for the common good and inculcate lessons of patriotic devotion to the cause of liberty.

I congratulate you upon your share of this great contribution, upon the lasting affection of a united people, upon the blessed memory of painful and consecrated effort and of highest duty well performed. By your courage and endurance, by your patient fortitude, by your unwearied persistence, by your steadfastness in defeat, and magnanimity in victory, by the heroic service of your leaders, by the noble humanity of our martyred President, by the work of all who at home or in the field, in humble station or in great place, toiled and sacrificed for the life of the Nation,-our people have been pricelessly endowed. The Nation so preserved and so enriched can never forget its mission.

Your meeting points a contrast. We are today a united people rejoicing in undissolved and indissoluble union. The heroism displayed on both sides of that great conflict has become a common heritage. Past animosities are buried without forgetting past services. No line north or south, east or west, divides us in our devotion to National ideals. Year by year we more highly appreciate the necessity and value of this unity, and North and South join

to-day in thanksgiving to God that we are marshalled under one flag, enjoying the peace and prosperity which union only can secure.

Your meeting, with its imposing reminder of patriotic sacrifice, cannot but serve as an inspiration to fidelity in public service. The same flag which floated over the armies in the field floats over the public buildings in which are gathered the chosen servants of the people. That flag for whose honor you were ready to give your lives demands the same loyalty in time of peace. Patriotism is not limited to times of National conflict, but is equally expressed in every form of service where love of country rises above love of self. If the same generous ardor, if the same readiness to put the cause of the Union above all personal considerations, which characterized your service on the field of battle, is displayed in the administration of every department of our government and in the maintenance of the cause of the people against every form of corruption and oppression, we may look forward to victories of peace no less significant and notable than those in which you won and conferred a lasting glory.

X.

Address at the Dedication of the Monument to General Greene at Gettysburg, September 27, 1907.

We have come to this field of eloquent memorials to pay a deserved tribute to one who in supreme test vindicated his manhood and his leadership. We are here as New Yorkers to commemorate the fidelity and valor of a son of New York. We have met as citizens on consecrated soil where in severest conflict the heroism of two armies glorified the American name, and in the victory of one was found the sure promise of a restored Union and of the happiness of these later years.

In diminished ranks, mourning their departed comrades, yet rejoicing in the memories of those heroic days, the survivors of battle have gathered in honor of the brave leader under whose command the desperate engagement on this hill was fought.

Veterans To you these stones are quick

with life.

You live again in the comradeship of war, and those who fell and those who lived to fall elsewhere are once more by your side. Each bit of ground has its story of daring, of resolute defence, of suffering, of death. Here in patriotic devotion you offered your lives, and the memory of your steadfastness in that dark hour is one of the choicest of our National treasures.

The Civil War was not more notable for its political consequences than for its revelation of the quality of our citizenship. Priceless as is the National unity gained through that struggle, its value rests upon that sterling character and capacity for heroic effort which in both North and South found abundant illustration. The virtues displayed on either side of that fierce contest are the common heritage of a united people. And alike in heroism upon battlefield and in the fortitude and untold sacrifices of those who remained at home, in the skill, the discernment, and the energy of leaders, in the discipline, readiness, and valor of the troops they led, stood revealed the splendid pertinacity, the inflexible determination, and the moral forcefulness of American manhood.

New York is prouder of the manner in

which it met that test than of its broad domain and wealth of resources. It sent to the Northern Army 400,000 of its sons-one-fifth of its male population. In every part of this battlefield will be found the records of New York troops-records of fidelity and honorable achievement. On this spot, at a critical moment, when darkness added to the terror of sudden attack by superior numbers, our New York boys of Greene's Brigade held firm and by heroic defence protected the safety of the Army. To their sagacious, alert, and courageous General, we, the sons of the Empire State, erect this monument, expressive of our love, our pride, our lasting obligation.

The generation which fought here has almost passed away. The distinguished leaders still with us, and in whose presence we rejoice to-day, recall to us the more vividly the many who have departed. Their sacrifices were not in vain. The same National character which accounted for the fierceness of that strife in whose devouring flames were displayed the indestructible riches of moral strength, is ours to-day. The same patriotic ardor fills the breasts of American youth as when they rushed from field and factory and college in obedience to their country's summons. The