The Vilest Sacrilege

Gettysburg, Pa., May 31.- The morning of Decoration day dawned clear and beautiful. Senator Ingalls delivered the oration of the day. He said in part: Twenty-five years slnce the liosts were marshaled for the last review. Tliey assembied within the shadow of the dome of the capítol they had saved. The splondorof the vernal aun illuminated the scène and sblinmered on the flag The hosts of Grant, Slier man. Logan and Hancock, and above Ihem flashed and gleamed tiie redeemed glory of the flas. lt waa their dag. Had it not been for their sacrliices and that ot their sleeping comrades thls flag would have been a dishonored rag. I have thought what would have been our emotions had the rebellion been succtssful. Suppose the dome of the capítol stooped tu lts base; supposed llobcrt Toombs fulfllled liis lnsolent menacc to count hls slaves within the shadow of liunker JIül Monument; suppose the stars and strlpes had none down in defeat before the stars and bars, what would have been our emotions? I confess for myself to have never ceased to Implore tbat all men ralght be free, to hope that some time by soine desperate battle the U n loa mlght have been restored. I should have kept In some secret reposltory some emblem of the stars and strlpes, which I would have taught my chlldren to love and clierlsh. Now In view of the occarences of the last two daysln tbe extlnct capital of the extlnct üonfederacy, I wlsh to say a few words. I have no deslre on thls sacred occasion to revert to auy subject tbat is Inconsistent wlth the solemnlty of the hour; bat unless the Ideas for which our dead died were rlght they have dled In valn. But the only regret that seems to be telt by our adversarles Is that In the rebellion tbey falled to sneceed. llobert E. Lee was undoubtedly one of the greatestsoldlers of theagc, lofty of character, pure of llfe, and wlth Ilneage dating back to the mornlngof patrlotlsra In thls heinluphere. Had Leeadhered to the sentiment expressnd shortly before the rebellion he would to-day have been the fnremost cltlzen of thls Republlc. He was offered the command of our arrales. For twentyflve years hls sword. had been under tbe flag of tbe Bepubllc. He had been educated at her expense and had taken the oath to support her Constltutlon and her laws, but he vlolated hls oath, put aside bis sword, and toot the leadership of the most causel688 rebellion slnce the devll rebelled agalnst heaven.aud yet in violatlon of falth and honor. On the aay, Ibrtwenty-flve years made sacred, those whoprofessed to have accepted the results of the war In good falth, selecting thls occasion In all the other annlversariesofthe365day8Oftheyear, wlth every augmentatlon of insolence polnt to the South tbat thls Is an example after which they should copy- a confedérate flag Is placed In the hand of Washington. [Cries of "Shame! Hhame!"J What wonder lf tbe dead should cry out agalnst tbe sttcri lege'.' We are told' God alone knows which slde was rlght." To miike the constltutlon of the United States tbe snpreme law of free meci.rallllonsenllsted and tbousands gave up their llvea, wlves werewldowed, clilldren orphaned. and yet one-half or the rlslng generatlon Is taught tbat "God alone known which was rlght' Carnage raged on hundreds of battleflelds. Now the sun rises on no master and sets on no slave. The sbame of the repnblic is wasbed out. Liberty Is the law of the land and yet "God alone knows who was rlght." Xf we were not right, if natlouallty is not better than secesslon, then these ceremoules are without slgnlflcance. Tbe war for the Union was the greatest crime of thecentury, and our soldier rank wlth the succeesful paglllsts who flght in the ring for the championsbip belt of the world. If they were not rlght natlonal morallty la a flctlon, loyalty a name, and palrlotlsm a fatal nialady of the body politie. Tbis tendency of tl 10 South must be resented. Thls Is a day of lnstruction, aduty we owe tbe future that our relations to that great conflict be underslood and that our dead dtd not die in vain. It Is not necessary todi8parage the bravery of adversarles. Let them rear raonumenta to their dead and cherlsh their deeds; let thera euloglze the lost cause; let them cherish their leaders; let thera curry their stars and bars. These are matters of taste which they must deelde for theraselves. Tbere is no other country under the sun that would perintt such transactlons. They are conntrymen, unlted to us by a common herltage, so they say, but when they aseen that Lincoln and Davls, Grant and Lee, Logan and Jackson, were equal and that "God only knows which was rlght," lt 1 sacrilego of the vlk-st type and needs rebuke. The Senator was liatened to with the {rreatest attentiou and frcqucntly applauded. "The tariff is a tax," says the free trader. Yes, the turiff is a tax on silgar, beoan.se silgar cannot be produced in this country to any considerable extent. But strange to say, eyery democratie free trader in the land objectg to reducing the tariff on surar. ]t is a southern industry, you know. Will some rampant free trader teil U8 how the importation last year of $775,000,. 000 worth of manufactured goods - made from foreign grown products and by foreign workmen (at from one thiid to onehalf leRS wages than American workmen recelve) in any way helped the American laborer or American producer? In the circuit court lastThursday there was a decisión rendered by Judge Kinne that was of more than ordinary interest to the Ann Arbor public espccially. In the case of Joseph Lamoreaux vs. The Regents of the U. of M., which case was originally brought against Dr. J. C. Wood of the homeopathie department, growlng out of alleged neglect by the nurse of a patiënt, Mrs. Lamoreaux, at the homeopathie hospital. After n surgical operation bottles were Ulied with hot water and placed about the patiënt, some of which were so hot that they burned the fiVsh of the patiënt. The suit against Dr. Wood was not prosecuted and alloweil to drop. Then the woman's hu&band commenced suit in this circuit against the Regenta. The defendants demurred, alleging that the hospital was a charitable institution and as such not Hable, also that being the property of tbe state, the regents were not liable for personal injury cau9ed by the negligence of any employé or agent. Judge Kinne suatained the demurrer.