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Vol. X May 31, 1912 No. 22 
Memorial Day in Light of History. 
The spirit of Memorial Day was 
beautifully exemplified in the life 
of our North Shore towns yesterday. 
From Beverly to Rockport and Man- 
chester to Essex the sound of drum 
and the noble tread of veterans, 
erown grey, but still young in their 
spirit and devotion to the sacred 
rites of the day was heard. At the 
evening hour the flag at half mast 
was hoisted to its position at full 
mast. Hvery cemetery was a bower 
of flowers, laid by loving hands and 
from the head stone of the graves 
of the veterans of 1776, 1812-3, 
1861-5, and 1898 our new American 
flags moved in the evening breezes. 
It is well that these rites are ob- 
served from year to year, that the 
memory of the soldier’s faithfulness 
in the hour of national peril be not 
forgotten. Darius Cobb has painted 
a sentimental picture, rich in sug- 
gestion and powerful in its lesson of 
fidelity and loyalty, which depicts 
the last of the veterans placing his 
memorial for the departed dead. 
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3ut that day is still afar off judging 
from the poise, vigor and determina- 
tion of the veterans who still live. 
Today, men have returned to 
other pursuits for the impressions 
of yesterday linger with us. As a 
young Dutchman asked, ‘‘what is it 
all about?’’ Verily what did the 
day mean to the veteran and to the 
world in the light of history. Mem- 
orial Day is the leading patriotic 
day in our calendar surpassing even 
the Fourth of July. The simple ser- 
vices of the veterans are hum- 
ble reminders to the children of 
the newer generation of the great- 
est significant crisis in _ history. 
Without a question the Civil war 
settled a conflict which otherwise 
would have continued until today. 
In the annals of history there have 
been seven great erises which have 
been revolutionary in their results. 
At the battle of Marathon the 
Greeks drove back the invading Per- 
sian army, which conserved the civi- 
lization of Greece and prevented 
Nurope from being overridden by an 
Asiatic conquerer with the inevitable 
result of a transplanting the over- 
rating institutions of Asia upon Eu- 
ropean soil. When the Britains con- 
quered England and possessed it as 
their own another world history was 
won. Charles Martel, the terrible 
hammer, pounded the Moors back at 
the battle of Pontiers, and sent them 
in disorder and thoroughly routed 
over the Pyrrennes, never to return 
agam. HKurope was then saved from 
the inevitable degeneracy of Afri- 
can influences. At Naseby again 
history was made when the King 
and Prince Rupert made their stand 
and the exegencies of personal ruler- 
ship were forever ended by the ris- 
ing tide of democratic government 
in the victory of Cromwell. The 
brave and loyal struggle of the 
Dutch against the Spaniards was 
still another mighty conflict in the 
world’s history. At Quebee, Wolfe 
drove out Montealm and settled the 
question whether English or French 
institutions should dominate in 
America. That victory settled for- 
ever the great question and the Kng- 
lish and not the French spirit has 
ruled in America. But equal to 
them all was the terrible problem 
whether the institution of slavery or 
the principles of a modern democra- 
ey should be fully maintained in 
Ameriea. 
Now, we are 
The results of that war are far 
reaching for the privileges of our 
modern life are in no small degree 
due to the permanent settlement of 
the slave question. (1.) The war 
was a national triumph of morals 
over governmental expediency. Ex- 
pediency demanded the granting to 
the South the privilege of secession. 
National honor and morals demand- 
ed the abolishment of an immoral in- 
stitution on American soil and that 
conflict was a tribute to the aroused 
sense of the young republic. — (2.) 
The war was an exemplification of 
the spirit of the good Samaritan in 
the life of a government. The hu- 
manitarian sympathies of the North 
conquered the commercial inelina- 
tions of the South. The spirit of 
brotherly love drove spear against 
brother to defend the principle of 
the larger brotherhood. (3.) The 
moral sense of a nation aroused in 
the spirit of brotherly love went one 
point farther and demanded not 
alone economic freedom for the 
slave but obtained the franchise 
or equality of citizenship for the 
white man and the black man. (4) 
The successful termination of that 
war was settled for the world the 
international problem of govern- 
ment. Abraham Lincoln erystalized 
this truth in his immortal address in 
the cemetery at Gettysburg. ‘‘ Four 
score and seven years ago our fath- 
ers brought forth on this continent 
@ new nation, conceived in liberty, 
and, dedicated to the proposition 
that all men are created equal. 
engaged in a great 
civil war: testing whether that na- 
tion, or any nation so conceived 
and so dedicated, can long endure.”’ 
(5) The unity of the American re- 
puble was maintained. Nothing is 
more inspiring in its patriotic truth 
than the inscriptions on the shaft 
in Hemming park, Charleston. The 
inscription reads  ‘‘Confederate 
Memorial 1861-5’? and the other, 
‘“‘God Bless our Country 1898.’’ 
Lincoln on this issue has said, ‘‘If 
I could save the Union without 
freeing any slave I would do it; if 
I eould save it by freeing all the 
slaves I would do it; if I could save 
it by freeing some and leaving 
others alone, I would also do that.”’ 
By that great struggle our national 
honor and unity were maintained. 
(6) The successful unification of the 
states under a central government 
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