The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-11-18

ST. LOUIS, No.. Nov. 1.-THE Army Of
the Tennessee was called to arms to-day.
1t was not the voice OF old "Tecumseh"
that summoned from retirement quar-
ter of century the conquerors oil
Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge
and Savannah, but that OF his clerical
son, who appealed to the old command
OF his father to rescue from the posses.
sion of the labor organizations the mon
ument of General Sherman. A new
theme is the subject OF animated dis
cussion among the survivors OF the
Army OF the Tennessee to-day, and the
martial spirit is refunded in the hearts
OF the old veterans that are assembled
here in annual reunion. 1t was not the
voice OF the church, although the garb
OF the Church Of Rome clothed the
speaker, but the passionate tones OF n
son REDUCING the indignity offered the
memory OF his father that aroused the
survivors OF 1854 to u heroic indigna-
lion scarcely exceeded by the boom OF
cannon upon Fort Sumpter in 1881.
The society OF the Army OF the Ten
nessee had just been called to order,
and at the suggestion Of one OF those
Ngrizzled veterans who not unnaturally
regard the sons OF their ex-commander
as the wards OF the society, Rev. Thomas
L, Sherman was invited to address the
meeting. The youthful clergyman OF
the church of Rome, attired in the con-
ventional garb OF his order, spoke for a
few minutes with great feeling of alice
ton which tho children OF General
Sherman entertained for the survivors
OF his fathers old command, and then
turned his remarks to the monument
which the family is providing for the
tomb OF the dead general, but which is
DELAYED by the refusal OF the striking
granite cutters at Westerly, Conn, to
allow it to be removed to the west. In
voice, sad, but passionately indignant,
lie said: Just about the time the
work was finished, strike occurred in
the granite quarries in the east, and
the finished monument stands there
now and there is no power in this couu-
try, in state or nation, to move it
move that monument from the hands
OF the union"
A feeling of suppressed indignation
swept over the audience but the feel
ing OF sympathy was quickly percepti-
bic to the SON, and with his arm eX-
tended over the assemblhge and his
whole frame quivering with emotion,
he continued: "They will not consent
to let us have it moved and only
know one way to get it-and that is to
organize one of his old regiments and
60 there and take it by force. (Prolong-
cd applause.
81 do wish this society to know that
it is not any neglect OF his sons or his
family. We owe it to you who belong
to the military family to say that We
have not been negligent day, and that
we feel sad and mortified that in our
country which you have made so free,
We cannot even move our fathers
tombstone from the spot where these
worknen hold 1t enclosed. IndigRa-
ton in audience.)
There is power there even higher
and stronger than the power you con-
quered, and our generation has yet to
meet the problem of conquering, or, at
least subduing to law that great
power"
There was dead silence for moment
as the speaker concluded and then
there was burst OF applause which
swelled into a military cheer for the
spirited son OF the old commander. A
member OF the society moved that the
topographic report OF Father Sherman's
remarks be inscribed in the record OF
proceedings and few minutes later
meeting Of the sherman monument
committee" was called. What trans
PRED at that meeting the events Of the
future must tell, for the members are as
mute as the sentinels OF reconnoiter-
ing army.