Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1903-10-15

% heart and act upon the lessons
jilght by the lives which made these
lead men great. Our homage today
10 the memory of Sherman comes
I'm the depths of our being. We
Duld be unworthy citizens did we not
u profound gratitude toward him,
Z i'd those like him and under him,
who, when the country called in her
dire need, sprang forward with such
gallant eagerness to answer that call.
Their blood and their toll, their en-
durance and patriotism, have made us
and all who come after us forever
their debtors. They left us not mere
ly a reunited country, but a country
incalculably greater because of its
rich heritage in the deeds which thus
left it reunited. AS a nation we are
the greater not only for the valor
and devotion to duty displayed by the
men in blue, who won in the great
struggle for the union, but also for the
valor and the loyalty toward what
they regarded as right of the men in
gray; for this war, thrice fortunate
above all other recent wars in it's out
come, left to all of rs the right OF
brotherhood alike with valiant victor
and valiant vanquished
NJ recover. our homage must not on
ly f Id expression on our lips; it must
also show itself forth in our deeds. 1t
is a great and glorious thing for a ma
tion to be stirred to present triumph
by the splendid memories of triumphs
in the past But it is shameful thing
for a nation, if these memories stir 1t
only to empty boastings, to pride
that does not shrink from present
abasement to that self-satisfaction
which accepts the high resolve and un-
'ueAding effort of the father as an ex-
cuse for effortless ease or wrongly di-
rected effort in the son. We OF the
present, if we are true to the past,
must show by our lives that we have
lea1 ned Alright the lessons taught by
the men who did the mighty deeds OF
the past. We must have in us the spir-
it which made the men of the civil
war what they were; the spirit which
PRODUCED leaders such as Sherman;
the spirit which gave to the average
soldier the grim tenacity and resource
fuiness that made the armies of Grant
and Sherman as formidable fighting
machines as this world has ever seen.
We need their ruggedness of body,
their keen and vigorous minds, and
above all their dominant quality OF
forceful character. Their lives teach
us in our own lives to strive after not
the thing which is merely pleasant,
but the thing which it is our duty to
do. The life of duty, not the life OF
mere ease or mere pleasure-that is
the kind of life which makes the
great man as it makes the great ma
ton.
We can not afford to lose the virtues
which made the men of 81 to '65 great
in war. No man is warranted In feel.
ing pride in the deeds Of the army and
navy of the past if he does not back
up the army and the navy of the pres
ent. If we are far-sighted in our pa.
triotism, there will be no let up in the
work of building, and of keeping at
the highest point of efficiency, a navy
suited to the part the United States
must hereafter play in the world, and
of making and keeping our small reg
ular army, which in the event OF a
great war can never be anything but
the nucleus around which our volun-
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