The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1918-02-08

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the words:
"'rds is the first time that ever any people or
community ON This side Of Mason and piNohS 'u'
(meaniug the Southern sidc) was found willing 10
listen to my voice"
The following mor.ling Mr. Lincoln rode at the
head Of the procession to the platform Mt the new
Iy prepared cemetery. his tall. unsanly form
stunned over his horse. his face set Ia It's pa'h'c'
homply lines only once did he relax. 1Mt was
when man held up little girl as the preS'u'n'
rode hy Mr. Lincoln graSpod the child IN MS arms
kissed her and handed her back 10 the pr"uu u"
thcr. A shadow of a smile, gentle b'yohu al" We
scrpion. PASSED over The drawn fNce OF the preS'
dent. only to be replaced by that sad absorbed
look that had become typical of him.
A prayer by Rev. Thomas H. Stockton, chaplh'u
Of the United States senate, olt led the program
Ii was an eloquent, though somewhat lehS'hS' e'
fort and il hrCathed the spirit OF victory r"''ie'
than of humility. 1t no"n--the serene suhll''
crisn man of Il perfcct fall day-when the ven
eroble Edward Everett arose to speak. His Grafton
was modelled along classical lines, was hied Win
the eoqucnce so popular in that day ana 1t nero
the multitude in rapt silence. MIR. ENer'u mu
long been figure in public life, an amolSSau"''
n member of the cabinet, governor, n speaker
of great renovn. Much was expected OF hlin' anu
he rnye all that WAS anticipated The carefully
chosen eX0uiSitely polished phrases, delivered III
his deep, sonorous voice, tell with great eH'cuNe-
ness upon his hearers. He reviewed the events
that ted to the war, described the atte ana prl'S'u
tbe heroes of the North who hpd died there, But
vivid as was the phraScology, penetrating as WAS
his logic his address lacked the breadth that
would have made il undying There was note
of bitterness in it when he asked: "Nhi'h oI 'he
two parties to this war is responsible Tor all the
suffering, for the dreadful sacrihce "i hle-'he
lnvful and constitutional government OF the uhli'u
States or the ambitious men who have reDeIed
against it?" That same minor spirit crept into MS
words again and again when he referred to the
"disIoyaI Shareholders" and the - uspring polill-
clans" of the South, and near his conclusion Nhen
he said "thc bonds of union are OF Ier'hmal lor'e
and energy, while The ca'I>cS OF hiiehntl"h are
imaginary, fictitious and transient IL was essen
tIally n speech of Il Northerncr for The North. a
lono roar of :lplutlSc followed the close of his
speech.
After the singing of Il hymn the time came Tor
Mr. Lincoln to speak lie arose slowly ana Tor
almost a minute he stood silent, surveying from
his great height the waves of upturied faces he-
yond them the broken stone walls Of the bloody
angle where Pickctt's charge had failed ana past
tI,t thc uudulaiing brown fields where the SHAT
tered brigade Of the South had turned back. Far
tbcr than these things Of the moment he must have
gazrd off into the iumitable future or mankind
for Who's, Guidance hc VAS soon to pronounce one
of the most solemn obligations OF history.
Then in the curously high pitched voice that
seemed So oddly u'tcd to his towering body, he
brp,.n 10 sneak. The crowd that had relaxed when
Mr. Everett closed his long address, began to SCI
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