Gettysburg Peace Memorial
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from Gettysburg Peace Memorial: Hearing Before the Committee on the Library, House of Representatives Sixty-Third Congress Second Session on H. R. 11112, a Bill to Erect a Memorial on the Gettysburg Battle Field to Commemorate the Fiftieth Anniversary of That Battle, February 18, 1914 I shall not take much of the time of the committee this morning with any statement of my own as there are gentlemen here present who can more fittingly and properly express the sentiment that actuated them and me in proposing this memorial. However, I want to preface what they shall say by this statement. I appreciate how Congress has been asked in the past to make many appropriations for many individuals, who, in the opinion of the movers of those appropriations, were worthy of being remembered by statutes, and history with its ironies has frequently shown that the only virtue that those statutes had was to commemorate the zeal of particular men rather than the services of the individuals for whom they were erected. We do not come, however, in this instance asking a statue to a man; but we do believe that it is proper that what is unique among the people of the world should be commemorated, and that is not the Civil War, great and momentous as it was, but the peace that followed after that war within the lifetime of the participants in the war; a peace that has been peculiar to our country and is the greatest tribute to her institutions of all the things that have occurred in her history. It took England more than 200 years to get over her civil wars. We at the end of 50 years find that war leaving no bitternesses and only the glorious memories of those who fought on each side of it. It was with a view to commemorate that good feeling that the meeting was had on the Gettysburg battle field last year, and out of that meeting grew the movement for a monument to forever perpetuate the fact, and to myself fell the honor, for I consider it an honor, of introducing this bill. I know the demands that are put upon this committee. I think I know something of the demands that are put upon the Treasury. It has been my work very largely for 11 years in Congress to fight to hold down expenditures; but there are times when events are more important than a ledger account, and I do not think that this matter ran be or will be considered with regard to expenditures, I wanted to say this much, because I think it is proper that at the start it should be differentiated from the ordinary hill to erect a memorial to an individual. I wish to say this also to the committee. It was easily possible to have burdened you gentlemen with a large number of communications in favor of this bill, and I could easily have crowded this room fivefold over to show the interest of men of both the North and the South in this bill and its enactment, Instead of that I have asked some of the gentlemen who were the prime movers in this matter, and who in a peculiar way reflect the high sentiment that prevades the whole country, to appear before you and very briefly express their views, and with this preliminary statement, with the permission of the chairman, I will be glad to ask ex-Secretary Herbert to speak. Statement of Hon. Hilary A. Herbert, or Washington, D. C. Mr. Herbert. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, the monument we are asking at Gettysburg is not to be a memorial of the battle that was fought on that field - it is intended to commemorate a peace meeting that was held there 50 years after the battle. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
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