Year: 1867

On september II TN tne cemetery Ut Antletaiu
was dedicated with appropriate ceremony.
Among those who participated was President
Johnson He made speech, bestowing upon
the loyal and rebel dead, upon those who fell in
the defense Of the Republic and those who died
in attempting to destroy it, the same praise, the
same measure OF heroism, the same purity of
purpose, and bespeaking for them the same
grateful remembrance in the future. Following
are his remarks in full


ADDRESS OF ANDREW JOHNSON AT ANT1ETAM.


My fellow-countrymen-In appearing before
you it is not for the purpose of making any
lengthy remarks but simply to express my ap-
probation of the ceremonies which have taken
place to-day. My appearance on this occasion
will be the speech that will make. My refec-
tions and my medtations will be in silent COM
municaton with the dead whose deeds we are
here TO commemorate. / shall not attempt to
give utterance 10 the feelings of emotion inspired
by the prayers and address which have been
made and the hymns which have been sung.
shall attempt no such thing. am merely here
to give my countenance and aid to the ceremo-
nes on this occasion, but must be permitted to
express the hope that we may follow the example
which has been so eloquently alluded to this at
ternoon, and which has been so clearly set by
the illustrious dead. When we look upon yon
battlefield and think of the brave men on both
/
and who sleep silent in their graves-yes, who
sleep in silence and peace after the earnest con
tict has ceased, would to God we of the living
could initiate their example lis they lay sleeping
in the tombs and live in friendship and peace
IApplause.] You, my fellow citizens, have my
earnest wishes, as you have had my efforts II
times gone by, 10 the earliest and most trying
periods, TO preserve the Union of these States
to restore peace and harmony in our distracted
and divided country, and you shall have my las
efforts in vindcation of the flag of the Republic
and of the Constitution of our forefathers"


This address reminds of another, delivered
on n similar occasion, by Abraham Lincoln
some three years before but o, how different in
sentiment When the great martyr stood over
the loyal de"d ut Gettysburg, he did not depre-
cate the value of their service and sacrifice by
promising the traitors by whose hands they were
slain an equal share in the grateful remembrance
of the people. Following is the


ADDRESS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN AT GETTYSBURG


. Fourscore and ten years ago our father:
brought forth upon this continent new nation
conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the prop
ostion that all men are created equal. Now We
are engaged in great civil war, testing whether
that nation, or any nation, so conceived and sc
dedicated can long endure. We met on ;
great battlefield of that war. We have come tG
dedicate a portion of that field as final resting
place for those who gave their lives that the ma
ton might live. 1t is altogether fitting ant
proper that we should do this. But in
large sense we cannot dedicate, we can
not consecrate, we cannot hallow thi
ground. The brave men, living and dead
who struggled here have consecrated it fa
above our power to aid or detract. The worlt
will little note nor long remember what we sa,
here, but they can never forget what they die
here 1t is for us, the living, rather to be dedi
Gated here to the unfinished work which thos
who fought herehaye thus far so nobly advanced
1t is rather for us to be here dedicated to th
great task remaining before us. that from thes
honored dead we take increased devotion to tha
cause, for which they gave the last full measure
of devotion that we here highly resolve tina
these dead shall not have died in vain that thi
nation, under God, shall have new birth U
freedom, and that government of the people, b.
the people, shall not perish from the Garth"