Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-02

IN its demand for the obliteration
of alt the bitterness Of the past
may demand that the Nation shall PEN
sion surviving Confederates | do
NOT even suggest, or in the name OF
my people. say that it.would be accept
ed, but this republic is a great Destroy
er of the cherished ideals of the past.
when they stand in the way of COM
pletest justice For nearly fifty years
the people of the South without com
plant have contributed millions for the
pensions of Federal soldiers. A Ma
TONS gratitude has been melted out
through enormous grants to provide
for the Federal soldiers, their wives
and children. No murmer has ever
come from the men of the Confederacy
at this vast outlay and there are some
who predict that the hour may arrive
in national life when the few and in
firm remaining men who fought under
the Confederate standards with admit
tedly unsurpassed courage, should
ave in the evening time the comforts
ana convenienees that their intrepidity
deserves,
William Mckinley reached the SUBJ
finest heights of craftsmanship when
ne allowed a little delegate of the
south to pin a Confederate badge on
rs breast and when, gifted as few men
s.itlls the power of forecasting political
vents. he nrged that the graves of
he Gonfederates who had died In
Northern prisons should have at the
COST of their Nations treasury a stone
"a tel who they Were, whence they
,arne. and where they died No greater
r.umph Of generosity was ever wit
lessed than When the United States
MT up markers over the sepulchres OF
southern soldiers and carved upon
hem those inspiring words Confeder-
ite soldier and thus declared to the
world that the men who fought for the
life OF the Confederacy should have
ever over their dust these magic words
that touch the tenderest sentiments of
a Southern heart and proclaim highest
distinction amongst those who love
them because they died for the South
land.
1.-THE splendor and Importance of this
occasion is UNNECESSARILY enhanced by
he fact that no explanations are
sought or expected. The men who come
from the South come as Confederates.
True. in broader sense, they are
Americans but. for this particular oc-
The sons at Gettysburg today are
the eompletest evidence Of the great
ness as well as of the perpetuity of the
American Tppublic. No man who loves
his country can fail to read in the
circumstances surrounding this cele-
bration, the stimulating and uplifting
power of a peoples government.
TT is the breadth of thought. action
and speech at this celebration that
makes it SO supremelY great. IT any
Southern man who comes here clad in
the Gray uniform SO dear to him and
those of his blood, believed he would
be expected even in thought to question
he memories connected with the hero
past he would go out from these
ents and quickly march away. When
he Confederate comes here he comes
With his heart still loyal to the south
md those who made the four years OF
he Confederate nations life resplend-
mt with heroism and glory and noblest
acrifice.''
Among those, on the platform We're
iov Mann of Virginia and Aberharlt.
Minnesota; Senator Penrose of Penn-
ylvania, and the following Confed-
rate generals:
Robinson, Texas; West. Georgia;
c-..lorras j. Shaffers Louisiana; A. D.
VILLAINS, Florida: f. M. Law. Flori-
la, and Carr. North Carolina. The
invocation was delivered by the Rev.
George Edwards Loyejoy, chaplain in
chief of the Grand Army of the Re-
public go al
CONTINUED On Page Twelve,