The Butler weekly times., 1893-12-14

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Port Republic, he said he could not
refrain from saying few words. He
declared no soldier ever fought more
bravely or gallantly than Shields at
Port Republic. He honored him as
highly as if he had fought on his
own side.
While the orations were being de
livered the committee of arrange
ments entered the House, and at the
conclusion the members of the
| House aud the visitors filed out to
Saturday hall, where the unveiIing
took place
Mr.. Condor of Chicago then de
livered long address Ill eulo4y Of
General Shields. At the con c,usion
of his speech Miss K,'la,i..e ]
Shields, the daughter of h GeLerc .,
drew aside the white drapciy hat
yelled the statue. ar.l in h l., ic
| bronze the form and ii.uie of tie
General stood revealed Tie pin
cipal oratiou of the day va then de
llyered by Coy ruor A 'g.ld of ii
/ nois. who said:
GOVERNOR ALTGELD L GRAFTON.
Occasion of this kind are not COM
mon, because few men ever render Il
service to mankind that iusur. s the
gratitude of nation. The basis of
such demoa is gratitude,
the gratitude OF people for tn"
distinguished dead. In the calls
days statues were built to warriors
alone; as civilization progressed the
deeds Of Statesmen and honored by
a grateful people.
The memory CT the man to day
was worthy of niche in the history
for all these reasons-he was a bril-
liant soldier; he helped lay ths
foundation of States, and lie assist
ed in guiding the destiny and shap
lug the institutions of the American
Republic.
Speaking OF the fact of General
Shields foreign birth in connection
with his lofty patriotism, the speak
er said that if the soul of Shields
could animate this statue for al
hour with what infinite scoru woulC
his proud spirit look upon those
men who having bled on no battl,
field, stormed the ramparts of NJ
armed enemy, solved no great polit
ical problems for humanity, now
seek to turn the accident of birtl
into virtue by an act of Congress
Closing with reference to Shields
life long poverty, Governor Altgelt
said: "Every age has produced
millions of strong and industrious
men, who knew no higher God thar
} the dollar; who coined their lives in
to sordid gold: who gave no though
: to blessing the world or lifting ~
humanity; men who owned ship
and palaces aud riches of earth, wh
gilded meanness into splendor, an
, then sank into oblivion. Posterit
erected no statues to these men
memory. Let young men of Amer
, lea learn from this statue, and th
: career of Shields, that the paths [
virtue and henor, of glory and i'll
mortality, are open TO them.
SENATOR VESTS ADDRESS
| Senator Vest also delivered AL at
dress, iii which he said
Missouri thanks Illinois for pla,
ing in the Capitol the statue of GEL
!. eral James Shields with that ,
j Abraham Lincoln, her mos. distil
guished citizen. 1t is evidentl
a suggestive that the great common
y wealth which honored them bot
+ should bring here the statues
}. Lincoln and Shields. always polit
= cal adversaries and at one time pc
t sonal enemies, but never divided
e thelr lo.e Of country. 1t ausul
t we'll for the future, when the petit
4 divisions of political opinion are th,
: obliterated, and the people of OF
S country of all creeds, civil aud r
$ ligious, can, 80 long as the govern
d ment exists, look upon the marbI
i images of those who differed
4 methods, but not in motive. and ,