The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1911-09-08
Fourth of July Speech

poss OF our assembly have made
dop impressions on our hearts,
You may bu Id your monumental walls
applaud the loving purpose that
would pile high in The mir magnifi-
can't struc uues ( y rral granite, pierc
ing the sky and standing upon the
Kid base CT the earth, mortal as
the Pyramids, to preserve in indes.ruc
tible form the history of your patriot
ic Brsthren, who now sleep ben,osh
the dust. But their Is a monument
more enduring than bra \. There is
record mors last ng ard Immortal
than the pag of history or he
songs of posts-The grateful MEM
ory Of mankind. Tho memory of man
kind shall pre- krye tier namss when
all monumental sJruc.r shall have
sunk beneath the dust that covers us
You can make a monument that shall
keep, rot only TIL old gray haired
patriots, in romembrancs but yorssl-
YES as we'll, by making mankind your
dlbtor by the fidelity with which
you adhere to the truths and doctrine
for which thay fought. From ten
thousand homes all over this broad,
fair land proud hearts, grateful
hearts and tsarful eyes remember
them. For ten-thousand ages, if We
are faithful to their work, they and
yours shall be remembered end the
graves thay fill shall be tine door
through which YOU and they shall in
ter immortality.
And now a few words of allussion
to those who are not here-who an
swer the call of the Supreme Com
mandar on the battlefield. So many
are the Struggling m mories and con-
tending fanoie that rush thick up.
on the heart. that We hardy know
whether to address OURSELVES to the
dim shadows, reminieenciss of that
have pas cd away or to- the more pa
pable form of this real presence; and
if their were words of human speech
fit to portray their history, to speak
their praise or to deck their graves
these word ; are not ours: They
spring not from human lips; They ara
not formed from oral speech. But
there are testimonies mora potent,
more impressive, more electric than
the human voice and they are here to-
day, in the little band of human wit
nesses who have come back, laden
with glory from the fields where
their comrades fell. Let thtm speak.
Let the hero of Gettysburg by his
presence speak. Let all the brave
men, whatever uniform they wore,
whether an humble private or an Of
ficer of high rank. They who saw
their comrades go down at Gettys- |
burg and bite the dust at Shilo; be-
n5ath the wall or sink below the |
str am. Let tn m speak. At Ball
Bluff, where many young life was
ost in the Po.omic or on the Virgin
a shores; At Chancellowille; On
he Gulf before New Orleans; Wher-
'ver on Land or sea, on field or
heck, our flag was borne; Whether in
ictcry or d feat; There stands our
'rave and patriotic soldier, ready to
lefend his country and his flag.
To the dead we owe our respect,to
hose WHO gave up In dr. lives For
ur country, WE bow our heads with r
everenoe, We cherish their sacred 2
memory, We commend tn ir Iirit to $
ne Almighty One, in whose bosom y
e know thay are finding that sweet C
spose which come.h not to man, we n
it our voices in supplication to the $
hrone of Grace in behalf of the O
owed Ones, some of whom Were left Ii
eJti ute and homele T.. Only the 9
lpreme God can comfort them but v
rlends we can help them. We can b
novide for them, by lending our q
ISL rance and providing homes. And 8
day, Friends, the spinits of the b
sparted heroes comes from the en- 8
lttled cliffs of Lookout Mountains; O
hey come from the heaving sod of d
70 Shenandoah; They gathered a
ON the blazing lines of Bull Run n
I'd Yorktown and all the hard fought
elds of the war. With all their D
ounds and with all their honor, they Il
Use and plead with us for their g
'ethnen who survive and bid MS, If O
deed We cherish the memory of a
Csc who BLEED for US. to show our h
attitude, not by sounding words. but b
: stretching out our strong arms OF "
. oountIys prosperity, to help the /,
'ethren surviving gently down to r,
cir graves h
To those who fought against us; "
} those who followed Lee and Jack b