Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1911-07-19

was . var that wAs ~ Inevitable - fsts.
war that wss brought abont By the clash Of
conte aiding principles from the very earliest
days OF our republic. Before even these col
onies had become . nation, the burden Of
secession was on many . lip. when ~ last
they met after the war Of the Revolution for
the constitutional convention the doctrine Of
states rights was still thrown out.
During the days Of washingson's presi-
dency and Hamilton's great incumbency OF
Office. again and again the doctrine Of states
rights was up. During the days Of Jefferson
and Adams again and again states rights
came to the front. During the days when the
great question OF slavery or the prohibition
| of slavery doomed up q = national issue Of
tremendous and portentious significance. the
doctrine Of states rights was heard again and
again. You could NO more have averted the
war Of the secession than you could have
averted the tides. canuse in his day. attempt
| ing by his royal commands to stay the tides,
was not more impotent.
| The doctrine Of states rights must be
settled, and In settling that doctrine the right
Of the negro 70 life. liberty and the pursuit Of
1 happiness was involved. And when at last,
| on those great zelda OF which we have heard,
that question Wa settled, IL was settled irrev-
ocably; IL was settled forever. u was settled.
never TO come up again in this glorious land
\ of ours 90 long ~ God gives air and sunlight.
so long ~ the principles Of righteousness and
| truth and the love Of man and the history Of
vsior shall remain . constituent part Of the
history OF our commonwealth.
| II was a great war. II was . great war In
which you men were engaged, great in many
1 l.
| engaged in IL. great because OF the youth
| that went out to Il. Why remember :
have been reading with vivid interest that
charming monograph which Col. Clark has
| contributed TO the history of this regi-
ment. I remember that be said that he, =
boy from Foxcroft academy. with other boys
went out to the fields of war and took his
| aptism OF fire when he might well have been
a sheltered child in the home. And he was
one OF many, of hundreds, of thousands, OF
hundreds of thousands, of the boys that
went out from these Maine homes.
\ Was ever anything sowonderfui as that
| that these homes gave mp not only the fathers
aud the grown men. but gave up the cher
ished boys by the freside, the boys who were
| to bear their fathers names aloft in the years
to come. as IL had been fondly hoped. and who
| did bear them aloft in many . conflict that
! awed the whole civilized world! II was great
in those great issues involved, OF which have
| already spoken. 1t was great in the battles
| In which you bore prominent part
| II Was great also in the leaders that Il
| brought forth. know Of no great war Of his
/ tory that ever developed many great
! leaders ~ the war Of the Rebellion. Run over
| the list Of names, ON each side, Of the COM
| manders.
Think Of Hancock, idol Of the second corps
| Of Thomas, the Rock Of ChickAmauga; Of
William 7. Sherman. one OF the greatest COM
msnders OF that day; OF Sheridan, one OF the
cavalry leaders Of the whole world; Of Gen.
ersi Ulysses .. Grant. that man - mot the
greatest soldier. not the greatest tsctician.
not the greatest strateGist. not the most
magnetic leader by great deal that the war
developed. but the man whose great force lay
| in this. he did not know when he was beaten.
| and with that bull headed tcnacity that drove
4 him forth through that awful campaign Of
| the Wilderness and through that last year Of
the Civil war. with his only order to advance,
/ never called upon his men TO retreat. but with
| ranks decimated, with battaiiops and regi-
ments and brigades narrowed. still pushed on
until the final conclusion of the war. enmesh-
| ing Lee in that net OF iron until at last that
great general laid down bis sword and ac-
knowiedged the con9ueror In the silent and
taciturn man OF the West.
Let us not forget likewise in these days
| when the Blue and the Gray fraiernize as
these men have told you here to-night--lei
us not forget well the great leaders de-
veloped on the side OF the southern hosts, for
they were Americans, and their history is a
part of the history OF human yalor in our
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brave. strong man that he was. Let us not
forget stonewail Jackson. As noble man as
ever defended nag in any land. Let us NOT
forget General Robert E. Lee, perhaps the
greatest soldier in some ways developed on
either side during the great struggle.
My friends, may well pause in amazemen,
as think of the magnificent record that ha,
been unfolded before us in your achievement.
tonight Were you ever dubbed the "6sht-
ing Sixth-s You might well have been. From
the first to the last. in all the deeds OF valor
you were conspicuous. am reminded AGAR
by that deiig htful monograph OF Col. Clark's-
! am reminded again that II was not all fight.
ing battles In that story OF one who came &c
visit the scene Of war aid who asked for the
Sixth Maine. and the commander, Col. Burn
ham AT that time, said: 'You go out be yond
the picket lines as far as you can go. and the
you climb the tallest tree that You can ind
and then As far OH as your eyes can see, yor
viii see the members Of the Sixth Mains
stealing corn"
Oh, as ! read that little booklet Of his.
read with pulse that beat little faster the
story that has been so often referred to TO-
night, and its companion story, the story Of
Marye's Heights and Rappahannock Station
Why is it that those deeds have never beer
emblazoned. Why is Il that only q few Of
you modest men have held those deeds
precious recollections, to your heartss
remember the pass ct Thermopylae where
Leonidas and his Spartans drove OF the hosts
Of Persia. And those deeds have never been
forgotten. ! remember that scene IN the
Crimesn war. Is they tell 1t 10 us, that charge
Of the Light Brigade, immortalized by Ten
nyson. But among them all there is NO story
A a. Az hat al.