Adams, O. A. - 1863

ADAMS

Posted By: Janice Sowers (email)
Date: 4/17/2005 at 15:56:12

NEW OREGON PLAIN DEALER September 11, 1863 P2 C3, a portion Reprinted in Twice-A-Week Plain Dealer Mar. 24, 1903, LP, C6

ANOTHER HERO GONE.--Again the "old flag" floats at half mast on the square! Another family circle is broken by the rude hand of death! Again the tender ties of family relation,--the sacred tie of husband and father has been snapped asunder! Another of the noble band of soldiers that went forth from this county "has fought his last battle," and "no sound can awake him to glory again"! Again are we called upon to mingle our sympathetic tear with those of a stricken and bereaved family. O. A. Adams is no more! Cold and stiff in the arms of death, his mortal remains lie buried far down in "Dixie." His immortal part has been called away where "the weary are at rest, and the wicked cease from troubling." The frenzied madness of a cruel and unnecessary war is being daily brought home to our people. No words of condemnation are sufficient for the fanaticism that forced upon our people and nation this bitter cup with its appalling terror and heart rending realities. When will the madness of fanaticism say to the angry passious of partizan cruelty "PEACE, Liberty and Union now and forever," proclaiming fraternity and brotherly love instead of extermination and eternal hatred as the natural relations we owe to each other throughout the length and breadth of the land?