The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1904-05-30

lpeace. 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 tbs peo-
Iple was fit for government and
therefore fit for liberty. Freedom IS
not a gift which can be enjoyed save
by those who show themselves worthy
Of II. In this world no privilege car,
be permanently appropriated by men
who have not the power and the will
successfully to assume the responsiA
lbility OF using it Alright In his re-
cent admirable little volume on frees
dom and responsibility in democratic
Igovernment, President Hadley of Yale
has pointed out that the freedom which
Is. worth anything is the freedom which
| means selfgoyernment and not am
archy. Freedom thus conceived is a
lconstructive force, which enables an
Ilntelligent and good man to do better
things than he could do without III;
(which is in. its essence the substitution
OF self-restraint for external restraint
1.-THE substitution of a form OF restraint
(which promotes progress for the form
(which retards it. This is the right
view Of freedom; but it can only be
taken if there is a full recognition of
1.-THE close connection between liberty
land responsibility in every domain Of
human thought. 1t was essentially the
view taken by Abraham Lincoln, and
| by all those who, when the civil war
Ibroke out, realized that in self
Igoverning democracy those who desire
to be considered fit to enjoy liberty
must show that they know how. 30 nse
Lit with moderation and justice il, peace,
/ tand how to fight for it when it Isl
ljeoparded by malice domestic or fof-
leign levy.
/ The lessons they taught rs are les
sons as applicable in our everyday
Hives now assin the rare times of great
Istress. The men who made this field
forever memorable did SO because they
combined the power OF fealty to a lofty
ideal with the power Of showing that
fealty in hard, practical, common- sense
fashion. They stood for the life Of
effort. not the life Of ease. They had
| that love Of country, that 1oye OF JUS,
tice, that love Of their fellow-rnens
without which power and resourceful
deficiency but make a man a danger to
| his fellows. Yet, in addition thereto.
they likewise possessed the power and
The efficiency; for otherwise their high
Purpose would have been barren OF
result They knew each how to act for
himself, and yet each how to act with
| his fellows. They learned, as all the
generation iof the civil war learned.
that rare indeed is the chance to do
Ia 4
land violent effort The men who be-
lneved that the civil war would be
Tended in ninety days, the men who
Icried lotidest On to Richmond" il
they had the right stuff in them speed
lily learned their error; and the war was.
Iacttally won by those who settled
themselves stcadfastly down to fight.
| for three years, or for as much longer
as the war might last and who grad.
| lually grew to- understand that the
Triumph would come, not BY a single
brilliant victory, but BY a hundred
painful and tedious campaigns. lii the
East and the West the columns adj
Ivanced and recoiied, swayed from, side!
| to side, and again advanced along the.
Icoasts the black ships stood endiesslyi
| of and On before the hostile forts.
| generals and adfnirals emerged into the
Hight each to face his crowded hour
| of success or failure the men in front
fought: the men behind supplied and
tpushed forward those in front; and.
1.-THE final victory was due, to the deeds
Iof all who played their parts well and
in the scores of battles, in
the countless skirmishes, in march, if'
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