Excerpt from An Oration Commemorative of the Restoration of the Union: With a Tribute to the Alumni and Under-Graduates of the College of New Jersey, Who Fell in the National Struggle; Delivered Tuesday, June 26th, 1866, at the Request of the Trustees of the College
But, notwithfianding the impulses of a loyal and greatful heart move us to a cordial participation in this service, and strong confiderations commend it to us as a duty, yet, we will confefs, it presents to us a task most difficult to execute. We are not invited now, as so Often we have rejoiced to be, to unite in acknowledged sympathy with the unani mous American people, in celebrating the rescue Of our liberties from invafion and def’truction by power, affaulting from without, dire ted and urged against our national life and being by natural and common enemies. That would prove a task as plain and easy as it is familiar. But we are called to signalize the preservation Of our country from dismemberment, our Government from difintegra tion, by forces upheaving from within, evoked and impelled by our alienated countrymen and fellow citizensf We commemorate the refioration of the Union, remembering, as we must forever, that It IS the issue Of a civil war. We cannot hail the grand result without a note Of triumph, which sounds as well the defeat Of brethren. May we then revive the memory Of domefiic war, and celebrate a vic tory over our kindred? Will such recolleciion and exultation be magnanimous?
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