The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-05-31
AT McCLELLAN'S GRAVE.
The Monument Dedicated at Trenton
Simple Exercises.

The Monument Dedicated at Trenton
Simple Exercises.
Special to the JerseysCitp Ne,os.
TRENTON, May 80, 1s90s-Memorial SER
vices were held al the grave of ex-Goy'
rnor General George B. Mcclellan at
Riverview Cemetery, this city, this after
noon.
The Democratic League of Trenton and
the Mcclellan Memorial Association, the
Hancock Veteran Association and the
James Page Library Company, all OF
Philadelphia, united in decorating the
grave OF the great soldier. D. b. Nc
Cready, past commander of the Memorial
Association. delivered a short address,
and after the band played Nearer My
God to Thee" John H. Fow, Of the
Pennsylvania legislature delivered the
grafton.
He said among other thing:-"It was
simply a proper performance of duty In
every station of life-civil and military
wherever he was placed, that caused
George B. Mcclellan to be respected and
honored while he lived and reyered and
beloved in death.
George b. Mcclellan was a volunteer
soldier of the highest and best type, and
we have met here to testify to that fact.
When men were neededtoralIy to the sup
port of our National form of Government,
George b. Mcclellan became O beacon
light to cheer and guide his friends as to
what their duty was IN the premises. In
days Of peace the name of Mcclellan was
sufficient to command the respectful at
ton of most men; but when war--grim-
visaged w~ar-overrun the land, the name
| OF Mcclellan became a lUadstone, at
tracing to itself a nations confidence
and respect, and it will always be pro-
nounced with affectionate gratitude by
every one who believes in human right,
human liberty and justice.
George b. Mcclellan wa among the
first to respond to the call to arms, and
when the whole nation was plunged into
despair by the defeat at Bull Run and
the fall of Sumpter, and When Washing
ton was in a perilous condition; when the
administration was paralyzed, and when
no one had the most remote idea what to
! do, there came from over the mountains
of West Virginia the news that things
were not chaotic there, but that a man
commanded there who knew his duty,
and that when the sun shone down on
the valley OF the Kanawha it illuminated
the folds Of the old flag that had been
| carried in the first Union victories of the
war-Rich Mountain, Gunley Bridge,
Phillippi and Carnifex Ferry, won by the
troops u nder the leadership of George B.
Mcclellan.
All America then turned to him as the
man lifted by natural ability and by
education to take charge Of the great
ably came nearer to accepting his
views than any one else. From this
time or the President reposed con-
hdence in him, and there is small reason
for doubt that but for the interference OF
politicians Lincoln and Mcclellan would
have brought the war to an end in the
summer of'62. But Mr.. Lincoln soon had
two wars on his hands. He was at the
head of the Union and at the head Of a
political party. Both were threatened
with division.
He desired to save both, probably be-
lieving that the unity of his party was
essential to the saving of the country.
But George b. Mcclellan was exactly the
reverse. No political combination could
control him; had it done SO he would have
been President; but one of the chief
characteristics of the man was loyalty to
his friends"