Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-10-09
Mr.. WATTERSON
DELIVERS A HAPPY ADDRESS BITORE TIE
OLD SOLDIERS
At the Meeting Of the Society Of the Army
the Tennessee at Chicago-fhs War is Over,
Let Us Fave Psscs-Ofic,rs Elected.


the Army Of the Tennessee this morn
ing continued It's business session. A
memorial to Gen. L. NJ. Dayton was
ordered drawn, to be made a record OF
the society. The committee on the
Logan monument reported S67,OOO I'D
hand. Designs for the pedestal have
been made and the contract will be lie!
soon. st. Louis is the next place OF
meeting, and the orator of that occasion
is Gen. VIM. Rusk, with Gen, X. Nj.
Oglesby as alternate. The new officers
were unanimously elected. President,
Gen. j. NJ. Dodge, of Iowa; Recording
Secretary, Col. c. c. Cadle, OF Clncin-
natl; Corresponding Secretary; Gen.
Andrew H. Hickenlooper; Treasurer,
John M. Force, Sandusdy; Vice Presl-
dents, Gen. Walter Q. Gresham, Gen:
b. Raum, Col. D. ". c. Louden and
Col. Jas. Macarthur.
Gen. Dodge presented resolution
that there shonld be erected by the
Society at the National Capitol statu
of Gen. Sherman, and that the Society
appoint committee OF five, and that
committee proceed to obtain subscrip-
lions and memorabilia Congress, re-
ouesting the selection OF suitable site
for the statue and an appropriation OF
money.
A banquet was held tonight at which
several hundred covers were laid.
About the table were men prominent IN
all the walks OF life, but most OF them
had seen military service on one side or
the other. The principal speaker OF the
evening was Mr.. Henry Watterson, OF
the Louisville COuTier-Joltr7ldL.
In response to the toast, 1.-The War Is
Over-Let Us Have Peace" Mr.. Henry
Watterson spoke substantially as fol-
lows:
l believe that, at this moment, the
people of the United States are nearer
together, in ali that constitutes kindred
feeling and interest, than they have been
at any time since the adoption of the
Federal constitution.
In the beginning all Of us were guilty,
and equally guilty, for African slavery.
1t was the good fortune Of the North
first to find out that slave labor was not
profitable. So, very sensibly, it sold its
slaves TO the South, which, very diSas-
trously, pursued the delusion. Time at
last has done its perfect work; the South
sees now, as the North saw before IL,
that the system OF slavery, as it was
maintained by us, was the clumsiest and
costiest labor system on earth, and that
when we took the field to fight for it,
we set out upon FOOLS errand. Under
slave labor, the yield of cotton never
reached five million bales. Under free
labor, 1t has never fallen below that
figure, gradually ascending to six and
seven, until, this year, it is about 10
reach nearly nine million bales. This
tells the whole story. | came, primari-
ly, TO bow my head and to pay my meas
ure OF homage to the statue that was
unvaied yesterday. The career and the
name which that statue commentaries
belong to me no less than TO you. Wien
] followed him 10 the gr&ve-prOud to
appear Ia his obsequies, though as tho
obscurist of those who bore any official
part therein--I felt that | was helping
friend T rIooi that day TO this, the s :. az
of the LIE and death Of General Grant
has more and more impressed and
touched me.
never allowed myself to make his
acquaintance until he had quilted the
White House. l had my duty TO do,
and l did not dare trust myself TO the
subduing influence OF what I was sure
must follow friendly relations between
such o man as he was and such q man
as knew myself to DO. in this l was
not mistaken, as the sequel proved. ]
met him for the first time beneath my
own vine and fig-tree, and a happy
series CT accidents, thereafter, gave me
the opportunity TO meet him often and
to know him well. | recall nothing in
| history so sublime as the spectacle OF
| that brave spirit broken in fortune and
| in health, with the dread hand Of the
dark angel clutched about his throat,
struggling with every breath to hold
the clumsy, unfamiliar weapon with
| which he sought to wrest from the
/ Jaws Of death little something for the
! support of wife and children when he
was gone If he had done nothing else,
! that would have made his exit from the
| world an immortal epic!
A little while after came home from
the last scene Of all, found that wo-
mans hand had collected the insignia
| 1 had worn in the magnificent, melan-
! choly pageant-the orders assigning me
! to duty and the funeral scarfS and
! badges-and hal grouped and framed
| them; unbidden, silently, tenderly; and
when | reflected that the hands that
| did this were those OF loving Southern
woman, whose father had fallen on the
| Confederate side In battle, | said:
THE war indeed Is cover; let us have
/ 81 Il 10.
the silken folds that twlne about Us
here, for all their soft and careless
grace, are yet as strong as hooks OF
STEEL They hold together a united peo-
pie and a great nation; for, realizing the
| truth at last-with no wounds TO be
healed and no stings of defeat to re-
member-the South says to the North,
as simply and as truly as was said three
thousand years ago in that far-away
meadow upon the margin Of the mystic
sea: "Whither thou goest, will so; and
where thou lodgest, l will lodge; thy
people shall be my people, and thy God
my God"
NJ. L. Blair, Alderman, Fifth ward,
Scranton, Pa, stated November Q, 1888:
he had used DR.. Thomas Eclectric
OIL for sprains, burns, cuts, bruises and
rheumatism. Cured every time.
Bad Fire In Detroit
DETROIT, October s.-Parker, Webb
& Co.'S packing house was damaged
/ 500, 600 by fire this morhing. One man
was burned to death and about dozen
others more or less seriously injured.