The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-04-30

quirement existed. peace would be per-
petual, since these verbal fire-eaters, as
rule. take precious good care 10 keep
themselves at a safe distance from the
hum OF shot and shell.
The war between the states spranR d.
rectly from an incompetent and misrep-
resentative congress. Nobody now de.
sires the re-esta blishment OF slavery
and the inherent vicousness OF that
institution might and would. under wise
leadership have been recognized and
ended without q bloody emancipetion.
What We need in the United States
above al else. in order TO establish per-
| petual peace with our neighbors, good
Will between all sections, justice between
man and man, and q steady advance in
prosperity In which all shall be par
takers, is q system which will give TO
each minority. its due proportion in every
legislative body, municipal, state, and
| national Had such existed before the
Civil war. the union loving people, both
North and South. would have been rep
resented In congress much moro largely.
and the actions OF that body guided by
| the light OF reason instead OF folly would
have written for this country another
and a far brighter page In its history.
certain persons, who give to strenu-
| BUSINESS the highest place In the list OF
virtues, are prating of an irrepressible
conflict between the Saxon and the Slav.
i III iohoiio4ucht speak
| Ing ex-cathedra, they predict that either
| Russia, on the one hand. or an Anglo
saxon alliance, on the other, is destined
| TO rule the world, and that the present
century will see one Of these powers sub
| jugated by the other. Such talk Is wor-
| my or consideration only because II tends
| TO bring about the deplorabie events AZ
| foretells How much better and more
| rational to look forward TO a federation
| OF nations. A greater United States, not
OF the Americas alone. but of the whole
| world.
Let every brave mans death in this
| prison, let every monument here erected
10 his memory, be fiagstones paving the
| way 10 universal peace
| And may that road be short.
REV. MR.. MACCAULEY's GRAFTON.
Rev. Clay MacCauley was the orator OF
| the day, speaking as follows:
| Citizen life in memory OF our honored
dead!
| In memory OF men who. at this place,
| sacrificed their lives that their country
might endure among the nations OF the
earth, we are gathered today. AS a me-
| mortal of that sacrifice we have dedicated
| this stately monument May IL remain to
unnumbered generations a sign of su-
| preme human devotion, and be always
sumomns to them, IL need there be- to
show like conservation"
| Inc SBtdheT tflen OIIeTe0 "a tribute OF
| reverent remembrance to the "a Rhode
Island soldiers. to whom the monument
is dedicated, as especially endeared TO
us by the ties OF immediate citizenship,
of kindred and OF home" But. I'm fact
through this tribute from our small COM
| ne hwealth, we are commemorating all
the patriot dead OF 40 years ago. There
dead do not remain I'm memory as they
aie known by tn Jse with whom they were
associated i'm life. They exist transligured
by the idea TO which they were faithful
unto death. They are Americas patriot
heroes and I'VE may freely give them the
highest eulogies of heart and brain"
Continuing Mr.. MacCarthy said:
Toward the close of 1863 the Federal
armies began to press closely upon the
Confederate lines. Then also as IL hap
pened the custom Of parole and exchange
Cf prisoners of war hitherto, prevailing
became seriously obstructed because of
questions raised by the Confererate
government over the rights of the cap
tured negro soldiers OF the Union. Conse-
duently, the number OF war prisoners held
both in the North and in the South was
greatly increased.
PRISONERS REMOVED.
'"The continued advances Of the FEEDER
al armies imperiled the hold of the Con-
federates upon the Union prisoners con-
fined in Richmond and near the border
move the larger part OF the captives into
the less vulnerable interior of the coun-
try. Andersonville was chosen as the
main place for the detention Evidently in
selecting this locality there was no pur-
| pose to produce the tragic results that at
length made the prison a reproach TO hu-
manity and fixed a horrible blot upon
modern civilization"
Mr.. MacCauley then described the nat
ural advantages which the site OF Ander-
4 IL ,HTA at1I llz<1 tat
the construction and defences OF the
prison. He also told In vivid manner OF
the suffering undergone by the thousands
who were confined there; how the sick
were left 10 recover as best they might
and how all the captives were cared for
with but the poorest attention to their
| needs or necessities As a result Of these
| things the speaker said that over 1900
| Union soldiers met their death I'm that
| prison.
WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE?
'ewho or what was responsible for this
| awful record" said the speaker, I'VE need
not now answer. / recall these facts
chiefly that we may appreciate anew the
, | supreme measure OF patriotic Devotion
those men showed. TO whom this and the
. | other monuments here stand as memori'
ais. The past is past: the bitterness OF
memory Is gone; the United states lis to-
. day a Federal Union of all the common
weaiths that were arrayed against one
another half a century ago; the union ol
the states has been cemented by common
: suffering and death in recent war In be-
} half OF civil freedom and independence
and inexorable circumstances. probabl,
along with positive inhumanity. were bach
OF the record I have revived.
From this point Mr.. MacCauley dwel
upon his special theme, Citizen Life II
Memory Of our Honored Dead. HON
age to these patriot heroes is not to b'
shown only by remembering their tria
| and martyrdom and by building for then
) monuments Of granite and bronze M
said. when we consider the radica
: meaning and the isues OF the Civil Wa
: and note the development OF our countr,
I'm the new era initiated for II by the vic
, | torious defence OF the Union. we shal
see that there Is an honor behtting tn
| patriot dead fully equal TO that whlci
, | magnifies their devotion.
rho sneaker then spoke OF the homa q