The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-06-03

peace, They took arms not to destroy,
to csiabitsh tho supremScS Of the law,
The crisis which they faced WAS 10 de-
terrnlne whether or not this people was
for liberty, Freedom Is not Il Gttt which
| can be enjoyed save by those who show
themselves worthy of II. In this world>
no privilege can be permanently appro-s
priated by men who have not the power
and the win successfully to assume tho
Responsibility of using II Alright. In his
recent admirable little volume on freedom
and responsibility in democratic govern
ment, President Hndley of Yale has
worth anything is the freedom which
means self government and not anarchy.
Freedom thus conceived is a constructive
force, which enables al Intelligent aud
good. man TO do better things than he
could do without 1t: which is IN It's cs-
sence the substitution of self restraint for
external festraint-the substitution OF a
form OF restraint which promotes progress
for the form which retards 1T. This is the
right view OF freedom; but it can only be
taken If there Is a full recognition Of tho
close connection between liberty and re-
sponsibilty In every domain of human
taken by Abraham Lincoln. ana by ali
those who, when the civil wax broke out,
realized that in a self goyeraing dem
1T to enjoy liberty must show that they
know how to use it with moderation and
justice in peace, and how TO fight for it
or foreign levy.
Lessons fer Today.
The lessons they taught Us are lesson.
as applicable in ouH everyday lives HOW
men Who made This field forever memo
raOle did so because they combined In,
power OF fcalty 10 a lofty ideal win the
power OF showing that tealty in hard.
practical, common sense fashion. They
stood for the life OF effort. rot the life OF
ease. They had That love "a country,
th9t love OF %jlstice. that love of their
fellow men, without which noNer and re-
sourceful efficiency but make a man a
! danger TO his Fellows. Yet. in adJitlo
and the efficiency; for otherwise tnelr
nigh purpose would have been barren oil
result. I1ey Knew each how to act for
himself, ard YET each how TO act with his
tion OF the civli war learnpd, that rare
indeed is the chance TO do anything worth
doing by one sudten and violent effort.
The men who believed that the ctvil war
would be ended IN ninety days, the men
they had the light stuff in them speedily
learned their error; and the war was
actually won by those who settled thom-
selves steadfastly down to fight for thlee
years, or for as much longer as The war
might last and who gradually grew to UNI
a Ter ian that the triumph would eone
not by Il single brilliant victory, but by
q hundred painful and tedious campaigns.
IN the east and the west the columns adj
slde, and again advanced along the coasts
h The black ships stood endlessly of and on
face his crowded hour of success or fail
are; the men In front fought, the men
behind supplied and pushed forward
due to the Deeds OF all who played their
parts we'll and manfully. in the scores Of
battle, In the countless skirmishes. IN
march, in camp. or in reserve, as COM
rEllssioned officers. or in tho ranks-wher-
ever and Whenever duty called them; Just
so i must be for US in civil life. We can
make and keen this country uprr1ty ~ tho
men who gave their lives to save it, only
on condition that the average nan among
US on the whole does bis duty brayely.
Loyalty ard with common sonse. in what
ever position life allots to him. Exactly
as g, n tines OF var courage is tle car.
peace honesty. using the word in its
deepest and broadest significance, Is the
essential basic virtue without which ali
of slow growth. 1t cannot be forced and
yet be stable and enduring, for 1t Is based
~danent upon national character,
and national character is stamped deep
in a peop.e by the lives OF many genera
tons. The men who went into the army
nad to submit to discipline. had 70 sub
price of winning, So We. the people, can
IN n sine of pea ssee only by by o o9s sas@ sNsr-.
clsing the virtues Of honesty. OF self re-
stra.nt and Of fair dealing between man
ana man. In all the ages of the past mem
have seen countries lose their l.bcrty, be-,
cause their people could not restrain and
order themselves. and therefore forfeited
the right to what they were unable to use
With wiadon.
The Debt to the Veterans.
1t was because you men of the civil war
both knew how to use liberty temperately
and how to defend 1t at need that we
and our children and our chlidren's chill
dren snail hold you in honor forever
l iIsds on M Memorial nn2r day. on u lh;S great bat
chiefs who actually won this batt.e; not
only Meade and his lie91enants, Han;
siclles. and the many others whose
names flame in our annals; but also the
chiefs who had made the Army of the
erward led it in the campaigns which
We're crowned at. Appomattox. and fGr-
therinore those who made and used its sis.
ter armies; Mcclellan, with his eXtraorl
binary genius for organization, Rosecrans;
Buell.. Thomas. the unyielding. the stead
fast; and that great trio, sherman, sher1
idan. and last and greatest of all. Grant
himself. the silent soldier whose hammers
like blows finally beat down even the
prowcss of the men who fought against
him Above all we meet here to pay ho,n7
age TO the officers and enlisted men who
served and fought and died. without having,
as their chiefs had, the cnance to write
their names on the tablets OF fame; to
the men VIII marched and fought IN tho
ranks. VINO We're buried in long trenches
on the field of battle, who died in cots
marked only by numbers in the hospitals;
who, if tley lived. when, the war was
over. went back each TO his task on tha
farm or in the town. to do his duty in
peace as he had done II in war: to take
up the threads of his working life where
he had dropped them when the trumpets
OF the nation pealed to arms. To-day, all
over this land our people meet to pay rev.
erent homage to the dead who died that
the nation might live; and we pay hons
age also to their comrades who are still
with us.
All are at one now. the sons of those
who wore the blue and the sons of those
who wore the gray, and ali can unite
in paying respect to the memory of those
who fell, each of them giving his life for
his duty as he saw H.; and all should be
at one in learning from the deaths of
these men how TO live usefully while tho
times call for the performance of the
countless necessary duties of everyday
life, and how to hold ourselves ready to,
die nobly should the nation ever again de-
mand of her sons the ultimate proof of
loyalty.