The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1913-07-11
PRESIDENT TALKS
AT GETTYSBURG
His Address Is Chief Feature Of
National Day at the
IT,. Celebration.
IS HEARD BY GREAT THRON6
Mr.. Wilson Dweils on Present Duty
" the People In Finishing the
Nation Now Beloved
by All.

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Nation Now Beloved
by All.
Gettysburg. Pa. July E.-Many thou.
sands Of veterans from north and
south and Of other visitors faced Pres
ident Wilson today a. he delivered the
address which vas the main feature Of
National day in the celebration Of the
hftieth anniversary Of the Battle OF
Gettysburg.
The presidents address follows:
Friends and Fellow Citizens: l need
not tell you what the battle Of 0ettys-
burg meant. These gallant men In
blue and ray 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 1t were an impertinence
to discourse upon how the battle went.
how 1t ended, what 1t signifed! But
so years have gone by since then and
I crave the privilege Of speaking to
you for a few minutes OF what those
so years have meant
What nave 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 a. brothers and com
rades in arms. enemies no longer, gen.
erous friends rather. u battles long
past, the quarrel forgotten-except
that we shall not forget the splendid
valor, the manly devotion Of the mei.
then arrayed against one another, now
grasplng 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
added to this great family Of free
men! 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
ise that a life will be wrought Out
that will crown Its strength with gra
cious Justice and a happy welfare thai
will touch all alike with deep content
ment! We are debtors to those 81
crowded years; they have made Vi
heirs to a mighty heritage.
Nation Not Finished.
But do we deem the nation CON
plete and finished? These venerabl
men c%rowding here to this famou
field have set US a great example o
devotion and utter sacrifice. The,
we're willing to die that the peopl
might live. But their task Is done
Their day is turned into evening. The
look to US to perfect what they estat
lished. Their work Is handed on t
US, to be done in another way but NO
in another spirit. Our day Is not over
1t Is upon US In full tide.
Have affairs paused? Does tn
nation stand still? Is it what the 0
years have wrought since those day
Of battle finished, rounded out. an
completed? Here is a great peopl'
great with every force that has eve
beaten In the lifebiood Of mankind
> And 1t is There is no on
: within its borders, there is n
power among the nations Of the cart
: to make it afraid. But has 1t "
+ squared itself with its own grei
standards set up at It's birth. when
made that first noble, naive appeal
z the moral judgment Of mankind
take notice that q government ha
v now at lac. been established whic
was to serve men. not masters? 1t
secure In everything except the sat-
faction that its life Is right. ad1uste
| 70 the uttermost to the standards
= righteousness and humanity. II
= says Of sacrifice and cleansing a
not closed. We have harder thin
to do than we're done in the hero
days Of war, because harder to s.
clearly, requiring more vision, mo
10 calm balance Of judgment. a mo
candid searching Of the very sprin'
# Of right.
:, Tribute to Their Vaior.
II Look around you upon the field
Gettysburg. Picture the array, t
fierce heats and agony Of battle. c.
- umn hurled against column, bate
' believing to battery! Valor? Ye
y" Greater no man shall see in war; a
'e selfsacrifce. and loss to the utt'
'e most; the high recklessness Of exa
S. ed devotion which does not count I
cost. We are made by these trag
II. epic things to know what It costs
al make q nation-the blood and sac
or nee Of multitudes OF unknown m
~ lifted to a great stature in the VII
al. Of all generations by knowing no LIN
IA to their manly willingness to ser
"a In armies thus marshaled from t
~ ranks of free men you will see, as
were, q nation embattled. the lead
y and the led, and may know, II y