Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-30

of advice to some other posts OF the
grand army. I hope they will copy
your example, n when they erect
statues that they will choos sculptors
able to make statues worth erecting.
1.-THE biggest man and the biggest
feat in our history should be commem-
GRATED by the very best there is in the
sculptor's art. And that hasn't always
obtained in the past.
When you chose a soldier you not
only had to take MIN because of his
good domestic qualities: you had to
take him because he could shoot and
march and run the right way when the
guns began to shoot.
And in the same way l want you to
choose a sculptor because he knows
his job, n you have done it, and so
you have c-omnemorated here in fit
form one of the two greatest states
men that this country has ever had,
one of that very limited number of
great men whose greatness Is for all
the world and for all the ages. loud
and prolonged cheers.)
"And, friends, | wish l could speak
so hat all of you could lear me, but
will have to ask YOU to be as patient
as possible and I Will have as many
hear me as possible. l am afraid |
can't ak to this host opposite"
The colonel burst out laughing at the
shouts of the tremendous crowd. Then
he continued:
There never was a great cause more
absolutely embodied in IA great man
than the cause of union n freedom;
the cause of order and liberty, the
greatest of all causes, was embodied in
Abraham Lincoln.
Now, l speak not in any momentary
fervor, but as expressing what ! am
sure will be the absolutely cool verdict
of history. when | say that of all the
wars with which history deals the YER
diet will be- that the war in which you
men here today were victorious was
the greatest war for justice and was
the most just of all wars that the world
had since the day when history
dawned.
mo other contest, during the time
of which we have record. certainly no
other contest since anything like civili-
cation dawned upon this earth, was as
absolutely important to all the nations
of mankind as this.
Now. l need not say to vol who
wore the blue that / know utter your
sentiments when l ay, on behalf of al
of us, that we know that our brothers
of today, the men whom you fought,
the men who wore the gray, struggled
with all valor to do the right as was
given them TO see the right.
IT acknowledge that in the fullest
way. ! am myself half of Southern
blood. Kinsfolk of mine wore the uni
form of the South, as others wore the
uniform of the North. acknowledge
that, and yet I wish to insist with ali
the strength there is in me that the
victory for the Union, the victory won
under the leadership of Abraham Lin
coin and Ulysses Grant, that that vic
tory was vital not only to the future OF
this nation, but to the future of all
mankind.
IF you had failed in the Civil Wa
1t would have meant more than your
own failure, for 1t would have meant
that nine-tenths OF all that was the
result of the Revolutionary Wal would
have been undone. II the men of 1776
had won freedom. only that freedom
might turn into an anarchy tempered
by slavery. then there feat would not
have been worth performing.
THE success of you who followed
Grant and Sherman and Thomas and
Sheridan and Farragut, all of whom,
followed Lincoln, the success Of you
men rounded out the war of Washing
ton and made that war worth doins
from the standpoint of the ages.
"Ours was the first experiment ir
popular government on a continental
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