eloquent, when he forgot the statesmen and generals of the war, and gave credit to the private soldier for all the glories which now surround the blood-stained, but forever stable, institutions of American liberty.

Our Monument should be the choicest work of art on this continent; it should be made beautiful and strong. This place will forever be attractive; the statesman can here meditate on the sacrifices made for liberty and civilization; the soldier can study the faultless plan of battle; and all can count here, the cost to this generation of maintaining the principles of freedom, transmitted to us from our ancestors. But no work of art can express our feelings of gratitude for the soldier of the Republic, living or dead; he has his memory enshrined in the hearts of a grateful people," there a monument that needs no scroll."

But why should I speak to you to-day? It is but two years since the death-struggle of rebellion and treason filled this valley, now so peaceful, with bloodshed and carnage; and the thunders of the artillery of that eventful strife will speak to man for his freedom and individuality, until time shall be

no more.

Stronger than logic, sweeter than poetry, the orators of this occasion lie in their graves around you; no living lips can reach your hearts as does the mute eloquence which comes up from the graves of the heroic dead. We are all of one family, my fellow-citizens, the living and the dead; those who lie around us shed benefactions upon us by the good they did; let us this day draw inspiration from their sublime virtues, and strive like them to be faithful to the Government they died to save.

We people of Pennsylvania give praise to God that it was of His mysterious providence that the blood of the people of eighteen States, here represented, should seal a covenant, made in the hour of the nation's deepest agony, that this great republic shall be for ever sacred to Union and fraternity, and pray Him that the lessons of Gettysburg shall sink deeply into the American heart.

The remarks of Governor Curtin were uttered with a fervor and earnestness that fastened the attention of the whole audience, and from their impassioned effect, the reporters failed to take them down as fully as delivered.

The Benediction was pronounced by the Rev. D. T. Carnahan.