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.a united country. WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 1924 19 Asks Citizens to Dedicate Selves to Col. Sprague Delivers Stir- ing Message at Winnetka Common Editor's Note: Out of consideration for those who were unable to attend the Memorial Day exercises on the Vil- lage Common, WINNETKA TALK is pleased to publish herewith the address of the day given by Col. A. A. Sprague, distinguished World War hero and can- didate for the United States Senate from Illinois. Col. Sprague's talk, which was based fundamentally on the fam- ous Lincoln Gettysburg speech, appealed for dedication by the citizenry of the nation "to the unfinished work which they who had fought have thus far so nobly advanced." Every reader of WIN- NETKA TALK will want ot review and meditate over this address at leisure. You have listened to the reading of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Those words belong to the ages and will be read as long as the nation endures. For they helped to establish this day as a memorial celebration and a day of dedi- cation. They form a chain of noble ideas. Each link is worthy our best thought. One sentence particularly appeals to us to- day. He said, "It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the un- finished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced." There was an unfinished task. There is still an unfinished task. It is great and difficult. It challenges all the strength of our manhood and woman- hood today. It demands the best efforts of the generation that comes after us. Others who are boys and girls now, must take up the responsibility of gov- ernment where we leave off. These boys and girls should learn this lesson, that no matter how many failures in govern- ment there may be, this government does represent the struggles and sacrifices of millions of men and women who have served it with no selfish purpose . Peace Has Problems A great work remained to be done when Peace was declared at the close of the Civil War. Peace has its prob- lems. They were almost as difficult as those of War. Our soldiers fought to prevent a divided nation and to preserve What they accom- plished by arms they had to preserve by effort. Their sacrifices would be use- less unless the energy of war had been diverted to the work of peace and re- construction. For each new generation would have to face the problem anew. This was done by the united efforts of the North and the South. On all sides were the evidence of the wastage of war. But with a firm resolve that the great unfinished work must be com- pleted, North and South alike took up their burdens, destroyed their hatreds and built the foundations of our national unity. The Great Readjustment There was a readjustment and recon- ciliation between the North and the South which had to be effected by the same generation which fought the war, because if that generation died unrec- onciled and bequeathing its resentments and hatreds to a younger generation, the undertaking would have been almost hopeless. I want to read you a letter that came from a great general of the Confeder- ates to a great general of the Union Forces almost forty years after the Civil War was finished: "Unfinished Task" Washington, September 19, 1902. "General D. E. Sickles, Gettysburg, Pa. My dear General Sickles: "My plan and desire was to meet you at Gettysburg on the interesting cere- mony attending the unveiling of the Slocum monument, but today I find my- self in no condition to keep the promise made you when last we were together. I am quite disabled from a severe hurt in one of my feet, so that I am unable to stand more than a minute or two at a time. "Please express my regrets to the noble Army of the Potomac, and accept them especially for yourself. "On that field you made your mark that will place you prominently before the world as one of the leading figures of the most important battles of the Civil War. As a northern veteran once re- marked to me, 'General Sickles can well afford to leave a leg on that field, and I believe that it is now conceded that the advanced position at the Peach Or- chard, taken by your Corps and under your orders, saved that battlefield to the Union cause. "It was the sorest and saddest reflec- tion of my life for many years; but today I can say, with sincerest emotion, that it was and is the best that could come to us all--North and South--and I hope that the nation,reunited, may al- ways enjoy the honor and glory brought to it by that grand work. "Please offer my kindest salutations to your Governor and your 'fellow-com- rades of the Army of the Potomac. 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