Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-05-31
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should exist in the territories was a
question of grave Importance. On this
question three parties arose, the first
SAID slavery was not legal in any terri
tory, the second said wherever slave
holder went he could take his
slaves, the third party led by Douglass
said, the territories have the right to
decide by ballot whether the same
should be slave or free. This contest
began with the coming of the slave
ship in 1913. 1t began to end when Lin
coins election pledged the country to
limit slavery. The contest could not be
settled by ballots. 1t must be settled
by battle.
ii. Ii your flowers, your music and
your oratory are to mean anything you
musi measure the price paid to decide
this question.
You may study this question with the
hnancier, you may study it as ex-
pressed in industrial loss with the
economist or with the sociologist, you
may read the price as expressed III
social conditions, by these methods
you may learn much, but if you would
| know the real price paid you must
look into AnderSonville and Libby
prisons. You must see the men on III"
| marches, you must watch them go
| down to battle and to death You
must see the young mother clutch at
her heart when the message of death is
read. and she and her babies must face
| the battle of life alone. With these
facts and scenes before you. you may
| realize in part the price paid that
the constitution might be upheld
and the work of nation building COM
plcted.
Ill If your flowers, your music and
your oratory are to be anything but
mockery you must see the relation Of
that struggle to our present greatness
and prosperity.
| !. 1t settled the question of states
| rights and SO gave us one nation. 2. 1t
converted the constitution into char
ter of human liberty. 3. 1t gave us
| 10000 American citizens. Some of
you may think this was not worth
while. Consider after II years Tanner
the black man hangs his masterpiece
on the wall of the French Academy.
Booker T. Washington stands a prince
among American educators. Paul
l W
this Memorial ode for you.
Done are the tolls and the wearisome
| marches,
| Done is the summons of bugle and
| drum.
Softly and sweetly the sky overarches,
Sheltring a land where Rebellion is
| dumb.
Dark were the days of the country's de
| rangement
Sad We're the hours when the conflict
was on,
But through the gloom of fraternal es
God sent His light, and we welcome the
| dawn.
Ger the eXpanse Of our mighty domin-
ions,
Sweeping away to the uttermOSt parts,
Peace, the wide-flylng, on untiring pin
| ions.
| Bringeth her message Of JOY to our
| hearts.
Out of the blood of conflict fraternal,
Out of the dust and the dimncsS of
death,
Burst into blossoms Of glory eternal
| Flowers that sweeten the world with
| Flowers of charity, peace and devotion
| Bloom in the hearts that are empty of
| strife
| Love that is boundess and broad as the
| Leaps into beauty and fulncss of life.
So, with the singing of paeans and cho
| TdlS,
And with the flag flashing high in tn,
| Place on the graves of our heroes the
| laurelS
Which their unfaltering valor has Won,
| 1t made possible educational political,
| industrial and commercial expansion with
| a loose union of states our progress
| must have been slow and we would have
| been limited forever. But with one ma
| ton, great internal improvements were
bound to come. Our place among nations
was assured. Great commercial enter
prises were sure of protection.
Today we are entering on the golden
| era of the republic, the era in which ev
| cry industry shall be employed in meet
| ing domestic wants with an ever widen
| ing outlet abroad for our supplies. We
| are to be the masters of the sea, with our
warships and transports of trade.
This Is the era of national expansion.
| The United States sits at the council Ia
BILE Of the nations. and she is their t.
stay with the declaration of indepcn
dence and the constitution as her guide.
She has been messenger of peace to
| China; she has astonished the world by
| her treatment of Cuba: she sent her sol
| diers to fight, her statesmen to leSiSlate
| and her scholars to educate, and now
| having redeemed the island she takes
| down her flag, recalls her soldiers and
| leave the new republic to the enjoyment
of peace and the pursuit of happiness
This is one of the greatest achievements
of history.
The American flag. the American teach
er and the American soldier are in the
Philippines for the good of the islands.
This is not the time for bitter denunCia-
ton. Some one seems to have used meth
DDS in the Philippines that American
principles do not warrant, but that thu
administration. that the army a whole
are in sympathy with these methods no
one can believe. AS our flag has been I
star of hope to China and the emblem
of liberty to Cuba, so it will be the en-
sign to the Filipino of civil and relig
iouS liberty.
If today we come with our flowers, our
music and our oratory, and coming UNI
derstand the soldiers fought for the life
of the nation. that it cost them all they
held dear. even life, and that our pres
ent greatness and prosperity are the
rich fruit of this work; they our flowers,
will never fade our music never die out,
our oratory inspire all to life for the prin-
cip