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Show CIVIL VAR VETS TO UNITE ATNAUGURAL Miners and Sappers of 18S1 Will Be Missing CHICAGO. b. II While Senator Harding- g Inauguration aa president of tha Untied H la tea la designed to follow arraa(ernrita of Abraham Llncoln'a tnausural, thera ar features of 1861 that fortunately will be m is ft ins In 121. Instead of veterans of North and South marching side by side, they will .neat month, the only mflittiry forces In the Inuuffurttl parade of 181 were the suppers and miners. The rest of the United Htatee troops In the capital cap-ital were stationed In different prtrta of the city to provide sg.j.rtst emer-ftenclcg. emer-ftenclcg. As the nation hovered on the brink of civil war. the frea-t fear of the authorities was that effort would be made to Interfere with the ceremonies. If President Harding follows Lin coin's first Inaugural addreaa in com-paaa. com-paaa. he will do It In leu a than 30(H) words. In that space Lincoln made his pie for the Union and declared his Intention to maintain tt. Four years later Lincoln's second InauKural was overrhadowed by the preceasion of victories. The crowds were amiillr than those In '61. Vet-erang Vet-erang marched in the parade and there whs a brilliant srruy of officers In the city. A much commented on feature of the parade was a battalion of ool-ored ool-ored troops and a colored lodtie of Masons. Ma-sons. Philadelphia was represented by several fire companies with engines and two hose companies. Lincoln's second Inaugural add reus was dona in 10Uw words, but the following; fol-lowing; part of It Is still echoing; In American thought ss pertinent to the world s affairs of today: "With malice toward pone, with charily for all. with ftrmneaa in thej right, as Cod gives us to see the right,! let us strive to finish the work we are in. to bind up the nation'g wounds, and care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and orphans to do all which may achieve and cherish a just snd Waling peace among ourselves and "With all nations. On this great day the president's thought, as the thought of the nation, was with its generals. The great news on the day that Lincoln was Inaugurated Inaugu-rated the second time wss that Oner On-er I 8hrman had captured Oeneral Karly, occupied Charlottesville. Va, and was last heard from at Htuunton. where nine yeara before, aavar president presi-dent to be. Wood row Wilson was born. |