The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-05-29

heart Of the nation. I have walked over
| the heights of Lookout. where Hooker s
men were so daring and so brave On
| the HOLY soil of bloody battlefieldS I have
listened 10 the veterans story while he
pointed TO the plain swept by the charge.
or the mound where the death grapple
enSued- ] have trodden the ground made
sacred BY a hbatiOn of patriots blood
during. the vesper hour of a Sabbath eve
at Chickamauga- I have paced across
field and crept through forest which
looked toward the hill bristling with the
cannon which swept the brigades OF
Sheridan and Wood and Sherman at Mis-
siondry Ridge. but I confess TO YOU that
one or the solemn moments of my life
vs. one evening when l gazed up0n the
JoTnbstoneS OF thirteen thousand men.
I'VE thousand marked unknown. sleeping
oeneath. the southern sod. the whole
scene MADE Sadder perhaps by the solemn
sentry of the weeninz willow and the
mouTnful requiem chanted by the Sougb-
ne pine Neither do 1 forget the Young
e e- men IN later times who sleep beneath
LIolotODouS break of the tTopiC seas in
LeSp'aSf 20 call to us to become the
eIanEelS of liberty I'm dark places.
Inc magnificent history. the bloody
20 'tieileldS- the UnSullied flag. these
9!,eutd STIR our hearts to that fidelity of
.lI@eHShiD which means the security Of
.,nei.nment and the perpetuity of our
'It's Gods Flag
.,-.Olae day there came into the little
lv~n OF Athens, Tenn. during the war a
t tOIo5hn OF Union soldiers A flag nut-
. .sIea at the head of the advancing regi-
nent- y little girl and her father Wa
tSttl spectators As the flag came
ITO IuI view the little one said with
til-t tIiLtE OF awe IN her voice. Para
- : 1od flag see the stars" We have
- -, II so now in the north and in
s5lt SCUM But If il Is to be indeed God :
as n.lteath Its folds there must ODPr-
IILe uutA and righteousness. There must
~ L-SlICc ana equality for all. Govern
-i-7>lI must conserve the interests of the
masses as wei! as the classes. The stars
lhdt gov IN the midnight sky should be
~ ,uier tlat the stars that Spaugle tho
- -t-V or oiue on that fair banner II
must DC the emblem of a people who love
liberty as life who are the friends of
y tlIile lltN- who are the enemies of tv-
e.Ill.t ana " no are the champions Of
ie!Pi vi and healing civilization.
-HI.tInoerS Of the Grand Army there IS
-'o-.ieL ST. uSSle IN which we must en-
gag. right the good fight Of faith and
iaE hoid of eternal life" Your army
" ill soon ne mustered out In forty Years
,HeIe VII be no Grand Army This is
7td, out IT - terribly true Every one
~ uS must surrender to the CODQuCTur
-, tHe ages Your ranks are thinning
he angel OF death holds his list and
.EEiN- IouT some COmTadC is called TO
Yep rom the ranks and answer for duty
iL " inherent sphere The past year
7dW some calico with whom YOU were on .
tfHlS OF clos" comTa dpShin. The call .
i'dy come closer than that even. NAY T
-g9 I'VE with mat element Of manhood .
" Hlch means readiness. Live with ar- +.
ouTtremcntS upon YOU arms in hand F.
'pinterSisn in mind and written upon .
!i' HtdTJ. SO that You may pass inSpcC- :
ron az the gate of heaven and he mus
,gItI INTO the perfect corps which one .
ward