The Republican journal., 1913-11-20

issue of civil war. The government will
not assail you, you can have no conflict
without being yourselves the aggressors.
You have no oath registered in Heaven
to destroy the government, while shall
have the most solemn one to preserve,
protect and defend it. -. Il am 10th to
close-we are not enemies, but friends.
we must not be enemies. Though pas
sion may have strained it must not break
our bonds of affection" 1t was noble
appeal and only hearts hardened as was
that of Pharoah of old, could have resist
ed it, That they did so, however, is all
too true. They forced the war upon us,
they fired upon the flag, they pulled
down our starry banner of Freedom, and
put in its place the emblem of State
Rights, which they called the Bonnie
Blue Flag But the South soon found
out that the North had fighting men.
They realized that it is easier to boast
than to make that boasting good. The
South encountered the dominant New
England trait called "the Spirit of Ply
mouth Rock, the same that England met
at Boston and Lexington and Bunker
Hill, and on every battlefield of the
high tide of rebellion, after several drawn
battles which the South called victories,
their leader considered his army strong
enough to invade the North, capture our
cities and as, has been said, ''stable his
horses in Faneuil Hall and call the roll
of his slaves from Bunker HILL" They
met the same old spirit in the army of
the Potomac, and was hurled back, baf-
fled and beaten, and retreated to the tune
of Garry me back to old Virginia"
Gettysburg will stand for all time as the
great battle of the war. 1t shattered
the Southern cause beyond repair, but at
what cost was the Union preserved.
The poet has said of the awful battle
"And it was terrible. On the right
Ragged for hours the deadly fight,
Thuudered the battery's double bass
Difficult music for r:en to face.
While on the left, where now the graves
Undulate like the living waves
That all that day increasing swept
Up to the pits the rebels kept
Round shot ploughed the upland glades
Sown with bullets, reaped with blades,
Shattered fences here and there
Tossed their splinters in the air,
The very trees were stripped and bare,
And barns that once held yellow grain
Were heaped with harvests of the slain"
We are proud of the splendid record of
our Maine regiments. They turned the
tide of battle on many hard fought and
bloody field. Today the U. S. stands the
most powerful, the most respected ma
ton on the face Of the earth-a world
power. whose friendship is sought by
every other patton, whose counsels are
respected, whose anger is feared. The
Civil War half a century ago settled
once for all the question whether this
nation should follow the Old World eX-
ample, and be broken up into group OF
independent military powers wasted by
eternal border wars, feeding the ambl-
ton of petty sovereigns on the life
blood of wasted prlnclpalltles, custom
house on the bank of every river, fort
ress on every frontier hill top, pirate
lurking in the recess of every bay or
whether they should continue to constl-
tute united republic, the most extern
sive, the most powerful and the most
prosperous in the long line of ages. "All
hail to the banner of freedom as 1t floats
on the breeze of the morning, we love
every star, as it springs from afar, shout
its praise through all the land. y
Mr.. President, members of WaldoCounty
Veterans Association, once again per-
NIT me to bid you welcome. We assure
YOU that you are welcome. We hope you
will carry to your homes pleasant mem
cries of this occasion, so you will be
pleased to meet with US again, and we
hope this meeting will be as pleasant and
profitable to your association as 1t is to
Union Harvest Grange.
The address was most excellent and the
association voted to have it published.
The response was by Comrade L. c.
Morco Of ibarfv uhC rood tho parpoS Of
ten veterans, prominent men of Mont
vile Cater another name was added)
who had passed o. to the Great Beyond.
He said he had acted as undertaken for
nearly all of these veterans, and as he
had been connected with pension work
for thirty years, Commander of the Post,
and State patriotic instructor, he had
been brought into close touch with SOL
diers and their families, their lives and
their needs-an in behalf of the asso-
citation he was glad of the patriotic
spirit in the younger generation that
caused them to wish to entertain the old
veterans at Montville.
Then followed song by the choir,
Long Wave Old Glory" Interesting
remarks were made by Comrade A. E.
Nickerson of Swanville. Comrade Rog-
ers, by request, gave description of
Gettysburg. In 1868 it was place of
1000 inhabitants; in 1913 it only numbers
about 5000. The city was between the
lines, but in the battle was practically
uninjured; only one woman was killed.
Recitation, Myrtle Clark, 1.-The Phan-
tom Ship" recitation, Wesley Tibbetts,
"Question of Diet" remarks by Com
rade harding of Morrill,, who also read
an interesting letter, written by one of
the crew of the Monitor, showing that
soldiers did not, as copperheads said, en-
list for the bounty. Comrade John O.
johnson of Liberty, an officer of the
Navy. made some good talk, proving con-
clusively that the Navy put down the
Rebellion. Then followed recitations by
Edwina Berry and Mary Bennett. Chap
lain Merrill of Searsport said he tried to
do his duty, faithfully. He could not
tell how many men he had killed, as he
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