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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. finally. the great charge up the
slope only to break on the summit in
the bloody spray of gallant failure.
Fought for Lasting Peace.
But the soldiers who won at Gettys-
burg, the soldiers who fought to finish
the civil war and thereby made their
countrymen forever their debtors, have
left us far more even than memories
OF the war itself. They fought for four
years In order that on this continent
those who came after them. their chill
dren and their children's children,
might enjoy a 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 determine whether
or not this people was ut for self-gov-
eminent and therefore fit for liberty.
Freedom is not a gift which can be
enjoyed save by those who show them
I
privilege can be permanently appro-
rriated by men who have not the
power and the will successfully to as
sumo the responsibility Of using It
aught. In his recent admirable little
volume on freedom and responsibility
IN democratic government. President
Hadley, of Yale. has pointed out that
the freedom which is worth anything
is the freedom which means self-gOv-
eminent and not anarchy. Freedom
thus conceived is a constructive force,
which enables an intelligent and good
mar 70 do better things than he could
do without II; which is in it's essence
the substitution of self-restraint for
external restraint-the substitution of a
| form Of restraint which promotes prog
ress for the form which retards 1t.
This is the right view Of freedom;
but IT can only be taken If there is a
1 fun recognition Of the close connec-
ton between liberty and responsibility
III every domain OF human thought.
| Il was essentially the view taken by
Abraham Lincoln. and by all those
who. when the civil war broke out.
realized that in a self-governing de-
mocracy those who desire to be con-
sidCred fit to enjoy liberty must show
that they know how TO use it WIKI
moderation and justice in peace, and
4 how 10 fight for 1t when it is jeoparded
l by malice domestic or foreign levy.
Life of Effort, Not Ease.
/ The lessons they taught US are lessons
as applicable in our everyday lives now
/ as in the rare times Of great stress.
| The men who made this field forever
memorable did so because they com
~. of " a ~
/ ideal with the power Of showing that
/ fealty IN hard. practical. common-sense
/ fashion. They stood for the life OF ef-
/ fort not the life Of ease. They had that
/ love Of country. that love Of justice.
/ that love of their fellowmen, without
which power and resourceful efficiency
| but make a man a danger TO his fell
/ lows.
| Yet. in addition thereto they like
! wise possessed the power and the eff
cheney: for otherwise their high purpose
would have been barren Of result. They
knew each how to act for himself. and
( yet each how 10 act with his fellows.
\ They learned. as all the generation of
\ the civil war learned. that rare. indeed,
/ is the chance to dol anything worth do
/ ing by one sudden and violent effort.
/ The men who believed that the civil
war would be ended in ninety days. the
men who cried loudest "On TO Rich
mond," If they had the right stuff in
/ them speedily learned their error; and
/ the war was actually won by those who
settled themselves steadfastly down 10
/ fight for three years. or for as much
/ longer as the war might last. and who
/ gradually grow TO understand that the
/ triumph would come, not by a single
/ brilliant victory. but by a hundred pain
/ full and tedious campaigns.
A Long Fight of Many Campaigns.
IN the East and West the columns
| advanced and recoiled, swayed from
side 10 side. and again advanced: along
l the coasts the black ships stood end