The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1865-07-12
Restoration of the Battle Flag OF the
Tooth Ohio Regiment to the Toledo
Board of Trade Speeches of Colonel

At the Board of Trade Rooms, in Toledo, on Fri
day last, the blttle-alg of the Tooth Regiment o.
V. /. was returned to the Board, in whose custody
this treasured SEd untIrnshed emblem os tie no.
be services of brave men has be, n consigned.
For copy of the addresses on the occasion we are
indebted to the full report of the Toledo CORNER
ctal. The presentation made by our diStin-
gushed fellow citizen Colonel = S. Sleviu, former
commander of the regiment, accompanied by the
following patriotic reNaarkss
Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Board of Trade
Of Toledo The Tooth Ohio Volunteers have con
lidcd to me the pleasant task of committing its
battle flag to your care and custody. 1t is a very
pleasant duty because the object for which the
Tooth Regiment was sent ont from this place to
complish has ended-epdcd in the QgerthEow of+he
cause-ended an the Ogerthrow Of the rebellion
which called the lG9th to the field. II is very
pleasant ppder these circumstances-the end ac-
complished aud peace restored-to return the flag
to the care and keeping Of some Of the citizens
from whopl W. AcNst att 1t i pleasant, too, be-
cause eyerywhess Pti. tsst ~ .hisl land but all
over the globe, this Tag is honored, respected and
revered. If not loved by other ndtions, it is at
least feared and respected. thpplausel The
army and navy of this country lave wrung from
other nations an acknowledgment OF the great fact
that the American flag is to beFSspccted. Ne are
under no earthly obligations to other nations for
We have wruug these from them and we have
wIpng from those who, over four years ago, at
tempted to destroy Internationally of this govern
pept, the unwilling acknowledgment that the ma
ton cannot be destroyed. Applause Ii is fit
ting, then, that when we at peace at home and
abrcad-when there is no armed enemy anywhere
aEraTe1 against us-our soldiers in returning to
their homes should return to YOU their Gag. II
there was still an armed TebelliOn-ifa a necessity
existed for armed defenders of this aag-we would
pot EpU Gnrust il TO your care-nor to the care of
any other on this green earth. RhCp, say this, |
do not imnpgu your patriotism. ] do not mean to
say, that, occasion arising, you HoNld not prove
yourselves equally as brave as others. | cast nc,
rofectiqp ON your gallantry, but say this though
every taan of your Board possessed 4he bravery,
the heroism, the dash and the military genius of a
Sheridan, we would not commit this flag to your
eody, nor to any other, because its protection
would remain our highest earthly pride what re-
mains of the l0Oth would be sufficient to unfurl
still the flag and keep its fair front to the fight
and while there existed man to draw the sword
or handle musket in its defence, we could not re-
sign its care or custody 10 any other bndy of men
Op earth. And in committing this flag to your
care, ,itis emipently fuipg it should le here You,
gentlemen, represent the bushes interests Of tie
Great Nufthwest You represent thG interests
especially Of this military distrctyou have there
fore, representatives of the business affairs of
this community, great Interest in ii; aud whlle
committing tlas to yopr care, let me say word on
behalf aud in the name of the regiment which has
now, as military organization, passed out Of ex-
lstenee. The act of to-day may be SAID to be its
last official act and let ne RETURN in it, nare, to
you, and through yOp to the citizens of Toledo our
profouad thanks aud gratitude for tLe ever kind
solioitude displayed by EOU trQn tie da- we first
left your town, three years ago on the at df sep
tember next. From that day until the return of
the regiment, your most earnest Sympdthies your
warmest regards--the most unqualified evidences
u your affection followed us and we ever felt
chesEed aud animated and encouraged 10 increased
eXerhQps by the gratifying knowledge that whilst
we were1tghtng the Zoe, the people at home were
not unmindful-that their sympathies wore ex-
tended 10 the taTes Of the soldiers in the field
that these sympathics were ever active. The
knowledge Of ttis sustained the men who fought
10Y you, because they had the consciousness that
thongh they fell never to return to their homes
neversto see theirlpvef ones on this side of eter-
uitY's great day--they could cnmmt these loved
with the utmost confidence that :heir wives and
little ones should not be left to want. This sus-
tained them IN the In4rch--this encouraged them
tie battle field and while for their families
whom they loved, they longed they were consoied
in the face of all dangcrs by the interest they
knew you felt in their behaif. [Applause.l There
Is Inscribed On this batlle-Aag-aRd how ttly called
bAtlie1fag its uemoTiAls attest-ihcre is in
Selbed up this Tag record of battles which slall
live while history ii.es--which shalt be borne in
grateful remembrance az lang as there beats in
the huln2n heart fne sipgle pulsaton for Freedom
ana hieht The battles will be Vaymarks 10
which AL poste-ity will point as The great contests
OF hupian liberty against tyrapny and oppression
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