Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-06-30
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Our regular or permanent army is the
nucleus which In time of peace preserves
the military traditions of the nation, as well
| as the organization, science, and instruction
Indispensable to modern armies. 1t may
be regarded as coeval with the nation. 1t
derives its origin from the old continental
and state lines of the Revolution, whence,
with some Interruptions and many changes,
1t has attained its present condition. In
fact, we may with propriety go even be-
yond the Revolution to seek the roots of
our genealogical tree In the old French
wars; for the cisatlantic campaigns of the
seven years. war we're not confined to the
'red men scalping each other by the great
lakes of North America;o and 1t was In
them that Uur ancestors first participated as
Americans in the large operations of civil
lied armies. American regiments then
fought on the banks of the st. Lawrence
and the Ohio, on the shores of Ontario and
Lake George, in the islands of the Caribbean
and In South America. Louisbnrg, Que
| bee, Duquesne, the Moro and Porto Bello
attest the valor Of the provincial troops,
and in that school were educated such SOL
diers as Washington, Putnam, Lee, Mont
gomery and Gates. These and men like
Greene, Knox, Wayne and Steuben were
the fathers of our permanent army, and
under them our troops acquired that discip-
line and steadiness which enabled them to
meet upon equal terms and often to defeat
the tried veterans of England. The study
of the history of the Revolution and pc
rusal of the dispatches of Washington, will
convince the most skeptical of the value Of
the permanent army in achieving our in
dependence, and establishing the civil edi-
flee which we are now fighting to preserve.
The war of 1912 found the army on foot
ing far from adequate to the emergency,
but it was rapidly increased, and of the new
generation of soldiers, many were found
equal to the requirements of the Occa-
sion. Lundy's Lane, Chippewa, Queens
town, Plattsburg, New Orleans, all
bear witness to the gallantry of the regu-
lars. Then came an interval of more than
thirty years of external peace, marked by
many changes in the organization and
strength of the regular army. and broken
at times by tedious and bloody Indian wars.
Of these the most remarkable were the
Black Hawk war, in which our troops met
unflinchingly a foe as relentless and far
more destructive than the Indians-that
terrible scourge, the cholera-and the te-
dious Florida war, where, for so many
years, the Seminoles eluded in their pesti-
| lential swamps our utmost efforts, and in
which were displayed such traits of hero
ism as that commemorated by yonder mon
ument to Dade and his command, when 'all
fell save two, without an attempt to re-
treat" AT last came the Mexican war to
replace Indian contests and the monotony
of frontier service, and for the first time in
many years the mass of the regular army
was concentrated, and took the principal
part in the battles of that remarkable and
romantic war. Palo Alto, Resaca, and Fort
Brown were the achievements of the regu-
lars unaided; and as to the battles of Mon
| terey, Buena Vista, Vera Cruz, Cerro Cor
do and the final triumphs in the valley,
none can truly say that they could have
been won without the regulars. When
peace crowned our victories in the capital
of the Montezumas, the army was at once
dispersed over the long frontier, and en-
gagged in harassing and dangerous wars
with the Indians of the plains. Thus thir-
teen long years were spent, until the pres
ent war broke out and the mass of the ar
my was drawn in to be employed against
domestic foe.
can not proceed to the events of the re-
cent past and present without adverting to
the gallant men who were so long of our
number, but have gone to their last home /;
for no small portion of the glory OF which
we boast was expected from such men as
Taylor, Worth, Brady, Brooks, Totten and
Duncan.
There is sad story OF Venetian history
that has moved many heart, and often
employed the poets pen and painters pen
ell. 1t is of an old man whose long life
was gloriously spent in the service of the
State as a warrior and statesman, and who,
when his hair was white and his feeble
limbs could scarce carry his bent form to-
ward the grave, attained the highest honor
that Venetian citizen could reach.
He was DOge of Venice. Convicted of
treason against the state, he not only lost
his life but suffered besides penalty which
will endure as long as the name of Venice
is remembered. The spot where his por-,
trait should have hung in the great hall of
the Doge's palace was veiled with black,
and there still the frame remains with its
black mass of canvass; and this vacant frame
is the most conspicuous in the long line of
effigies of illustrious Doges! oh, that such
pail as that which replaces the portrait of
Maurino Faliero could conceal from history
the names of those, once our comrades, who
are now, in arms against the flag under
which we fought side by side in years gone
by. But no vail, however thick, can cover
the anguish that fills our hearts when we
look back upon the sad memory of the past
and recall the affection and respect we el-'
tertained toward men against whom it is
now our duty to act in mortal combat
Would that the courage, ability, and stead
fastness they display had been employed in
the defense of the stars and stripes against
a foreign foe, rather than in this fatuitous
and unjustifiable rebellion, which could not
have been SO long maintained but for the
skill and energy of these our former COM
rades.
GENERAL SCOTT.
But we have reason tC- rejoice that upon
this day en- sacred and eventtiSl- Cor uS, ono
grand mortal monument of the past sill
lifts high his head among us, and should
have graced by his presence the consecra-
tion of this tomb by his children. We may
well be proud that we are here commanded
by the hero who purchased victory with
his blood near the great waters of Niagara;
who repeated and eclipsed the achieve
ments of Cortes; who, although a consum-
mate and confident commander, ever pre-
ferred, when duty and honor would permit
the olive branch Of peace to the blood-stain-
ed laurels of war; and who stands at the
close of long, glorious and eventful life,
a living column of granite, against which
have beaten in vain alike the Establishments
and storms of treason. His name will ever
be one of our proudest boasts and most
moving Inspirations. ia si.piars, ial,
In long distant ages, when this incipient
monument has become venerable, moss
clad, and perhaps ruinous; when the names
upon 1t shall seem to those who
pause to read them indistinct mement0s Of
an almost mythical past the name of Win