| Show OP 01 Tim UE ot Civil Chil War T of Its Horrors In III Eloquent The Th ot or Col George B Squires u as In part fig I am not nol unmindful ot of the honor of presidIng over oer your our deliberations In the tho absence and r F assure you that I lint am In full tull sympathy with the o objects anti purposes of your our meeting One Ote who hM ha seen lIeen war In nil 1111 Its hor tars ma well ho bo Among the foremost In a world movement tOI or re e represent I the Grand Arm Army or o Ih Republic nn an organization which has worn thc tho nations uniform and Its luring ono one or of the tle greatest wars of hl tor and which to da n a great body of citizens serving the nation as well ty by Its Ith devotion In peace 09 It the nation by Its valor In Inar tar ar arIt It hr a nation over ever hud had just cause for tOI War that war var was excusable ble It II was fought to prevent the dismemberment Cf 01 our and to preserve the hI ia from dishonor It fl 5 nol flOt Cor to aggrandizement or It was long nod bitter tand bloody blood Do feat and vIctory victor hope and despair talked together hond itt In hand It ita close nod out of Ito turmoil we brought buck bad to you 1 a b by the tho blood of sac nice a race raco made tree treo from the tho or slavery anti and tt rL flag o II glorious ling hug Without n a single erased or pol or a single star ob obscured with nut n a of dishonor upon Its ful folds lollIs liS as they flash In their 1111 on d dr r on ever flea emblem of the tho great greal tAl et the freest Creest or of the lIa nations ot of th rth Jt WILS a jU Juit 1 n a tory war L for principle nl and Its tK results were hut but who can estimate Its ita cost in blood treasure and human misery OF We were ero a 11 Part lIart ot of the tho Tont groat army Or at citizen who won the tho victory We e l know all Its horrors all Its nil 1111 Its sufferings We VO cit Its We Ve were Wart thoro thore In victory and In iii detent on the long In the bivouac on the tho lonel lonely picket In the tho cautious advance In iii the tho mad whirl or of the tho charge In the e exultant bout hOUI or of triumph Wo vo havo won boon our comrades full fall and die dlo with glazing eye turned up to this sk sky We Vo soon scon the tho crushed and mangled bodio to th the held hos pital with nil all Its horrors We Vo hass been bellI n at t tim tho roll call that Ihal conies comes after the battle when the missing ones tire uro to ho be ReCoUnted accounted tar for Iero was wa glory glor for n a low to there wa was mIsery untold for countless thousands shattered limbs broken nod bodies widow hood and a 11 land hand drenched In blood ani I Id with despair and shadowed with mourn mourning In n a land luau desolate by the of wal You may count it Ir YOU time the dollars but bul who after all 1111 can count the thi StUn SUIn total ot of the tho aWful cost I 1 am not Authorized to to fat I all fl my but for tor myself I believe war to le be Just what Sherman it H ane and I have had enough 1 caled am not optimistic to ImagIne that peace CI can como nt at once or that the world power powers going to 10 sink their worship warships and disband their armed fores forces immediately There must first be be a strong abut lunt mont created the nations II in fn a Vr r nm n H u v u w I IW IU 1 I would have our nation In IL a state slate of complete preparedness with a 11 powerful navy and a standing Irmy army c of and thoroughly equipped to torn the tho nucleus ot of u ta mighty force of citi zen soldiers on which WI we nm may rely and shall not 1101 only Prove I a to the tho strong but bul a ton to 10 tho wok TO SI To create and extend that thaI II is the tho object of this gathering iced Wo We ma may differ In nieth meth oils to le be used we not differ al as to 10 what results le b sought Rought for All ll honor to Governor Cutler for 01 taking the initiative In this mater matter and to the tho committee or of devoted icon anti ul wonton apPointed by him who have labored so diligently in the causo cau they 10 love To fo dl you OU complete your organization to be cled called the tho Utah icaco society and 10 so It shall be that the tho tl to which gave glO to the na navy ono one or of its Hs greatest and admirals wil have hao U a I Peace society named for tor It betor before lucre Is a battleship bearing Il its ILme name I bIl bid you OU In the tho work so Inaugurated expressing the tho hop hope that you will In num hers until lover of oC peace within the tho wile borders or of the tho state shall be b enrolled In your Society MILY un Iver sil sal comb the tho world like IL a and unity may the tho future his make bright hil his glowing page wih with the tho triumphs of diplomacy of or the tho triumph o of peace and upon every cery I school chool house ut learning upon church thil that raises itt lIs tall spire toward IHl and every public building the tho upon poor mans cottage anI the thc of tho ho IcIng let Iet there thora be Inscribed In Ic letters both bold anti Earth Bluth Goo Good 1 to Mod Ion I |
