Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1914-06-06

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Is not new bereavement, but on
which time has softened, that bring
US here. We meet, not around a new
ly opened grave, but among thos
which nature has already decorate,
with memorials of her love. Abov
every tomb her daily sunshine ha
smiled, her tears have wept; owe
the humblest She has hidden som,
grasses nestle, scme vines creep ant
che butterfly-anc emit emblem of I'm
mortallty-wayes HIS little wing,
above every sod. To natures signs
OF tenderness We add our own. No
ashes TO ashes, dust 10 DUST" but
blossoms to blossoms, laurels to laur
eled.
Ihe great Civil War has passed
Dy--its huge armies We're dlsDanded
their tents struck, their camp fires
put out, their muster rolls laid away
But there is another army whose num-
Ders no presidential proclamation
could reduce, no general orders dis.
band. Our cemeteries are their
camping grounds, white head stones
are their tents, their camp fires yet
Durn in our hears.
Without distinction Of nationality,
OF race, of religion, they gave their
lives TO their country. Without dis
tinction of religion. of race, of ma
tlonality, we garland Their graves to-
day. They offered their lives that
We might remain one nation, and the
nation holds their memory alike iii
is arms. Nature has been equally
tender to the graves of all, and our
rove knows no distinction.
In coming generations when men
seek to draw the moral of our great
Civil War, nothing will seem so ad-
mlrable to them in all the history OF
our two magnificent armies as the
way the war came to close. When
the southern army saw the time had
come, they acknowledged the pitiless
logic of facts and ceased fighting.
when the army of the Union saw ii
was nG longer needed, without a MUIR
muir Or question, making no terms,
asking no return, In the flush of vic
.ory and the fullness OF might, it laid
Town Its arms and melted back into
,he mass of peaceful citizens There
$ no event since the nation was born
which has SO proved its solid capa-
lily for sell government. Never be-
ore in history had such great armies
'een pitted against each other. New
II before in war, had there been such
treat loss of life. But when the last
,un had been fired, the last roll cal
ed, the boy in blue took his discharge
he boy in grey his parole, and each
to his home to work alike
or the upbuilding of reunited coun
ry. Once more they were fellow cit
lens. Since that time they have |
ought SIDE by side, under the stars .
nd stripes, with equal patriotism
he battle of Gettysburg has always |
cen regarded as the greatest bat 1
e of war of greet battles, because a
Though not the last one, it was the c
1e which showed both the North an /
outh how the contest must soon end
asst July was the fiftieth anniver- y
iry OF that never-to be-forgotten q
ght, and the world gazed with ad- 9
lration upon a wonderful gathering 4
pom that Old battle field. There un- /
Or the broiling July sun, were gath {
red the remains of those two gal r
mt armies, all who were yet able "
} meet together, the Blue with the
ray, the Gray with the Blue. There q
Re boys at play, they tried to live II
Ter again some OF that Tremendously n
ruggle. Around the camp fires the L
ue and the Gray uniforms mingled, q
Others in unity, in peace. Can the r.
ges of history show more inspir- I
6 picture than this?
Abraham Lincoln, just before the "
ose OF the war; closed his second in s
gural address with these words: c;
With malice toward none, with h
arity for all, with flrmness In the OF
INT, as God gives us to see the Fl
INT, let US finish the work We are h;
to bind up the nations wounds, to Sc
re for him who shah have borne the til
tile, and for his widow and his or tn
ans, to do all which may achieve b,
It and lasting peace among our &C
YES with all nations.'' We should hi
o to preach sermon from this sc
It this morning. The nations W.
unds have been bound up, the sol tn
RS and their widows and their Or W,
ans have been cared for as no other an
lion on earth ever cared for its de- 70
ders, and they are still being car op
n