The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-10-22
YoLuME XLI-NUMBER 81.

| The curse oil slavery is gone. IL was
q Joint heritage OF woe, to be wiped out
and expiated to blood and flame. The
mirage of the confederacy has vanished
1t was essentially bucolic, vision oi
Arcade, the dream Of n most attractive
economic tallacy. The constitution Il
no longer a rope OF sand. The exact
relation OF tho states to the federal
government, left open to double con-
struction by the authors OF our organic
being, because they could not agree
among themselves, and unien was the
paramount object, has been clearly and
definitely fixed by the three last amend
ments to the original chart, which con-
stitute the real treaty OF peace between
the North and the South, and seal our
bonds as nation forever.
The Republic represents at last the
letter and the spirit OF the sublime dec
laration. The fetters that bound her to
the earth are burst asunder. The rags
that degraded her beauty are cast aside.
Like the enchanted princess in the la-
gend, clad in spotless raiment. and
wearing crown Of living light, she
steps in the perfection OF her maturity
upon the scene OF this, the latest and
proudest of her victories to bid well
come to the world!
THE MEANING OF 1T.
Need / pursue tho theme? This vast
assemblage speaks with resonance
and meaning which words can never
reach. 1t speaks from the fields that
are blessed by the never-failing waters
OF the Kennebec and from the farms
that sprinkle the valley OF the Con-
necticut with mimic principalities more
potent and lasting than the real; it
speaks in the whirr oil the mills OF
Pennsylvania and in the ring OF the
wood.cutter's ax from the forests OF the
Lake peninsulas; it speaks from the
great plantations OF the south and west,
teeming with staples that insure us
wealth and power and stability, yea.
and from the mines and forests and
ouarries OF Michigan and Wisconsin, OF
Alabama and Georgia, OF Tennessee
and Kentucky, far away to the regions
OF silver and gold, that have linked the
Colorado and the Rio Grande in close
embrace, and annlhilated time and
space between the Atlantic and the
Pacific; it speaks in one word from tho
hearth-stone in Iowa and Illinois, from
the home in Mississippi and Arkansas,
from the hearts OF seventy millions OF
fearless, free-born men and women,
and that one word is "Unionw
There is no geography in American
manhood There are no sections to
American fraternity. It needs but six
weeks to change a Vermonter into q
Texan, and there never has been time
when upon the battlefield, or the from
tier, Puritan and Cavalier were not
convertible terms, having in the begin.
ming u common origin, and so diflused
and diluted on American soil as no
longer to possess local habitation, or
q nativity, except in the national unit
A WELCOME TO MANKIND.
can not trust myself to proceed.
We have come here not so much to re-
call bygonc SORROWS and glories, as to
bask in the sunshine OF present pros
perity and happiness, TO interchange
patriotic greetings and indulge good
auguries, and, above all, to meet upon
the threshold, the stranger within our
gate, not as foreigner, put as aguest
and friend, for whom nothing that we
have is too good.
From wheresoever he cometh we vel
come him with all our hearts: the son
of the Rhone and the Garonne, our
God-mother, France, to whom we owe
so much, he shall be our Lafayette;
the son Of the Rhine and the Mozelle.
he shall be our Goethe and our Wag-
ner; the son OF the Campagna snd the
Vesuvian bay, lie shall be our Michael
Angelo and our Garibaldi; the son OF
Arragon, and the Indies, he shall be our
Christopher Columbus, titly honored at
last throughout the warld.
All nations and all creeds be welcome
here; from the Bosphorus and the
Black Sea, the Viennese woods and the
Danubian plains from Holland dyke to
Alpine crag; from Belgrade and Cal
cutta, and round to China seas and the
busy marts of Japan, the isles OF the
Pacific and the far-away capes OF Africa
Armenian, Christian and Jew-the
American, loving no country except
his own, but loving all mankind as his
brother, bids you enter and fear not;
bids you partake with US of these fruits
OF four hundred years OF American CIV
ilization and development, and behold
these trophies OF one hundred years OF
American independence and freedom!
THE CHILDREN AND THE FLAG.
At this moment in every part OF tho
American Union the children ore tax
ing up the wondrous tale OF the discov-
cry, and from Boston to Galveston,
from the little log school house in the
wilderness to the towering academy in
the city and the town may DO witnessed
the unprecedented spectacle OF pow
eriul nation captured by an army OF
Lilliputians, OF embryo men and
women, OF toppling boys and girls, and
tiny elves scare big enough to lisp the
numbers OF the national anthem, scarce
strong enough 10 lift the miniature
flags that make oil arid street and
autumn wood an emblematic garden, to
gladden. the sight and to gloriiv the
red, white and blue. See
"our young barbarlRns all at play"
for better than these we have nothing
TO exhibit They, indeed, are our crown
Jewels: the truest though the inevita-
Bile, offsprings OF our civilization and de-
velopement; the representatives Of a
manhood vitalized and invigorated by
toll and care, of womanhood elevated
and inspired by liberty and education.
God bless the children and their
mothers! God bless our country's flag
And God be with us now and ever, God
in the roof-tree's shade and God on the
highway, God in the winds and waves,
and God in all our hearts
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