The Cairo bulletin., 1904-06-05

I'aud shell IN the last battle. We would
praise such men its 4. *. 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 10 wear n Grand Army button
They could tell no campfire stories ut
/ 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 yaior
which are now our priceless possession.
Services of Charles A. Dana.
4 II is very grave question whether
/ Abraham Lincoln could not better have
parted with almost any one of his
major generals tlian he could have lost
that genius Of railroad organizing
Thomas Alexander Scott 1t is 4 very
/ grave question whether t. $. Grant
/ would not have been deposcd from his
command and sent back home in dis
! grace had il not been for Charles A.
Dana, who. as the personal representa-
| tive of Lincoln went to the front and
| exposed and denounced the false sean
dals whicllFwere being circulated about
/ the silent warrior of the west. 1t
! is a very grave question whether Sal
| mon T. Chase could have ever success
| fully iinanciered the United States
bonds which paid the running expenses
of the war government, costing ut 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 | impair
TALLY praise the patriotic soldier, the
patriotic railroad man. the patriotic
editor. the patriotic tinancer, the pa
tliotic contractor Mcclure and Dana
Grant and sherman and Sheridan and
lee and Longstreet and John Il, Cor
don
In this Memorial day address we
would not omit the need of reeogni-
ton due to the ministers of the home
churches as well 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 II. Hoge of
Richmond and Or. 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 hereft homes,
in their words of faith and love, which
through the printed page went to the
boys in the camp, they became mighty
eyangelSts 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 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 in on the other side of the
grave. We know that many and many
Il dying message sent to the mother or
the wife ut home was pennell by the
faithful chaplans who looked after
the boys of their regiments as father
might care for the children about his
own fresde. But what about that
gray haired old minister Of the village
church? Did he not serve any patriot
ic purpose?
Jackson'S Advice to 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. 81 am minister of
the gospel was the reply Then Jack
son, the Christian soldier, said; My
friend, | can give you no position as
high as that which tod has given to
you. 60 back to your own church. In
the name of Jesus Christ. give comfort
to the widows whose husbands have
been shot, 10 the children whose
fathers. on account Of this bloody war
will never come back. TO the young
maidens who can never again see their
sWecthearts. 60 back and preach the
gospel Of sacrifice to the young men
who must be enlisted from Your town
60 back, In Gods name, 90 back
Aye the duty which Thomas / Jack
son assigned to the ministers Of Jesus
was grandly aud nobiy fulfilled by
hundreds of consecrated cIcrgrmen
both in the north and the south. To-
day | 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 | have still another long list Of /
unpraised heroiSms would not
praise the boy in blue or the boy in
gray for what he did in 1861 and 1863
more than ! would praise him for what p.
he did after peace had been pro
claimed. II was a spectacle that as
toniShcd the world, Il spcctaclr unprcce
dcnted i'm history, that of the soldiers