Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1913-07-10
SPEECH BY WILSON
PRESIDENT ADDRESSES GREAT
ThRoNe ON THE egrTya
BURG BATTLEFIELD.
PAYS TRIBUTE TO VETERANS
Nation Does Not Stand SIN, He says.
and Orders Of the Day for the
People Ara Lava en- Statute
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Gettysburg. Pa. July 4-President
wilson's address today vas the chief
feature OF National day in the ceIebra-
zion OF the semfcenteuniaI OF the Bat
lie OF Gettysburg. It vas heard BY a
vast crowd OF old soldiers and others
and was warmly appiaueed.
The Presidents address foIloxs:
Friends and Fellow Citizens: need
,os 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 hillsides
their comrades died about them. In
thsir presence IL we're an irapertLnence
% discourse upon how the battle went.
how II ended. what It signIned. But
90 years have gone by since then and
I crave the privilege Of speaking to
sou for few minutes OF what those
50 years have meant
What have they meantT They have
meant peace and union and vigor. and
The maturity and might Of \ great na-
ton How wholesome and healing the
peace has beeni We have found one
another again as brothers and com
.rades In arms. enemies no longer. gen
srous friends rather. our battles long
pest, the quarrel forgotten-except
that We shall not forget the splendid
valor. the manly devotion Of the men
then arrayed against one another, now
graspins 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
majestic. as state after state Ia. been
added TO this great family Of free
men. How handsome the vigor. the
maturity. the might OF the great na-
ton We love with undivided hearts;
how fall OF large and confident prom
bse that life will be wrought out
that will crown its strength with xrar
eious justice and a happy welfare that
viii touch all alike with deep content
-ent, We are debtors 70 those 50
crowded years: they have made US
heirs to mighty heritage
Nation Not Finished.
But do we deem the nation com
plete and finished. These venerable
men crowding here to 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 r. turned into evening. They
look 10 Us to perfect what they estab-
hshed- Their work is handed on 70
US. 70 be done In another way but not
in another spirit Our day is not over:
Il is upon US in full tide.
Have a1airs paused. Does the
nation stand stiIlf Is It what the so
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 lifebiood Of mankind
And Il Is secure There Is no one
within its borders. there is no
power among the nations Of the earth.
10 make IL afraid But has II yet
squared itself with its own great
standards set up at its birth. when Il
made that first noble. naive appeal to
the moral Judgment OF mankind to
take notice that q government had
row az last been established which
was TO serve men. not masters, Il is
secure IN everything except the salts
faction that its life is right. adjusted
TO the uttermost to the standards OF
Righteousness and humanity. The
days OF sacrifice 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. requiring mere vision. more
calm balance OF Judgment. q more
candid searching OF the very springs
OF right
Tribute to Their vsior.
Look around you upon the Geld Of
Gettysburg, Picture the array. the
fierce heats and agony OF battle. col
umn hurled against column. battery
believing to battery, valor. Yes,
Greater no man shall see In war: and
self-sacrtfce. 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 IL costs to
make a nation-the blood and sacri-
fee Of multitudes OF unknown men
lifted to \ great stature in the view
OF all generations by knowing no limit
10 their manly willingness 20 serve.
In armies thus nnarshaled from the
ranks OF free men you will see. as II
were. a nation embattled. the leaders
and the led. and may know. N 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 aght for the
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