Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-06-22

anu Was CaitSu upou vhrh oAeaR WIN
was to be done and finally pierced by
minnie ball, while leading his division into
the shot and shell of the enemy at the
bloody fight of Leggett's Hill in the suburb
of Atlanta
Carried to -sar, he met Col. Richard
s Tuthill, whose presence now sdorns the
Judicial bench of this State and who was
then a commander Of batteries Of artillery
making their way to the front. The scene
was one of confusion of the tramping Of
horses boots and tls rafting OF artillery
and caissons dsshing into battle. Col
Tuthill turned aside q moment to General
Gresham, then bleeding on stretcher,
snd said inquiringly :"Are you hurt badly?'
The tight was not all ont of him yet, and
turning mis- pale face to see who made the
inquiry, be replied, "You had better hurry
batteries 10 the front. They are needed
there.n
He was placed in freight car and hurried
to the North. The next day he awoke
from q morphine sleep in dszsd condition
and said to a soldier 10 attendance:
Whose body is that?' pointing to cof'
fin in the same car with him. THAT Is
the dead body of your commander, Gan
Mcpherson" Thus the Commander OF
the Army and the Division Commander
had mingled their blood upon the red
field at Lsgsett's Hill. Wherever in all
the war the battles wreck lay thiekest
there was the manly form of Gen. Ores
ham, O type of enthusiastic heroism and
an inspiration to the soldier who followed
him. But it is not in his military career,
ard brilliant as that l., that we
find the browning reasons for his nomina-
ton. For him peace hath her victories
no less renowned than war" After his rels-
tons with the army were voluntarily
severed, be WAS called by President Arthur
into his Cabinet to the office of Postmaster
General. Here lie greatly promoted the
rapid expedition Of the mails, shortening
the time OF their transit across
the continent. He also aided 10 reducing
the letter, newspaper and parcels postage,
thereby saving millions to the people and
the dissemination Of htera-
ture aud intelligence. He was also the
first to vigorously enforce the United
States statutes against tie abuse OF the
mails by lottery vendors and other swind-
ling schemes 10y which the credulous and
weak minded were imposed upon and their
cor Ii ieuc, betrayed.
1t il, hoWeyer, in the discharge OF his
duties a. United States Judge that the
higher and crowniDg glories Of his charac-
ter appear The immage of justice among
the Greeks was represented as blindtolded,
holding the scales balanced in her hand,
bnt unable to see the rank
Of standing Of the parties be-
fore her. Judge Gresham has been
the living ideal Of the Grecian figure I'm
moved by the threatenings OF power, he
has gone straight on in the line OF his duty
to the integrity and right of the question
under consideration and has administered
Justice to the high and low, the rich aud
poor, with steady and impartial hand.
The contestants in one of the greatest rail-
road strikes that has arisen in our coun-
try have also been before him. By wise
and happy decision he administered exact
Justice to all, prevented the strike from
universal, public traffic from
being paraly zed, the nation from convulsion
and the most serious damage to an I'M
known number of individuals.
Wherever in all his life he has touched
it has been improved, beautitied
OF adorned. He has always had the happy
faculty of quietly doing the right thing at
the right time.
Under his leadership the campaign cry
will be ''Liye and Let Live" There will
be no attacks on capital and no attacks
npon labor, but the country will march on
With gigantic strides in settlement, deyel-
opmeut and growth. The true levelling
system will be adpoted Of making all men
equal before the law, and placingall mems
feet on a level. Then the tall man may
thank God for his height and the short
man must be contented with his shortness.
In personal characteristics, in the manner
and condition of his candidacy, and in his
relations to the presidential office, Judge
Gresham is more like Abraham Lincoln
than any any other living man. The
in his behalf, like the move
ment for Lincoln, is the spontaneous aud
unorganizsd action of the people. Like
Lincoln, Gresham is not working for the
office. He believes that this
exalted office should never be sought and
never declined. Like him, too, he believes
that causes which tend to great conse-
nuences should be left to work out
their results unaided, and that they
cannot be materially fastened or
improved by personal interference. Like
LINCOLN in character, the honest aud SIM
ole but robust, fearless in danger, full OF
Justice and of noble heart, he stands ont
m prominence as an ideal candidate.
May also be pardoned for saying IN this
august presence that back in 1919, at the
age of twenty-four, l first met Abraham
Lincoln, he being then forty-one. Ever
afterwards / sat at his feet rs Saul OF
Tarsus sat at the feet Of Gamaliel, and
was permitted as we walked together the
iourney of life to lean on his own great
arm for support. l watched his thought
ful face when the news first reached him
that he had received large vote for Vice
President ut Philadelphia when Fremont
and DAYTON were nominated, and when
the thought of great political preferment
first took root in his mind. know from
this intimate relation how confidence and
sympathy may exist between a great
leader and the people without either know
ing the other. can never forget how IN
moments of great doubt he agonized,
watched and listened for tokens Of guild
ancs from the common people, as the
mariner watches for the sun to
learn where he is and whittier
he is drifting. Through the dark
ness and mists of storm the same
sympathy and confidence exist between
Gresham and the people that existed be,
tween Lincoln and the people. His heart
also has beaten in sympathy with sons Of
toll. for he has labored with them IN sun
shine and in cold. He too has been pro
NOTED from their ranks and knows the
taste of poverty, and like them has earned
his bread ''in the sweat of his face" de
has never forgotten their lives Of privs
ton and self denial in their hard struggle
for existence. Whether bondman or free
men ne had that sublime faith IN theil
honesty and patriotism that like Lincoln
he was willing to have his body pierced
with bullets in their behalf. In the
souipoise of his character he has always
stood with his party for the protection Of
American labor against foreign compe'
tition, and has always believed IN fail
wages for fair work. He has advocated
PENSIONS for the manned, worn and de
pendent defenders of the Union. He know
nv experience how the rebel bullet tear
and hurts, fer he himself has been wound
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