The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-09-13
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ADDRESS OF WELCOME BY GEN. CARL
sCHURZ.
GENERAL SHERIDAN: / have been
honored with the pleasant Office of bid
ding you welcome to this city and this
State. 1t is a strange task for me to
praise n man TO his face. / am not
skilled in the art of tiattery, and what
| shall say to you l shall speak in the
name of the State and city authorities
thousands of loyal men who throng
around you TO pay you the tribute of
their esteem; and from the bottom Of
my own heart. [Cheers.l
TO see II great and successful soldier,
returning victorious from the fields of
his exploits, greeted by enthusiastic
acclamations of the people, is by no
means an extraordinary spectacle. This
demonstration can, therefore, not be
surprising to you, for the applause of
the world was never more richly de-
served. The names of Cedar Creek :,
Fishers Hill, the Five Forks, will live
in the grateful memory of the American
people as long rs the Republic lives
they will shine in history as long as his
tory is written and read. Long after
the rest of us will be dead and gone and
forgotten, Sheridan's rides and sabre
strokes will be celebrated in the songs
and romances of this land, and SheTi-
dams name will be the synonym of all
that is brave, and daring, and noble, and
irresistible.
AS the knight without fear and re-
proRch, AS the Chevalier Bayard of the
great American war, Gen. Sheridan, we
welcome you. tCheers.l
But in you, sir, the people see more
than merely a man who can WELD a
sword ride down hostile battalionS, and
handle an army on the rough edges of
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glorious model of the american soldier
-[cheersl-in the soldier who is no
mere unthinking machine in the hands
OF superior will, but who knows
what he is lighting Tor, and whose
brave soul will never rest until the vic
tory OF his arms has received its true
value in the assured triumph OF II
great cause. [Great npplause.l Inyou
they honor the man whose eagle eye
not only never failed to seize the deci-
siVe moment on the field OF battle, but
seized with equal certainty the decisive
point of the great problem of our days.
Not only as the bold rider of Winches.
ter and the hero of the Shenandoah
Valley and the Five Forks, but AS the
hero of the Fifth Military District,
Gen. Sheridan, We welcome you. lAp-
plause.
If report speaks truly, General, and L
believe it does, you have never been an
active political partisan. What way in
DAYS gone by your Sympathis leaned, l
do not know. But one thing l do know;
when you took mp your sword to fight
for the integrity OF the great American
Republic, you threw your whole heart
into the fight; you fought for Repuo-
lie destined TO be the embodiment OF all
that is great and noble and just in the
progressive ideas of this century. And
when you were sent to the far South to
accomplish your task in the great work
of pacitication and reconstruction, you
went there resolved to see with the eyes,
10 hear with the ears, to feel with the
heart OF an honest man. Whatever
preiudices you may have carried With
you-iI YOU carried Any-yOu opened
your mind widely to the light of truth,
and it WAS truth thst came out of your
mouth, You brave!Y acted upon your
own convictions under the laws of the
country a. an honest man, whom no
hattory could seduce, whom no faVOrs
could buy. and whom no trOwns could
! frighten. We greet You, therefore, not
as partisuns, but as honest men stretch
ing out their hands to an honest man.
And now, AS the man of honor, who
! was true 10 his country in being true TO
himself, who knowing the truth dared
to speak it, General Sheridan, We well
come you. LCheers.l
As an honest man, sir, you have
exploits as a soldier. You have not
only shown to the enemies of the GOun.
try the inviunlbility of your arms. bur
the very men who hate you, you have
forced TO respect and esteem you in
spite of themselves. [Good and cheers.
Even now voices are coming up from
the South, voices of men who abnor the
authority you exercised, voices which
say: we detost the laws which placed
him over us, but Sheridan is Il man.
CCheers.l You, sir, have shown them
what true chivalry is; thatit does, not
consist in whipping Il negro or in shoot
ing down a man who offers you a slight
on the street; but in vindicating the
majesty of just laws, in respecting and
| making respected the rights OF the
mesnest, in bringing to naught the
willy designs of the aggressor, in humb-
| ling the naughty, and in taking the
weak and lOwly by the hand aud lift
| ing him up. CCheers.l As the true
| representative of American chivalry,
! General Sheridan, we welcome you.
Dark as the horizon may appear, the
| day ls not very far ofwhe zen the struggles
we are now passing through will lie
/ behind us in the records of history; the
| day when the whole American nation,
! North and South, willingly recogniZ-
/ ing the beneficent results OF this great
/ revolution, will again be united hand
aud heart; when the Republic will
throw her broad shield over the civil
and political rights OF all her citizens,
I whatever their birthplace, creed, or
complexion, and when The people OF all
these States, the people in the broadest
sense of the word, will again go on
growing and prospecting in the loyal
texercise OF local self-government.
lICheers.l Yes, it Will come, in spite OF
The rebels who have lost their fight but
did not lose their rancor, in spite OF the
insidiuus intrigues which seek to delay
tit will come, Then, General, you
will gather your proudest laurels oftri.
umph. The people Of Louisiana and
Texas will say: Blessed be the day
which gives us the secure reign ol
hearty loyalty and impartial Justice,
and blessed be Sheridan, who so brave.
ly broke the ground. [Good, and
States will Ioyfully repeat what they
already say: AS the gleam OF Sheri.
dams steel showed US the road to victo'
ry, so the CLEAN OF SheridRn's mind
showed us the road to peace. ICheers..
As the champion of peace through jus
tics, as the representative OF the popu'
lar thought General Sheridan, we vel
come you. ..-
And now, General, look at the thou.
sands assembled here to do you honor
There is scarcely civilized country on
both hemispheres which is not repre-
/ sented here. You see the american
white or black, proud that his country
calls you his son. You see the Irish.
man, proud that your ancestors called
the green isle their home. You see the
German, the Frenchman, the Scandi'
navian, the Englishman, the Hunga'
: riau, the Pole, the Bohemian, the Ital.
ian, the Spauiard, proud of being united
with You in common citizenship and IL
their enthusiastic zeal for n great com.
mon cause, proud of having fought, and
ever ready 10 6ght again with you.
Every civilized language bids you
WELDON q here, and unites in the sol
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