The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1913-07-08

bic on the field. Few of them make
any pretence that they expect to visit
Gettysburg again and they are anxious
to take many look at the hills and
fields where their valor went out in
deeds that have been told the world
around.
The president, in addressing the
veterans, spoke as follows:
The Presidents Address.
Friends and Fellow Citizens: 1 need
not tell YOU what the battle of Get
tysburg meant. These gallant men in
blue and grey 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
their presence it were an impertinence
to discourse upon how the battle went,
how it ended, what it signifeu! But
so years have gone by since then, and
I crave the privilege of speaking to
Won for a few minutes of what those
so years have meant.
What have they meant? They nave
meant peace and union and Vlgor' ana
the maturity and might of a great
nation. How wholesome and healing
the peace has been! We have found
one another again as brothers and
comrades in arms, enemies no longer
generous friends rather, our battles
long past, the quarrel forgotten-ex-
cept that we shall not forget the splen
did valor, the manly devotion OF the
men then arrayed against one another
now grasping hands and smiling into
oach others eyes. How complete the
nnion has become and how dear to
all of us. how unquestioned, how be-
nign and majestic, as State after State
has heen added to this our great fam
i7v of free men! How handsome the
vigor. the maturity, the might OF the
great nation we love with undivided
hearts: how full of large and confident
nromise that a life will be wrought OUT
that will crown it's strength with gra-
cious Justice and with happy welfare
that will touch all alike with deep
contentment! We are debtors to those
so crowded years; they have made US
heirs to a mighty heritage.
The Task of Today.
But do we deem the nation complete
and finished? These venerable men
here to this famous field have
cot rs p great example of devotion and
ut1er sacrifice. They we're willing to
die that the people might live. But
their task is done. Their day is
turned into evening. They look to US
to perfect what they established. Their
work is handed on to us, to be done
in another way, but not in another
snirit Our day is not over; it is upon
us in full tide.
Have affairs paused? Does the ma
ton stand still? Is what the so years
have wrought since those days OF bat
tie finished, rounded out, and COM
nleted? Here is a great people, great
with every force that has ever beaten
in the lifeblood of mankind. And it IS
secure. There is no one within It's
borders. there is no power among the
nations of the earth, to make it AFRAID.
But has it yet squared itself with its
own great standards set up at its blrtn'
when it made that first noble naive
anneal to the moral judgment OF man
kind to take notice that government
had now at 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 Oh
righteousness and humanity. The days
of sacrifice and cleansing are not
closed. We have harder things to 90
than were done in the heroic days OF
war, because harder to see clearly re-
ouiring more vision, more calm bal
anoe of judgment, a more candid
searching Of the very springs of right.
Fitted for Action.
Look around you upon the field 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-sacrifce, and loss to the utter