The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-07-01
WAR SECRETARY
CREETS HEROES
Garrison Welcomes Veterans at
the Gettysburg Reunion
Continued From First Page.


al; We can see that the was of 81
fought 10y men upon each side for the
right AK racn saw it, We can acclaim
without abandoning any view which
We may hold. that the men on each
side We're actuated lay high. pure pur-
poses, aud were compelled by their
conscionces To do what they did Be
fore the war We were loosely con
nected band of communities; We
emerged from IT a firmly welded-to-
gethcr nation.
Disinterest Among States.
I'VE must recall that the settlers
Of our country came from all parts
ot the world, actuated By 40 common
impulse and associated for no com
mon purpose; that the constitution
was without a model and at the in
ception IL loosely bound together
thirteen CONFERENCE.-The that had lit
lie IN common excepting the necessity
Of combinations against an outer
enemy. Each state or community, al
most OF necessity. became self cen
tered; and communication ana com
merce in those days was SO slight
that there was little ter-communion
81 any sort between the people of the
different sections OF the land.
AT the time OF the civil war this
great, wonderful experiment in self
\
and up To that time each community
has busted itself with great energy To
develop It's own resources and in
crease its own strength and means.
so busy was each community i'm those
pioneering days that. whatever the
inclination might have been. there
was little time or opportunity for
mutual consultation and effort.
Arbtrate Only With Arms.
And then the time for the ineyita-
BILE arrived. Those who honestly be-
lieved that the United states was a
voluntary association of independent
| soereign states, met in irrepressible
conflict those who honestly believed
| that the United States was AN in
uissoludble union of otherwise indie
pendent states. Each side, with all
The ear-.estness of those whose
hearts. minds ana consciences are
committed To an ideal sought To-
mold the government to their rcspcc-
tive views There was no earthly
| tribunal before which this great issue
could bc tried and determined The
| arbitrdm"nt of arms alone remained
The war that followed had no ele-
| ment of wantonness, or aggrandize-
ment, or lust of gain and no men of
purer spirit ever lived than those who
Waged IL upon the respective sides.
IL found the States in its beginning
| ike a loosely tied tusether bundle of
| tagsots, ana at it's end. and when the
wounds of 1t had been healed, IL lett
"a great sturdy oak as the central
body ut or union, with strong, sturdy
branches OF intense vitality firmly at
! Iachcd To it Hence. whatever one )
views may have been upon the right
eousness of the issue, wholesome re-
Spect To those of each side must be
rendered. such gathering as this
we have Witnessed today would not
otherwise have been possible.
Struggle Perpetuated Nation.
1T * through pain that we attain
anything of value, ii was through
pain that this nation found itself; and,
upon the great foundation thus Sc
cured aud established, proceeded to
advance with giant strides To the fore
front of the nations of the earth.
can we not today, penetrate as
We are 10y the deep spiritual meaning
81 this impressive gathering surely
say that it was worth il ALL that those
silent martyrs lying forever enshrined
upon this field, did not die I'm vain,
that YOU who at the front bore the
storm ana stress ot that great con
Diet. and those who waited in tremb-
ling anxiety at home and bore the
woe and agony of suspense and un-
cert tintS, did not suffer in vain can
we not truly say that until this peo-
pie hal WithstoOd some such stress as
this, there was no assurance that this
first great experiment of the ability
of men To govern themselves was
surely successful? Shrink from the
facts as we may. do they not prove
their case? Would We within. or those
who stood doubling without, ever
have felt the assurance which is now
felt Do we not know that those who
the God of Nations hath joined to-
ecther, no man can put asunder?
Nation Rejoees With Vets.
apart from the deep significance