Evening star., 1909-05-31
THOUSANDS AT PATRIOTIC
EXERCISES AT ARLINGTON

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audience by Col Holbrook Senator Nc
Cumher said. in part:
''On these historic grounds, o'erhung
with patriotic memories and sanctified
by holy dust. we meet again to scatter
fragrant emblems of loving thoughts and
grateful hearts Ger the graves of our
noble dead. and to rewrite into our own
hearts those great principles of liberty
and union for which they gave the last
full measure of devotion.
I'm the presence of these silent mounds
and solemn shafts, where loving hands
have gathered the mortal relics of friend
and foe. mangled and bEoken wreckage,
strewn on the red waves of war. we vain
1y seek to penetrate that deep and dark
ened mystery that ever surrounds our hu
man and our national destiny. Why and
where ordained this wild, fierce storm of
sanguinary strife?
Destiny Of the World
From whence came that dire first
cause which. handed down through un-
numbered years, marshaled brother
against brother in this awful cataclysm
of death? What ancient chance forged
the fell key that unclaimed from the
dark clouds of destiny those thunderbolts
or war? Its source we may never fully
comprehend. We only know that it lies
mortal cognition in that infinite law
which shapes the destiny of worlds.
And yet. as the spirit of contempla-
ton unrolls the scroll of half hundred
centuries. we may trace, though some
times shadowy and dim the winding flow
of the mystic river of heredity upon
whose waveless bosom floats down to us
through countless generations, from the
very throne Of Deity. those conflicting
mental endowments, those warning ele-
ments. which ever strive for mastery in
the human mind, and which have made
the worlds history what it is-a reign
inpulsive sway.
1T is these conflicting traits of indi-
vidual character. reflected in national and
racial differences, that since the world
began, have ever been the enchanted and
elemental potions from which the alche-
mist Of fate has brewed the maddening
drauSht of crimson strife Opposing ma
lures have ever aligned the opposing
hOStS In the worlds great wars
Types That Made Soldiers.
Senator McCumber traced the mutter-
ings which preceded the civil war and
said:
In the solemn silence that precedes the
crashing charge of armies we here be-
hold the Puritan, weighing his cause by
the standard Of right ever reluctant to
provoke TO war, but who when the scale
VI justice points INe line or duty, becomes
as firm and unyielding as his granite hills
and who for that duty will drain the last
drop Of his blood.
Here we behold the gallant southron.
brave restless, ever ready for the glory of
conflict, as proud and as dashing as his
cavalier ancestor.
Here, the one, patient and enduring
who shouts not in the exuberance of vie
tory and who dies without a gToan: there
the other, quick in resentment and i'm
pulSlve IN his every act.
Here the Unyielding Thomas and the
stubborn Sherman, grimly planning the
intricate tactics Of war while the lines of
blue and gray are graphing in that stern
and desperate strife that parts not but
with parting life;' there the intrepid Jack
son and the impetuous Pickett dashing
1helr columns into the very mouths of
flaming guns.
Here We see the gray haired warrior
who for thirty years had walked these
paths surrounded by those whom he
loved, those who loved him. I'm the des-
peration Of despair. hurling his impetuous
lines of gray against the rigid closing
lines of blue.
Here the grim warrior of the west the
silent one. never wearying. never resting
slowly closing every avenue of escape the
roar or his cannon, the rattle uf his mus
kerry never ceasing day or night until
That southern banner. which on every
reid OF battle had told the martial story
OF southern valor. Yielded TO the indomi-
able power OF northern endurance north
ern courage and northern patriotism.
Now They Sleep Together.
Here in this lowly bed. under earth's
green mantle. sleep the men who wore the
blue; there under the same earths cover
ing. the men who wore the gray, and the
one flag. the old flag. droops in loving
fold above them beth
For nearly half a hundred years. that
cause has been buried. never To be res
urreCted again. Let liz. therefore, for
ever forget the animosity of that strug
gle. over the graves of the fallen brave
oi both sides of that sanguinary strife
let our hearts unite with a stronger, high
e, holier patriotism than ever before.
The last dozen years have given US a
prosperity never before approached in this
or any other country. Under its exhil-
asation everything We have touched has
seemed to turn TO gold. Under its in
Si4ation speculation has riot and
fabulous fortunes have sprung into being
throughout the land.
And yet through all this clamor, this
rush for wealth and power; this glorifca-
tion of national prowess; this ostentatious
display, the listening heart of patriot ism
cannot but hear the whisper of q eau
tion. Lest we forget We know the
history cf the world. We know the i'm
pressibility' of human character"
Senator McCumber spoke OF 1.-THE old
patriotism of ISL 10 1sti,' as "the only
haven OF absolute. safety for this rapidly
progressing country. He saiu: Your pa
triotism maintained in its olden vigor and
transmitted TO your Children's children is
our surest shield against the dangers that
always lurk in the shadow of too rapid
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