The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1911-06-03
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broken column Hud a iirid 81 grave,
writes Edward ". Thompson 90 Boston
Transcript. Men IN Boston told me not
To go. The place, these acute critics
said. wa, made ridiculous boy multiiudr-
ut prcpust"ruus monuments Ouc uu,
after getting safely ont Of Boston, pity
these critics. For the field 1T Getty,
bug i, q musi touching spectacle, uuh
L.. worth travelling Hcoss oceans to see,
~ ~ cpit"mr IT the poetic. simple,
good. generous heart 81 the American
democracy. Every federal rcgimcntal
line at the ,hrcc days oi July fighting
j. marked put hy bronze tablets aud
the immortal army Ut northern Virginia
~ placed ~ eternal position 10y tho
guNrtu.lrui ct the reunited -tutr,.
oh. the WIDE rirrlcd grave, ui the host
at iulistingui.hahlr dead the little
namrlc>, tablets tor each persisted ,pl
der Onc would co,ct % place there.
~ heroic It seemed 20 nave poured ono,
lifr's blood Tor duty without leaving
even o name, save in the aching hearts
IT those who knew that their hoio, I'D
must lac among the uurcc"guilcl slain
1T Gettysburg. Aud Whut D. q uaur
~ any monument or tablet ~ that
field Al the inscribed are nearly
forgotten Visitors ash about ,ou-
hero very famou, IN his time aud
minrI: "Nhu was hr''' In effect
the dead there are all alike, essentially
unnamed. becoming Vui,Ily uurrru"
nilrd. even ~ the winds of night aud
the memories OF war. Nud the wholly
unnamed, when the final call Ice suund
ed, shall surely be- ~ familiar ~ any
one 20 the judgement seat nor less
arplaudrd hy the ,hadowy hands Of
heaven.
There j., art. aud even great art nj
Gcttysburg, airiy, IN certain shafts
aud bronyc equestrian aud standing
statues OF the mur,huls Of the iJsts
hat we're But art H. small, iusignih
rant, concerted, q toy, "a diminished,
ci'idcd idra, NJ Gcttyshurk. The grand
natural spectacle and the ,rucc Of what
they did hcrcscduce 10 "a sort Of tri.
Vitality the memorials which ohryiOusly
celebrate the hrrOs artistically'
Strangely proper seemed the home.
licr stone figures of horse, and gun
aud man, ,Yls cd lovingly 10y the yil.
, lape stone cutter. he striving 50 vainly
p to symbolic the man ~ the regiment
cherished IN memory boy the humble
folk who gave him his commission after
, putting hard hand down into poor pock.
cts to pay his little fee. They saw ia
his queer work all that was lent To
rs outlines by their past agony aud
p tears. la those almost absurd mem.
Il urials you shall see the homcly good,
9 awk ward poetic, loving American
4 heart deridc, them, better 90 away
= hastily -and drown yourself AS ono
= devoid VI understanding. But first try
. people, II you look rightly. II your
to get right. That may he possible
n by gazing from almost under Father
Abraham : figure, high on the central
shaft, toward seminary Ridge. l"ur
mortal eye, shall see the distant, Icing
thy, Blue Ridge %llilis. Your soul mas
4 behold, iu,isibIy Tar, the d"lrrr .uIe
$ mountains, where his Sprrit ranged 'pr
3. the immortal address.
\ day , driving about the great tnr",
q days battlefield enable, one 10 uud,r
a stand clearly what happened, II SO.
ns II the Almighty, even ~ lIom
N understood him 10 lee, had nodded III
the hegining at the fight, the loon
II OF it, issue. It b, u, be had said
days days shall the north triumph.
. every hour uf that time shall the mort
/, beaten, increase IN strength; the vaioI
~ the yIctOrs Of the inst two duN,
a. still irrcsistIhly pound their foe, int,
an ~imprcguahlc position; on the tl.r,
day ! viii take away the wisdom uu
the great leader OF the south. he shul
then require ri his soldiers Il dee.
thar mortal flesh aud blood cnuuot per
form; aud great shall be their s]laughi"
aud their rout.' fOr standing uu lIttlD
Round Top the Federal left, yiewlu.
the ground to Culp = Tin, where ~,
- blue right lay, II appears iurredIul,
that u general 80 mastery rs Ir,
could ave ordered the third dns
charge unless be- had come under lh.
:, doom, "He whom the Gods with ..
destroy they first make mad Tha
stead : regiments should have endure,
a whole mile ol he'll, until their rr'lr
came 10 hand 10 hand lighting, b, c,Ir'
an Incredible thing, or an uu,urpa>,r,
instance of human courage, You ruul,
= weep there over the dream at the rhutgl
aud the carnage. Vt It is all 80 STRANGE
ly biost ~ MS; r. h. ;. gave the Nrr.
tone uf the memories.
We trHvlrd IN the print of oldcn was
Vet all the land was green,
- And love wr found, aud prar",
~ Where fire aud wal had been.
~ They pass and smile, the children Of M,
sword
," NJ more the sword they WELD
Ana Oh, h0w nigh the corn
Along the battle lrld'
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