The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-09-19
senator InEals' Address at the Un-


senator ingalls,, Address at the Uns
yelling or the Grant Mon
Following is the speech of Senator
Ingalls, at the unwilling of the Grant
monument as Fort Leavenworth last
week. On coming forward he said:
General Merritt and Ladies and
Gentlemen-The onward and upward
march of humanity has never been de-
layed for the want of prophet to pre-
dict triumph, a poet to voice its as
plratiors, or a leader to marshal and
direct potential and resistless energies.
When the crisis comes the man ap-
pears-often unannounced like John
the Baptist, Behold voice crying in
the wilderness Great men are the
products of great events. The occa-
sion always precedes the hero. 1t is
the opportunity which makes the gen.
eral, the admiral, the orator. If Rome
had been a nation of slaves Cesar
would have been impossibls. Yelling
ton did not cause Waterloo. Nelson
was not the cause of Trafalgar, and if
neither had lived Napoleon would not
have died at Helena and England re-
manned the mistress of the seas. The
Declaration of Independence was the
ptSSlOndbo CAy VI VIC POOPtO Gnu q IL
suit of the compact made in the cabin
of the Mayflower.
1--WE have assembled in this historic
place, beneath this autumnal sky amid
the beneficent fruition of nature and
with impressive ceremonies TO unveil
the efligy of the great military chief
tain who directed the struggle for in-
dependence and nationality. When
the contest was begun there was no
one in the republic who anticipated
the achievements or who prophesied
He had not participated in the prelim-
mary intellectual combat. He had
abandoned the military profession in
early life without having made any
profound impression on his comrades
in arms. He had no sympathy with
the passions which precipitated the
war. He had passed the middle period
of his years and was waiting in obScur-
| ity and poverty. He had no powerful
or influential friends. He Possessed
no ailuring personal qualifications and
had none of that thrift which follows
| faWning.' He was shy. silent. retir-
| ing. respondent, yet in the brief inter
val between Belmont and Appomattox
he entered on that fame which knows
no dying. Critics may question his re-
Iative rank with great captains of the
world, but his career is stately pro-
/ cesSion of unbroken triumphs. He
stood that test of genius-he was eoual
| TO every emergency by which he ever
was confronted. He was called to the
highest position in the nation. Ma
tions loss up TO do him honor as he
stood with monarchs in their capitals.
And when at last on the frontier OF
that dark region which we are all ap.
preaching and confronted with infinite
danger he bore with infinite fortitudt
aud encountered the only antagonist
he could not conquer
Mr.. ingalls, told in eloquent words
of the removal of the remains of Gen
eral Grant from Mount McGregor t.
New York. where, through all this
sOmber drapery OF woe. flashed anf
famed the glory of the flag.
The tiagls said Mr.. ingalls,. ssThs
flagl The symbol of the honor, glor,
and power of the country he haS
saved The dag, which but for hin
would have been sulIied and dishon
ored rag. But for him the geograph,
of this country would have beef
changed The United States would
have disappeared and in their place
would be petty provinces with out
posts on every frontier-they wouiS
have replaced a nation whose bannel
now floats from Saskatchewan to tb,
hiO Uranues here every race finds
shelter, every creed sanctuary. ever
wrong q redress. But for him we woul;
be relic of antiquity. All the tradi
tions of history would be like a tai
that is told. All that is inspiring il
history, lesplendent in example
would be like sentences in a sehoo
book-like stories of nations all dead
Other wars have been fought 70
conQuests, revenge, dynasty an,
throne, but no such passions animate,
this great soldier. He fought for ideas
that al men might be free. the state
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