The Nation and the Soldier

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Excerpt from The Nation and the Soldier: An Oration, Delivered Before the Indiana Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, at Indianapolis, July 4, 1890 Companions, Ladies and Gentlemen: From the distant west, the historic, fruitful and now peaceful fields of our first civic strife, I bring you a salutation and a greeting. The day and the occasion are happily mated. From immemorial times, men who have borne arms have enjoyed a certain distinction, the tribute that human nature yields to those who have played the big stakes of life and death. Responsive to, or perhaps created by, this sentiment, is the tendency of those who have been in the stress and rigor of the game, to look back with a feeling which is partly love, and partly pride, on the old days - and the old cause. It matters little that many seasons have passed since arms were stacked, nor that we who were young and gay, have felt the frost in our joints and on youthful forms the rust of the implacable years. The soldier must not question fate. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.