New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-25
IN MEMORY OF THE VETERANS.
John A. Dix Post at Manhattan Church-Dr.
MacArthur's Sermon.

The original fas-an American ensign-which
hoated from the peak Of the United States revenue
cutter McClelland at New-Orleans in the Civil
War; was displayed during the services last night
at the Manhattan Congregational Church, at Sew
enty-sixth-st- and Broadway, where John A DIX
Post No. 49, G. a. r., and its associate members
attended. The flag lent by the Rev. Dr. Nor
gan Dix of Trinity Church, for this occasion anc
for Memorial Day. The sermon was by the Rev.
DR.. Henry A. Stimson. a memorial service was
also held at the Calvary Baptist Church, which
attended by Alexander Post, No. 1S2. G. A. H.
THE REV. DR.. HENRY a. STIMsON.-Great
events live Vividy in the lives of the who
participated in them. Visiting the Hotel des In
marble sarcophagus Of the great Napoleon and
the tattered battle flags above it, but it was far
old soldiers who had fought at waterloo Here is
the ee te 3 We're q 2es Us bee9G Of
great principles which then We're contended foTi
the Israelites from Egypt the battles Of Marath39
Bunker Hill and Saratoga
Our Civil War was great because of the great
law. of the emancipation Of the spirit Of man no less
fa az s P %6SS Whc ' We're them at STAKE Here
lies the value OF the veterans with US to-day These
S Sanr the hen to our national goVernment
IN that depa. al in whose integrity have
chiefly gloried the Posoffice, is covering up scan
di disc the men who brought them 10 light.
On all sides. from Missouri to New-York. legis-
while the men VINO bribed them go unsmrched and
bodea the main issue Of the war is Feved and
Ministers are pTociaiming that the niger is
unfit vote" when they mean only that some
the utterance as the North justfying their settled
purpose 10 allow no negro to vote not even Booker
| T. Washington, and not to allow him to learn or
progress beyond the lowest bounds fixed by their
Of the North is reappearng in which because Of
| large financial and commercial interests at the
South, bankers and merchants hold their peace or
openly approve the hateful doctrine that would
condemn an entire race to repression and mora!
and Intellectual stagnation. The veterans and
their testimony needed more than ever to-day
| THE REV. DIR. R. S. Observation-Disclosures
| Hamilton was by far and away the ablest jurist
public Hamilton came at the age OF sixteen 20
Boston from his home in the island OF Nevis. in
| the West Indies He came With the germ OF the
American Republic in his brain.
Guizot declared that there was no part OF the
Constitution OF the United States in which there
was element OF order. OF force Of duration that
largely determined the subsequent history OF the
| Rim opportunity OF sending into congress a
series OF detailed reports which utterly bafted his
| He anticipated as he antedated Chief Justice
Marshall and Daniel Webster, the two ablest inter
prefers and expounders OF the American Consutu-
ton, and they both gave him unstinteo praise.
II is almost impossible to overestimate his services
TO the American Republic. Had his views regardlng
the necessity Of strong central government pre-
vailed the war OF the States would never nave
The whole science Of politics is vastly different
To-day from the DAYS OF Hamilton Party spirit IS
less bitter and party methods more honoraoie
than then: 1t is utter nonsense to SPEAK as II
Compared with those of that day. Our p'folic men
purer their moral lives less bitter in their
political ambitions. and lofder IN their poAuoa-
| fdeRls than the of that day. -
Hamilton has never been duly honored by pubic
monuments and the State OF New-foTK sn4u1q r De
most liberal honoring this Scotch-French-WeS est
/ InCian-American-