A Pledge And A Promise

Who won thegreal flghi V VVhosaved I hiladwphia from flre and Bpoil ï Who drove back the enemy, ná saved ua a tate f which tl e burning of beraburg and Uariisle and 'the torced uontributions u on Vork v iled to be gïim pri'parations Y A bravu army of patriotic citizens, led bj three Pennsylvanja generáis- Gei Oordon Meade oï P , tüa; John eulton Reynolds of Lancaster, aud Wintield Scott Hancock of Montgomery. Meade and Reynolds are I gon. Meade died on the 6th of Xyeml er, 1872, in the I on-o presented to lus wife by the people of Philadelphia. afterwards supplemented bya eontributionof $100,0öö from the game source. Reynolds was killed in the battle on the 2nd of July, and is buried at Lancaster. tlancock isto-daythe democratie candidate f or . president of the United States. To show how I feit at thecritical moment, seventeen years ago, 1 reprint wrote in the Press on Tuesd the 7th of July, 1863, nol only to pi my plain dutj to Gen. Elancock, as the sumvor of this glorious triumvirate, put al8othe dutyofall the people of I hiladelphia tothat incomparable soldier, l recall it at once as a personal pledge and promise, and the solemn covenant of a great cominunity to a great soldier. "Mea ïi wh ile the Arm y of the I'otomac, suddenly placed under the command of Gen. Meade, whom we are proud to claim as a fellow-citizen hastened northward and 1'ell upon the rash and audacious enemy. We know the result. Neitber our children nor omchildrea'a children, to the remotest generation, shall ever forget it or fail to remember itwith athrilloí gratituíe and honest pride. The rebels were asBailed with unexampled iuiy, and the gallant (Jen. Reynolds, a Pennsylvania anldier, laid down lus life. Thé Btrugirle raged ïor several days, the ldsses'on both sides were fearful, and stil] the result seemea aoutitarar. n we should fajl, Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, perhapa New Vork, would be doomed. In thls crisis of the nation's fate it was Pennsylvania thatcameto the rescue. It was Gen. Hancock, a Pennsylvanian, who so nobly bore the bruut of the battle on Cemetery llill :'