Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-30

thru which the fort had passed. Nearly
forty wears of ebb and flow and DASH
ing of the sea waves had ground the
corners of these historic bricks and
showed the length of time that had
passed since the firing of the first shot
+ in 1861. l brought away one of them
as a memorial of those epoch making
days.
lone of the most remarkable inven-
lions Of recent years is the vitascope.
Some of the scenes of the Spanish war
have been thus photographed. and In
living pictures we can see the young
soldiers of 1898 marching by. saw not
long ago a sham battle with a cavalry
charge against a battery of artillery at
one of these exhibitions. Then the In
strument was reversed. The horses ran
backwards and the smoke of the can
non, instead of belching from the cam
mons mouth retreated and returned
once again into the silent muzzles of
the guns.
Il could not but think If we could
thus reverse the wheel of time and
bring the dead to life, drive back again
the smoke in the noiseless cannon. fill
up the graves in the south, and again
place this country back to where it was
in 1860, that the condition of things
that then prevailed would be utterly in
conceivable to the generation that has
grown up since the days Of Apponlat-
tox.
"The seer and partiot. Abraham Lin
coin, told us in 1858 that this union
could not exist part slave and part free.
ha oil S1a al fra hat
proposition seems to us now to be a
Simple one. The two forms of civiliza-
ton could not dwell together in unity.
The free labor of this country could
not perpetually compete with that Of
the slave. We revive The memories of
those days now with fraternity and
charity as we'll as loyalty. When you
came home, comrades in 1865, you once
more took your places in the ranks of
civil life and began to obey the de-
mands of Lincoln to bind up the ma
tons wounds.
These gatherings are schools of pa
| triotism to keep history straight. "A
few days ago a young man asked me
whether General Nathaniel Lyon, who
was killed at Wilson's creek, was a SOL
der of the union or confederate army.
Such lack of knowledge as this is UNI
common. but it ought to be impossible.
There is much misinforlnation in rela-
ton to the cause of the war. In the
south it is commonly spoken of as the
war between the states. There never
was any such war. The national gov
eminent always remained intact, and
the stars of Georgia and South Carolina
were never dropped from the flag, and
when the war closed the banner did not
need to be remodeled except to add new
stars for the new states of the union,
with one additional for West Virginia,
which the loyal mountaineers of that
state had carved out of the side of the
old Dominion. The soldiers of that war
on both sides did not, on their return
home, scatter and become a lawless
banditti, as did many of the soldiers of
the middle ages. But they took their
vacant places in the ranks of peace,
and have filled every position at the
call of duty up to the present time.
81 have always admired that Roman
senator of whom it was said that he
never despaired of the republic When
Hannibal was besiegng Rome his camp
was sold in the open market within the
walls Of the city, and the title was
good. SO when our war was at It's
height we began to build railroad to
the Pacific ocean. Our people never
lost faith in the republic. The soldier OF