Semi-weekly herald., 1913-07-07
ADDRESSES
VETERANS

United FreSS
GETTYSBURG, Ia, July 5.-The
final ceremony of the veterans re-
union was held thiA morning. when
Sergeant Marcy, aEunion veteran,
stood on little rdkind knoll at the
summit, and wigwakge with flag
to Lieutenant Round Confederate, on
Seminary Ridge: fPeace on earth,
good will to men.'1 Round replied,
GLORY to God in thefhighest' Marcy
then signaled Grants words: LET
US have peace Rounds replying Lees
utterance, DUTY is tie sublimest word
in our language"
The veterans are breaking camp
rapidly.
The address of President Wilson de-
livered at Gettysburg July 4, 1918, is
as follows:
Friends and Fellow Citizens:
need not tell you what the bat
tie of Gettysburg meant These gal
liant men in blue and gray sit all about
us here. Many of them met here upon
this ground in grim and deadly strug-
gle. Upon these famous fields and
hilisides their comrades died about
them. In their presence it were an
impertinence to discourse upon how
the battle went, how it ended, what
it signifed! But fifty years have gone
by since then, and l crave the privi-
lege of speaking to you for few min
utes of what those fifty years have
meant.
What have they meant? They have
meant reace and unidn and vigor, and
the maturity and might of great
nation. How Wholesome and healing
the peace has been! We have found
one another again as brothers and
comrades in arms, enemies no longer,
generous friends rather, our battles
long past, the quarrel forgotten-ex
cept that we shall not forget the
splendid valor, the manly devotion of
the men they arrayed against one
another, now grasping hands and smil-
ing into each others eyes. How COM
rlete the union has become and how
dear to all Of us, how unquestioned
how benign and majestic, as state
after state hns tcsif atiied to this oui
great family of free menl How hand
some the vigor, the maturity, the
might of the great nation we love
with undivided hearts how full OF
large ana confident promise that O
life will be wrought out that will
crown its strength with gracious jus
tice and with happy welfare that
will touch all alike with deep con.
tentment- We are debtors to those
fifty crowded years; they have made
us heirs to mighty heritage.
But do we deem the nation com
plete an6 finished? These venerable
men crowding here to this famous fielt
have set us great example of de
votion and utter sacrifice. They were
willing to die that the people might
live. But their task is done. Theil
day is turned into evening. They lool
to us to perfect what they established
Their work is handed on to us, to bt
done in another way but not in an
other spirit. Our day is not over; i
is upon US in full tide.
Have affairs paused? Does the ma
ton stand still? Is what the fifty
years have wrought since those day.
of battle finished, rounded out, ant
completed? Here is a great people
great with every force that has evel
beaten in the lifeblood of mankind
And it is secure. There is no on,
within its borders, there is no powel
among the nations of the earth, t.
make it afraid. But has it yet squared
Itself with its own great standards
set up at its birth, when it made tina
first noble, naive appeal to the mora
| judgment of mankind to take notice
that government had now at las
been established which was TO serv,
men, not masters? 1t is secure il
everything except the satisfaction tina
its life is right, adjusted to the ut
termost to the standards of right
eousness and humanity. The days o
sacrifice and cleansing are not closed
We have harder things to do thar
were done in the heroic days Of war
because harder to see clearly, re
quiring more vision, more calm bal
ance Of judgment, more candle
searching of the very springs o
right.
Look around you upon the field o
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,
self sacrifice, and loss to the utter
most; the high recklessness of exalte'
devotion which does not count tn
cost We are made by these tragic
epic things to know what it costs t
make a Lation-the blood and sacri
fice of multitudes of unknown me
lifted to great stature in the vie,
Of all generations by knowing no limi