Arizona republican., 1913-07-02

hIhS lHe WHole SdInut or man s three field nature. Each scene has been unique and typical of it's kind: first the battle, with it's almost unex- ampled display of the physical powers of man; then the great heart and mlnd of Abraham Lincoln, bodied forth in his wonderful address de hVered here; and last, this assemb1- age, the deep spiritual significance or which can scarcely be exaggerat- ed So we have body, mind and spirit. each displaying it's distinc- tive characteristic to their fullest extent upon this small stage Of the Would's great theatre
 Fifty years ago today, there began here one Of these conflicts between man and man. marked by such ex- hibitions of valor. courage and almost { Superhuman endurance as to engrave itself upon the tablet of history there to remain ever memorable Equitl met equal; and in the domain or physical prWess all were worthy or medals of honor. The suneriori+v was that of resources, not of individ- CaI strength or courage. So long ae men love ValOr and worship heroes ei,e name of Gettysburg, and of those Who fought there, will be ever on ',ier hps- Four months afterwards .l VI betlSSDufS inspired in Ine great mind and heart of Abraha,n ~ ~ii 'le most wonderful prose poem ever written. It's music -itar- aliy rang round the would and sape m the hearts of men. and will contt,,o 10 sing in the blood of the sons of men until Time itself shall be no l more.
 i And last but by no means least this gathering here upon | 1me Held of Gettysburg today IiIousands and tens of thou sdiluS or former foes are here gath eieu together Tn brOtherly union. You ! WHO flfst met upon this field to vic i with each other in doing hurt the 1 one to the other, now meet hera to outVle each other in deeds of kind ness and friendship and love. His | tory holds no parallel This meeting Is the final demonstration that the last emDerS of the former time time nave been stamped out: and tha l great conflagratiOn, which it was | feared would consume our country. merely served to weld the different parts of 1t so firmly together and | into such a perfect whole that no power can ever break it The civil war was a battle for ideals: and if our beloved country could withstand . war Waged for ideals, one waged for any lower. baser purpose can never overthrow it.
 Time has enabled us to attain a truer perspective than was possible while nearneSS to the conflict ob- scured the fact. Looking back with an unbiased eye. We can see the truth; we can see that in the very nature of things some such conflict was necessary to settle great uues- tons for which there was no peace ful tribunal; we can see that the
 war of '61 was fought by men upon each side for the right as each saw it. We can acclaim, without a0an- doning any view which We may hold that the men on each side were actu- ated by high, pure purposes. and were compelled by their cOnsciences to do what they did Before the war we were loosely connected band of communities: we emerged from t a firmly welded together nation.
 We must recall that the settlers of our country came from all parts of l the world. actuated by no common impulse, and associated for no com mon purpose; that the constitution was without a model, and at the i inception it loosely bound together thirteen cOmmOnwealths that 7ad lit tie in common excepting the neces- Sity of combinations against an outer enemy. Each state or community, all most of necessity, became self-cen- 1 tered and communication and com merce in those days was so slight 1 that there was little inter-cOmmunion of 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 government was only seventy two years old, and up to that time each i community had busted itself with | great energy to develop it's own re- sources and increase it's own strength and means So busy was each com l munity in those pioneering days that. whatever the inclination might have been, there was little time or Oppor- tunity for mutual consultation and effort.
 And then the time for the inev- itable arrived Those who honestly believed that the United States was a voluntary association of independent sovereign states, met in irrepreesible conflict those who honestly believed that the United States was an in dissoluble union of otherwise inde- pendent states. Each side. with all the earnestness of those whose hearts, minds and conscienceS are committed 1 to ideal. sought to mold the gov ernment to their respective views. There was no earthly tribunal before which this great issue could be tried and determined. The arbitrament of arms alone remained.
 "The war that followed had no element of wantonness, or aggran- dizement or lust of gain; and no men of purer spirit ever lived than those who Waged it upon the respective sides. It found the states, in it's be- ginning. like loosely tied together bundle of faggots and at it's end, and when the wounds of it had been healed, it left a great sturdy oak as the central body of our union, with strong, sturdy branches of intense vitality firmly attached to it. Hence whatever ones views may have been