The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-10-22
wAFTERSON's ADDRESS.
The Brilliant Remarks by the Dis
tiuguisbed Kentuckian.

Chicago, Oct, 22.-The dcdicatory ad-
dress delivered by Henry Watterson yes
terdav afternoon was brilliant one, and
was in part as follows:
Among the wonders of creative and con-
structive genius in course Of preparation for
this festival of the nations, whose formal and
official Inauguration hps brought US together,
will presently be witnessed upon the margin
in th1 inter-occan which gives to this noble
and beautiful city the character and rank of
maritime metropolis, u speCtutorium wherein
the Columbian epic will be told with realistic
effects, surprising the most splendid and i'm
pUesSive achievements of the modern stage.
No one who has had the good fortune to see
the models oi this extraordinary work of art,
can have failed TO bo moved by the union,
which it embodes, of the antique in history
and the current in life and thought, as be-
ginning with the weird mendicant fainting
upon the hillside of Santa Rabida, 1t traces
the strange adventures Of the Genoese seer
from the royal camp of Santa Fe to the sunny
coasts of the isles of Indies; through the weary
watches of the endless night whose sentinel
stars seemed set to mock, but not TO guide;
through the trackless aud shoreless wastes of
the mystic sea, spread day by day to bear
upon every rise and fall of its heaying bosom
the death OF tir, fond hopes, the birth of fan
tastic fears; the perilous and thrilling revela-
ton and all that has followed to the very
moment that behOlds us here, citizens, free
men, equal shareholders in the miracle of
there one among us who does not thank his
Maker that he las lived to join l.. this uni.
versal celebration, this jubilee of mankind2
We look before and after,and we see through
the half drawn folds of Time as through the
solemn arChways of some grand cathedral, the
long procession pass, as silent and as real as
dream; the caravcls, tossing upOu Atlantic
bfllows, have their sails reiilled from the east
and bear away to the west tho land is reached,
and fulfilled Ia the vision whose actuHlties are
/ t,,h hp vaf Mt hands Than bi9 WIN
! planned the voyage and stcered the bark of
discovery; thC long sought, golden day has
come TO spain at last and Castilian cOnquests
tread one upon another fast enough to pile up
| perpetual power aud riches But even as SIM
| pie iusrice was denied Columbus was lasting
| tenure denied the Spaniard.
The Nations Early Struggles.
| We look again and in the far north
east the old world struggle between the French
and English transferred TO the new, ending in
the tragedy upon the heights above Quebec;
we see the sturdy Puritans In bell-crowned
| hats and suble garments assail in unequal bat
tie the sn age and the elements, overcome
both to risG against a might II foe; we sec the
! gay, but dauntl less cavaliers, TO the southward,
L ioiu hands with the rOundheads in holy re-
bellion And, To-, down from the green walled
hills of New England, out of the swamps of
the Carolnas, come, family to the ear like Tar
away forest leaves stirred 20 music by autumn
winds, the drum taps Of the revolution; the
| ng before; the hoof-heats Of Sumtcr's horse
yalloping to the front the thunder Of stark 5
guns in spirit battle, the genm of Marinu's
watch fires in ghostiy bivouac and there, there
In serried, suint-like ranks ON fame's eternal
camping ground. stand
''rhe old COntlnentals,
In their ragged regimentalS,
Yielding not"
As amid the singing of angels In Heaven, tho
scene is shut out from our mortal vision by
proud and happy tears.
We see the rise of the young republic; and
the gentlemen In knee breeches and powdered
wigs who signed the Declaration and the gen
tlemen In knee breeches and powdered wigs
who made the constitution. We see the littls
nation meIaGed from without. We see the
rihemen in hunting shirt and bueSsSin swarm
from the cabin In the wilderness to the rescue
of country and home. and our hearts sven 10
a second and final degree Of Independence won
by the prowess and valcr of American arms
upon the land and sea.
And then. and then-slnce there u no life of
nations, or of men without its shadow and lts
sorrow-there comes a day when the spirit oil
the fathers no longer walk upon the battle,
ments of freedom: and all is dark; and all
seems lost save liberty and honor, and praise
God, our blessed union. With these surviv
ing, who shall marvel at what we see today
This land filled with the treasures OF earth
this city, snatched from the ashes, to rise II
splendor and renown, passing the mind Il
preconceive.
Truly out of trial comes the strength o
man; out OF disaster comes the glory Of th
state.
The Event of Centurie9.
We are met this day to honor the memor!
OF Christopher Columbus, TO celebrate th
4O0th annual return of the year of his trans
cendent achievement, and, with fitting rites
to dedicate to America and the universe
concrete exposition Of the worlds progres
between 14gs and 1892 Since the advent o
the Son of God no event has had 50 great al
influence upon human affairs as the discover,
of the Western Hemisphere.
We are a race of inventors and workers, no
of poets and artists. We have led the world
movement, not its thought. Our deeds are t
be found, not upon freScoed walls, or IN ampi
libraries, but in the machine shops, where tn
spindles sing and the looms thunderi on tn
open plain, where the steam plows, the reape
and the mower contend with one another Il
, the friendly war against the obduracies q
nature; in the magic of electricity it pene
trates the darkest cayerns with its irresistt0l
power and light Let us consider ourselve
and our conditions, as far as we are able wit
q candor untinged by cynieism, and COM
dence having no air of assurance,
r A better opportunity could not be desire
for study of our peouliarities than Is ful
, nished by the present moment. We are in th
midst OF the Quadrennial period establlshe
for the selection Of a chief magistrate. Fac
citizen has his right of choice; each has hi
right to vote aud to have his vote freely ca.
aud fairly counted. Wherever this right
Assailed for any cause wrong is done and ev
: Wust follow; first, to the whole country, whic