Memorial Day Oration of William H. Lambert, At the National Cemetery, Arlington, Va., May 30, 1883
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Our freedom was bought with an adequate price. How stu- pendous were the means employed, the graves lo Memorial Day Oration. which are decorated to-day throughout the land, by their very numbers attest, but how tremendous was the cost, these graves can only suggest. So inestimable a victory demanded an infinite sacrifice. The triumph was not alone for our country or for our generation, but for all lands and for all time. The struggle was not merely to determine the existence of this " Nation co...nceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men were created equal," but whether " any nation so conceived and dedicated" could "loner endure." In this Nation the experiment of self-government had been tried under exceptionally favorable con- ditions, had it failed, "government by the people" might well have perished from the earth. The task which the close of the war imposed upon the Government was of extraordinary diffi- culty, and was made all the harder because the great President had been stricken to death, and the administration devolved upon one whose mis- fortune it was to excite the distrust of the majority of the people who had sustained the war, and to become involved in angry controversy with a co- ordinate branch of the Government.
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