The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1913-07-12
VETERANS HEAR
The PRESIDENT
Mr.. Wilson Delivers Address at
Gettysburg Celebration.
DRAWS LESSON FROM BATTLE
Declares Great Army OF the People
Must Fight Peacefully 70
Perfect the Nation
All Love.

of the Battle of Gettysburg was made
especially notable by an address de-
liyered by President Woodrow Wilson.
In his audience were many thousands
OF the veterans who fought in the
great battle. as we'll as great throng
Of other visitors.
The presidents address follows:
Friends and Fellow Citizens: | need
not tell you what the battle of Gettys-
burg meant. These gallant men in
blue and gray sit all about US here.
Many of them met here upon this
ground In grim and deadly struggle.
Upon these famous fields and hillsides
their comrades died about them. In
their presence it were an impertinence
to discourse upon how the battle went.
how it ended, what it signified. But
so years have gone by since then and
crave the privilege OF speaking to
you for a few minutes OF what those
80 years have meant.
What have they meant? They have
meant peace and union and vigor, and
the maturity and might of a great ma
ton. How wholesome and healing the
peace has been, We have found one
another again as brothers and com
rades in arms, enemies no longer, gen
erous friends rather, our battles long
past, the quarrel forgotten-except
that we shall not forget the splendid
valor, the manly devotion of the men
| then arrayed against one another, now
grasping hands and smiling into each
others eyes. How complete the union
has become and how dear to all Of US.
how unquestioned, how benign and
majestic, as state after state has been
added to this great family Of free
| meni How handsome the vigor, the
maturity, the might OF the great ma
| ton we love with undivided hearts;
how full of large and confident prom
Use that life will be wrought out
that will crown it's strength with gra-
cious justice and happy welfare that
will touch all alike with deep content
ment! We are debtors to those so
crowded years; they have made US
heirs to a mighty heritage
Nation Not Finished.
But do We deem the nation com
plete and finished? These venerable
men crowding here to this famous
field have set US a great example of
devotion and utter sacrifice. They
were willing to die that the people
might live. But their task Is done.
Their day is turned into evening. They
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lished. Their work is handed on TO
US, to be done In another way but not
in another spirit. Our day is not over;
it is upon us in full tide.
Have affairs paused? Does the
nation stand still? Is it what the 50
years have wrought since those days
of battle finished rounded out, and
completed? Here is great people
great with every force that has ever
beaten in the life blood of mankind
And it is secure. There is no one
within its borders, there is nc
power among the nations of the earth
to make 1t afraid. But has 1t YET
squared itself with its own great
standards set up at its birth, when II
made that first noble, naive appeal &c
the moral judgment of mankind tC
take notice that a government haC
, now at last been established whicr
was to serve men, not masters? 1t 1:
secure In everything except the salts
faction that Its life Is right adjusted
to the uttermost to the standards o
righteousness and humanity. TIL,
days of sacrifice and cleansing arr
L. not closed. We have harder things
to do than we're done In the heroic
days of war, because harder to SCI
clearly, requiring more vision, NOR,
calm balance of judgment, a NOR
, candid searching of the very spring
, of right
Tribute to Their VaIor.
Look around you upon the field o
I Gettysburg. Picture the array. tn
, fierce heats and agony of battle. col
/, umn hurled against column, batter.
. believing to battery! Valor? Yes
| Greater no man shall see in war; an,
I self-sacrifice, and loss to the utter
most; the high recklessness of exalt
n
;. cost. We are made by these tragic
q epic things to know what 1t costs I
r make a nation-the blood and sacr
fee Of multitudes of unknown me
lifted to a great stature in the vie'
Of all generations by knowing no linn
8 to their manly willingness to serv'
!. In armies thus marshaled from tn
T. ranks of free men you will see, as
g were, a nation embattled. the leader
d and the led, and may know, II yo
i will, how little except in form Il
action differs in days Of peace fro
It's action In days Of war.
May we break camp now and be
I ease? Are the forces that fight for Il
s Nation dispersed, disbanded. gone
= their homes forgetful of the commc
8 cause? Are our forces disorganize
e without constituted leaders and II
might OF men consciously united
cause we contend, not with armies. b
It with principalities and powers al
n wickedness in high places. Are v
10 content to lie still? Does our uni,
d mean sympathy, our peace confer
ment, our vigor right action, our m
turity self-comprehension and Gle
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