Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-05-31
MILLS PAYS GLOWING
TRIBUTE TO BLUE AND THE GRAY
Declares in Memorial Day Address That Both Sides Be-
Iieved Cause Was Just, and Both Armies Had Great
and Valiant CommandersO Speakers Pay Tri-
butte at Cemetery---Hundreds March in Parade
Through City

NNu' t'ltAJ d ueN udIlOl, conceived III
liberty and dedicated to the PROPOSE
ton that all men are created equal
Now We are engaged in a great Civil
war, testing whether that nation or
any nation so conceived. and so ded-
icated can long endure We are met on
a great battle field of that war We
/! are met to dedicate a portion of it as
the final resting place of those who
here gave their lives, that that nation
might live. 1t is altogether proper
that We should do this.
But in a larger sense we cannot
dedicate, we cannot hallow this
ground. The brave men living, and
dead, who struggled here have conse-
Grated it far above our power to add
or detract.
The world will little note, nor
long remember what we say here. but
it can never forget what they did here.
1t is for us, the living, rather to be
that they have thus far so nobly car
ried on. 1t is rather for us to be here
dedicated to the great task remaining
before us-that from these honored
dead we take increased devotion to
the cause for which they here gave
the last full measure of devotion
that we here highly resolve that the
dead shall not have died in vain-that
the nation, under God, shall have a
new birth of freedom, and that the
government of the people, by the peo-
pie and for the people shall not perish
from the earth
Nearly half a century has passed
away since these immortal words were
spoken, the war is over and well over,
our union is reunited on an imperish-
able basis, and | ask you men, women
and children to unite together and in
the presence of these holy graves again
Highly resolve that the dead shall
not have died in vain--that the nation
under God shall have new birth of
freedom, and that the government of
the people, by the people and for the
people shall not perish from the
earth ="
After Judge Morrison had concmd-
ed, Governor Mills, as orator of the
day, delivered brilliant address.
Governor Mills speech was as fol
lows:
Veterans of the Grand Army of the
Republic and Ladies and Gentle
men:
One year has rolled by since the
post of the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie which is situated at Santa Fe, and
the many other camps of veterans
which are scattered over the broad
bosom of the United States, have turn
ed out as organizations to lay flowers
upon the graves of their deceased
comrades. the unknown dead, and to
departed ones.
Each year the ranks of the Grand
Army grow thinner and thinner, anG
each year fewer men who served in
the army or navy during the Civi
War, turn out to march in the parades
which it is customary to have or
Memorial day These lessening mum
bers are not occasioned by desertior
: or by struggling. They only arise be
cause each year the grim destroyer
wields his scythe and culls from the
fast depicting ranks of the survivors
, of the great war, those whose time
has come; those who cannot answer
| again the roll CALL and who have
crossed the great divide to be Judged
| by the all wise Providence, the Gre
ator of all things.
Each year every living survivor
who fought in that, the greatest O
all modern wars, must realize tina
death may claim him as its next vic
tim, for the war ended As years ago
and no matter how young one ma!
have been: no matter how tender were
his years when the dove of peace set
| tied over our common country, h
must have now nearly arrived at the
! ulDliCdl age dllOlleQ IOF Une HE o
man to-wit: three score years ant
ten, and though he may live beyont
that time. still his life will be bu
travail and pain, in any event no
many more years of life can be expect
ed by him.
Men Without Fear.
You, veterans of the Civil War, ar,
looked up to and respected by all goot
citizens of the United States, and yol
ought to be, for you were and ar,
men without fear. Every one, no mat
ter how much he may be inclined to
wards peace, loves a fighter. Their
is something deeply implanted in tn
heart of everyone, which impels hin
to look UP to and respect one wh'
will fight for what he believes to b
right; for one who will allow him
self to be unjustly imposed upon.
you, and everyone of you, Shove
that you were brave men, for yo
| quickly responded to the call, whe
the great and good Lincoln, our Pres
ident who was afterwards shot t