Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-10-19
(By Associated Prcss.)

auspices OF the Grand Army of the
republic, and that great audience
chcered every allusion 10 the valur
ana seli-dcvOtion of the men who fol.
lowed Lee as heartily as they cheered
every ailuSion to the valor and self.
devotion Of the men who followed
Grant.
The wounds left by the grca, Civil
war have long healed, but it's mem
ores remain. Think OF il. oh. nv
! country men, think OF the good for
tune that Is ours! That whereas every
other war of modern times has left
feelings of rancor and bitterness TO
Keep asinder the conlbatants, our great
war has left the sons and daughters
oil the men who fought on which ever
4 slaes they fought, the same right to
iI,seeli the ksenest pride, In the great
| deeds alike of the men who fought on
. one side and of the men who fought
on the other.
| Each Man Did His Duty.
| me proud selfsacrificc, the reso
| iute and daring courage, the high ami
| steadfast devotion tn The right MS
each man saw 1t, whether Nor,herncr
+ or Southerner, these qualities render
all Americans forever the debtors of
.hose who In. the dark days from 6I
To 10 proved their truth by their en-
deavor.
Here around Richmond. here I'm
your own state, there lies battlefield
after battlefield. rendered forever
J memorable by the men who counted
| death as but little thing when
weighed in the balance against doing
their duty as il was given them In
see 1t. These men have left us of
the younger generation not merely
,hc memory of what they did In war,
out OF what they did in peace.
Foreigners False Phrophete.
Foreign observers predicted that
wien such n great war closed n
would he impossible for the hundreds
OF thousands of comhatants to return
10 the paths of peace. They predict.
ed ceaseless disorder, wild turbulence.
the alienation of anarchy and DIES.
potism. But the good sense and self
restraint of the average American GILL.
zen falsifled these prophecies.
The great armies disbanded and
lhe private In the ranks, like the Of
ncer VINO had commanded him, went
uack To take up the threads of his
ne where he had dropped them when
tHe cal 10 arms came. 1t was won.
ueriui' marvellous thing. I'm a coun.
Try cohsecrated to peace with but an
ilrlitesimal regular army, to develop
SO quickly the huge hosts which front
Gu one another between the James
anu the Potomac and along the Mis-.
sissippi and it's tributaries. But n
more marvellous thing, how these great
! nosts' once their work done, resolved
themselves into the general fabric of
the nation.
South's Triumph Came Later.
Great though the need of praise Is
which is due the South for the sol
uierly valor her sons displayed during
the four years of war, think that
even praise Is due to ner for whlL
| her people have accomplished I'm the
forty years of peace which followed.
for forty years the South has made
not merely courageous. but at times
desperate struggle. as she has striy.
EN- for moral and material welI.being
tier success has been extraordinary.
and all citizens of our common co,in
try should feel joy and pride In It:
for any great deed one. or any fine
| qualities shown. by one group of
Americans. of necessity reflects credit
| upon all Americans
Struggle for Heroic People.
only heroic people could have
| Daltied successfully against the con
ditions with which the people of the
/ south found themselves face to face
az the end of the Civil war. There
mad been utter destruction and dis
I. aster. and wholly new business and
social problems had 10 be faced with
The scantiest means. The economic
and political fabric had TO he readjust.
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