Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-06-09
HONOR OF HEROES.
Commemorative Exercises on Field
at GettYsbura.


GETTYSBURG, Pa.--On historic
Cemetery hill, overlooking ground
hallowed by the blood of half hun
dred thousand brave men, and in the
presence of concourse of thousands,
who had assembled to pay tribute to
its memory of the nations dead,
President Roosevelt, on Monday, de-
livered a notable address. On nearly
the same spot, on November 10, 1868,
President Lincoln delivered the i'm
mortal address enunciating principles
which have rung around the world
for more than a third of century.
President Roosevelt was escorted
to the cemetery on the battlefield by q
body of several hundred veterans of
the civil war. The president and his
special escort we're preceded by sew
eral organizations, including a squad
ron of United States cavalry, the
Third United States artillery and the
Marine band of Washington, which
had been ordered here for the occa-
sion. Mrs. Roosevelt and other men,
bers of the presidents party followed
in carriages. The rear of the process
sion consisted of civic organizations
and citizens in carriages.
Governor Pennypacker presided at
the ceremonies, which were held on
the rostrum in the cemetery. After
the Memorial day services of the
Grand Army of the Republic had been
concluded and the pupils of the pub
lie schools had strewn flowers over
the graves of the thousands of dead,
during which ceremony the Marine
band played a solemn dirgee, DR.. Ed
ward Everett Hale, chaplain of the
United States senate, pronounced the
invocation.
Governor Pennypacker then intro
duced the president, who made a
lengthy address, saying, in part:
THE place where we now are has
won a double distinction. Here was
fought one of the great battles of all
time, and here was spoken one of the
few speeches which shall last through
the ages. AS long as this republic en-
dures or its history is known, so long
shall the memory of the battle of Get
tysburg likewise endure and be
known; and as long as the English
tongue is understood, so long shall
Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg speech
thrill the hearts of mankind.
1.-THE civil war was a great war for
righteousness; war waged for the
noblest ideals, but waged also In thor
oughgoing, practical fashion. 1t was
one of the few wars which mean, In
their successful outcome, a lift to-
ward better things for the nations OF
mankind Some wars have infant
the triumph of order over anarchy
and Righteousness masquerading as
| liberty; some wars have meant the
triumph of liberty over tyranny mas
querading as order; but this victo
rious war of ours meant the triumph
J of both liberty and order, the triumph
| of orderly liberty, the bestowal OF
civil rights upon the freed slaves, and
at the same time the stern insist
ence on the supremacy of the ma
| tional law throughout the length and
! breadth of the land. Moreover, this
was one of those rare contests In
which it was to the unreasonable in
| terest of the vanquished that they
| should lose, while at the same time
the victors acquired the precious priv
ilege of transmitting to those who
| come ATTIC" them, as a memory OF
honor forever, not only the memory
| of their own valiant deeds, but the
memory of the deeds of those who
no less valiantly and with equal sin
certify of purpose, fought against the
stars in their courses. The war left
to us ALL as fellow-countrymen, as
brothers, the right to rejoice that the
union has been restored in indeStruct
ible shape in country whero' slavery
no longer mocks the boast of free
dom, and also the right to rejoice
with eXultant pride in the courage
the Self-sacrifice and the devotion
alike of the men who wore the blue
and the men who wore the gray"
The presidents concluding words
were:
"All are at one now, the sons o
those who wore the blue and the SON
of those who wore the gray, and al
can unite in paying respect to tn
memory of those who fell, each o
them giving his life for his duty a
he saw it; and all should be as one il
learning from the deaths of these me-
how to live usefully while the time
call for the performance of the count
less necessary duties of everyday life
and how to hold ourselves ready I
die nobly should the nation ever agai
demand of hep sons the ultimate proc
of loyalty"
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