The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-31

tragic scene unrollod God flung into ev-
cry marrow place Of need means ana ana
leadership. OF finance. Of Journalism OF
love OF sacrifice swept across the north
land. There were giants In those DAYS
and deeds worthy Of them. Lincoln and
Chase. Seward md Stanton, Grant and
Sherman and Sheridan Farragut and Por-
ter. Bennett and Greeley. Cook and
Beecher-these and a host whose brains;
tongues. souls and pens were attained
with living patriotism led in the mighty
swirl and charge Of those years that laft
AT last the grand old nag with It's ideals
imperishable fixed mmovahle on the
heights OF glorious nationalism.
one passion consumed. the patriots OF
the North--the passion for the Union.
gan 10 60 IN answer 10 the needs or the
war The little files NJ hlue-clad men
out with lfe in hand 70 where death,
the vampire. waited 10 drink greedily
the blood ~ the best and greatest. Fa-
theirs stopped with bursting hearts 10
kiss the hairnie new to earth whose
only in tho other country. Sons and
sweethearts- boys and besrdless youths,
in the eNigenc'es and the passions or
those wears went out to stand beside the
veterans in the ranks cf war. Whole
families ot fathers and sons went out,
their grave faces lit with the love OF God
and men and country 10 write right with
the rnes biting point, and the flashnG
s1ber IN acts of wondrous bravery the
epic Of the Grand Army. This story may
not be spoken OF all they suffered and
CIellan lay by the Potomac. II increased
as war began i'm earnest 1t deeped In
the tragic detail OF battle, in wound and
sickness. in hunger and death In the
stocSades and prisons Of captivity, with
details too loathsome for recounting un-
iii the tear, the shadow. The sigh were
everywhere. Honor! Love, Can n be
given in due measure "a the men who by
night and day through four long years
geve their all for the Union? Can we
the toll of march. the inclement elements.
the hunger and Inconsistencies and despair.
that this might be for MS and ours and
Far on in the Northern home the toll
ing ~ mothers and The plnchod children,
the neglected farms and shops. the thou
reckoning him But. no. there Is Old
Glory. II must be carried forward and
defended. n must wave IN victory abid-
ing. He is sick fever burns In brain
and vein. but men are needed. and on
he tolls until hayonet or ball or the shaft
Of disease lays him low. and he dies
heroically. with but the regret that the
work Is not finished. and. mayhap. that
above him bends no, for earth's farewell
a loving home face or that for his last
moment there may not he a caress OF
some dear hand.
Years Rolled in Blood
And so by way Of Wilderness and Get
tysburg, by Nicksburg and Lookout and
Missionary ridge. and hundred impor-
tant fields, the weary whims Of the years
rolled in blood. The garment of life was
sodden with a nations tears and all the
glory Of mere victory was forgotten in
the terrific cost OF It's purchase. The
struggle was not lightly won, for the man
of the Southland was OF the same cali
Der as his Northern brother just as
brave and true, despite his mistaken
view and his contention for II.
When peace came again, with It's
blessed surcease OF agony and loss, when
assent TO the fundaments which guar
antee national life had been given in the
broken armies. the men who had learned
war In such fashion as patriots must,
who had written their names lmperish-
ably on the face OF time, who had shown
TO be noted, who had won the freedom
oil a race OF slaves. who had rewritten
the Constitution and It's declarations in
the untadins letters OF scarlet sacrifice,
who had remolded the nation In the fur
mace OF their endurance and toll this
army with a farewell review in frenzy
OF gladness, was dssipated by the sun of
peace as quickly as the snowfall OF the
desert night by the kiss OF morning. re-
turning TO avocations of peace to build
more widely the foundations of that
mighty life whose wealth, prosperity and
possibility had set immovably on its foun-
dations the Union, forever imperishable
When In the rosy dawn of peace's
coming black eclipse shadowcd all the
life Of America as the fretted heart of
the greatest man who ever. lived this
side OF Paul went to its rest. sent by
the leaden missile OF hatred in Ford s
theater, and the truest friend of North
the danger OF that hour even was ap-
parent rather than real. And so, through
social and financial cataclysms. by sec
tonal questions and huge corruptions,
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perity, that life stands firm on its base
where you set II. and We believe Is de-
stined TO repose there I'LL the questions
Of civilization shall eventuate in their
solution into the golden day OF perfect
ness,
And as the mind sweeps the wide cir
Gle Of the nations life with It's ever
increasing power and wealth it's enlarg
worlds import with that love, that re-
spect or that fear In places OF iniquity
for the flag you made real. we sense
anew that we and posterity are Your
debtors. Recent history has demonstrat-
ed that your example is living thing
There Is, thank God. no longer a South
or a North an East or a West but just
an America.
Your sons and the sons of your worthy
foemen wrote in the late nineties new
chapter of patriotic -ervice worthy you
and the flag. Yonder at Manila bay and
In the marshes and the iungles OF the
Philippines. yonder at Santiago and on
the heights Of San Juan they wrote them
selves worthy sons and carried the flag
out for wider ministry in the earth; and
we are proud To remember that no body
of troops that went 10 the war, not even
the famous Rough Riders Roosevelt led.
wrote more splendid deeds than those
which made the name OF utahs battery
famous. Fear not, you who served the
nation and made the Union what IL is.
The spirit that famed In your lives and
sacrifice is here, Let come what may.
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