The bronze statue of a soldier of that Marblehead regiment, the contribution of Massachusetts to this monument, commemorates their valor.

What they did, others did. All shared in the danger of the struggle and in the glory of the victory. And so we build this monument in grateful recognition of patriotic services.

Yet not for the past only do we build it, but for the present also, and the future. Gratitude it expresses, patriotism it teaches, making of the past an education to us. From these monuments we can catch an inspiration to become braver, broader, and more patriotic, and go hence consecrated to nobler, truer lives. Peace has followed revolution and war. Ah, but peace, too, has its duties, which call for courage and patriotism. Institutions for freedom and self-government have by the blood of the fathers been created, but they require sacrifices by the children, too, for their maintenance and preservation. The Union has been established, but it rests with us ever to make it stronger in the hearts and lives of all our people.

Are there not duties of to-day which can best be met. in the spirit and patriotism of 1776? Do we not hear the mutterings of discontent and the strife of selfish interests? Do we not see patriotism yielding to policy, and partisanship more potent than the people's welfare? Have we not heard the right of a majority to rule — a fundamental principle of our Republic — obstructed and called in question? Have we not seen a part made greater than the whole, and the Nation's demand for necessary legislation pass unheeded in the clamor of local interests ?

This is not the spirit of 1776 It was not in such conflict and selfishness that our nation had its birth, nor will it in them find safety and prosperity.

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To-day we have our leader. We need the wisdom and courage which sustained Washington, the patriotism and self-sacrifice which here, on this battle-field, placed country above everything, and that larger view which, despising petty things, bound the Thirteen Colonies together, hand in hand, heart to heart, for the common welfare. Then shall we, as the fishermen of Marblehead, be "alike ardent, patriotic, and unflinching" in devotion to our country and to its brave and loyal President.

So this monument teaches us its lesson. God grant we may heed it, and meet our duty as bravely as did the fathers theirs!

SPEECHES ON MILITARY OCCASIONS.

ADDRESS

TO THE CAMBRIDGE POSTS OF THE GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC, MEMORIAL DAY, MAY 30, 1885.

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DO not think, Mr. Commander, I ought to waste the precious minutes of this hour with thoughts too crude to gently touch the sacred memories the day recalls. You will hear from lips much more eloquent than mine of the heroism and sacrifice it commemorates, and of the patriotism and duty its touching ceremonies ever teach. And yet I am glad of the privilege of saying a word in behalf of the city of Cambridge. She gladly joins her honored living to pay her tribute of respect to her honored dead. It is most fitting for her to do so. Their loss was her loss. Generously this old historic city, rich in the memory of brave deeds of brave men, gave of her strength, youth, and manhood that the Nation might live, and live, in fact, the land of freedom. No city did more; Cambridge, if true to her history, could have done no less. The Nation's life was spared, the curse of slavery was abolished; but the graves which to-day we decorate tell how great was the cost, how fearful was the sacrifice of that struggle.

And now, following a most worthy custom, we hush the hum of business, and peacefully, with love and reverence, we deck the graves, and read again the lesson they teach. It is not for me to tell, but rather to listen, to that lesson. Yet, speaking for a younger

generation, whose memory hardly reaches back to those grand days when it was glorious to live, there is a word I feel that I must utter. Twenty years have stilled the bitterness of the conflict; its animosities are over. The hands of Southern soldiers have placed their garlands on the tablets yonder. The great heart of the North has gone forth with forgiveness, love, and blessing to the people whom it conquered. But the best of the war remains, its patriotic education. It was a grand marshalling of a nation's conscience, it was a great outpouring of a nation's patriotism. In the blood that was shed we may consecrate ourselves to nobler, manlier lives. Our government, founded on universal suffrage, needs universal education. More than that, it needs the education which shall touch the hearts and mould the character of its citizens. Such education will build a bulwark for the safety of the Nation, and make the generations yet to come ready and willing, in their turn, to do the duty for which their fathers died. As we younger men look back upon the war, we bless this day, which keeps ever fresh in memory the lessons of patriotism that have outlived the sting of the conflict. Cambridge never has forgotten, and never will, Memorial Day or her veterans. Their love and devotion to her have touched a responsive chord in her heart which answers with equal love and devotion. She gladly joins with you in the celebration of the day; and as the years roll on, and your ranks become thinned, and one by one the veterans linger and fall by the wayside, she, ever young, ever strong, ever patriotic, will rejoice to take up your labor of love and remembrance; and as she scatters her garlands on the graves of her heroic dead, making of the patriotism of the past inspiration for the present, she teaches her children the best lesson that can fall from a mother's lips.

ADDRESS

AS PRESIDING OFFICER AT THE MEMORIAL SERVICE TO GENERAL GRANT IN UNION HALL, CAMBRIDGE, AUGUST 8, 1885.

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O-DAY the Nation, bending over the bier of one whom she has honored, trusted, and loved, humbly bowing to the will of God, pays her tribute of respect to him who is dead, and honor and homage to him. who still lives, and ever will live, in the hearts of a grateful people.

She remembers that he was her successful general when success was needed for a Nation's life; her firm and prudent ruler when a firm but gentle hand was needed to bring back the old-time vigor to the new-born Union; and, in his dying days, while suffering bravely and patiently, he the grim victor of a hundred battles spoke the words of forgiveness, peace, and love that joined a new patriotism to a new vigor, and welded the States into a more perfect Union.

No wonder the whole Nation mourns and misses him; no wonder a Nation, saved, re-born and re-united, to-day, sadly, with tears and universal grief, feels the deep debt she owes to him.

Loyal old Cambridge, who proudly followed him in his victories, mingles her tears with those of her sister cities. The city government has most fittingly set apart this day as a day of mourning, and has chosen. familiar voices to speak her grief.