The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-07-05
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FORGETFUL
OF PAST STRIFE
Notable Address Delivered
at Gettysburg Cele-
bration

Gettysburg, Pa, July 5.-The regular
army paid tribute to the dead of Gettys
burg yesterday.
The headquarters placed the flag al
hall mast and forty-eight guns saluted
while every officer of the soldier camp
stood at attention, saluting the colors
After the last echoes of the saluting by
the battery, there was solemn hush fol-
five minutes.
| President Wilson was enthusiastically
greeted. He delivered an address in the
big tent before ten thousand veterans
| He said:
Gettysburg, Pa, July 5.-President
Wilson addressed large audience here
yesterday afternoon on the occasion of
the celebration of the battle of Gettys-
burg. He spoke as 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 hilsides their com
rades died about them. In their pres
ence it We're an impertinence to discourse
upon how the battle went. how it ended,
what it signifed! But fifty years have
gone by since then, and [ crave the
privilege of speaking to you for few
minutes of what those fifty years have
meant.
What have they meant? They have
meant peace and union and yigor and
the maturity and might of a great ma
ton. How wholesome and healing the
peace has been! We have found one an
other again as brothers and comrades in
arms, enemies no longer, generous friends
gather rather, our battles long past the
quarrel forgotten except that we shall
not forget the splendid valour. the man
ly devotion of the men then arrayed
against one another, now grasping hands
and smiling into each others eyes How
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 our great
family of free men! How handsome
the vigor, the maturity, the might of |
the great nation we love with undiyid- |
ed hearts, how full of large and conf |
Dent promise that a life will be wrought |
)ut that will crown its strength with /
gracious justice and with a happy vel /
'are that will touch all alike with deep /
,ontentmentl We are debtors to those
fifty crowded years; they have made us
heirs to a mighty heritage
But do we deem the nation complete
md fnishedi These venerable men
'rowding here to this famous field have
Jet us great example of devotion and
litter sacrifice. They were willing to die
hat the people might live But their
ask is done. Their day is turned into
'vening. They look to us to perfect
what they established. Their work is
landed on to us, to be done in another
way but not in another spirit. Our
lay is not over; it is upon us in full
ide.
Have affairs paused? Does the ma.
ion stand still? Is what the fifty years
ave wrought since those DAYS of bat
lie finished, rounded out, and completed
lere is great people, great with every
orce that has ever beaten in the life
lood of mankind And it is secure. {
here is no one within its borders. there
no power among the nations of the
arth, to make it afraid. But has it
ct squared itself with its own great G
tandards set up at its birth, when it !
lade that first noble, naive appeal to !
he moral judgment of mankind to take J
office that government had now at !
lst been established which was to serve /
len, not masters? 1t is secure in every g
hing except the satisfaction that its \
fe is right, adjusted to the uttermost '
, the standards OF righteousness and a
The days of sacrifice and o
eansing are not closed. We have hard l
+ things to do than were done in the /
eroic days of war, because harder TO y
se clearly, requiring more vision more t.
llm balance of judgment, more candid e
'arching of the very springs of right. Il
Look around you upon the field of v
Picture the array, the b
cree heats and agony of battle, column +
Irled against column, battery below b
& to battery Valour? Yes! Great h
no man shall see in war; and self. v
crifice, and loss to the uttermost; the "
gh recklessness of exalted devotion Il
hich does not count the cost We are
ade by these tragic epic things to
now what it costs to make nation
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