The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1914-06-06


would say that the Negro soldier had
the better part for he received all along
the line of march the greatest ovation,
from white as well as black.
All regiments of the Illinois National
Guards, received their share of the ap-
plause from the spectators and most es-
peeially the 9TH Regiment led by that
gallant fighting Col. Dan. Moriarty and
his efficient staff. But listen We forgot
that we were COlored men, when the
White citizens, men women and chill
dren dotted their hats, waved their
flags, and gave applause after applause
to that splendid sth regiment, led by
that Son of Texas and his staff, Colonel
Franklin A. Denison, Company B. of
this Regiment led by Captain E. Alex
ander the first company of Major
Hunt s Battalion received more ap-
plause than any other Company in the
whole line of march, not accepting any.
The Uniform Rank of The COlored
knight 3 of Pythians were very much
in evidence. The Colored Boys Scouts
affiliated with and are now a part Of
the United States, boy scouts (White)
received some of the honors and most
especially when the crowd saw the two
little tots, z, and s years old, with their
swords dragging the ground, each one
of them walking along side of two of
our city police officers, as if to give
them q soldiers protection. This was
one Of the marvels of the parade. The
other one was the COlored boy mascot,
uniformed, one treasured deep in the
hearts of every member of the Chicago
parines corps, and one who felt the dig
nifty of his position. Providence may
some day make him the Perry of the
American Navy, who knowsf Stranger
things than this has happened, two other
nations why not this onei
Great respect was shown the members
of the Grand Army ColOred Veterans,
whose hairs were growing white with
age. Some of them making their last
march, their presence telling its last
story, the story of the Civil War. A
war of freedom. Again this demOnstra-
tion should remind every citizen Of this
republic every member of every race
who comes to live upon her soil, every
individual who looks to her for support.
Every man, woman, and child who ex-
poets to be eomforted should so live
and move, and act, as to make this
truly a nation "Of the people, by the
people and for the people"
Then let men set aside their hypo-
critical dispositions. Let them try at
least, to be truthful and honest with
one another, for the nations good and
their own personal safety.
Let us ever keep in mind these words
of Lincoln in his first inaugural address.
''We are not enemies, but friends. We
must not be enemies, though passion
may have strained, it must not break
Jour bond Of affection. The mystic
chords of memory, stretching from
every battlefield and patriotic grave to
every living heart and hearthstone all
over this broad land, will yet swell the
chorus of the Union when again touched
as surely they win be, by the better
angels of our nature"
"FOndly do we hOpe-fervently do
we prsy-that this mighty seourge of
war may speedily pass away. Yet if
God viii that it continue until all the
wealth piled by the bondman's two
hundred and fifty years of unrequited
toll shall be sunk, and until every drop
of blood drawn with the lash shall be
paid by another drawn with the sword
as was said three thousand years ago,
50 still it must be said, 'The judgments
of the Lord are true, and righteous al
together Let Us fellow citizens, keep
sacred these truths of his, in conclusion.
With malice toward none, with charity
for all, with hrmness in the right, as
God gives us to see the right. Let US
strive on to finish the work we are in
to bind up the nations wounds, to care
for him who shah have borne the battle,
and for his widow, and his Orphans-tO
do an which may achieve and cherish
= just and lasting peace among our
selves, aud with all natiOns.''