Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-06-01

rade then moved through Plummer and
Brunswick streets to the Common, where
ton at the hands of the post The march
was then renewed through Brunswick
and Water streets to the Opera house. The
hall was well filed with the many who
that place. After music by the band May.
or Russell was introduced as president of
the day He in Turn called on Rev. r. n.
Joscelyn. pastor of the Methodist church.
Hon. Herbert M. Heath of Augusta, fol-
lowed selection by the band After the
singing of America" by the audience,
Key. olat Iandbefg, pastor of the Cnlver-
saliSt church, pronounced the benedlctlcn
and the services attending Memorial day
We're drawn to an end.
In Mr. Heath's introduction he made al
fusion to his connection 10 Gardiner as Il
Gardiner boy and the fact o. the naming
of the Gardiner Post, q. A. X, in honor
OF his father He recalled the early his
tory and influences of the town and allud-
ed to the sturdy and distinguished c1tl-
zens who We're prominent from 1850 to 1865
and the great value of the public school
system in training for citizenship and pre-
pairing the loyal sons of Gardiner for the
great struggle. The main part of the ora
ton was taken up in SketChing the causes.
fancied and real, which eliminated in the
great conflict. These causes were not to
be found in a mere sectional struggle over
state rights not question of freedom or
continued slavery OF the negro, but had to
do more with the types of civilization and
the standards of education which prevail
ed in the two sections of the country It
was not because the northern section were
more righteous or Christian that they gave
up the institution OF slavery, nor because
the Southern people were more wicked or
selfish that they persisted in slavery: but
1t may he said that the soil and climate
and ideals of the North were not favorable
to such an institution and those of the
South were especially adapted to it: that
the great Struggle when culmina ted on
the election of President Lincoln ccntcrcd
not about the continuance of slavery OF
the nbolishing of it. but solely about the
extension of il to new parts of the coun-
try. The South. the country and the world
knew that when Abraham Lincoln was
elected President that the bounds of S1av-
erv had been at last forever fixed anu il
was hpcause the south saw the comine
twilight of their own institution that they
| guse up in rebellion against the govern
ment The SIeabcr then portrayed in 8
very craphir way how two types of civil
| zatiot1 had drvelonod ON this continent
| that SETTLERS who came and located or
Northern shores came for religions liberty
and that they created here anew in tho
history of thc world the foundation OF
all democratic institutions They founded
| The free school svStcm-that b1ittress or
| which rest republican institutions Moro
| than thai, they created the town meet
| ing-a nerfert democratic institution
| which made the hlImblest and poorest
! eulIaI. in power and privilege with the
|
| muritv. and ont of this common schoo
systnm ana this democracy of town meet
nc grew and extcu,ipd those ideas whici
| G,, H., ,hi'iiod tho,nen1,a. in thn Aunri
can Tonstitution and modern democracy
| Whereas i'm tho South the form of civil
zation was borrowed from the cffete arts
tocracy IF the Ola World II ignored tn,
| cducation of its citizens. ycSting all it.
rights and priyileses-Ijke the Old World.
| in the first-born SON There grad,Ia IL
crew ont Of this condition. of things a grc4,
mass of moor Ignorant white pcOplc
known as .'(TacL<eT Whites i'm the south
| In time tbis ircreasirpr mass of it's citi
Zens shut ont fIom The privileges of edu
cation shut oJlt from tha Dri yiIcges of GOV
| crnmcnt sank 70 a position lower thar
| that of n. slave himself 'This was the jc
gitimate outcome of that aristocrac\
which was f0Hndod on pxclusion of TN,
| first horn. For centuries the great strug
pln has heen nranaring between two grcat
| idoas of civilization and the lime was Al
last rine 11ndcr the providence of God
| when these TWO contendine ideas shorl,
meet in hostile strupela mo War of th.
! Rebellion was not simply n section Struc
| Clio of interest and value TO the feeble
statcs Of America Int of uomcntoue vain,
| tn unfoIdiner nrorIes i'm an thc world
| Without the WAR of the Rebellion thor.
vn,,Id have born NO rc1wallcnod Gcrmnnv
| no unitcd Italy no renlIblir in France n,
nonnIor government in England TODAY AN,
| If may he said that thai same shirt whirl
has yroup1t surh nrnfnnud chances: il
| these poyernmcntt has cxrrtod its unIirf
INC influence tInon the absolute degnntis\