The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-07-05
GENERAL GARFIELD.
MAKES A BRIEF rArnIor1o spEEcn,
Assists In Defeating soldiers, Monu.
ment at Painesyille, o., and Dimes
with Eight Hundred
Lake County
soldiers.

CLEVELAND, O., July ga monumen
at Painesville, to the Lake County SO
diers, wasdedicated to-day in the presenc
ofan immensegathering Of people. Speech
es were made by Mayor Burroughs, E. v
smalley, Of the New York Tribune, Hon
I. W. Harvey, Hon. ]. D. Cox and Gen
eral Garfield, who was accompanied from
Mentor to Painesville by his wife ant
Major Bundy, OF New York, and Others
General Garfield dined with eight hundred
soldiers, and was received with grea
cheering. -Hespoke as follows:
FEL:ow.clTlzRHs, applause III can no
fail to respond a voice, "BrayoW OF
such an occasion, in sight OF such monu
ment to such cause, sustained by suct
men. Applause and cheers. While
have listened to what my friend has said
two questions have been sweeping through
my heart. One was, "What does the
monument mean?" and the other, "What
will the monument teach?" Let me try
and ask you for moment to help me to
answer what does the monument mean
Oh, the monument means world oi
memories, and a world OF deeds, and a
world OF tears, and a world OF glories.
You know-thousand know-what II is
10 offer up your life 10 the country, and
that is no small thing, as every soldier
knows. Let me put the question to you
for moment, suppose your country IN
the awfully embodied form OF majestic law,
should stand above you and say, 81 want
your life, come up on the platform and
offer 1t, how many would walk up before
that majestic presence and say, "Hers l
am, take this lie and use 1t for your great
needs" [applausel, and yet almost two
millions OF men made that answer ap-
plausel, and monument stands yonder
TO commemorate their answer. That Is
one ofits meanings.
But, my friends, let me try you little
further. To give up life Is much, for 1t is
TO give up wife and home and child and
ambition. But let me test you this way
further. Suppose that awfully majestic
form should call out 10 you and say, ~
ask you TO give up health and drag your
self, not dead, but half alive, through a
miserable existence for long years, until
you perish aud die in your crippled and
hopeless condition. ask you 10 volun-
teer to do that, andit calls for higher
reach Of patriotism and self.sacriice; !" but
hundreds OF thousands OF you soldiers did
that. That Is what the monument means
also.
But let me ask you to go one step fur
thur. Suppose your country should say,
Come here on this platform, and in my
name and for my sake consent to be
idiots; [voices, Hear, hear;'1 consent
that your very brain and intellect shall be
broken down into hopeless idiocy for my
sake" how many could be found to make
that venture? And yet thousands, and
that with their eyes wide open to the hor-
rible consequences, obeyed that call. And
let metell how l00, 900 OF our soldiers were
prisoners OF war, and many OF them, when
death was stalking near, when famine was
climbing up into their hearts, and idiocy
was threatening all that-was left of their
intellects,-the gates OF their prison stood
open every day II they would quit, desert
their flag, and enlist under the flag OF the
enemy; and out OF $50, 900 not two per cent
ever received the liberation from death,
starvation, idiocy. All that might come to
them, but they took all these horrors and
all these sufferings preference to going
back upon the flag Of their country and
the glory OF its truth. Applause. Great
God was ever such measures OF patriot
ism reached by any man upon this earth
before? [Applause.l
That Is what your monument means.
By the subtle chemistry that no man
knows all the blood that was shed by our
brethren, all the lives that were devoted,
all the grief that was felt at last crystal
lied itself into granite, rendered immortal
the great truth for which they died lap
plause), and 1t stands there to-day, and
that Is what your monument means.
Now what does it teach? What will 1t
teach? Why, remember the story OF one
Of the old conquerors OF Greece, who,
when he had travelled in his boyhood
over the battle.felds where Miltiades had
won victories and set up trophies, return.
ing he said: "These trophies OF Niiltiades
will never let me Sleep" Why2 Some
thing had taught him from the chiseled
stone a lesson that he could never forget,
and, iellow.citizens, that silent sentinel,
that crowned granite column will look
down on the boys that will walk these
streets for generations to come, and will
not let them sleep when their country
calls them. Appiause, More than the
bugler on the field, from his dead lips will
20 out call that the children OF Lake
county will hear after the grave has GOV.
cred us all and our immediate children.
That is the teaching OF your monument.
That is Its lesson, and 1t is the lesson oil
endurance for what we believe in, and 1t
is the lesson oisacriice for what we think.
the lesson OF heroism for what we mean
to sustain, and that lesson can not be lost
to a people like this.
1t Is not lesson OF revenge; It Is not a
lesson Of wrath; It Is the grand, sweet,
broad lesson OF TIE immortality OF the
truth that we hope will soon cover, as
with the grand sheEinah oilight aud glory,
all parts OF this Republic, from the Lakes
to the Gull. [Applause.
/ once entered house in old Massachu-
sets, where over its doors were Two
crossed swords; one was the sword car
ried by the grandfather OF It's owner on
the field OF Bunker Hill, and the other
was the sword carried by the English
grandsire OF the wife on the same field and
on the other side Of the conflict. Under
those crossed swords in the restored har-
mony Of domestic peace, lived a happy
and contented and free family under the
light OF our Republican liberties. Ap-
plause.l trust the time is not far dis.
tant when, under the crossed swords and
the locked shields OF Americans, North
and South, our people shall sleep in peace
an drise in liberty, love and harmony un.
der the union oi our flag Of the stars aud
stripes"
Agricultural Reports for June.