Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1886-10-29
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
UNWILLING LIBERTY.
The Demonstration at Bedloe's island
Witnessed by Over A MILL
ion Spectators. 49,. VI.
President Cleveland Accepts the Gift
of France in q Clever and
Interesting Speech.
Liberty Enlightening the W orld.

Liberty Enlightening the w orld
New YORK, Oct. 2S.-The wet and de-
pressing weather dampened the bunting,
but did not prevent about 100000 people
from taking part in the festivities accom-
panying the Inauguration of the Bartholdi
Statue OF Liberty to-day. President Cleve-
land and party left Secretary Whitney's
house at 10 O'Clock, and was escorted by
the Old Guard down Fifth Avenue to
a stand at Madison Square, where he was
presented to BarthOldi and other French
guests, and reviewed the various military
and civic bodies in the procession. The
party were then escorted to the steamer
Dispatch, which, accompanied by 100 other
vessels, started down the bay at D. IN.
The programme at Bedloe's Island began
with music. Prayer was then offered by
Rev. DR.. Richard o. Storrs, and Count Fer
dinand de Lesseps then delivered all ad-
dress on behalf Of the Franco-Americau
Union. Senator VIM. M. Evarts then made
sion of Senator Evart's speech the signal
was given and the veil was withdrawn
from the face of the statue amidst the
booming of cannon and shreking of whis-
ties from hundreds Of steamers and other
crafts gathered around the island. This
1NDESCRlBABLE OVATION
continued for fully half an hour. Senator
Evarts, then, when the firing and hooting
subsidized, introduced President Cleveland,
who, in accepting the statue, said:
The people of the United States accept
with gratitude from their brethren of the
French republic this grand and completed
work OF art. We here inaugurate this token
of affection and consideration Of the people
Nf or. knr lrs lNs nc
the republics and conveys to us the assur-
ance that in our effort to commend to man.
kind the excellence Of a government rest
ing upon the popular will, we still have
beyond the American continent a steadfast
ally. We are not here to-day to bow
and warlike god, filled with wrath and
vengeance, but we joyously contemplate
instead of our own duty keeping watch and
word before the open gates of America,
greater than all, that have been celebrated
in ancient Troy. OF grasping in her hand
the light which illuminates the way to
mans enfranchsement. We will not for
get that liberty has here made her home,
nor shall her chosen altar be neglected.
Willing vOtaries will constantly keep alive
its fires, and these shall gleam upon the
shores of our sister republic in the east, re-
Elected thence and joined with answering
rays, a stream of light shall pierce the
darkness of ignorance and mans oppres-
sion until liberty enlightens the world.
NJ. A. LEFEvRE,
minister plenipOtentiary, spoke as the
representative of the republic of France.
He said:
In the presence of so imposing an assem-
blage, and as prelude to the ceremony
which cOnsOlidateS the secular friendship
of two great nations, it is an honor and a
hearty pleasure to me to present to you in
the name of the French government and of
the entire French nation the sincere
ana YARN Of Of sy4mpahetie
of Europeans. who are daily conveyed
to these hOspitable shores, none will pass
before this glorious emblem without i'm
mediately perceiving the moral greatness,
and without greetingit with respect and
thankfulneSS.
THE MEMORIAL Address
was delivered by Hon. Chauncey MDe Pew,
and was brilliant effort. The audience
sang " Old Hundred" and the benediction
was pronounced by the Rt. Rev. Henry c..
Potter, d. D. A national salute from the
guns of all the forts, and all the men of
war in the harbOr closed the exercises.
The following poem was written by
John G. Whittier for the New York Inde-
pendent:
The land, that from the rule of kings,
In freeing us, itself made free, '..
Our old " orld sister, to us brings
Her sculptured dream of Liberty.
Unlike the shapes on Egypt's sands,
Uplifted by the toilworn slave,
On freedoms soil, with freeman's hands,
We rear the symbol free hands gave.
Oh France! the beautiful, to thee, .-
Once more debt of love we owe.
Iu peace, beneath thy feur de lis, "
We hail later Rochambeau.
Rise, stately symbol, holding forth
Thy light and hope to all who sit
In chains OF darkness; let the earth,
With watch fires from thy torch uplit
Reveal the primal mandate still, w..
Which chaos heard and ceased to be:
Trace on mid air the eternal will,
In signs Of fire, LET man be free"
Shine far, shine free-a guiding light
To reasons ways and yirtoc's aim
A Alightning flash the wretch to smite
Who shields his license with thy name.