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who fought under him whose home at Mount Ver- 

 non stands as an equally prized memorial of the 

 past with Arlington. It is no chance that has made 

 Mount Vernon and Arlington, here in the neighbor 

 hood of Washington, the two great memorials of 

 the nation's past. One commemorates the founding 

 and the other the saving of the nation. If it were 

 not for what Arlington symbolizes, Mount Vernon 

 would mean little or nothing. If it were not for what 

 was done by Rosecrans and his fellows, the work 

 of Washington would have crumbled into bloody 

 chaos and the deeds of the founders of this Repub 

 lic be remembered only because they had begun 

 another of the many failures to make practical the 

 spirit of liberty in this world. Without the work that 

 you did the work of the men who fought the Revo 

 lution to a successful close would have meant noth 

 ing. To you it was given to do the one great work 

 which if left undone would have meant that all else 

 done by our people would have counted for nothing. 

 And you left us a reunited country, and therefore 

 the right of brotherhood with and of pride in the 

 gallantry and self-devotion of those who wore the 

 gray, who were pitted against you in the great strug 

 gle. The very fact that we appreciate more and 

 more as the years go on the all-importance to this 

 country and to mankind of your victory, makes it 

 more and more possible for us to recognize in the 

 heartiest and frankest manner the sincerity, the 

 self-devotion, the fealty to the right as it was given 

 to them to see the right, of our fellow Americans 



