Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-31
WHERE BLOODY GETTYSBURG
BATTLE WAS FOUGHT, HE
HoNoRs DEAD HEROES.
\ SOLEMN OCCASION
Thousands of People, Among Them
Many Who Fought During the Six
ties, Listen to the Representative
of asYounser Generation.

Gettysburg, Pa, May 3O.-President
Roosevelt and his party reached the
historic battle ground of Gettysburg at
$3.50 O'Clock today. At Penmar, Pa,
where the special train was sidetrack-
ed during the night, crowd began to
assemble early this morning and he
fore leaving the President appeared on
the rear platform OF his private car
and was given an enthusiastic recep-
ton. He spoke briefly saying: 81 will
not attempt to speak now as am to
speak later in the day. snail merely
repeat how glad ! am to see all of you,
especially those who wear the button
that shows you have right greater
than any of the rest of us to be here
and to rejoice in all that this memo
rial day means"
Drive Over Field.
When the train stopped in Gettys-
burg the presidential party entered
carriages and started on drive over
1ne battle field
Impressive Services.
The President was escorted to the
cemetery on the battlefield by body
of several hundred veterans of the
civil war and several military organi-
cations. Governor Pennypacker pre-
sided at the ceremonies, which were
held in the rostrum on Cemetery Hill.
After memorial services by the Grand
Army of the Republic had been COM
pleted and the school children had
strewn flowers over the graves of the
thousands of dead, DR.. Edward Ever
ett Hale, chaplain of the senate, pro-
nounced an invocation.
The Presidents Address.
The President was then introduced
by Governor Pennypacker and was ac.
corded an enthusiastic reception. His
address was as follows:
| The place where we now are has
won 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
fall ages. As long as the republic en-
dures or it's history is known, so long
shall the memory of the battle of
1 Gettysburg likewise endure and be
known; and as long as the English
| tongue is understood, so long shall
/ Abraham Lincolns Gettysburg speech
| thrill the hearts of mankind.
The civil was was a great war for
righteousness; war waged for the
noblest ideals, but waged also in thor
ough- going, practical fashion. 1t was
one of the few wars which mean, in
their successful outcome. a lift toward
| better things for the nations of man.
! kind. Some wars have meant the tri-
umph OF order over anarchy and IL
| centiousness masquerading as lib
ertv. some wars have meant the tri-
umph of liberty over tyranny mas
/ querading as order; but this victori-
Gus war of ours meant the triumph Of
/ both liberty and order, the triumph o.
4 orderly liberty the bestowal of civi
rights upon the freed slaves, and a
the same time the stern insistenct
on the supremacy of the national law
throughout the length and breadth o
1.-THE land. Moreover, this was one o.
those rare contests in which 1t wal
to the ;mmeasurable interest of thu
vanquished that they should lose
while at the same time the victors ac
quired the precious privilege of trans
mitting to those who came after them
as a heritage of honor forever, no
only the memory of their own valian
deeds, but the memory of the deed
of those who. no less Valiantly ant
with equal sincerity of purpose
fought against the stars in thei
courses. The war left to us all, a
fellow. ceuntrymen, as brothers thu
right to rejoice IndL llle Oliloll I'D
!. been restored in indestructible Shap
in a country where slavery no longe
T mocks the boast of freedom, and ais
the right to rejoice with exultant prid
in the courage, the self-sacrifice, an
the devotion, alike of the men VIII
. wore the blue and the men who wor
the gray.
He is but poor American who
looking at this field, does not fec
within himself a deeper reverence TO
the nations past and a higher purpos
to make the nations future rise leve
to her past Here fought the chose
sons of the north and the south, tn
east and the west. The armies Whlc
! on this field contended for the master
we're veteran armies, hardened by Ion
campaigning and desperate nshtln
: into which such instruments of war a
/, no other nation then possessed. Th
: severity of the fighting is attested b
. the proportionate loss-a loss unriva
e ad in any battle Of similar size sine
h the close of the Napoleonic struggles
n a loss which in certain regiments wa
;. from three fourths to four-fifths {
= the men engaged. Every spot on tn
! heId has it's own associations of so
). dierlv duty nobly done, of supren
l. self-sacrifice freely rendered. IN
2 names of the chiefs who served in TT
= two armies form long honor roll; an
n the enlisted men were worthy an
), aven more than worthy, of those WI
II led them. Every acre of this grour
= bae IFS own associations. We Sc
e nbara the fight thundered throug
5. and around the village of Gettysburg
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