Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-06-06
wore the blue and the men who wore

Sons OF veterans participated in well
coming the visitors. brought tho frs,
days formal program to an end
| The annual "."n:u:,ai exercises for
| tho Confederate dead Will hc held to-
morrow in the Confederate section of
| Airing ton National Cemetery
! Several hundred OF tho Veterans went
! to Manassas to-day and visited the
/ localities OF the two famous battles
| OF that name.
/ Balls and other entertainments in
] honor of the veterans. sponsors and
maids Of honor and visitors. were given
, in several Of the hotels Of the city
/ tonight.
I PRESIDENT WILSON'S
ADDRESS TO VETERANS
/ The President spoke as foiIows:
/ II suppose that. as you mix with
! one another you chiefly find these to be
days Of memory. when your thoughts go
! back and recall those days Of struggle
in which your hearts were strained
i'll which the whole nation seemed to
graDple. and dare say that you are
thrilled as you remember the heroic
/ things that were then denc. You are
glad 10 remember that heroic things
/ were done on both sides. and that men
i'm those days fought in something like
! the old spirit Of chivalric rallantry.
/ There are many memories of tho Civil
| War that thrill alonS tho blood and
maxi one proud to have been sprung
Of I. race that could produce such
bravery and consistency; and yet the
world does not live on memories
The world is constantly making it's
toll: way forward into new and
different ways. and l believe that one
of the things that contributes satisfac-
ton TO a reunion like this and - vel
come like this is that this is also
day of oblivion. There are some
things that we have thank fuIly hurled.
and among them are the great passions
Of division which once threatened to
rend this nation in twain.
The pa sson of admiration we still
entertain for the heroic figures Of those
old days. but the passion Of aepara-
ton. the passion of difference Of prin-
ciplc. is gonc-gone out of our minds
gone out of our hearts: and one OF
the things that will thrill this country
as IL reads OF this reunion is that it
will read of rehabilitation on the
part of all Of US TO the great nation
which we serve in common.
DAYS OF OBLIVION AS
WELL As DAYS OF MEMORY
These are days Of oblivion as we'll
as days of memory. for We ar. for
getting the things that once held us
asunder Not only that. but they are
days Of rejoicing, because we now at
last see why this great nation was
KEEP, united. for we are beginning to
see tho great world purpose which il
was meant TO serve.
Many men. ! know, particularly OF
your own generation. have wondered
AT some OF the dealings Of Providence.
but the wise heart never questions the
dealings of Prov !dence, because the
crea, long plan as II unfoIds has a
majesty about il and defniteness Of
purpose. an elevation of ideal. which
We we're incapable OF conceiving as we
tried 10 work things out with our own
short sight and weak strength.
h md now that We see ourselves part
Q: :, nation united. powerful. great in
siir.t and in purpose, we know the
great ends which God in His mysterious
Providence wrought through our in
strumentality. because at the heart Of
the man of the North and of the South
there was the same love of self gov
ernmcnt and of liberty, and now we
are to be an instrument in the ha nds
Of God to see that liberty is made
secure for mankind. Al the day of
our greatest division there was one
common passion amongst us. and that
was the passion for human freedom.
GOD MAKES THIS NATION
INSTRUMENT FOR FREEDOM
I'VE did not know that God was
working out in His own way the method
by which we should best serve human
L.
united. indivisible. indestructible in
strument in His hands for the accom-
Plishment of these great things.
AS came along the streets a few
minutes ago. my heart was full of the
thought that this is registration dav.
! VIII you not support me in feeling
that there is some Significance in this
coincidence; that this day. when come
to welcome you to the National Capital
Is day when men young as you were
IN those oid days when you gathered
together TO fight. are now registering
thelr names as evidence of this great
IDEA, that in democracy the duty 10
serve and the privilege to serve falls
upon all alike?
There is something very fine. my fell
low citizens, in the spirit of the vol
uhteer. but deeper than the volunteer
spirit is the spirit of obligation. There
is not man Of us who must not hold
himseit ready TO he summoned to the
duty OF supporting the great govern
ment under which we live No really
'houshtful and patriotic man is Jealous
of that obligation. No man who really
understands the privilege and the dig
NIFTY OF being an American citizen uuar-
rels Tor moment with the idea that
inc congress OF the United States has
inc right TO call upon whom it will To
serve the nation.
REGISTRATION or YOUTH
SIGNAL TO ENTIRE WORLD
These solemn lines of young men
gong to-day all over the Union 10
the places Of registration ought to be
Sishai 10 the world, to those WHO
dare nout the dignity and honor and
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