Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-06-06

gress. and the newspaper reporters.
who risked life and limb to carry back
the news from the front. of what hus-
bands and fathers and brothers had
suffered under the tornadoes of shot
and shell in the last BATE. We would
praise such men as 4. X. Mcclure
of the Philadelphia Press, with whom
Lincoln was in closest contact. and
Joseph Medill of the Chicago Tribune,
and James Gordon Bennett of the New
York Herald. These men never were
able to wear a Grand Army button.
They could tell no campfire stories at
the Grand Army reunions, but they
had their part in the great struggle
But for their enterprise, their daring
and their patriotic devotion we should
never have had the records of valor
which are now our priceless possession.
Services OF Charles A. Dana.
1t is very grave question whether
Abraham Lincoln could not better have
parted with almost any one of his
major generals than he could have lost
that genius Of railroad organizing,
Thomas Alexander Scott. 1t is a very
grave question whether o. s. Grant
would not have been deposed from his
command and sent back home in dis
grace had 1t not been for Charles A.
Dana. who, as the personal representa-
tive OF Lincoln. went to the front and
exposed and denounced the false scan
dals which were being circulated about
the silent warrior of the west. 1t
is a very grave question whether Sal
mon p. Chase could have ever success
fully financiered the United States
bonds which paid the running expenses
Of the war government, costing at that
time millions upon millions Of dollars
each month, unless he had been backed
up by Jay Cooke, the Philadelphia cap
italist, who was to Lincoln what Rob-
ert Morris was to George Washington
in the Revolution. So today l impair
TALLY praise the patriotic soldier, the
patriotic railroad man, the patriotic
editor, the patriotic financier, the pa
triotic contractOr-McClure and Dana
and Scott and Jay Cooke, as we'll as
Grant and Sherman and Sheridan and
Lee and Longstreet and John B. Cor
don.
In this Memorial day address we
would not omit the need of recogni-
! ton due to the ministers of the home
churches as we'll as the chaplains who
labored in the field hospital and by the
wounded and moaning men who had
the pallor of death upon their cheeks
| the night after the battle. We would
praise men like Henry Ward Beecher
of Brooklyn and Moses D. Hoge of
Richmond and DR.. Palmer of New Or
| leans. These men were never identi-
| fed with any one particular regiment
| or brigade, yet in their utterances OF
| inspiration, in the divine comfort
| which they carried to the bereft homes,
in their words of faith and love, which
| through the printed page went to the
| boys in the camp, they became mighty
| eyangelists Of light, mighty gospel
messengers for God and their native
| land.
We have all read about the noble
services of Dwight L. Moody to the
soldier boys at the front. We know
that many a dying soldier boy was
| able to answer "Here!" to the roll call
of heaven because some faithful chap
lain on earth had prepared him for
| that Fall inp' on the other side Of the
| grave. We know that many and many
a dying message sent to the mother or
the wife at home was penned by the
faithful chaplains who looked after
| the boys OF their regiments as a father
| might care for the children about his
own Preside. But what about that
| gray haired old minister of the village
| church? Did he not serve any patriot
ic purpose?
JacksOn's Advice to a Minister
| We cannot today too much praise the
WORK of the gospel minister during the
agonieS of Americas four years of
| carnage. One day a man applied to
General Jackson for a position in his
army. What is your business ?"
asked Jackson. Il am a minister of
the gospel" was the reply. Then Jack
son, the Christian soldier, said: My
friend, l can give you no position as
high as that which God has given to
| you. Go back to your own church. In
| - hoAuS VI jesus SurlSI, give COlulCrL
TO the widows whose husbands have
been shot; to the children whose
fathers, on account of this bloody war
will never come back; to the young
lnaidens who can never again see their
SweetheartS. Go back and preach tho
gospel of sacrifice to the young men
who must be enlisted from your town
| Go back! In Gods name, go backp'
Aye, the duty which Thomas ]. Jack
son assigned to the ministers of Jesus
was grandly and nobly fulfilled by
! hundreds Of cOnsecrated clergymen
both in the north and the south. To-
! day l honor the memories of the noble
men of God who at home were true
and firm to their Lord and their people
during the awful conflict.
But l have still another long list of
/ unpraised heroisms. l would not
praise the boy in blue or the boy in
gray for what he did in 1861 and 1865