Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-09-17

decided that the civil war. besides pc
ing d War for the preservation OF the
Union, should be I; war for the emanol-
patton of the slave, so from that time
onward. the causes OF union and free
dom. of national greatness and indiNid-
ual liberty, were one and the same.
Men of New Jersey, l congratulate
your state because she has the right to
claim her full share in the honor ana
glory of that memorable day; and l
congratulate you, Governor Murphy,
because on that day you had the good
fortune to serve as a lad with credit
and honor in one of the five regiments
which your state sent to the battle.
Four of these regiments, by the way,
served in the division commanded by
that gallant soldier. Henry w. Slocum.
whom we. of New York. can claim as
our own. The other regiment. that in
which Governor Murphy served, altho
practically an entirely new regiment.
did as good work as that of any veter-
an organization upon the field, and suf-
fered a proportional loss. This regi-
ment at one time ordered to the sup
port of a division commanded by anotf-
er New York soldier, the gallant Gener-
al Greene. whose son himself. served as
a major general in the war with Spain,
and who is now. as police commissioner
of New York. rendering as signal
service in civil life as he has already
rendered In military life.
IF the issue of Antietam had been
other than it was. 1t is probable that at
lease two great European powers would
have recognized the Independence of the
Confederacy: so that you who fought
here forty-one years ago have the pro-
found satisfaction of feeling that You
PLAYED we'll your part in one of those
crises big with the fate of all mankind.
You men of the Grand Army by your
victory not only rendered all Afneri-
cans your debtors forevermore. but you
rendered all humanity your debtors. II
the Union had been dissolved,
the great edifice built with blood
and sweat and tears by mighty Wash
ington and his compeers had gone
down in wreck and ruin, the result
would have been an incaculable ca
laanity. not only for our people-and
most of all for those who, in such an
event, would have seemingly triumphed
but for all mankind. The great
American republic would have become
4 memory of derislon; and the failure
of the experiment of ssif-gcvernment
by a great people on great scale
would have delighted the hsart of
every foe of republican institutions
Our country, now so great and so Won
derful. would have been split into little
jangling rival nationalities, each with
history both bloody and contemplate
IT was because you, the men who wear
the button of the Grand Army. tri-
tlmphed in those dark years that every
American now holds his head high,
proud in the knowledge that he belongs
10 a nation whose glorious past and
Great present will be succeeded by an
even nlightier future; whereas had you
failed we would all OF us north aha
south, east and west. be now treated by
other nations at the best with con-
temptuous tolerance: at The worst with
eerhearing insolence.
sThe continental troops who followed
Washington were clad in blue and buff
and were armed with clumsy, flintlock
nuskets. You, who followed Grant
wore the famous old blue uniform. and
your weapons had changed as had your
uniform. and now the men Of the
American army who uphold the honor
of the flag in the far tropc lands are
yet differently armed and differently
clad and differently trained; but the
spirit that has driven YOU all to vic
tory has remained forever unchanged.
So it is IN civil life. As you did not
win In n month or a wear, but only
after long years of hard and dangerous
Sp,, y,ac,,, fs,y
honesty and efficiency cen be won only
ny the display of similar patience and
similar resolution and power of en-
surance We need the same type Of
eharacter now that was needed by the
men who with Washington first inau-
gurated the system Of free popular
the system of combined
liberty and order here on this cont
nent: that was needed by the men who
under Lincoln perpetuated the gov
ment which had thus been inauguratei
in the days of Washington. The quail
ties essential to good citizenship and
tc good public service now are in all
their essentials exactly the same as In
the days when the first congresses met
10 provide for the establishment of the
union; as in the days, seventy years
later, when the congresses met which
had to provide for its salvation.
There are many qualities which We
reed alike in private citizen and Ia
rublic man, but three above all-three
for the lack of which no brilliancy and
no genius can atone--and those three
are courage, honesty and common
sense
While Roosevelt was speaking rain
began to fall in torrents The stand
had a canvas cover. but the water went
through it as if it were a sieve. When
q bystandsr offered to hold over him
an umbrella the president waved 1t
aside, remarking: Il don't care for 1t,
If Indicating the assemblage) they can
stand it l can.
AT the conclusion of the address the
president held an informal reception
in the rain. shaking the hands of sew
eral hundred ex-soldiers. The drive
over the parks and battlefield was
abandoned on account of the storm, the
president returning to the train imme-
dtateiy after the ceremonies.
MANY SERIOUSLY INJURED.
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