Show CEREMONIES AT ANTIETAM t On the battlefield of Antietam nt Sharpsburg Maryland was dedicated on Thursday the monument that New Jersey has erected to the memory of her heroic dead in that battle It was one of the too many indecisive battles of the great war but it could have been mode a triumphant victory for the Union cause This was so held at the time among the patriotic portion of the people and thai was the general opinion In the Western armies Developments Devel-opments since the war have abundlint ly l proved the truth of that position the correctness of the patriotic Judgment of the time It was MeClellans timidity timid-ity that robbed the Union of the best fruits of that victory Fits John Porter I Por-ter aided McClellan In his reluctance to push things just when a final push would have been utterly disastrous to Lee It was the Union commanders that opposed Lee In the early years of the war who contributed the most largely to Lees fame as a General The ceremonies on Thursday carried the same lesson as that conveyed in Lincolns great and immortal dedication speech of the Gettysburg battlefield The text was the bravery and patriotic devotion of the soldiers who there gave their lives that the Nation might live and the lesson was that their heroic devotion must not be lost on the generation gen-eration now honoring their memories Was there not much said of the Union commanding officer Well It was natural nat-ural for that commander did not leave much lo say of him that would be especially desirable to say on ouch an occasion i for the l lesson to be drawn from his course was not the lesson that the ceremonies were meant to inculcate incul-cate It was a day when the common soldier offered the best text t on which to found the proceedings l and from which to draw the moral |