The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-06-09
Times OF Peace by No Means Yet Arrived
Speaker Champ Clark Tells Men Of G Al

ue1Hiei from the hands of SaraCen
unbelievers.
If history is to be believed var
mas been the most important occupa-
uon or man since Cain slew Abel and
ana SINCE Tubal Cain first worked in
a blacksmith shop. The CORPORATION
OF captains from Nimrod to General
Wood occupy more space in the an
nails OF mankind than do all the states
men, philosophers, poets. preachers
writer's, and artisans that ever lived.
All history is but one amending
story OF human butchery. All our
boosted and multiplied arts Of civil |
zatlon are but preparations for the
sacrlllce OF War-the festival of death.
Fast Passing away.
Last summer l had a striking Illus
tration of the rapidity with which the
veterans, both Union and Confederate.
are vanishing from the scene. The
house passed a resolution directing
me, as Speaker, to appoint a commit
tee of II to attend the fiftieth ami
versary of the battle of Gettysburg.
Thinking that it would be in Keeping
with the eternal fitness of things. |
concluded to make up the entire COM
mittee Of Union and Confederate sol
dlers, which l set about doing.
TO my utter amaZemenr, | discov-
cred that in the entire membership OF
435 there were only nine soldiers Of
49, AN ITO 1OuSIl uIlUeI
the Stars and Bars, three who fought
under the Stars and Stripes. The trio
of Union soldiers are Gen. Sherwood.
of Ohio; Judge Goulden, of New
York, and Mr.. Kirkpatrick, Of Iowa.
The six ~Confederates then in the
House were Stedman, of North Caro-
lima; Taylor and Richardson, Of Ala
bama; Talbot, of Maryland; Estopinal.
Of Louisiana, and Jones, Of Virginia.
Since then Judge Richardson has
passed away, and his place has been
taken by Judge Harris, another Con-
federate soldier.
"As the years steal into the CEN
turtles Decoration Day is gradually
growing into Memorial Day-a great
national holiday CHASING with Christ
mas and the Fourth of July. Most
5 aSsuredly 1T is a beautiful, wholesome,
and ~ennObling custom to decorate the
} graves of all American soldiers, both
Union and Confederate soldiers of all
} our wars, and to memorize their
4 valor, their sufferings, and their
$ sacrifices.
T Praises MckinIcy's Course.
president Mckinley did a wise,
gracious, and patriotic thing when he
D suggested that the Federal govern
1 ment should care for the graves of the
Confederate dead at Arlington, and
this suggestion came with double
: force because he himself was a Unior
. soldier Of approved capacity and high
z courage. If the spirits Of the mighty
t dead take any interest in the affair:
Of this lower world, William McKin.
e ley's soul will be full of joy next weel
s when there will be dedicated with fit
y ting ceremonies a to tn
Confederate dead as an enduring ties
" timonial Of the perfect peace ant
abiding friendship now existing in al
d parts of our beloved country.
Il speak for the generation which
was too young to participate in GU
. great Civil War l was only II year
old When the first gun was fired a
S, Charleston, and now my head is bios
l. SOming like the almond tree. l will
n tell you how l regard that awful
struggle, and how the generation t
le which I belong looks upon it as
4 mo heroic chapter in the annals Q
~ mankind.
ID Gold must be the heart of tina
l. American who is not proud to CLAIM
n as cOuntrymen the flower Of the Nlr
III ginia youth who charged up the slip
n perry slopes of Gettysburg with ga
4 liant Pickett or those
he men in blue who, through two Ion
and dreadful days rallied around re
roic Thomas, the rock Of Chica
OF mauga-*
Is, Plain American XaIOr.
O, 1T was not Southern valor c
a Northern NalOf-u was, tnahk to'
ed American valor: that valor Whic
wv caused our revolutionary fathers t
s; throw their gauge of battle into tn
be face Of the son of a hundre kings
ia that valor which Washins
he ton at Princeton, Brandwine, Nor
mouth, and Yorktown: that valt
p which upheld his famished me
amid the unspeakable horrors OF Va
to lev Forge: that vaIor which sustaine
IIy the soldiers who followed Arnold G
at that cruel winters march through tf
)el woods Of Canada and in the Chris
Of mas stormng Of Quebec, where Mon
of eomery fell immortal; that valt
.er which nerved Andrew Jackson an
his raw militia on the ever-glOrio,
9Th of January. when they humble
to the very dust the towering prlt
of that mighty monarch upon who:
ar- dominions the sun never sets. and u
nd terly routed the veterans OF the pc