The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-07-05

$500 n1tss. Cptn1ei,, John Love. OF the
: Ejghth Virginia just had time 70
grasp his hand. and then the secret
I service men had rushed him out OF
the biz tent and into his automobile.
He disappeared down the Chambers
h0rx pike In a cloud OF dtst, was IN
i GAttyHhu-G town in q few minutes ana
an hss apecaal heading towards New
f0rk In d few inmates Hnnrs
Presidents Speech.
L President Wilson said
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.
i-pon these famous fields and hillsides
their Comrades died about them. In
their presence 1t were an mperunence
10 discourse upon how the battle went,
how IL ended, what 1t siEnifed, But
ATTY years have gone by since then.
and l crave the privilege OF speaking
10 YOU for few minutes Of what those
fifty years have meant
What have they meant? They have
meant peace and union and vigor, and
the maturity and might OF great ma
ton. How wholesome and healing
the peace has been. We have found
enc another again as brothers and
comrades in arms, enemies no longer
generous friends rather, our battles
long past. the quarrel forgotten-ex-
cent that we shall not forget the
srlendid vaIor the manly devotion OF
the men then arrayed against one an
other, now grasping hands and smil-
sng into each others eyes. How COM
nfefe the union has become and how
dear to all OF us; how unqnestioned,
hew benign and majestic, as state al
ter State has been added TO this. our
great family Of free men! How hand
some the vigor the maturity, the
might of the great nation We love with
undivided hearts: how fun of large
and confident promise that life Will
be wrought out that will crown lis
strength with gracious justice and
with happy welfare that will touch
all alike with deep contentment' We
are debtors 10 those fifty crowded
years: they have made us heirs to
mighty heritage.
But do we deem the nation COM
plete and finished? These venerable
men crowding here 30 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 IL turned into evening.
They look TO MS 40 perfect what they
established. Their work is handed
but not in another spirit. Our day is
not over; II Is upon us in full tide
Have affairs paused? Does the ma
ton stand still? Is what the nifty
years have wrought since those days
OF battle finished, rounded out and
completed? Here Is a great people,
great with every force that has ever
beaten in the likelihood OF mankind
And il 1s secure. There is no one
within It's borders, there Is no power
among the nations OF the earth, to
make II afraid. But has II yet squared
itself with It's own great standards set
up at its birth. when 1t made that
first noble, naive appeal to the moral
Judgment of mankind 10 take notice
that government had now at last
been eSta biished which was to serve
men, not masters 1t is secure In
everything except the satisfaction that
its life Is right, adjusted to the utter
most 10 the standards OF righteous
ness and humanity. The days of sac
rifice and cleansing are not closed.
We have harder things to do than
were done in the heroic days of war,
because harder to see clearly, requir-
ing more vision, more calm balance
of judgment, more candid search
ing OF the very spring OF right.
Look around you upon the field OF
GETTYSBURG Picture the array. the
uErEe nESlS anu agony Oh bdLtltt tNi~
umn hurled against column. battery
believing to battery, Valour? Yes.
Greater no man shall see in war, and
lf-sacrifice and loss TO the utter
most; the high recklessness of exalt-
ed devotion which does not count the
cost We are made by these tragic,
epic things TO know what 1t costs 10
make a nation--the, blood and sacri-
fice of -multitudes Of unknown men
lifted 10 a great stature in the view of
all generations by knowing no limit
TO their manly willingness 70 serve.
In armies thus marshaled from the
ranks of free men you will see, as
II were. a nation embattled. the lead
ers and the led. and may know. II
you will, how little except in form its
action differs in days of peace from
Its action in days of war.
May we break camp now and be at
ease? Are the forces that fight for
the nation dispersed. disbanded. gone
to their homes forsetful of the COM
mon cause: Are our forces disor-
ganized,. without constituted leaders
and the might of men consciously
united because we contend not with
armies but with principalities and
powers and wickedness in high places.
Are we content to lie still? Does our
union mean sympathy. our peace con-
tentment, our Vigor right action, our
maturity seif-cunl pre- ension and a
clear confidence in choosing what we
shail dog War fitted us for action.
and action never ceases.
have been chosen the leader of the
nation. | cannot justify the choice by
any qualities Of my own, but so II has
come about. and here ] stand. Whom
DO command? The ghostly hosts who
fought upon these battle fields long
ago and are gone? These gallant
gentlemen stricken in years whose
lighting days are over, their glory
won? What are the orders for them
and who rallies them? ] have In my
mind another host, whom these set
free OF civil strife in order that they
might work out in days Of peace and
settled order the life Of a great ma
ton. That host is the people them
selves the great and the small, with
Out class or difference Of kind or race
or ogigin: and undivided in interest,
II we have but the vision TO guide and
direct them and order their lives
Alright in what we do Our consti-
futsons are their articles OF enlist
ment. The orders Of the day are the
laws upon our statute oboks. What
we strive for is their freedom, their
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