The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-10-16
DOMESTIC NEWS.
Uuyeiiiux the Lincoln Statue.

for the next meeting, which will be helt
September 90 and 80, 1876.
General Thomas G. Fletcher, of Maine
was elected orator.
The Society then adjourned to partici
pate in the ceremonies of unyeiling tn,
Lincoln statue at Oak Ridge cemetery.
The procession began to form at Il
o'clock, Governor Beveridge acting a
Grand Marshal. President Grant, &C
companied with Secretary Belknap, oc
cupied the carriage at the front of th'
procession, preceded by military banc
from Newport barracks, accompanied
by military organization Of this city
Next came Rev. DR.. Hale, an old friend
of President Lincoln, and Bishop Way
man, colored, and in other car
riages rode Vice President
Wilson, with Secretary Powell Courton
and w. G. Foster, members Of Parlia
ment Of England; Generals Mcdowell
and Custar and Hon. j. X. Dubois with
Mrs. Grant and Mrs. Governor Beveridge
General Sherman marched on foot at the
head of the Society of the Army of the
Tennessee, and following was long
array Of military and civil societies
They arrived at the cemetery at one p
NJ, where not less than 25,OOO persons
were assembled. After the playing of
the Dead March by the band, Bishop
Wayman made fcrvent and eloquent
prayer, and choir Of singers chanted
with "Malice toward none, with charity
toward all"
The Hon. Jesse K. Dubois then read
a historical sketch Of the Lincoln Monu-
ment Association, and the result of it:
labors, concluding as follows: By the
liberal contributions of a grateful nation
We have been enabled to provide Suita,
BILE place for the remains Of one OF the
wiscst and purest men known to our
national history. There may they rest
in peace.
The statue was then unveiled, and Sen
ator Oglesby delivered an eloquent ora.
tion, at the close of which an immense
as,emblage quietly dispersed.
Grafton OF Ex-Governor OgIesby.
The Grafton of ex-(iovrrnor Oglesby
WAS an eloquent tribute TO the memory
of the dead President, giving faithful
sketch of his public life and service, to
the country and noting the most striking
events of his administration of the affairs
of the nation, and concluding rs follows;
"If history shall become ungrateful and
moral obligations cease to respond to the
calls of Justice and patriotism in that
race to which he WAS born, his fame will
still be safe with another race
of four millions with their
countless desccnts of free-born children
holding his memory in precious rev.
erence, sing anthems of praise and graf
itudc to his name forever.
Tn. commencement of his second term
rs President of the United States and
the close of the rebellion came closely
together. do not know that the time
or place is fitting for an examination OF
the course likely to have been taken by
him upon the questions Of what is now
known as reconstruction. 1t Is time to
say, from the great hold he had
upon the hearts Of the people and their
immovable confidence in him, conf
dence, perhaps, enjoyed by no President
from Washington down to his own
time any plan maturcly considered and
seriously put forward by Lincoln, would
have met with favor, and, it is probable
would have been adopted by the people
He was IA MercifnI and Forgiving
Man.
He prsmptly ratified the generous terms
of surrender, dictated by his humane and
victorious General; his proclamation OF
pardon and amnesty of December 1863
granted with the restoration OF all prop
erty rights; the right to vote to all, with
certain specified exceptions, as CLASSES
who had been in the rebellion, and would
subscribe AN oath To the support of
the Constitution of the United States
and union Hereunder, and faithfully
abide bv and support all acts of Congress s
and pr0clamations ofthe President, hav-
ing reference to slaves. This, 1t must be
remembered, WAS during the war, but
now that peace had come, by the sur
render and not by compromise as IN
1861, actual rebellion had released him
from the policy of leaving slavery to the
States, and in time allowed him to NOV
forward to emancipation, So in 1863 com.
pulsory submission would have released
him from terms proposed in 1863
and permitted him to move forward
to higher and broader grounds. In adj
dition to the great facts that the circum'
stances ofthr white and colored popu
lstion had, at the close of the war, entire
" changed, and the glimpses on severa
occasions given Of the purpose OH In
part TO favor II most enlightened and
liberal policy rs to all, SO AS
TO rcunitc the country on u just and
enduring basis. stood the great fact that
in 1861, he said:
lie Had Rather be AssasstnRted thar
Surrender the Sentiment I'm the
Declaration OF Independence,
that all men are created free and equal
|, is not likely that at the close of n con
test in which that principle had beer
saved. and for the first time applied t'
the whole country, he would deny I,
either those who laid down thell
arms against the government "'
those who had used then
in its preservation, the fullest right com
plicd with and covered by the broad
declaration that all men are equal. Who
shall forget that memorable scene in III,
city of Richmond, which ought to b'
cherished and pcrpetuated forever, a
part of the history Of the closing days o.
the strife, where the great and good man
his heart swelling with modest pride
leading his little son by the hand through
the desc ted Streets of the oni'
proud capital of treason and
habolIinp once more the flag of hi
country in place of strange and usurp
ing one, restored to its rightiul dominion
over an undivided Union. Grateful Il
Almighty God that in his own good time
peace had returned to divided and sor
rowing people, cheered and animated