Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-29
PERILS WE ESCAPED.
The President Delivers a Union Speech
at Rutland. Vermont.
BY THE LATE WAR.
Emancipation Boon Born Of the Folly Of
the South Itself.
ANOTHER TRIBUTE TO MR.. PROCTOR

~cic uHlaFOraDle IOr Ine QeuOHStThblouS dt
Proctor and Rutland in honor of the Presi-
dent. Gradually, however, the clouds
broke, but muddy streets and muggy at
mosphere rendered the general conditions
uncomfortable. The President did not look
as fresh as usual when he made his appear
ance, and admitted that he felt fatigued.
At 11:15 the special train started from
Proctor for Rutland. The President was
received at siding of the road by COM
mittee headed by W. G. Veazey. Carriages
were entered and circuit about two miles
through the city was made to Memorial
Hall. The President was introduced from
temporary stand at the front Of the hall
and said in substance:
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 over-kindness Of
the people laughter and applausel, and
there is more peril in that than you will
understand at first thought.
We cannot tell how much hung upon that
of which this hall is a memorial. No orator
has yet been inspired to describe adequately
the gravity of the great issue which was
fought out upon the battlefield Of the War of
the Rebellion. We say it was a contest to
preserve the unity of our republic, and so it
was, but what dismemberment would have
meant how greatly it would have increased
the cost of government. how sadly it would
have disturbed the plan of our border COM
munities; how it would have degraded in
tho eyes Of the world this great people; how
it would have rejoiced the enemies of popu-
lar government, no tongue has yet ade-
Quately described: but 1t was not to be So
God has desired that this experiment of free
trial.
We were very patient, so patient in the
early contest, as 1t ranged through the great
brethren OF the South altogether mistook
the temper of our people. Undoubtedly
there were evidences that the men of trade
were reluctant to have that profitable COM
munication, which had been so long main
tanned with the South, broken off. Undoubt-
edly that character SO undesirable to our
politics, the double face, was particularly
conspicuous in those days Of discussion, but
people Of the South concluded that they
might support their threats OF disunion,
which had so long rung in Congress and had
so long filled their boasting press by force
of arms.
THE EFFECT OF sUMTER's FALL.
I 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. Our orators were Withdrawn and a
great wave of determined patriotism swept
over the country higher than any tidal wave
ever lifted itself upon a devastated coast
[applause1, and it was not to be stayed in
its progress until the last vestige Of re-
bellion had been swept from the face of our
were a peaceful people. The farmers and
the fnrmers' sons were not brawlers. They
were not found at the tavern. They were
abiding under the sheltering moral infiu-
hills: but the man who thought that the
spirit of 1776 had been quenched, was badly
The same resolute love of lib
erty, the same courage to face danger for q
cause that had its inspiration in high moral
purposes and resolves, abided in the hearts
OF your people. (Applause]
Possibly the war might have been avoided
If the South had understood this but it was
30 written In the severe but benevolent pur-
poses of God. There was a great scroll of
to be written. There was q
martyr President who was to af1x his name
10 q declaration that would be as famous as
that to which your fathers affixed their
signature in 1776 -
FREE IN TRUTH AS IN NAME.
1t was to be in TRUTH as well rs in theory,
3 free people Iapplausel, and there was no
other pathway to emancipation than along
the bloody track of armies, not seeing ut the
Aor having in view the purpose
that finally was accomplished, but guided by
,he hand of power and wisdom that is above
is and over us to the accomplishment of
that glorious result that struck the shackles
rom 1000, 900 of slaves. [Applause.l
Just as the President concluded his re-
marks, Rev. DR.. Norman Zaver advanced
% his side and presented to Mrs. Harrison,
through the President, an oil painting rep |
view of Killington, near Rut- |
and, the highest peak in the great noun
ain range. The President, in few words, |
banked DIR. Zaver and the Board of Trade |
n behalf of Mrs. Harrison, and expressed |
lis regret that she had been unable to ac- |
company him on his trip through Vermont.
rhe special train afterward returned to
Proctor, where there was a demonstration |
o-night. AT Proctor the President spoke |
n part as follows:
1t is not my privilege to call you neigh
,ors, but am sure may call you friends. |
lwell and contrast them with the wretched- |
less of the crowded tenement houses of our |
,reat cities; as inhale tonight the bracing |
ir of these mountains, and as my eye has
ooked to-day upon their green submits, |
AVE said how happy is the lot of that man
nd that woman who works in one Of these |
fright, wholesome New England villages.
Applause.
A TRIBUTE FOR PROCTOR.
It has seemed to me that the relation of
ur mutual friend who has inaugurated and |.
developed these works in which many of
ou find your employment was that of
'uplic benefactor and q personal friend.
f his own fife among you, his ready appre-
iation of the loyalty and intelligence of
hose who are employed by him,
IL h Is n'srss: sss ID ideal 'hsif seaon se.wedn
he employer and his workmen. (Applause.J
would to God it were always and every
there So that when man is put at q ma
hine he should not be- t. REGARDED by his en-
ure, the aspirations of man, should still
e recognized, and the relations with the
mployer be those Of mutual confidence
1 cannot but feel that our national policy
hould be in the direction of saving our
'orking people from that condition of hope
dequate to the sustenance Of animal life.
Applause.1 There is no hope for any COM
lunity where this state of things exists, and
here will be no hope for the nation should
become the general condition of the work
,gmen of America.
A PLEA FOR LABOR.
That man or woman out of whose heart
ope has come, before whom the vista of
fe stretches in one dead level of unending
nd half requited toll, that mans estate is
to make him reckless in character.
1 cannot always sympathize with that de-
,and which we hear so frequently for cheap
lings. Things may be too cheap; they are
DO cheap when the man who produces them
pon the farm, or the man or woman who
roduce them in the factory, does not get
ut of them living wages, with a margin for