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Identifier: illinoismonument00beve (find matches)
Title: Illinois monuments at Gettysburg
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Beveridge, John L Vaughan, David B., joint author Greenhut, Joseph B., joint author
Subjects: Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863 Soldiers' monuments -- Pennsylvania Gettysburg Illinois -- Militia History United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Monuments
Publisher: Springfield, Ill. : H. W. Rokker, State Printer and Binder
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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thehills around (lettysburg lift their heads to the skies. Our work is finished. Taanking the Governor and the State for theconfidence reposed in us. as chairman of the commission I am instructedto tender these three monuments to His Excellency, and through him. tothe good people of the State of Illinois to be dedicated to the honor andmemory of the men. living and dead, who fought on this field. Acceptance of the monuments in behalf of the State and pre-sentation of the same to the Gettysburg Battle-field MemorialAs.so«:iation. br His Excellencv, Hon. Joseph W. Fifer. (iovernorof the State of Illinois: We are upon historic and thrice consecrated ground. Here Americanvalor fought, died and triumphed for union and liberty: here Lincoln fromout of - . - -:r . --^adow of sad but triumphant death spoke simplededie. i high pathos and meaning that all who follow car ..:^e sentiments. If Lincoln in 1S3 declared it im- I r to hallow this sacred place, what can be left for him w - ak?
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Governor of Illinois. 23 Nevertheless, it is titting we tliiis come, under the eye of an approvingnation, and with appropriate ceremonies further consecrate tlie manhoodand youth of America to those great principles which national valor herecarried through appalling carnage, upon the points of triumphant bayo-nets, across the decisive hattle-Held of the civil war. Scarcely liad the American union heen formed when the question wasasked Can a State dissolve it? Scarcely was the Supreme Court of thenation robed when it was declared that not this tribunal but each com-ponent state, through its own petty agencies, might judge of the extentof the powers conferred by the federal constitution. Heated discussions and much ill-will arose. On one side were the Ken-tucky and Tirginia resolutions with those who drew them, and the manywho advocated their principles; on the other were the wise counsels andcommanding prestige of Washington, the masterly opinions of Marshall,the potent and luminous ar

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