The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-18
THE GRAFTON OF THE DAY.
A Comprehensive and Eloquent Address b
Rev. Bishop Fallows.

A Comprehensive and Eloquent Address by
Rev. Bishop FalIows
CLEVELAND Oct 17.-After the welcoming
address, and the response by General Sher-
man, Rev. Bishop Fallows, of Chicago, was
introduced as the orator of the morning
General Sherman remarking that "He was a
general, and is bishop; you can take your
choice of titles. I know he was brave and
gallant man in war; he is eloquent in peace
and I hope you will give him your close at
tention." Bishop Fallows spoke at consid-
cradle length, and was frequently inter
rupted by the heartiest applause. Liberal
extracts from his Grafton are appended. The
Bishop said:
"Our meeting at this time commentaries
one of the most important battles of the war
the battle of Corinth. 1t was a battle in
which the most splendid heroism was dis
played by the soldiers of the North and the
soldiers of the South 1t was a struggle
never exceeded during our civil contest, in
the concentrated determination and desper-
ate Yalor of the heroes and partisans of the
Confederacy against the heroes and patriots
of the Union.
"Over 10000 Confederate troops were
hurled against IS 900 men of the Army of
the Tennessee. Here we have wildly brought
before us (referring to large picture on the
stage, 2Ox24 feet, representing Fort Robi-
nette, the key to Corinth.'
Around it the fiery surges of that SAN
culinary conflict ragged. To hold it meant
victory for us; to lose it meant victory
for them One line of the Confeder-
ates sweep onward to the village. Stormed
at by shot and she'll, raked by grape and
canister in front and left, rained upon with
bullets, still they come with their faces
averted like men striving to protect them
selves against a driving storm of hail.
Nothing can resist the sheer momentum OF
that mass of men with faces of flint. with
nerves of steel, with purpose of adamant. The
conflict is now hand to hand. Sword clashes
against sword, bayonet locks and tugs with
bayonet. Muskets are clubs. The hand of
many one, dropping sword and musket,
grasps the throat of the foe. Steadily back
ward go our forces, overwhelmed by the
might of numbers Fort Richardson is the
enemv's General Rosecrans headquarters
are theirs. Shouts and yells seem to pro-
claim the victory theirs also.
But the Army of the Tennessee goes back
ward only to go forward. Animated by the
cheering presence and voice of their brave
commander, General Rosecrans, who leads
them in person, they spring forward at the
command Charge bayonets,' with a resistless
energy. Back to the headquarters, back to
Fort Richardson, forward toward the enc
my's camping-ground they go. High above
all tie roar of the conflict is heard the Union
shout of triumph, as Prices column shat
tered and scattered, seek the friendly tim
ber's protection. But the victory is not
won.
1.-The other line advances toward Fort Rob-
inette. That must be taken at all hazards.
Yet so fearful is the risk to face those MUIR
derous batteries of death, and those
unyielding men behind them, who feel the
very destines OF the nation may lie in their
ability to hold their position, that General
Price would not order the movement, but
called for volunteers to make the charge
Colonel Rogers and Colonel Ross at once
step forward and tender their brigades of
Texans and Mlssissippans for the attack. On
they come, never finching. Gaps are plowed
in their massive columns; they fill them up.
On they come. In flank and front winrows
of the dead and dying are piled up. On they
come. They are now but $50 feet from the
fort, when, full in their faces, the up-spring-
ing Ohio brigade pour their deadly musketry
fire and sweep them back. But on they comel
(Oh, intrepid men, if treason could ever have
been redeemed by valor it would have been
redeemed in that wild. magnificent charge
you made) On they come, to the base of the
fort; on they come. They are on the para
pet. They plant their flag on its very sum-
nit. They catch it as it is shot down, and
wave it with its splintered staff They are
inside the fort. They have won the key! Not
yet. The Ohio brig ade repels them. ''Charge!'
is til undered to the Eleventh Missouri and
the Twentyseventh Ohio. Back they go.
Back to the base of the fort, back over the
parapet back to the woods; broken like
wave dashed upon the rock, and another star
CLEANS in the crown of the Army of the Ten
nessee.
THE PRINCIPLE OF THE WAR.
'Principles take the lead and strike the
keynote of all our gatherings, and 'princi-
Piles have no modesty, we are told. They are
bottommost, uppermost, foremost and per-
petual by their own inherent and ever
asserting royalty. And principles speaking
with kingly authority through the persons
whom they rule with despotic sway in these
soldiers assem- bles say We are here to put
an everlasting premium upon patriotism,
and and everlasting discount upon disloyal-
ty.' The men who are here tonight to take
each other by the hand and live over again
the eventful past went to the defense of the
peoples government They went from the
people and returned, covered with honor
and glory, to the people. whose great heart
never failed nor was discOuraged-the peo-
pie who did not so much reflect as create the
sentiments of their chosen rulers. The most
daring, chvalrous soldier simply caught
a portion of the grander spirit of that
heroic people. who in the strength of God,
determined that since the issue was forced
upon them, there should be mo State out of
the Union and no slave in it, When Gen
eral Grants health was proposed on the
Fourth of July, at Hamburg, in his tour
around the world, as the man who saved the
country he said in his response What
saved the country was the coming forward of
the young men of the nation. They came
from their homes and their fields, as they did
in the time of the revolution, giving every
thing to their country. To their devotion we
owe the salvation of the Union. The hum
blest soldier who carried musket is entitled