Arizona republican., 1908-05-31

ms ambition and his power he was disturbing the equilibrium of the moral world. Napoleon and the despotic em- pire were crushed to liberaliZe mon archy and to establish constitutional order through the counter-revolution which followed Waterloo. Just such a crisis forty four years ago came into the life of this nation upon this field, and it was just as in evitable and necessary as Waterloo. Our forefathers had set forth in the Declaration of Independence in 1776 that:
 All men are created equal. that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuits of happiness"
 Fighting for the establishment of this principle the revOlutionists were successful and the nation was born.
 In 17S7, forgetting this principle of universal liberty, the founders and the people of this nation, which they de- clared in the preamble of their consti tuition that their purpose was to se- cure the blessings of libetty to our selves and our posterity," recognized
 
 man beings.
 The germ of disunion was in the or ganic law and the nation for three quarters of a century continued to op- pose and thwart the eternal laws of justice, tke iucorrrpt:ble and supreme Iequity, Intll Providence caused the righteous laws of freedom to prevail, and in the crisis of t1is field of hattie eternal justice met overcame and des- troyed the evil principle If slavery so that the nation survived, pure and cleansed of it's disease.
 The soldiers of the union met the forces of disuniOn for almost TWO years on many battlefields and because the guiding minds of the nation were en- deavoring to save :he nation and at the same time save the favored insti- tuition of those who were in rebellion against the nation, God so prevented
 exist half free and half slave
 But the Almighty, guiding the des- tinies of the nation, frustrated the weak plans of man, and as the God of battles brought those entrusted with the nations life to see that the nation could only survive wholly free
 
 that the time had come to bow to the Supreme will-to that Divine power which had been so ordering the affairs of this nation that the crisis must come issued the Emancipation Proclamation declaring that all should be free.
 Then the nation took on new life, then her warriors, thrice armed be- cause they had their quarrel just" in- spired by their holy cause, that of union in which every man was free, fought on the side of eternal justice and supreme equity and became an in vincible host.
 What inspired the four score and ten thousand men of the union army to meet in the dreadful shock of battle the hosts of disunion?
 What inspired them to rush into the imminent deadly breach?" What sus- tained them as they met the onrush of the enemy? What but that love of county that made it glorious to die, l that love of liberty that made the pat riots grave his country's shrine?
 And so there died upon this field of !! battle twenty three thousand defend l CTS of the Union-twenty- three thou | sand patriots-twenty- three thousand | heroes, who offered up their lives a | willing sacrifice that this country | might be in fact, as in theory, wholly | tree.
 The great victory was won. Eter- nal justice prevailed. Supreme equity | -eigned.
 Today we survey this field and see with clarified vision all that it's trag- edies meant. We see the union sav- ed, the nation established upon the mnovable rock of freedom.
 The penalty for the transgressiOn If the divine law of human liberty vas paid by the nation as a whole because the whole nation was the Victory and peace came ,nly when it was certain that the of the union meant uni 'ersal freedom. Responsibility for he primary causes of the nations woes makes her whole people part lers in the resultant griefs and glo- 'ies. No loyal heart discriminates
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