Wichita eagle., 1889-09-19
SENATOR INGALLS, SPEECH.

Following is Senator Ingalls, address
at the unveling OF the Grant monument,
report of which failed to reach the
EAGLE Sunday through the negligence
OF the Associated press agent at Leaven-
worth. Senator ingalls, said:
Ladies and gentlemen: The upward
and onward march Of humanity has
never been delayed for the want OF a
prophet to predict success, for poet TO
sing its honor or a great leader TO mar
shall the forces. When the crisis comes
the man appears. Often without her
aid, as John came like voice crying in
the wilderness. Great men are the
product Of great events. Opportunity
makes the general, the admiral and the
orator. When the time is ripe the man
appears. We have assembled here be-
meath this autumn sky with reverence,
with imposing ceremonies, to unvell the
effigy OF that great military hero who
never met defeat and who led our
armies to victory. At the breaking out
of the war no one would have thought
Grant would have risen above the mass.
He had left the army and retired TO civil
life. He had taken SIDES with neither
party III the impending struggle. He
was against bl0odshed. Grant had no
powerful or influential friends and had
none of the thrift that comes with
fawning. In the brief interval be-
tween Belmont and AppotomatoX he
made a name SO brilliant that it will be
one precious heritage for all time to
come. He was great because he was
equal to any emergency with which he
was confronted. He left the battlefield,
was elected chief magistrate. He dlned
with mOnarchS at their capitals, and
when the time came and ne stood on the
shore of the dark continent, he encoun-
tered without dismay the only antago-
INST he could not conquer. L was wit
ness OF his funeral Obsequles, where the
men who attended to do him honor were
like the sands of the sea and could not be
numbered. On the great river the ships
of world saluted the funeral cOrtege as
it passed along the river, and one intOna-
ton followed another for miles and above
all there was the flag. The flag, the
symbol Of the honor and glory of the
country he had saved from destruction.
But for Grant the geography Of the
world would have been changed. The
United States would have disappeared
from the map and in its place there
would have been a half hundred petty
states, standing army III every capital,
a fortress on every frontier. The conSti-
tuition born in the cabin of the Mayf1Ower,
but for him would have been only ira
dition. All that is inspiring in our his
tory would have been written in our
school books as stories of the nations
that are dead. Grant fought for ideas,
not for conquest. He fought that lib
erty might,not be an unmeaning phrase.
He fought that patriotism might not be
the malady of the body polite. Grants
army, after cOnquerlng its enemies, con-
quered itself. An army lnvincible in
flushed with victory, stacked
its arms and embarked in the pursuits of
peace. 1t is fitting that Kansas on the
opening of the second century of the
country's independence should rear a
to Grant, Before the cen
tury has closed but few soldiers who
fought with Grant will be alive. Orators
viii rehearse stories of her intrepid pro-
gress-her area Will be extended north
ward to the frozen globe and southwark
to the canal which viii Join the two
oceans: fifty stars will be upon her flag
and 2o3,O0O, 600 people will be under its
folds. Let Us bear away from this con-
secrated spot renewed conservation 10
the great principles Of civil, constitu-
tional and religious liberty for which
Grant fought that this forever might re
main a government of laws and not
government OF men.