The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-06-05

and animating. All the way back |
have ares been lighted that viii new.
Ter go out. An the way back have
such sentiments fallen from, the lips
of orators, such Inspiration and beaSis
ty from poets, such wisdom character
lied statesmen and such battles been
fought In the name of humanity that
the very essence and center of things
on this continent is liberty and great
ness, a correct estimate Of values.
What are some OF these valuable
lthinss2 First OF all 10, Of course, the
Iunaaenchable spirit OF liberty Then
the orations OF such me as Otie,
Adams, Quincy, Warren and Han.
cock that aroused the spirit of the
colonies TO foreible resistance to Bfi.
tish aggression. The literature OF
that time that was all aglow with the
spirit and prophecy of new day
among men and pulsating with the
hopes and aspirations of humaity.
All, IL we need torch TO rellisht the
spirit of greatness in us there burns
the everlasting fire. II Is said that
new country, new nation has no
shrine, no sacred or eonsecrated
places.
Go to the graves of old john Brown
under the signing pine trees IN the
Adfiondac Mountains, where many
pilgrim goes TO pay his respects
Breathe there the spirit of liberty as
| Il Inspired and enobled his life, think
| of his rugged ald stormy career, the
hardship he endured, his indemitable
will and unaltefable purpose. All, he
was a Puritan Of the Pufitans,' YOU
may talk about the death of Socrates;
you may e8tel the manner and spirit
liz which Stephen died. YOU may eS-
haust your admiration Of the euuall
nifty and peacefullness OF the death
OF Christian martyrs, but old John
Brown, facing death on the scaHold,
spoke In as lefty and heroic strains
as ever any man did Writing to his
family he said II am quite cheerful.
n Is a great comfort to feel assured
that | am permitted to die for a
cause. feel myself to be most TN;
worthy of so great distinction! ! feel
Just. unreuuited toll shall be sunk,
and until every drop of blood drawn
with the lash shall be paid with an
other draw with the sword as was
said 5000 years ago, so still II must
be said the judgments Of the Lord
with malice towards none, with char.
ity for all, with firmness In the right
as God gives lis to see the right let
us strive to finish the work we are
in. to bind up the nations wounds to
care for him who shall have borne
the battle and for his widow and or
phan. TO do all which may achieve
and cherish Just and lasting peace
n. al
The world had not heard such
words since 1t was said, Father for
give them. they know not what they
do" Until his history gets to be an
Gient history, as long as there Is civ.
lizatlon upon the earth, as long as
the rivers run to the sea, the name uf
Abraham Lincoln and his words will
shine with undiminished splendor. "
there is more sacred place tipen this
earth than the tomb Of Abraham Lin
coin? Go among the monuments
erected upon the field where the aW.
full battle OF Gettysburg was fought,
where the combined armies sustained
a loss of So, 900 men, where the afitas-
onistic principles Of two civilizations
upon this continent commended for the
mastery, where Anglo Saxon met An
glo-Saxon and where the power array.
ed against the Invaluable principle OF
liberty and exact and even justice TO
all men was broken beyond all posi-
bility of future reGupetationJ reTHetn-
Der the valor Of the men who fought
there and laid down the lives there,
remember the principles involved,
greater than sny over which armies
ever conteaded. before and which
were to change the destiny of man
kid, let the words of Lincola as he
stood upon the field borne down and
oppressed come into your soul as you
stand upon the field as they we're
spoken when he said: The brave
men living and dead who struggled
here have Gonsecfated II far above
our poor power to add or detr4ct.
The world viii little note nor long
remember what we say here, but It
can never forget what they did here"
Inc fact that this day is set apart
and observed all over the land that
the grave Of our soldier is visited ana
strewn with flowers, that we stand
above his grave IN silent meditation
upon our personal recoIlections Of him
that All over our land we discuss the
principles for which ne fought and
how unfinehfngly he endHred-tbat
we do these things shows that we APP
precfate real values and that we
would make more and more inoress-
fngly valueabie.
As the soldier marched on in the
sun and heat, in the rain and mud,
and drank water from horse and mule
tracks, or 1anguished in sickness or
with wounds, or fought with bray-
cry newer surpassed on earth, or
created and harder than an else to
think OF the ho4ne he left behind him.
All, that baby is here today perhaps
who forty years ago chung to his sol
der father as he left for the war and
died on southern battle field. Ny
! friend, man or woman, if YOU thus lost
a father, and know of him only az
YOU are told of his appearance and
the manner Of man he was, if you
have sometimes Thought, Oh the
cruel war that took him from me. re-
member that he gave his Young HE
to establish and perpetuate here
Ideals of government the highest ever
conceived by man and be comfofted
| Widow, long bereft,, if that young
husband who Went away with mus
ket on his shoulder, newer came back,
remember that no loftier sentiment'
ever stirred the human heart than