The Oskaloosa herald., 1912-04-11

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world will little regard what we sa,
!, here, but win always remember VIVA
they did here" is as true also of Shi
j lob.
4 Shiloh was dedicated fifty years ag'
by the men who fought and died ant
I by the men who fought and lived.
But in the widest dreams of the
participants in that bloody battle M
one thought that any of the genera
ton engaged in that contest woulC
live TO see the men on both sides set
ting it apart as memorial to hero
ism, and dedicated to the perpetuity
Of the Union of the states.
Vicksburg's grim walls stood as 1
barrier to the commerce of the Faith
er Of Waters, and there, too, was an
other one of the turning points in oul
history. There the Titanic battle
ragged for months, and little did the
ccmbatants think that they were pre-
pairing the field for beautiful park
dedicated to Peace and Union.
Both armies worshiped the same
! God. Lincoln and Stonewall Jackson
offered up prayers for victory and a
just God answered the prayers as
was best for them all.
The night before Blenheim MARI
borough took the Holy Sacrement and
prepared to conquer or die. When
the Swiss troops at Granson knelt to
pray before going into battle the
cOurtiers OF Charles the Bold said,
| Sire, they are kneeling in submis-
sion" but Charles knew they were
praying to the Almighty and prepar
ing for death or victory, and that their
reyerent attitude showed them TO be
most dangerous to their enemies. They
feared God, only.
A hundred years ago bloodletting
was the cure for all diseases. This
sanguinary remedy has gone into dis
use, and | trust the time will come
wnen such heroic treatment as war
produces will no longer need to be
used athrougout the world. The arbit
rament OF justice will take the place
of the sword.
Let us hope that Famine, Fire and
Sword will cease to crouch like
hounds at the heels of Mars waiting
for employment.
Comrades, youth. like the aloe,
blooms but once The men who join
in this semicentennial reunion must
of necessity be growing old, though
they were but boys in 1862. But. they
are not out of date; they see things
denied to the sight of the younger
generation.
THE souls dark cottage, battered and
decayed,
Lets in new light through chinks that
time hath made"
We are all united here today. we
have no quarrel, unless it be like that
of the newly married couple, who dis
puted vigorously over the question as
to which loved the other best. Let
the dispute ever proceed as to wheth.
er the North or the South is the most
devoted to the flag of the Union.
Hate is love turned wrong side out.
The hate OF 1862 has turned again to
love. A kind hand clenched makes
an ugly fist-but when it opens again
it is ready for a welcoming grasp.
The North and the South are unit
ed as they never were before since
the closing days of the Revolution.
When King James II at La Hogus
was watching his French allies in
their battle for his restoration, and
the French We're driven back the
fugitive king cried exultingly, See
how my brave English fight
After Bull Run Charles FRANCIS AID.
arms attended levee of the Queen at
London and some of the English pres
ent said tauntingly: Mr.. Minister.
these Confederates fight WELL"
Mr.. Adams proudly replied, "Or
course they do, they are my country
men" .-.
And let me say for the soldiers
North and South that | can recall no
instance since the war when one OF
these men ever led mob.
Montesquieu has said, Happy is
lDdL ndliOH MHOSt dnIldIS are tlit'
some"
More stirring history was crowded
into the brief four years OF the Civil
war than in any five times that length
of peaceful years. There are vacant
spots in the sky; there are sterile
places in history. And in no period
of the worlds history have there been
more fruitful years with their harvest
OF heroic deeds. -,
That war was long anticipated by
far seeing men. Its occurrence was
delayed by many timely compromises,
but its final coming was inevitable
IL could be delayed, not prevented.
The cape at the southern point or
Africa was long marked upon the
map as the Cape OF Storms" When
ID was at last circumnavigated Il be
came the Cape OF Good Hope" in
stead, and il will always remain so.
Now that the struggle OF 1851 TO
1855 Is over the country has come to
look upon II as bringing new and bet.
ter conditions, and the making OF q
homogeneous union OF states.
A divided nation OF 3O.00O.000 peo-
Pile In 1861 is now a united country OF
80. 000, 900 souls. Buckner and Grant
we're cadets at West Point and were