The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-05-03
THR GRAND ARMY OF THE REPVBLIC
The Stirring Speech of Commander War
ner at Camp Fire In New York

ner ~ n camp Hne IN WV Ae.N
NEW YoRE, May 2,-AIsior William
Warner, Of Kansas City, Commander
in, Chief Of the Grand Army Of the Re
public, was present yesterday afternoon
at a grand campfire organized by the
various posts Of New York and Brook
lyu and held at salyer's park, Major
Warner when called for speech rose
and said;
CoNRApEs:-We have a wonderful
country. left Missouri few days ago,
and then left as plain Major Warner. In
less than four days find all around New
York that ! am q General, position
which indeed should like TO have oc'
Cupied In time gone by, But no matter,
] am now dubbed here General, and !
fear II stay much longer In New York
| may reach that greater and more pow
erful title Of "Boss," [Applause,l II Is
indeed an agreeable surprise to me In
the midst Of all these festivities, in the
presence oi such pageant as no citizen
has ever seen before, that you have
found time to pay your compliments 70
one who amounts to no more 10 the
ranks than any other comradO, but l
well know that II Is your love TO the
grandest civic organization the world
has ever seen that urges you on IN this
demonstration,
When, Just now, spoke Of the mag,
ni6Cent display In your grand city l did
not say all wanted to say, At the very
outset desire TO state that yield 70 no
man in my reverence for George Wash
inston, When the historian Of the
future, however, shall have written the
history OF this American republic he
will speak first OF It's establishments and
next Of the brave men Of 1851 up to 1865,
who saved the Republic. Applausel
The day is fast coming when justice will
be done to these men, [applausel, and
the time will come when the veterans
will not be relegated to the rear, In
tense applause. It will then be ac-
knowledged by all that this county can
never repay the debt due 10 these men.
II l know anything, this Grand Army
Of the Republic Is the one place where
millionaire and mechanic who fought
the battles Of the country meet on a
common platform. As TO the South,
we bid them all God speed, Therp is no
chasm between us, [Applausel We
have but one country, one dea.
tiny only, but want to
use the language OF our grand field
marshal Grant. Every mother in South |
Carolina US well as in Massachusetts
should teach the child on her knees that
loyalty is a virtue and treason q crime,
Applause. Yes, comrades, in 1856 the
Nation sang your praises. Now you are
getting old and wo must close Up our
ranks from the Atlantic to the Pacific,
but / don't want us TO become beggars
and We will not be beggars. The loyalty |
Of the country isUoming on. The boys are
coming. They will hold the fort for us,
One more word about this celebration
here.
On Monday last that great giant Of our
armies, the man who overtops them all
said to me: "Warner, you are notgoing
to let the grand army march, are you ?"
! replied that l had nothing to do with |
the arrangements and the same old
brave soul said; ''The grand army
ought to stand as q guard OF honor near
the President and review the boY that
are now learning how TO march," And
the man who thus spoke was our own
William Tecumseh Sherman who
marched from Atlanta to the sea. Deaf
enfnp apDlause.T