The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-05-31

lighthouses and buildings, bridges and
canals all in the way of commerce and
industry.
(2) Then came the so-called ar
tillery. Really a corps Of caretakers
who had charge Of a series of obso-
lete forts which had been out Of date
since 1912. Had these forts been
armed there were not enough men
available to manag them and to keep
the guns clean from the wear and
tear of time.
(3) The third and only fighting de-
partment of the army was a frontier
police engaged in controlling the In
dams and caring for the settler and
the plainsman. The officers Of this
body had been trained at West Point.
Some. of the soldiers had seen service
in the Mexican wal and thus a a
little practical experience.
Owing to the fact that the men Of
the south enjoyed military life more
than the men Of the north, there were
in the army of 1850 a. preponderance
Of southern born officers who when
the war broke out, with a few eX-
ceptions, resigned and gave their
swords to the confederacy. There
was no adequate store Of arms or
material or supplies. nor were there
available any plants where these
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in the position of a man who has to
make a voyage and finds it necessary
first to construct the tools with which
to build the vessel, then train the
builders and her train the crew.
But the cry came for $4,000 men.
The response was ready; $4,000 res
pended.
Three months later saw the boys
in blue invading Virginia and the riot
at Bull u ensued.
Adj. Gen. Charles A. Partridge
writing of that event states: Had the
union mob been an army it would no
have lost the one fight, by a STAN
pede, and had the confederate mob
been an army it would nave been in
Washington next day. The crisis
called forth men. 1t was a call for
manhood and only manhood responded.
1t was this manhood this creation
Of the sixties-Which enabled Grant
to cut loose from his supplies in the
north, a thing unheard of in the pre-
vious wars, and to assail Johnston, in
his well-nigh i~mpregnable position
at Vicksburg, and conquer.
1t was this manhood - this new
creation-Which enabled Sherman to
cut loose from his base of supplies
in the north and to make it impos-
sible to return in case of failure and
lead his $4,000 veterans to the sea. 1t
! was this manhood which enabled you
at the call of your country to leave
home and all things dear to life and
! to endure the hideous hardships of a
war with men as brave as yourselves,
to sleep in the blankets of the blast
with sheets of Sleet for a covering, to
breakfast with danger and dine with
death and count all things else as of
no consequence if only you might
| prove yourselves conquerors" against,
such tremendous odds.
You have taught us too, the mean
ing of true courage and determina-
ton.
Not the courage of impulse where
by a man will break into the room of
a burning building and rescue the
suffOcating victim, not the courage of
impulse, whereby one will throw him
self into the water to seize and bring
to safety a drowning one, out the
courage that was manifested month
after month and year after year. That
continued even when defeat was eX-
p~erienced. That continued even when
men were moved down like grain be-
fore a reaper. At Waterloo yelling
ton lost 9.061; Butcher, 5,631, to total
of 1892. But at a seven day fight
the union alone lost 1921; Chicam-
auga, 1906; Antietam 11,462; Gettys-
burg, 1926: Wilderness Inc Spott-
~sylvania, 24,4S1.
History has many heroes. The Bible
is a book in which the heroic is large
ly predominant. The classics of olden
days are filed with the stories Of men
who were counted as the heroes of
their time and the youth of today have
their best impulses stirred as they
read Of the bravery of men in the
darker days of history. The story of
Europe is the story of men, like Ma
poleon, Wellington and Nelson. But
it belonged to the American republic,
founded and defended by freedoms
sons to give to the world the noblest
type of warrior men in whom martial
renown went hand in hand with the
noblest of virtues, men who united. in
their own characters the highest mill
tary genius with the Hottest patriot
ism, the most daring courage with the
gentlest courtesy, the most obstinate
endurance with the utmost, s~elf-sacri-
fee, the genius of a Caesar with the
purity and courage of a Bayard.
You have again emphasized the
teaching that all gain comes through
sacrifice. From ancient history comes
the story that when there was high
dispute between Carthage and Cyrene
as to the dividing line between their
Kingdom, it was agreed that it should
be. settled by two men Of each nation
starting from each capital at the same
Emoment and where the four met the
boundary should be fixed. The broth
ers Siculi, who represented Carthage,
so ran that their kingdom was great
ly, extended, but, alas, they ran with
such zeal that where their journey
ended they dropped down dead. There
too they were buried and over the spot
the grateful Carthagenians erected a
monument and claimed and held all
territory.
Rome at one time saw an open
chasm in her Forum. Curtius consult
ed the oracle and was told that only
as Rome gave her best would the
yaWning gap be filled. He girded on
his armour mounted his steed and
rode into the clasIn.
1t is a well known fact that only as
one is content to bleed can one bless.
AL gain comes through sacrifice. The
word bless from the Alglo-Sax-
i ly aimed at Is this: before you can
4 really bless a fellow creature you must
bleed, you must yield u life Or a
part OF it. We a do a great deal for
others by little things. by smiles, by
II gifts, by kind words, by Sups Of cold
water. But at the same time lie you
are to bless a soul, a home q country,
a world, you must bleed. There lis no
easy way. You must sprinkle that soul
or country with Your blood.
The old legend Of the building of
Copenhagen tells us that the builders
could not make progress with their
work. The rude sea came In and took
iaway the result of their efforts as fast
d human life and that gave the found
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