The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-31

CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGED
| those who came after them. as a heritage
| 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 sincerity of purpose. fought
| against the stars in their courses. The war
| left TO us all. ow-countrymen, as
| brothers, the right to rejoice that the Union
| has been restored in indestructible shape in
| a country where slavery no longer mocks
| the boast of freedom, and also the right 10
| 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.
| TRIBUTE TO BOTH SIDES.
He is but poor American who. looking
at this field, does not feel within himself
| a deeper reverence for the Nations past
and higher purpose to make the Nations
| future rise level to her past. Here fought
| the chosen sons of the North and the
| South. the East and the West. The armies
| which on this field commended for the mas
| terry were veteran armies, hardened by
| long campaigning and desperate fighting
| into such instruments of war no other
| nation then possessed. The severity of
| the fighting is attested by the proportion
| ate loSS-a loss unriavled in any battle OF
| similar size since the close of the Ma
| poleonic struggles; loss which in certain
regiments was from three-fourths to four
| fifths OF the men engaged Every spot on
! this field has it's associations of
| soldierly duty nobly done, of supreme self
sacrifice freely rendered. The names of
the chiefs who served in the two armies
| form long honor roll; and the enlisted
| men were worthy, and even more than
| worthy, of those who led them. Every
| acre of ground has its own associations.
| We see where the fight Numbered through
| and around the village of Gettysburg;
| where the artillery formed on the ridges;
| where the cavalry fought; where the hills
| were attacked and defended; and where.
hnally, the great charge surged up the
slope only TO break on the summit in the
Sr1re of Ian foil
| But the soldiers who won at Gettysburg.
the soldiers who fought TO finish the
civil war and thereby made their country
lar more even than the memories OF the
war itself; They fought for four years
came after them, their children and their
| cnldrenS children, might enjoy lasting
peace: They took arms not to destroy.
| but TO save liberty; not to overthrow but
TO establish the supremacy of the law.
| The crisis which they faced was to deter
mine whether or not this people was mt
Tor self-government and, therefore, fit for
| liberty. Freedom is not a eift which can
| be enjoyed save by those WHO show them
| selves worthy of it. In this world no privi-
| iege can be permanently appropriated by
| men who have not the power and the will
| successfully to assume the responsibility of
| using II Alright In his recent admirable lit
| Tie volume on freedom and responsibility in
| democratic government, PRECEDENT Hadley,
| or Yale has pointed out that the freedom
| which is worth anything is the freedom
| archy. Freedom thus conceived is a con-
| structive force, which enables an intelli-
gent and good man TO do better things than
| ne could do without it; which is in its es-
| sence the substitution Of self-restrant for
| external restraint-the substitution of
for the form which retards it. This is
| the right view of freedom; but il can
only be taken If there is a full recognition
and responsibility in every domain of hui
| man thought. 1t was essentially the view
taken by Abraham Lincoln, and by those
| who, when the civil war broke out, realized
that in a self-governing DEMOCRACY those
| who desire to be considered fit to enjoy lib
erty must show that they know how to
use IL with moderation and justice in peace
and how to fight for it when 1t is jeoparded
by malice domestic or foreign levy.
| LESSONS OF THE WAR
1.-The lessons they taught rs are lessons
as applicable in our everyday lives now
as in the rare times of great stress. The
men who made this field fore.er memorable
did so because they combined the power of
fealty to a lofty ideal with THE power of
showing that fealty in hard. practical
CON nonsense fashion. They, stood for the
life of effort. not the life Of ease. They
had that love of country that love of JUS
tice. that love of their fellow men, without
which power and resourceful efficiency
likewise possessed the poIer and the
efficiency; for otherwise / their high
purpose would have bene barren of result
They knew each how to acl for himself,
and yet each how TO act with his fellows.
They learned, as all the generation of the
chance to do anything WORTH doing by one
sudden and violent effort. 1he men who
believed that the civil wtuld be ended
in ninety days, the men wh9 cried loudest
On TO Richmond If they lad the right
stuff In them speedily learnd their error:
and the war was actually non by those
who settled themselves steatifastly down
TO fight for three years. or for much
| longer the might last, and who
gradually grew to understand that the
triumph would come. not by Ia single bril-
liant victory. but by a hundrdd painful and
tedious campaigns In the Fast and the
| West the columns advanced and recoiled,
swayed from side to side, and again ad-
vanced; along the coasts tn. black ships
stood endlessly off and on before the hostile
forts; generals and admirals :emerged into
the light. each to face his CROWDED hour of
success or failure; the men in3front fought;
the men behind supplied and pushed for
was due to the deeds of ali who played
their parts well and manfullys in the scores
of battles. in the countless skirmishes. in
stoned officers, or In the ranks-wherever
and whenever duty called them. Just SO it
must be for us in civil life We can make
and keep this country worthy Of the men
who gave their lives TO save, II. only on
condition that the average mfn among Us
on the whole does his duty bIjaveiy, loyalty
and with common sense in whatever posi-
ton life allots to him. Exactly in time
OF war courage is the cardinal virtue OF the
soldier. so In time Of peace honesty, using
the word in its deepest and broadcast signif-
| cance is the essential basic v:rtue, without
which all else ayails nothing
DISCIPLINE AND RESTRAINT
..National greatness is of blow growth.
1t cannot be forced and yet Ie stable and
enduring: for il is based fundamentally
upon national character, and national char
| acter is stamped deep in People by the
lives OF many generations. lhe men who
went into the army had TO ukmit 10 disci-
| pline, had TO submit TO resttant through
| the government OF the leaders they had
| chosen as the price Of winning. So We.
| the people. preserve ouit liberty and
| our greatness In time of peace only by our
selves exercising the virtues. of honesty.
] of self-restraint. and OF faii3 dealing be
tween man and man. In allS the ages OF
J the past men have seen counties lose their