The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1913-07-31
Speaker Champ Clark's
gettysburg Speech

Speaker Champ Clark's
Gettysburg Speech.
Among the speakers at the Gettys-
burg anniversary and reunion on
July Sd was Speaker Champ CLARK
! Congressman Graham of Illinois
was so Impressed by the beautiful,
iorceful, eloquent and patriotic re-
marks of MIR. Clark that he asked
| the unanimous consent of the House
to have the Speakers speech on that
occasion be placed In the Con
gressional Record, which was given.
AS none of our readers probably
have read Mr.. Clarks speech, We
give it in full:
~ was only II years old when
Fort Sumter was fired on, and now
my head is blossoming like the
almond tree. will tell yon how |
regard that awful contest and how
the generation to which | belong
looks upon 1t, as one Of the most
heroic chapters in the annals Of
mankind. read English history
as the prologue to American his
tory. When | reflect upon the civil
wars in England my judgment j.
with the stern, uufaltering, piou s
Roundheads, who at Worcester,
Marston Moor. aud Dunbar followed
the great Oliver into battle shout
ing, God with u.s.; but my soul il
fired with the recollection of the
chivalric deeds of those gallant
knights and gentlemen who charged
under the silken banner of Prince
Rupert In the cause of the Stuart
King. Cold must be the heart OF
that American who Is not proud to
claim AS countrymen the flower Of
the southern youth who charged NJ
the slippery slopes Of Gettysburg
with peerless Pickett, or those I'M
cOnquerable men In blue, who
through three long and dreadful
days held these beetling heights in
face of fierce assaults. II was not
southern valor or northern valor.
1t was, thank God, American valor;
that valOr which caused our Reyo.
lutionary fathers to throw their
gage Of battle in the face of the sou
Of hundred kings; that valor which
animated Washington at Princeton,
Brandywine, Monmouth, and York
town; that valor which upheld his
famished men amid the unspeakable
horrors of Valley Forge; that valor
which sustained the soldiers who
followed Arnold on that cruel win
ter's march through the woods of
Canada and in the Christmas storm
ing Of Quebec, where Montgomery
fell immortal: that valor which
nerved Andrew Jackson and his
raw militia on the ever-glorious Sth
of January, when they humbled to
the very dust the towering pride OF
that mighty monarchy upon whose
dominions the sun never sets, and
utterly routed the veterans OF the
Peninsula who had snatched from
NapoleOn's brow the iron crown Of
Charlemagne; that valor which at
Buena Vista, CherebuscO, and
Chapultepec filled the world with its
renown; that valOr which wrote
Davy Crockett's name above Leon
idas and made the Alamo another
shrine for freedom; that valor which
begirts this land as with wall of
fire, fOrbidding all the nations of the
earth to touch the ark of American
liberty lest they die. Gallons, in
deed, must be the man who can not
find something to admire IL the
colossal, benignant character of
Abraham Lincoln or in the splendid
career of Robert f., Lee.
1.-The soldiers of the North and
the soldiers of the South were
American freemen all, fighting like
heroes for what they considered
right. AS such / honor them. AS
such teach my children to cherish
them.
ION Fame's eternal camping ground,
Their silent tents are spread.
And Glory guards with solemn round
The blyouac of the dead.
go my countrymen, II is an in
spring thing to be an Americana
great, a glorious thing"
MANY USES TO WHICH ADHE.