The daily sentinel., 1908-05-30
The Love for Country the Real Reason for the
Mighty Struggle Of Blood
WATERLOO OF THE CIVIL WAR
So Gettysburg is Called by Eloquent Senator, and the Re-
suit, he Declares, Of that Clash Of Brave
Men Was Inevitable

( ne eAcesSiNe weight OF this man
in human destiny disturbed the
| equilibrium. This individual count
! ed of himself alone more than the
universe besides. These plethoras
of all humans vitally concentrated in
a single head, the world mounting to
| the brain of one man would be fatal
| to civilization if they should endure.
| The moment had come for incorrupt-
| able supreme equity to look to it,
Probably the principles and elements
| upon which regular gravitations in
| the moral order as well as in the
material depend, began to murmur.
Reeking blood, overcrowded ceme-
| teries. weeping mothers-these are
| formidable pleaders. When the earth
| is suffering from a surcharge there
are mysterious meanings from the
deeps which the heavens hear.
Napoleon had been impeached
| before the Infinite and his fall was
| decreed
%" He vexed God.
Waterloo is not a battle; it is
| the charge of front of the universe
And so at the battle of Waterloo
Napoleon on the one side in opposi-
I tion to the incorruptible and supreme
equity must go down before the great
ethical law, which destroyed him be-
| cause by his ambition and his power
he was disturbing the equilibrium of
the moral world. Napoleon and the
despot.c empire were crushed to lib
eralize monarchy and to establish
constitutional order through the
counter-rsvolution which followed
Waterloo.
Just such crisis forty-four years
ago came into the life of this nation
upon this field, and it was just as
inevitable and necessary as Water
loo.
"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
pursuit of happiness
Fighting for the establishment of
this principle the Revolutionists were
successful and the nation was born.
I'm 1887, forgetting this principle
of universal liberty, the founders and
the people of this nation, while they
declared in the Preamble to their
Constitution that their purpose was
to secure the blessings of liberty to
| ourselves and our posterity,' recog-
nized and permitted the enslavement
of human beings.
THE germ of disunion was in the
organic law and the nation for three
quarters of a century continued to
oppose and thwart the eternal laws
of justice, the incorruptible and SUI
preme equity, until Providence caus-
ed the righteous laws of fires dom
| to prevail, and in the crisis of this
| field of battle eternal justice met,
overcame and destroyed the evil prin-
| ciple of slavery SO that the nation
survived, pure and cleansed of its
disease. s
''The soldiers of the Union met the
forces of disunion for almost two
years on many battlefields and be-
cause the guiding minds of the nation
were endeavoring to save the nation
and at the same time save the favored
institution of those who were in re-
bellion against the nation. God so
prevented the triumph of the Union
arms that the cause of the Union was
well nigh lost.
Man in his weakness thought that
this government, founded on the
eternal principle of freedom to all,
could exist half free and half slave.
But the Almighty. guiding the
deshnies of the nation, frustrated
the weak plans OF man, and as the
God OF battles brought those entruSt-
ed with the nations life to see that
the nation could only survive wholly
free. And so Abraham Lincoln, re-
alizing that the time had come to
bow to the Supreme will-to that
Divine power which had been SO or
dering the affairs of this nation that
the crisis must come, issued the
Emancipation Proclamation, declar-
ding that all should be free.
'Then the nation took on new life.
then her warriors, thrice armed be-
cause they had their quarrel just
inspired by their holy cause, that of
union in which every man was free.
thought on the side of eternal justice
and supreme equity and became an
invincible host.
what inspired the four score and
ten thousand men of the Union Army
to meet in the dreadful shock of bat
tie the hosts of disunion?
what inspired them to rush into
the imminent deadly breach?' What
sustained them as they met the on
rush of the enemy? What but that
love of country that made it glorious
to die, that love of liberty that made
the patriots grave his country's
shrine?
''And so there died upon this field
of battle twenty-three thousand
defenders of the Union-twenty-
three thousand patriots