The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-05-02

Eew York Tribune, april 20,
Yestcrday'sparade and impressive GER
emonies were full Of suggestion to those
who look below the surface, and to whom
men are moro interesting than things,
and souls than bodies. The Nation,
whose century OF success In self.gov.
ernment assembled multitudes celebrate,
kindles the admiration not by It's terri.
torial expanse, It's growth in population
or in material wealth, but by the worthy
manhood which hundred years Of free.
dom have developed. AS the towering
Bartholdi statue reminded the Chief Ex-
ecutiye OF this Nation, on his way to this
city, that Liberty had indeed enlight-
ened the world, so the ships and the
buildings, the sights on water and on
land, were eloquent Of the progress
which the race has made through free
dom toward higher manhood.
Far down In the Bay the visitors were
greeted by the Kearsarge, and what
memories Of heroism and Of triumph
she must have arousedp Not merely
the vanishing OF the Alabama beneath
the waves, but the suppression Of human
slavery In a nation dedicated TO free.
dom. Other nations have made their
greatest struggles and most costly sacri.'
ices to hold or acquire territory, or TO
triumph over foreign foes, but the Re.
public's greatest war, during It's century
Of progress thus far, has been for the
freedom OF labor, the emancipation Of
mankind, the supremacy OF law.
Through all the day, historic names,
worn uniforms and tattered flags again
and again reminded the Citizen Soldier
who now fills the chair OF Washington
OF a strife in which he also had IN hon.
orable part, Of the sacrifices freely made
by millions OF citizens and the suffer.
ings freely endured, Of the grand hero.
ism developed and proved, and OF the
triumph Of a noble cause. But best OF
all, the blended standards OF Northern
and Southern States now bear witness
that viCtors and vanquished In that great
contest have become able to rejoice to-
gether that freedom and National unity
prevailed.
That was a quarter Of century ago,
but do heroism and noble manhood live
only In the veterans who are going down
the slope Of life? The blue Jackets who
man the warships In the Bay-are they
unworthy Of the glorious past7 Listen
only 10 the words OF the London Iele.
graph, which came but yesterday across
the seas, In comment upon the latest
proof OF American manhood In the hur
ricane at Apia:
ave do not know In all naval records
any sound which makes finer music
upon the ear than that cheer OF the
Trenton's men. II was distressed man
hood greeting triumphant manhood, The
doomed greeting the saved; 1t wa
pluCkier and more human than any CRY
ever raised upon tho deck OF victorious
line.oi.batttle.ship; II never can be for
gotten, and never must be forgotten b!
Englishmen speaking Of Americans"
The freedom which Yields into ont
great Nation the immigrants from ever
land, and klndles In all the ambition L
be worthy Of a glorious past and heroi
ancestry, has not lost It's power 10 ele
vate and ennoble, Nor Is the progress
sive manhood oil the Nation dlsplayeC
only In danger. From every part Of tn
Bay may be seen the flags which tell OF
service unknown century ago, I,
/ which all the advances Of science Contrl
butte, and by which the Nation strive
To save from danger and from loss b.
. warning oil coming storms. In the haI
Dor and on land may DO seen the build
I ings OF public charities, by which phi
} lAnthropy, scarcely known In its broade
manifestations century ago, strives !
, alleviate human suffering, 10 protect th
, millions against contaglon, 10 care 70
/ the homeless and helpless. Even III
splendid building III which th
President was received, pethap
b the most costly sLauCtufe In th
; city, belongs not 10 millionaires, but I
. the widows and orphans Of many thou
3 sand citizens, who have invested thef
d and elsewhere 500, 100000 Of savings 70
h the protection Of loved ones agginl
h want, These institutions, too, In whlc
8 more than 1000 900 Americans are 1t
d stirred for the benefit Of Others, tell
!. another progress during the last century
|, and a progress more rapid here than !
Q any other land, And even the ptOSal
% granite, guarded by soldiers, proteclln
}. \ nations treasury, at the corner oil Wa
% and Nassau, was eloquent 10 those VII
!. remembered that lie great store Of COL
n aud silver 10 the proof that q Nation
d lreO men has been found the only N
. ton on Garth Cheeriully 10 tax Itself 4
i q ,quatter o q century 10 redeem publ
n pledges and 10 reduce public debt.
y How We thlstviSw alOhatShI,
n BaiiM0t AMERICAN.
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