The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1915-10-01
THE CIVIL WAR IN EUROPE.

InE CIVIL WAX IN EUROPE.
-Four score and seven years ago. our
fathers brought forth upon this contin,
ent a new nation, conceived in liberty
and dedicated to the proposition that all
men are created equal. We are engag.
ed in a great civil war, testing whether
that nation-or any nation SO conceived
and so dedicated, can long endure."'-
LincoIn's Gettysburg address. .al
On Wednesday last q few thousand
gray haired old men we're marching
down Pennsylvania avenue in Washing
ton city, feeble remnants Of that Grand
Army which so highly resolved, "That
this nation shall, under God, have new
birth Of freedom, and that government
of the people, by the people, for the
people, shall not parish from the earth. -
Perhaps no one at the time of the de.
livery OF that most wonderful prophecy
took in Its full significance. Even Mr..
Lincoln himself could hardly have real.
Ized how broad and far reaching would
he the effects of the victories of the
Union troops.
At the time of the delivery of the ad-
dress all eyas were focused on the local
situation and at that time it's almost
Diving sentences were applied to this
nation alone. But The Seer Prophet
himself was evidently gazing into the
dim future of that word which was to be
and has been since so largely influenced
by the results the civil war which was
then as yet undecided.
Note the expression "this nation-Or
any nation" and again "that government
of the people = + shall not perish from
the earth" He was prophesylng not
alone for this nation but for ''any
nation" and ''that government by the
people should not perish from the earth'
1t was the cause of freedom for the
whole world that Lincoln was talking
about.
To-day there is another great war wag.
ing on the European continent. The
student of history since our civil war has
noted very many events that have proven
that the results of that war have been
and are now being carried to the Euro
pean nations. "a
Since that war millions of immigrants
have come across the ocean and have
imblbed the principles of free govern.
ment. They would not have come If
the civil war had been failure for the
Union troops. These immigrants have
in person and by letter sent back to
their fatherlands the story Of liberty.
Some greater and several lesser nations
have peacefully changed the form of
government from n,onarchies to repnb-
lies and in other countries the leaven of
liberty has been working until even the
wayfaring man may read that the world
is undergoing q revolution Of which the
American civil war was but the begin.
ming.
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the real cause underlying the present
European "civil war; is but continue.
tion Of the same sentiments expressed in
the Gettysburg Address, and struggle
for the government Of the people. by
the people. for the people"
We hope and believe that "these dead'
now lying on tho battle fields Of Europe
''shall not have died in ,ysiD" but some
how, someway, that the nations OF Eu-
rope will emerge from the smoke Of these
internicine battles. bathsd perhaps in
blood but bearing the white flag Of peace
and liberty, for until there 10 freedom
there can be no permanent peace. 4.
That Grand Army Of 186l.64 were
fighting greater battles than they knew.
they were fighting not only for freedom
|in the United States but for the freedom
of the world. Not only for this nation
but for ''sny nation"
That Germany and Russia and other
autocsatic nations will in time become
republics is now % certain - that the
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