Lewiston
Evening
Journal
May
31,
1879
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This
may
seem
something
like
an
abstract
conception
of
the
motive
which
led
thoughtful
minds
to
duty.
If
it
is
so,
it
is
nevertheless
true.
Men
fight
for
ideas;
beliefs;
for
questions
of
faith
e??n;
and,
in
such
a
cause
they
willingly
surrender
all
material
comforts
and
undergo
perils
and
hardships
and
deaths
with
free
and
glad
minds.
It
was
a
peculiarity
of
our
war
that
we
were
fighting
for
an
idea.
I
am
not
aware
that
the
material
interests
of
the
North
were
seriously
threatened
by
the
withdrawal
of
the
Southern
States.
We
were
not
fighting
for
selfish
interests.
Nor
were
we
fighting
for
what
men
are
accustomed
to
call
their
dearest
interest.
Our
peace
was
not
broken.
Our
homes
were
not
invaded.
Some
wars
have
been
for
love
of
fatherland
the
sacred
associations
of
kindred
and
friendship.
A
common
toil
and
a
common
love
make
even
sod
under
foot
dear
to
men.
Nobody
sought
to
drive
us
from
our
homes
no
stranger
threatened
to
violate
the
sanctities
of
our
love
to
insult
the
living
or
the
dead.
Some
wars,
too,
have
been
fought
for
liberty
to
throw
off
the
yoke
of
an
oppressor,
who,
for
his
own
selfish
pleasure
seeks
to
despoil
men
and
women,
their
property
their
honor,
their
freedom
of
act
or
thought.
Those
who
suffer
or
die
in
such
a
cause
are
held
in
lasting
honor
in
all
lands
where
mens
hearts
beat
true.
Such
were
Hampden
and
Eliot
and
Pym
in
England
in
the
17th
century.
Such
were
our
fathers
in
the
18th.
But
we
were
not
fighting
for
personal
or
civil
rights:
for
life,
liberty,
security
in
our
possessions
or
pursuits,
and
equality
before
the
law.
What
was
it
then?
We
were
fighting
on
a
purely
political
question,
gentlemen.
A
question
of
politics,
comrades,
and
by
the
rules
of
our
order
politics
must
not
be
discussed.
But
I
am
going
to
speak
of
politics
a
little,
and
I
promise
you
that
I
will
not
violate
in
the
slightest
degree
the
letter
or
spirit
of
our
constitution.
The
politics
we
must
not
discuss
is
party,
partisan
or
personal
politics,
for
in
these
times
it
has
come
even
to
mean
the
tricks
by
which
the
machinery
of
free
institutions
is
made
to
subserve
petty
ambitions
or
corrupt
schemes,
and
the
people
are
made
to
think
this
is
for
their
interest
and
their
cause!
But
politics
in
the
true
sense
means
the
art
of
living
together
efficiently
and
working
together
amiably
in
all
deliverance
from
evil,
in
all
true
freedom,
in
all
noble
masteries
and
all
high
ministries.
How
do
we
undertake
to
achieve
this
in
this
country
what
is
the
nature
of
that
organic
life
by
which
we
are
the
people
of
the
United
States
of
America?
That
is
the
political
question
around
which
the
war
was
fought,
a
question
which
so
far
from
being
banished
from
our
fraternity
should
be
the
theme
of
our
thought,
of
our
study,
of
our
discourse
or
discussion.
We
saw
our
old
flag
in
the
field
that
was
enough
for
us.
We
knew
that
it
meant
things
great
things,
unspeakable
things
we
could
not
stop
to
reason
about
until
the
flag
floated
again
supreme
and
unthreatened
in
the
land
But
now
we
should
think;
we
should
know
There
is
another
epitaph
I
have
not
yet
spoken
of
which
I
have
heard
of
within
a
day
or
two.
An
old
man
in
Virginia
gathering
up
the
remnant
left
him
after
the
ravages
of
the
war,
and
settling
himself
into
the
accepted
situation,
raised
a
simple
monument
on
one
side
of
which
was
inscribed:
To
the
sacred
memory
of
my
eldest
son,
who
fell
fighting
for
the
Stars
and
Stripes.
On
the
other
side
it
read:
To
the
sacred
memory
of
my
youngest
son,
who
fell
fighting
for
the
lost
cause.
On
the
third
face
of
the
stone
and
higher
up
were
the
words:
God
knows
who
was
right.
Which
of
the
boys
was
right?
God
indeed
knows,
and
he
alone.
Into
mens
motives,
which
constitute
one
essential
element
in
the
character
of
actions,
men
cannot
see.
Perhaps
both
were
right,
perhaps
neither,
perhaps
one.
Men
cannot
always
be
judged
by
their
acts
alone,
nor
even
by
their
motives,
but
often
for
the
manner
in
which
they
have
used
their
judgments,
and
light
they
might
have
had.
With
what
judgment
ye
judge
ye
shall
be
judged.
Alas
for
the
brave
and
noble
who
fell
in
the
wrong
cause!
God
knows,
and
he
will
remember
all
the
blood
noble
souls
have
offered
in
the
name
of
right.
He
will
know
how
to
account
of
it
in
mans
deliverance
from
evil,
and
in
the
final
day;
but
never
can
it
be
that
the
just
cause
and
the
unjust,
marshal
what
noble
names
they
may
in
their
support
shall
stand
in
equal
honor
before
God
or
man!
Never
to
the
end
of
time!
There
is
not
a
lawless
and
fickle
half-will
working
in
this
country.
There
is
a
steady
purpose,
deep
set
in
the
hearts
of
men
and
cared
for
by
God
above,
which
makes
his
people
what
they
are.
We
are
far
from
perfect;
but
we
are
faced
towards
the
right
and
pushing
for
it.
How
will
it
be
with
us,
still
we
have
a
vocation
a
calling
from
him.
Why
do
the
eyes
of
all
the
world
turn
hither
as
if
all
human
hope
and
blessing
were
here
alone?
Is
it
not
that
we
have
entered
into
the
labors
of
all
the
past,
that
we
have
taken
up
the
toils
of
all
true
workers
the
world
have,
the
suffering
of
all
saints,
the
victories
of
all
patriots,
the
deaths
of
all
martyrs?
Is
it
not
that
by
blood,
by
education,
by
experience,
by
aim,
by
faith,
by
religion,
by
all
these
great
facts
of
Providence,
we
are
called
to
career
that
holds
in
store
something
which
the
heart
of
any
true
man
and
woman
the
world
over
longs
for,
and
belongs
to?
We
need
that
same
spirit
of
Spartan
obedience
to
the
laws
to
the
constitution
and
the
forms
of
peaceful
order
and
civil
polity.
We
need
that
spirit
of
the
faithful
Swiss,
,
to
a
man,
rather
than
be
false
to
our
sacred
word
of
honor.
Let
us
keep
our
obedience
and
keep
faith
with
all
men
the
black
man,
the
yellow
man,
the
red
man
and
the
white
man!
Oh
my
comrades,
it
is
well
to
look
back
as
we
do
to-
day
and
brace
our
souls
anew
with
the
vision
of
the
great
and
costly
sacrifices
with
which
God
still
redeems
man
from
evil.
Remember
well
and
do
not
forget,
but
face
to
the
front.
Many
a
good
fight
yet
will
call
for
manly
hearts
and
hands.
Great
things
are
coming
on
I
know
not
what.
God
is
before
us
as
well
as
behind.
Nations
are
commotion,
borne
onward,
they
know
not
how,
to
their
destiny.
In
the
shock
of
empires
the
world
moves.
And
from
out
the
smoke
and
flame
comes
forth
redeemed,
regenerated
man.
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New
York
Weekly
News
and
Democrat
ided on July
3,
1879
st week, A Sensible Republican View.
ls, one
General and Ex-Governor Cham-,
expens-
berlain, of Maine, who is a Republi-
marshals;
can and was formerly Presiden t ot
United
Bowdoin college, is a different sort
the pro-
of a person from ex-Gov. Chamber- And dur
hall not name or
lain of South Carolina. The Maine greatest
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bills also
times, and achieved the rank of
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general. He is a veritable Union
Satur-
hero, and is not afraid of tho "reble Re
was ex,-
brigadiers in Congress." In a re-
bill, and
cent speeoh Gen. Chamberlain
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