Mower County transcript., 1908-06-03

all congress itself with the single
positive exception Of Mr.. Washburn,
clamored fiercely after Shiloh, for
Grants resignation. TO Colonel
Mcclure, insisting that the refusal
of the demand meant to the presi-
dent the final loss of National leader
ship, Lincoln said Il can't spare that
man, he fights" Lincoln, and Lincoln
strained his power to it's limit and
fer absolutely no personal considera-
ton. Advised that five thousand
troops must be ordered from the field
to carry Pennsylvania at the second
election, Lincoln declined to request
that order of Grant. 81 have no
reason to believe that Grant would
prefer me to Mcclellan He suggest
ed Mead, his private messenger to me
returned without the order. Then
Sheridan sent not five but ten thou
sand loyal soldiers and the day and
nation were saved The margin,
however, in the Eastern states was
surprisingly small. Vicious also was
the attack on Sherman. Scott, Hal
lock and Cameron himself insisted
on his removal because he had lost
his mind. "He thinks two hundred
thousand men will be needed to
reconquer the South" Lincoln fol-
lowed his unerring judgment and
in few years under Sherman's COM
mand more than two hundred thou
sand of as great soldiers as the world
has ever seen reaped the harvest of
death in fields reddened by brothers
blood before the Father of the water
flowed under the stars and stripes
unvexed to the sea.
The reasonableness, the necessity
of much sacrifice is clear even to our
short-seeing eyes. None the less can
any of us realize Lincoln's agony
as in this crisis. Curtin demanded
the exchange of thirty thousand
rebel prisoners who had been we'll
kept, we'll fed and we'll doctored in
the North for Union soldiers who
were starved and rotting in Southern
prisons, for the sake of their services
and of their families and in the name
of the usages of civilized warfare.
Stanton denounced the proposition
as tratorous because it would in
effect reinforce the army by SO many
fresh troops and would add to our
armies only emaciated skeletons.
Was there every human agony like
that of Lincoln when he did what he
must have done and committed those
loyal soldiers to literal sacrifice.
(Here' the speaker eulogized the work
of the committee of the WOmen's
Relief Corps in charge of the cele-
bration. In conclusion he said:
"The Civil War ended the period
of CESSATION of the American Nation.
It's subsequent development has not
been a source of unmixed pride to
the discriminating mind. But un-
der the leadership of fit true and
great man, administrative abuses
have been corrected; railway rate:
have been made as impartial as thu
price of postage stamp; and preda
tory wealth has been restrained with
in the limits fixed by law. The doc
, of opportunity has swung open, a
, (least partially, on the golden hinge
| lof success to every ambitious youth
Great has been this civic reform. still
, more potent has been the moral wa
lof the started. Yet to many thinkin
r minds it seems that the greatest wor
: of Theodore Roosevelt is to be foun
4 lin his effort to secure by the cooper
|, alton of the governors of all tn
4 Estates and all the people in all tn
q Estates the conservation of natur:
n resources for the use of futul
d generations. The forests which agt