The Monticellonian., 1904-06-02
MEMORIAL DAY
 AT GETTYSBURG
Observance of the Day Among the Graves of the Illustrious
 Dead of Gettysburg.
THE ADDRESS DELIVERED BY
 HE GOVERNOR OF PENNSYLVANIA,
A Review of the nomentouS strus- gle That Fooi< its Place ns the Turning Point in the War For the thion-its Exhibition of Force and SLill.

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 Gettysburg. Pa. May 31.-FollowiAg is the address Of Gov. PeHnypaeker of Pennsylvania delivered in connection with the Memorial day services in the national cemetery.
 The battle of Gettysburg. moment- ous in its exhibition of military force and skill. tremendous ia is destruction of human life. had consequences which in their effect upon the race are limit less As the seeds of the coekle are sown with the wheat. so in the eonsti- tuition adopted by the fathers. in 1787 lay the germs of an inevitable struggle. Two antagonistic forces grew in Yigog and strength, side by side. in one household, and, like Ormuzd and Ahri- man, they must strive for the mastery. Upon this field the szuggie came to determination. and the Issue between them was here decided with cannon and musket The rebellion was under- taken by the followers of the doctrines of Calhoun and Davis, with the pur- pose 10 rend the nation asunder and break it int3 fragments Alas. for the futility of the expectations of men The Lord, who holds the peoples.in the hol- low of His hand, and who since the dawn of history has taken them up by turns in the searcf for one fit for broad domain, did lot fors3ke Us The extraordinary powers exercised for the maintenance of national life in that dire time of war became fixed princi- pies of the national government The name of strife. but tested the virtue of the metal. The blows intended to t.is- sever only welded the sov.reignties to- gether more firmly for future wider eff fort
 The nation as fl is to-day arose when Pickett failed 10 drive the Phila- delphia brigade from the stone wall of Cemetery hill. A seer sitting on that dread day upon the ere-ts of Big Round Top could have figured in the clouds of smoke rolling over the Devils Den and the Bloody Angle the scenes soon to occur in Manila bay. at Santiago and San Juan hill, the beaming of a new light in Hawaii and in the far Philip pines. the junction of the two mighty oceans and the near disappearance of English control sf the commerce Of ths world
 The presidential office ia so great station among men that those who fill it are not to be regarded as per sonalities Their individuality Is lost in its immensity. They become the manifestations of certain impulses and
 
 life. Jackson represented it's rough, uncouth and u1disciplned strength Lincoln looms up above ell other Amer jeans bearing the burden of woe and suffering which fate laid upon his broad shoulders in it's time of stress and trial Blessed be his memory for ever more |.
 No people can look forward to the fulfillment of such a destiny as events seem to outline for us, save one alert and eager with the enthusiasm and vigor of youth. No other president has so stood for that which after all typi- fies our life-the sweep of the winds over broad prairies, the snow-capped mountains and the rushing rivers, the SeQuo.a trees, the eXube-ance of youth conscious of red blood, energy and power painting our bow of promise as does Theodore oRosevelt. He has hunted in our woods. he has enriche our literature, he has ridden in the face of the enemy, he has maintained our ideals.
 Upon this day devoted to the memo ries of the heroic dead-in PenasyI- vania sad Decoration day-the achievements Of the prolific past and the promise of the teeming future con- front each other To-day, for the first time, Theodore Roosevelt treads the field made immortal by the sword of George Gordon Meade and hallowed by the prose dirge of Abraham Lincoln.