Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-10

noble exposition of that Virginia hospi-
tally which is known throughout the
world. l thank you.
Gen. Kings address was frequently inter-
rupted with applause. When he had fin
ished, Dr. Henry NJ. Clarkson, former
surgeon in the confederate army, read the
following original sonnet, dedicated to the
Society of the Army of the Potomac:
They tell a legend of two knights of old
Two naughty men who on the highway met;
,,. OF brave, of kindred stock were they, and yet
With fiery speech, and anger uncontrolled,
They each drew lance against his kinsman bold
To each brought only one side into view.
And one had said twas brass-the other gold.
Till both were winded when, in changing place,
Each saw the shield but viewed its other face.
One fell The other lowered his lance. Behold
No more they strive. Their rash discussions cease,
And each extends the open palm Of peace.
DIR. Clarkson was private soldier at the
beginning of the war, and as such fired
the first shot of the war in Charleston har-
Dor. South Carolina, before Fort Sumter.
The orator of the day, Rev. DR.. Newell
Dwight Hills of Brooklyn n. Y, was then
introduced. DR.. Hills said
Address of Rev. DR.. Hills, D. D.
More than forty years have passed since
your regiments assembled on this battle
field of the republic. 1t is said that time
destroys all things, but neither time nor
events have been able to destroy your
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and that ceremony that occurred just two
score years ago today, when you dedicated
this monument to the heroes of these fields.
The memory of that far-off conflict, with
the stroke of battle. that was like the
stroke of an earthquake, now hangs on the
walls of your memory like the shield of a
vanquished enemy. Long ago Gods grass
healed over the scars cut by cannon balls,
yet the hills are still billowy with your
countrys dead. And now, in this month
o fMay, dedicated to the memorials of he
roes you are assembled on this battle
of May, dedicated to the memorials of he
Grand Army of the Potomac. We do we'll
to recall that battle, to celebrate the vic
tory and the triumph of the prime pies
for which you fought, and to keep green
the memory of our heroic dead. The meas
ure of a great mans worth is the number
of achievements and memorable days that
his history holds.
And the measure of a nations civilization
is the number of great events it recall
the battles the fathers have fought, the
number of great men it has whose birthdays
it can celebrate The Eternal city had it's
pantheon in which it buried it's heroes,
and London has her Westminster Abbey.
History is abbey in which none but the
great do sleep. When the traveller crosses
the threshold of some Vatican or Louvre, he
beholds the treasures of twenty centuries,
assembled for the inspiration and delight of
the pilgrim. Standing in this store house of
genius, you eXclam: What marbles. What
masterpieces of painting! What architec-
ture! What bronzes, How did the sons of
genius walk in regments!' And not other
wise was 1t with the generation that toiled
during the civil war. The history of that
epoch is pantheon in which are assembled
heroes. patriots, orators, soldiers and the
saviors of their country. What leaders were
yours-two of whom have place among
the eight greatest soldiers OF history.
tIa -ta hnr
mountain peak minds, and Lincoln was one
of these sunlit peaks, bathed in light and
glory that is immortal! What orators were
these who lent luster to the era OIL elo-
quence and reform! Verify, it was an age
when great men marched in regiments.
Great crises for the nation put men on their
mettle emergencies develop latent resources
and lead genius forth to its best estate.
Great are our merchantS-they feed the
state; great are our teachers-they instruct
the state.
Great are the jurists who keep the state
in Justice the physicians who keep the
state in health and the moral teachers
who keep the state in ethics. But who snail
estimate the nations debt to the soldiers
and patriots who have kept the state IN
liberty and protected the institutions That
have made the republic the educator of
the world in free institutions. Forty years
ago today orators rehearsed the story or
your valor and your heroism. On That oc-
casion a great soldier and statesman ded-
icated this monument to these heroes who
here fell, crmsoning with blood the banner
of the republic. History also has searched
out the significance of that memorable con-
fict, while philosophers have given to US
the sequence of events and traced the in
fluence of that battle upon the fortunes of
war. For you and me IL remains to survey
the results of their battle and their victory
to consider the institutions they loved, and
for which they lived and died, to examine
the grounds of patriotism, to nourish within
ourselves a more generous faith in the re-
public and its people, and to do all that in
US lies to see to 1t that government of the
people, by the people. and for the people
shall be victorious here and now, and at
length spread hereafter throughout all the
world, until the reign of the common people
is universal among the nations of the earth
DIR. Hills then discussed the reasons for
pride in the republic, finding these grounds
in the history of the nation, in the type of
manhood that the republic has produced. in
the institutions 1t has developed for the
building of manhood, In the power of these
institutions to assimilate new people.
He discussed the dangers to be guarded
against, through the failure of free insd-
buttons to govern great cities. the peril in
cident to corrupt, ignorant and venal vot--
Ing and the peril of corporate wealth in the
hands of selfish and unpatriotic men. He
found the remedy in the gradual diffusion
of intelligence, and the strengthening of
the forces that work against moral illit-