. Lincoln, Lee, Grant, and other biographical addresses . rosityof Grant, and the magnanimity of the country heloved and served. And now in this day of ourcountrys need, under the Flag of our Fathers,with not a star erased and not a stripe polluted,in even line with the veterans of the Union, andthe noble manhood of the North, the ground shak-ing with their measured tread, the cries of the ene- io8 ULYSSES S. GRANT my drowned by the rebel yell, clearing the waywith their flaming volleys, they will bear downupon our countrys foe. Now the truth will be seenof all men, that the Union which Washin


. Lincoln, Lee, Grant, and other biographical addresses . rosityof Grant, and the magnanimity of the country heloved and served. And now in this day of ourcountrys need, under the Flag of our Fathers,with not a star erased and not a stripe polluted,in even line with the veterans of the Union, andthe noble manhood of the North, the ground shak-ing with their measured tread, the cries of the ene- io8 ULYSSES S. GRANT my drowned by the rebel yell, clearing the waywith their flaming volleys, they will bear downupon our countrys foe. Now the truth will be seenof all men, that the Union which Washington fos-tered, and Grant did so much to save, will be in-deed perpetual, the greatest citadel of civil andreligious liberty on earth, a glory to the most highGod, and a to humanity in all the years tocome. On the day of this address the first shot of the Spanish-American War was fired at Matanzas and the Galena Companyof the Illinois National Guard was entraining for the front. THE NSW TORC^l^BllC LIBRARY ^•STOK, LENOXXl^£)BN FOUNDATTnivrc. ^aon^


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