Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-10-22

lev of the Connecticut with mimic princi-
palities more potent and lasting than the
real: it speaks ia the whirr OF the mills OF
PENNSYLVANIA and in the ring OF tins wood
cutters ak from the forests OF the Lake
peniusulas; it speaks from the great plan
tatlous of the South and West, teeming
with staples that insure US wealth ana
power and stability, yea, and from the
mines and forests and Quarrles or Mical-
gan and Wisconsin, OF Alabama and 6eor-
gia, 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 anuinilated time
and space between the Atlantic ana
the Pacific; it speaks in one WORD
from the hearth-stone in Iowa and Illinois,
from the home in Mississippi and Arkan-
sas, from the hearts of seventy millions OF
fearless, free-born men and women, ana
that one word is "Unionl"
There is no Geography in American man
hood. There are no sections 10 American
fraternity. 1t needs but six weeks TO
change a Vermonter into Texan, and
there never has been time when upon the
battlefield, or the frontier, Puritan and
Cavalier were not convertible terms, hav-
ing in the beginning common origin, and
no longer to possess alocal habitation, or O
nativity, except in the National unit.
The men who planted the signals OF civ
iliZation upon that sacred Rock by Ply
mouth Bay were Englishmen, and so were
the men who struck the coast little lower
down, calling their haven of rest after the
great Republican Commoler, and found
ag by Hampton Roads a race OF heroes
and statesmen, the mention of whose names
brings thrill to every heart. The South
claims Lincoln, the immortal, for its own;
the North has no right TO reject Stonewall
jackson, the one typical Puritan soldier OF
the war, for its own Nor will it! The
time is coming is almost here, when hang
ing above many mantel-board In fair New
Observation-Disclosures many cottage In the
Sunny South-shall be seen bound together,
in everlasting love and honor. Two crossed
swords carried to battle respectively by the
grandfather who wore the blue ana the
grandfather who wore the gray.
WELCOME TO MANKIND.
I cannot trust myself to proceed. We
have come here not so much 10 recall by
gone sorrows and glorie5, as to bask IN the
sunshine OF present prosperity and hap
piness, to interchange patriotic greetings
and indulge good auguries, and, above oil,
to meet upon the threshold the stranger
within our gate, not as foreigner, but as
a guest and friend, for whom nothing that
we have is too good.
From wheresoever he cometh we well
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 aud the Mozelle, he shall be our
Goethe and our Wagner; the son Of the
Campagna and the Vesuvian bay, he shall
be our Michael Angelo and our Garibaldi;
the son of Arragon and the hides, ne shall
be our Christopher Columbus, fifty hon.
ored at last throughout the world
Our good cousin, Of England, needs no
words of special civility and courtesy from
US. For him, the latch-string is ever on
the outer-side; though whether it be or
not, we are sure that he will enter and
make himself at home. A common Ian
guGge enables US to do full justice to
one another, at the festive board, or in the
arena Of deoate; warning both OF us in
equal tones against further pariey on the
field Of arms.
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 aud Calcutta, and round to
China seas and the busy marts Of Japan,
the isles Of the Pacific and the tar-aWay
Capes of Africa-Armenian, Christian and
Jew-the American, loving no country eX-
cept his own, but loving all mankind as
his brother, bids you enter and fear not;
bias you partaKe with US of these fruits of
four hundred years of American civiliza-
tion and development, and behold these
trophies Of one hundred years Of American
and freedom
At this moment in every part of the
American Union, the children are taking
up the wondrous tale Of the discovery, and
from Boston TO Galveston, from the little
log school house In the wilderness to the
towering academy in the town. may be wit
messed the unprecedented spectacle or a
powerful nation captured by an army OF
Lilliputians, OF embryo men and women, OF
todling boys and girls. and tiny elves scarce
pig enough to lisp the numbers OF the
national anthem; scarce strong enough 10
lift the miniature flags that make OF arid
street and autumn wood an embematlc
garden, to gladden. tho sight and glorify
the red, white and blue. See
"Our young barbsrians. all at play"
for better than these we have nothing TO
exhibit. They. indeed, are our crown
Jewels: the truest, though the inevitable,
OfIsprings Of our civilization and develop
ment; the representatives OF MANHOOD
yitalized and invigorated by toll aud care,
Of womanhood elevated and inspired by
liberty and education. God bless the chill
dren 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 G cd in all our hearts