Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1903-06-06
MEMORIAL DAY.
R. W. D. BRyAN'S ADDRESS.
This is Memorial day.

This is Memorial day.
All over this grand country of ours,
from the Atlantic to the Pacific and
the Pine Tree state of Maine to the
Golden Gate. and in our possessions
beyond the seas, all patriotic Ameri-
cans are giving reverence and honor.
ing the dead, who fought in blue for
the flag in the great civil strife from
"a TO IS.
Bright skies and a bracing atmos.
phere are making II pleasant for the
old soldiers and sailors and loyal peo-
pie in Albuquerque In observing the
day
The exercises this morning were
held In Robinson city park aud were
well attended.
Commander A. Harsch called for or
der and Rev w j Marsh of the Con.
gregational church, asked a blessing
for all.
America" that song so dear to all,
was then sung, after which Adjutant
w. w. Mcdonald read the general or
ders of the commander in chief.
Past Department Commander Lever
4 1T Clarke read BLACK Jacks" Memoir
\ ial day orders. and Liacon's Gettys.
burg address was given by Captain u.
Il II. Bliss.
Il The Indian school band was present
and the boys in the band should I've
complimented on the patriotism they
show
Commander Harsch introduced Hon.
X. w. d. Bryan, of this city. who dellv.
cred the address and The Citizen
prints it in full and II speaks for itself
II is as follows:
N Bryan's Address.
N Soldiers of the Grand Army of the
Republic Ladies of the Relief Corps.
Kallow Citizens:-We mourn today the
nations dead. A generation ago they
died-the death OF heToes-to maintain
and perpetuate a government, the most
remarkable in history
Graded in liberty, nourished with
the thoughts, prayers and lives of men
whose mastery of themselves made
them valiant to subdue the rugged will.
dernesses OF a new world. our country
advanced toward its glorious destiny,
at once the envy of the tyrant and the
hope of the oppressed.
Its task was tremendous A Rpubli.
can form of government was regarded
as impracticable. Among the nations.
IL was looked upon as a reproach to
monarchical institutions and destined
TO result In a revolution destructive OF
property rights. At home all the con.
dtioas OF life were new and strange
the great body of the people needed re-
construction to adapt themselves to
the untred-its citizens needed train
ing in the school of liberty. The pur.
poses, aims and practices of govern
ment OF freemen for freemen, were
deciphered slowly. rudely and with
many mistakes.
There were however schoolmasters
in those days whose wisdom aud prud.
ence taught the people and whose ex.
amples OF civic virtue are today, and
always viii be the priced heVnage OF
lovers of liberty.
The foremost master of that emin-
en-, school, the intellectual giant who
laid wisely and well the foundation
stones OF our fabric of constitutional
government, was Thomas jefferson.
Had his sturdy Ideas OF personal liber.
~ prevailed, there would have been no
such sectional animosties as after.
wards distracted the country. He plac.
ed ip the first draft of the Declaration
OF Independence, an anti-slavery
clause, which was stricken out by con.
gress in Difference to the wishes OF
some of the slavs-holding states. In
1854 Jefferson presented to congress
a plan for the government of the west.
| crn country. which provided that slav.
cry should not exist therein after 1900.
The region referred to not only EN-
braced the Northwestern Territory,
hut what afterwards became the states
4 of Alabama, Mississippi. Tennessee
and Kentucky. The clause prohibiting
slavery was lost by but one vote.
\ Throughout his long and useful life.
| Jefferson was the uncompromising foe
1 OF every form OF tyrcnny and slavery.
The motto on his seal was Rebellion
/ TO tyrants Is obedience to God" He
said. IL have sworn upon the altar OF
God, eternal hostility to every form of
|. tyranny over the mind of man" mo
|, man has the power to let another pre-
|, scribe his faith"
There were a large number In those
|. early days of the republic who foresaw
h that disaster was the Inevitable con.
4 sequence of traffic In human flesh and
/ of the subsection OF human beings to
the debasement of slavery and whose
voice and pen were protesting forces.
b II has always been a source OF pride
u 10 me, that my great grandfather,
Y George Bryan, when a member OF the
legislature of Pennsylvania, In 1850. OF.
iginated and caused to be passed an
act abolishing slavery In that great
commonwealth
To us. in these late days. who calmly
Il read of the stirring events which &c.