| Show T BEV SPEECH a an all eloquent anil and Patrio patriotic tc address il a memory of tie the nations Kai ions heroes delivered a at the acco decoration ratios dav dar ezer cheo at the agricultural college hall ors to the lead more Mor ethan than one lie thousand people assem assemble blid in the new chapel agricultural college to listen to the delivery of alic memorial address by tb the rev T C iliff of salt lake and thereafter to march to the cemetery todo to do honor to the deail dead by by strewing their last earthly resting place with sweet floi flo ers mt 11 the hilmen imn iene e thron throng g was S seated aate rev re y telfor 1 offered prayer payer ant i pres I 1 paul introduced rev MS ji we the orator of the day day k iba ale gentled an i address will reprinted be printed in full by THE when bell the speaker closed the A C cadets cabets and the t tiro wo logan companies of IT X N G r formali formed a ii mili ili panics tiby it v line and heaed headed the pro procession ceci I sit r of citizens to the city cita cemetery when geteian T B cardon delivered an address over the graves which will appear in 0 our r i next issue A salute of voli leys was fired and people began to i visit and beautify tha their departed relatives and following is j met at this hour to bonor I 1 so soldiers lets w who 0 is fell in in the e nat nations on s de ferse fe tse in 1861 i 1 I have been in ian cited by the aiesi dent and faculty of this agricultural collep college to delner deher an arl andresi nd resi I 1 thank them for thi honor of course I 1 must speak as an old soldier who fought ou ht side bide by side with these fallen heroes I 1 hold no bitterness toward those ft ho stood to my front in the shock of battle I 1 rejoice that today we have bie country and one flag g ard noar coy ace hat thirty years yeara have passed alne ince ltd surian dered to grant at ap po ponia ni tox the great leaders oa both sides look down boix doix n upon a linit ed country I 1 believe they rejoice together t that hat the war ended as it did that union and lot lint secession and sla ery triumphed it has been my good fortune 0 jo o I 1 ook look upon monuments in many lands creat erects d to commemorate historic events and in honor of great men I 1 have stood on the apex of the pyramid of choops amid the sands of the egyptian desert and looked down upon u pon the mighty sphinx whose i hose sleepless eyes have kept watch over the mysterious nile for thousands of years at the dobe close of many a glorious loriol lori om sunset a as the blue mediterranean iise burning bu ruing with a crimson glow I 1 have sat on an the buin of the ackop ills ilis at athens remembered remember remembering iD that the ancient gidek pointed aith ith ill ido to the ru matchless atchless parthenon as enshrining the palladium of jfhn hii countey and reverently licten listened ed that I 1 might hear bear the oi oice cesor of alato lato and demosthenes 1 speaking with inith the clear bigl light lt of a heavenly kno knowledge 1 v i 11 I 1 ba have v e walked at cienying hour when ben the closing jay day shone dimly through the of the ancient ancien t at wittenberg as the simple german tomis folk were lih in ill and out of the sacred edifice iere bere where rests the dust of martin luther I 1 seemed to see the greatest of protestant as he came to that spot nearly fular hundred years ago aith riall the immortal theses thebes in one bara aad and hammer in the other the ring of that hammer as ho be sent seat home the nails startled germany out of the slumbers of the dark ages and its reverberations wore were distinctly heard beard in the vatican on the tiber 1 I have wandered by the hour through that greatest abbey of all countries westminster london and looked admiringly upon c chiseled I 1 itse led marble that seemed almost a most to breathe with the inspiration of liccese lic heroes ces poets scholars and reformers aboe lust dust sleeps deeps beneath the at inches ches of the sacred edi edifice flee I 1 ibave have ming mingled ledwith with the busy throng in ill trafalgar square and lia admired mired that massie monument commemorative of the achievements of lord nelson on the sea I 1 have been I 1 enraptured at the magnificence of the tomb of napoleon at paris sullen with gloom portent ious with shadows of but h holding 0 iding the ashes of one of the DIOS most t richly endowed men god ever created er and who trod dow doi n europe for fiete fiutem n years I 1 have stood at et in t the lie shadow of the washington monument at our nations capital and to myself have said tin this stands for that majestic figure and I 1 sentiment first in in peace first in war and first in the hearts of his countrymen I 1 he e gazed upon that silent shaft which pierces chesky the sky on bunker hill until my soul h has as been stirred siti witha with a love of country born of an ancestral pat I 1 holism that revolution bunker hill v will ill continue to echo the fan famous tout shot at lexington and the surrender surrell der of corneal lis is t n forever reminding the children that the blood of their fathers di dis enthralled the col colonies ores 1 front from the oppress oppre sion of great I 1 britain fain and united them into fit a soverign republic but higher than tiny any monument upon which human eyes ever eier looked or human hands ever built rises that immortal idea for which four hundred thousand men the brave the good the true on battlefield or in prison pen lie lie dead for me and you good friends lie dead for me and iou cu higher than the monument in trafalgar square higher than the triumphal arch in paris higher even than bunker hill monument M 13 bis statue of haiyan human liberty purchased by the immortal heroes li whose here graves today are covered with sith flowers and baptized with tears that idea is liberty and an d the t h e rights of individual man this idea of liberty and the rights of individual man is not of human origin it had its birth at bethlehem it took dual shape in the fatherhood of god and the br 0 therwood the of man as taught and pr practiced C by bv the wonder of ages no such ider had bad ever dawned upon the race the jew called the samaritan a dog and the greek called the jew a barbarian kven aven athene whose temples shone with splendor and whose marble breathed under the touch of phidias whose birds picked at the grades graces of appellee Ap pelles and whose academic groves were vocal with the hum of bees bee the philosophy P I 1 Y of ar aristotle i and the tragedies of sophocles athens with all her ber learning eloquence philosophy art and civilization could efty say no more than this there are three things for which I 1 thank all the gods first that I 1 am a reasoning creature and not a brute second that I 1 an am a greek and cot a barbarian third that 1 I am a man and not a woman THE mightiest bT PRODUCT of all new philosophy and learning could not rise above the prejudices of birth or sex the crowning glory of liberty is that there is neither jew nor gentile gidek nor barbarian bond nor free male nor 1 female but a universal worldwide brotherhood knowing no caste no color no previous conditions of servitude the struggle fur the recognition of such a principle has been long and hard bard in the ea sliest governments of which history gives us any knowledge the chief was everything and the tribe was nothing then came the war era wherein the general was vias everything and the people only so BO muth much force to feed the ambition and bloodthirsty propensities of the warrior A little liter later and the religious and super element entered more largely mert men died for the church were slaughtered by the church the 1 priest the prophet the oracle was everything and the people peaple still next epoch bianga us to where the king the emperor the manaich is ia everything aud and the rights of the individual man inan still I 1 i nothing by far the largest part of the world today to still in this era in england germany allue russia I 1 italy austria spain the king the queen the nobility I 1 aie everything every and the people still nothing but a prey tc furnish these rulers rillers with pomp and luxury 1 but running through ill all this I 1 dark history there hai ha been a bright chain of destiny as is shown in great events and culm culin batini in ill our civil war in 1508 Sava Savari norola was hanged turned and his h ashes flung intz int the arno but the guardian genius of lib liberty airty watched with sleepless eyes eves and when villen the four hundredth of his birth rolled round t there h er e W was a s dedicated to the memory find aud deeds of savan a ri monument of which all italy amigh well be proud in the sixteenth century when blood thirsty hi arst y raft hid had crushed out I 1 the hopes holies of the common people in all southern europe and was rolling northward N with ith devastating tread freedom long enslaved was rescued in holland by the flashing sword and victorious banner of the obscure william of orange as he hurled burled the minions of oppression back over the plains of europe that the dutch Ile republic public might become a beacon liph ligh of liberty for the common people chenia when in the sensual king charles charlse the first of england summoned cu his subservient parliament with instruction to still further crush the rights of the common people there appeared a mysterious member senta bent up fro from in the boys of bedford ile he wore a slouch bat aud and threadbare thread bare clothes some one 1 contemptuously enquired of the polished hampton who that was wag his reply w was a s p prophetic r pl ef i ef that cloven who whom I 1 I 1 see t there brie if 11 e sho alid ever come to a breach with tb brig i will ill be the greatest t I 1 ED man an iii england the tires lires of liberty which charlet charles supposed I 1 had d I 1 been it 1 extinguished were 0 only 1 I y shouldering ing in the breasts 0 of f t the b e deop people I 1 e w waiting for an impetuous leader the opportune ti time in soon con came the pent up tire fires s buist into flames and under the stirring is appeals and victorious leadership of that cloen the peoples battle cry of jod god and libe liberty arty rang out in shouts of victory oliver cromwell became the hero here of liberty and the rights of men in 1620 a biall core company pany of men I 1 believing and deeply feeling that 1 the individual man is ie everything left the oppressions oppress ions of the old world 1 and founded a government in this new world A orld on the exalted principle nAple of civil and religious liberty and equal right for all men iva vo know va what bat masters mastera laid the keel what workmen wrought who made in a de each mabrand sail bail arid rope anvil iran rang st hat hammers barok it is true that seeds of liberty liberta were wafted wafred to us from holland anil and from begland Ee gland but it took root under our free sky pure air and kirigin sell coil and we sent bent back and sowed bowed through all europe the same blessed truths which emancia emancipated aad us england russia austria taly ireland are all now feeling the power of that idea dea there are governments ern ments that still say that men are not born equal that the people have no rights which crow ns should restie respect ct cut the cry of the masses mases thunders round the world today not the king not the priest not the royalty not the nobility not the president not the money power but the people are the masters of the same character of this long line of historic events is ia that sublime declaration of the revolutionary fathers We therefore the representatives of the united tates of america in general congress assembled sem bled appealing to the supreme judge odthe of the world fur the rectitude olour of our intentions do in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies solemnly publish and declare that these there united colonies are and of a right ought aught to be free and independent states there is one more act in the development of this philosophy of history to which I 1 want arant to refer at length the great rebellion Kc bellion of 1861 is the culmination of the vor working king out by mighty foicey of the pr problem of self it visa the crowning net act of all preceding pie ceding eding i struggles for liberty and tile the rights of t the e people it was the consume tion lion of eighteen centime the full fruition of hopeb long deferred 1 I 1 propose to turn back the tele scope of memory today over that great period of oil our history with which some ofus of us are arc too familiar but it aich not be forgotten lest the lesson which it teaches should also perish I 1 am apprehensive that such a reiel way provoke but the occasion of the hour and ilous condition condil iop of our country today ini impell me to peak plainly of the past baj nestly of the present and hop hopefully fill I 1 V of the future lu in tile the wonderful granth of the american republic antagonistic types of civilization vied with each other for supremacy they were idere bom boin antagonists and conflict between them was irrepressible the one type started from jamestown and spread along the southern choie of the atlantic over the sunlit fields fielda of the south bearing upon its aristocratic coat of arms the emblems of the imperious cavaliers cavaliere cava liers of f chat cb ailes les tile the first from vi nhom hom I 1 they delighted to trace their origin through the firt first families of virginia and yoked to their slow car of pro progress gres was the groaning engine of fluman slavery I 1 THE el I 1 1 ef E r 01 EIA VEin was tile the corrupting of morals metals and conscience and the paralyzing of ane life blood of public enterprise antei prise under its influence the whole south went wrong and the pioneer spirit for the development of new territory v nas as opposed and finally I 1 crushed to tile the death the other type leaped from the deck of the mayflower to plymouth rock unfurled its banner of fife dom I 1 and be began an its conquest of the i new nev world nith N ith god and libert liberty i as the battle cry it swept along the coast of the northern atlantic to talan manhattan hattan island vez arr among iong i the dutch settlers th eSpirit of III william illiana tile the silent had been planted see the rapid growth of freedoms dominion under the mighty impulse of a common brotherhood an and d the strong engine of free labor it rolled onward through new england and the middle states I 1 swe swept pt over the heights of the alleghenies Alle ghames don ri the great valleys i of ohio acoss acosa the broad prairies of illinois and iowa hurr hurrying ving aud and lau laughing fl lino over desei t land and plain halting not dot in the presence of the veatch Va atch fieira nevada or coast I 1 lange ange mountain and re rebelling ellin g at I 1 list last in ill exultant joy under the italian ekiel an and on oil the go golden ide n fields of the pacific slope THIS IMST HOST carried as theia coat of arms the peoples copies inalienable rights of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness their political gods were free tb thought ought free speech free press free labor free school and free ballot they bore as their credentials the fatherhood of rod god and the motherhood of nian man their number increased so rapidly that in 1860 the population of the atee states had bleached leached over nineteen millions will while that of the slave states hall had less than thirteen mil million liona the if of the south had sought to meet this ON berv er helming flood of free freedoms dorrice hosts filst they clothed the themselves melves T knitli ith a in congress based upon a ratio of their slaves then they parsed the fugitive i slave lave law the most actuel insult that was ever alrered by men given over by fate to fatuity then came the kansas kanbas sti buggle and the repeal of tile the missouri Conin compromise |
