Year: 1867

the heroic worship of his countrymen

 for his youthful exploits, and his vic tory over Taurus in the labyrinth oi

 Minor, and such was the reverence for

 his memory and the influence of his

 example, that his phantom form was

 seen by the eye of enthusiasm ill the | forefront of the Athenian army at

 Marathon, sweeping down the count

 less hosts of the Persians. But true

 courage must be measured by the mo.

 tive which prompted it.. and the cir cumstances under which it is exercised.

 Mere insensibility to physical danger,

 desperate daring without lofty aim or manly motive; mere love of excitement

 or adventure, thirst for glory, ambition 1 for the bubble reputation or visions of power, or the qualification of nation al pride or hate, these strip the attri- bute of real virtue and of all true greatness. The courage and daring of

 Arnold beneath foreign flag only em-

 blazoned his infamy; and devotion to i his memory, were it possible, would be

 sacrilege. But, on the other hand. when courage is drawn forth by prin- ciple, and tho hero, to sustain that principle against real or supposed sub version or aggression, braves alike the carnage of the battlefield, the solitude

 of the bastile, or the ignominy of the scaflold, it invests the character with the brightest glory, and lifts the pos- sessor to the highest pinnacle of human virtue. Those ill all ages who have

 displayed such courage have received the hero's crown, have been renowned

 by poetic story and have been held up

 as models for the imitation of future

 generations. Now if such courage, prompted by exalted principle and

 sustained by a sense of right bore our heroes on through weariness and pri-

 vation, through battle storms, impris-

 onmcnt and death, then, they too, are

 worthy to receive our plaudits; to live in memory and ill song, and though their resting place be unknown, yet their nrmes should be entablatured in

 marble or ill brass, or at least cngraven forever on the hearts of their country men. To attempt to prove or even il- lustrate their daring, their endurance, their constancy, or their fortitude. were

 altogether gratuitous. Their deeds have spoken and the world has heard and paused in admiration. Those deeds still speak in tones that can ney- CT die. Listening to them as they ring through the earth, your speaker is si- lenti They, not !, pronounce their eulogy to-day. Was not tho courage of our dead prompted by principles of right? Did they not honestly believe that they were battling for freedom !; for the independence ot the states and the rights of their countrymen? We

 know they believe it. We should then cherish their memories, for they gave up their lives in cause they deemed i the highest and holiest of earth. The

 great Dr. Charming said years ago in a

 Boston pulpit: "Itis a voluntary union 1; it is idle to talk of force as binding us together. Nothing eau retain a .nem-

 Der of this confederation when once

 resolved upon separation. The only

 bonds that can permanently unite us

 are moral ones." With these words

 and like sentiments coming down to

 us from the greatest and best men our country had ever produced, is it won

 der that in their artlcss honesty they

 believed state had right to choose

 its own politica! destiny? If they were wrong, 1t was an ''error of the

 head and not of the heart.' Those who

 met our braves as foemen on the fields

 of Shiloh, Gettysburg, or Franklin,

 will indulge in no epithets of oppro-

 brium to cloud their memory. They

 know they encountered men, and not

 criminals. They know that such lofty

 courage as they displayed could be

 sustained only by principle. The brave

 love to honor the brave. Epithets and

 insults are not the weapons of the war

 riors who won the battles of the union.

 It is only from the lips of men of cold

 and cruel hearts, or of vengeful souls,

 that insults to the memory of our hon

 ored> dead so iiippantly and constantly fall--men who never met them on the

 field of strife, but feel safe in insulting fallen foe. Blame us not for mourn ing the loss of our brothers and kins- men; charge us not with folly for cherishing their memory and henoring