
our country's history and needs, to
, duoLJ III ihtCAiCSCht dl4u ioyGl Sill
zenship to encourage all patriotic
movements Support in their noble
) work the Grand Army of the Republic,
the Woman's Relief Corps, the Nation.
al Guard, the Sons of Veterans, the
Z LOYAL Legion, the Sons of the American
+ Revolution and the Society Of the Gin
/ cinnatus. Wake American history mex
to holy scripture our book of books
Keep the flag constantly in mind and
view Teach the young to revere it
and know its story. Grave response
t bilities indeed have accompanied this
heritage. Young men and women o.
. my generation, while yet we may, LEI
S us learn from their own lips how these
men, it's brave defenders, preserved ole
glory, for us. Proclaim by our deed.
(: as well as words that, there is M
country like our country, no flag, lik,
: our flag, no soldiery like these father.
I of ours, Honor the memory of the
9 dead brighten the pathway of the liv
ing. build firmly for prosperity, Guart
y ~jealously u sacred liberty, treasure
the glorious heritage. keep green tn,