St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-29
INSPIRATION LACKING
The Mckee Baby's Grandpa
Still Rings the Changes
on the War.
Glorious Memories and High
Moral Impulses Figure in
the Talk.
Vital Questions and Living
Issues Have No Attraction
for Benny.
Gen. John Beattie Touches Up
Maj. acknowledgements
Boom.


demonstrations at Proctor and Rutland
in honor of the president. Gradually,
however, the clouds broke, and there
were patches of blue sky visible, but
the muddy streets and muggy atm0s-
phere rendered the general conditions
| uncomfortable. The president did not
look as fresh as usual when he made
his appearance, and admitted that he
felt tatigued. AT rs a. m. the special
train started from Proctor for Rutland.
The president was received at a siding
| of the road by committee headed by w.
! G. Veazey Carriages were entered and Il
| circuit of about two miles through the
residence and business part of the city
was made to Memorial hall, where the
| president was to meet and address the
citizens. This building is constructed
| OF Vermont marble, is located on a
knoll on West street, and was erected a
few years ago to the memory of the
soldiers who lost their lives in the
War of the Rebellion. The heavy rain
of yesterday had interfered with the
work of decorating the town, but the
display was quite profuse, both along
the route and at the point where the
citizens had assembled. At the hall
were many of the more prominent men
| of the town accompanied by their wives.
| The president was introduced by Col. j.
| G. Baker. and said:
The War Does Duty.
My Fellow Citizens and Comrades of
| the Grand Army of the Republic: Your
| chairman has spoken of the fact that
| the president of the United States may
| travel everywhere through our country
| without any attendance of policemen.
| As have had occasion to say before,
the only peril he is likely to meet, if the
| railroads take good care of him and the
| crankS keep out of the way, is from the
GverkindneSs of the people, and there
is more peril in that than you will
| understand on first thought. 1t is
| pleasant to stand upon the steps of
| lhis memorial hall. erected as place of
| deposit for trophies of the great civil
| war, and as monument of honor to
those soldiers from Vermont who aided
| so cOnSplcuOuSly in making that war
| successful. We cannot tell how much
| hung on that contest. No orator has
| yet been inspired TO describe adequately
| the gravity of the great issue which was
| fought out upon the battlefields of the
| War of the Rebellion. We say it was
contest to preserve the unity OF
| our republic, and so it was. But
what would ACKNOWLEDGMENT have
meant! How greatly it would
| have increased the cost of government;
how sadly it would have disturbed the
| plan of our border communities; how it
would have degraded in the eyes of the
| world this great people; how it would
| have rejOiced the enemies of popular
| government no one has yet adequately
| described. But it was not to be so.
| God has decreed that this experiment
| of free government should have more
| perfect trial. We were so very pa
| tlent in
The Early Contest
as it ranged through the great debate of
convention and congress that our breth-
rem of the South altogether miStoOk the
| temper of our people. Undoubtedly
there were evidences that the men of
trade were reluctant to have those lines
| of profitable communication which had
| been so long maintained with the
| South broken off. Undoubtedly that
| character so undesirable in our politics,
| the double face. was particularly
| conspicuous in those times of dis
| cussion. But we were altogether
misjudged when the people of
the South concluded that they might
| support their threats of diSunion which
| had had so long run in congress and
which had so long filled their Boosting
| press, by force of arms. L shall never
| forget, nor will any of you who were
| old enough to remember it, that great
electric thrill and shock which passed
| through our whole country when the
| first gun was fired at Sumter. Debate
| was closed. Orators were withdrawn
| and a great wave of determined pa
| triotsm swept over the country higher
| than ever tidal wave precipitated itself
on devastated coast. And it was not
| to be stayed in its progress until the
| last veStige of rebellion had been swept
| from the face of our beloved land. The
men of New England were a peaceful
people. The farmers and farmers sons
were not brawlers. They were not
found ut the tavern. They were abid-
| ing under the
Shelter of Moral Influence,
and in the quietude of their green hills.
| But the man who thought that the spirit
| of 1776 had been squenched was badly
mistaken. The same resolute love of
| liberty and the same courage to face
danger had its same inspiration in high
moral resolves. Possibly the war
might have been avoided if the
| South had understood this, but it
was so written in the severe but benevo-
| lent purposes Of God. There was
great scroll of emancipation to be writ
! ten. There was a martyred president,
| who was to affiX his name to declara-
ton that would be as famous as that to
which your fathers affixed theirs in 1776.
1t was to be in truth, as well as in the
DRY, free people. And there was no
other pathway to emancipation than
along the bloody tracks of armies, not
seeing at the beginning nor
| having the purpose that finally
was accomplished, but guided by
the hand of power and wis
dom that is above US and over us to the
accomplishment of that glorious result
that struck the shackleS from millions
of slaves. | greet most atfectionately
| these comrades of the war who are be-
| fore me to-day. Let them abide in
honor in all your communities. Let
them not be forgotten. Let them be the
Illuminated and inspiring pages of your
states history; and then, whatever
shock may scome to US in the future,
whenever the hand of anarchy or dis
order shall be raised, whenever foreign
powers shall seek to invade the rights
or liberty of this great people, there will
be found again an impenetrable bull
wark IN The brave hearts of sturdy
and patriotic people.
A Presentation.
Just as the president concluded his
remarks, Rev. DR.. Norman Seaver adj
vanced to his side and presented to
Mrs. Harrison, through the president,
an oil painting representing view Of
Killington, near Rutland, the highest
peak in the Green mountain range. The
president in few words, thanked DR..
Seaver and the board OF trade in behalf
of Mrs. Harrison, and expressed regret
that she had been unable to accompany
him on his trip through Vermont. The
party was then driven to the residence
of =. w. Clement for luncheon.
after which the special returned
to Proctor. The president enjoyed
short nap, and subsequently,
dined quietly with the family. The
decorations in Proctor were on a most
elaborate scale, and the natural adj
yantageS afforded by the location added