Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-12-09
In HONOR OF A GREAT HERO
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ture, and in 1879 was appointed to
serve out the brief unexpired term
of Senator Bogy in the United States


of Senator Bogy in the United States
Senate. This was his last public
service. The people of Illinois de-
lighted to honor him, and having
been invited to erect two statues in
Memorial Hall, at Washington, of
citizens who had achieved military
or civic renown, the Legislature of
that commonwealth, at its last SEES
sion, declared Gen. Shields to have
been distinguished warrior, states
man, and jurist, and it directed this
statue to be made and placed in posi-
tion here.
Lessons Taught by His Life.
The life of Gen. Shields shows that
love of country and lofty patriotism
do not depend on locality of birth.
He was reared almost to manhood on
foreign soil, and yet no truer patriot
ever bled for the American flag. The
American nation differs from all
other nations on earth; it differs in
its ancestry and differs in its compo-
nent parts. The brain and muscle
of all people meet here; all give and
receive; all are Furnished; none re-
main the same; all are transformed,
not by intermarriage, through gener-
ations, but as by magic, so that in a
few years after landing on our shores,
even though they retain their mother
language, they are no longer English,
German, Scandinavian-no longer
Teuton, Celt, Latin, or Slav-but
are of that new, cosmopolitan people
known the world over as Americans.
Empires can only be founded by labor;
it requires labor to clear forests and
span rivers, to found schools and
churches, to build factories, railroads
and cities. The making of mighty
; tate requires hewing and lifting,
delving and spinning. 1t requires
that endurance that comes from be-
ing used to hard conditions. Gen.
Shields saw this. He saw that where
the foreign-b born people Joined hands
with the native born, Joined their in
dustry and frugality to the magnifi-
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zens, it made force such as
existed nowhere else He saw
that those States which had
the greatest number of foreign born
citizens cooperating with and stand
ing shoulder to shoulder to the ma
tive-born, made the greatest progress;
in them was found the best agricult-
ure, the most railroads, the most
factories, the finest cities, the best
schools, the most Libraries, and the
greatest material and intellectual de-
velopment while those States having
no foreign born citizens Jagged far
behind. More than this, he saw that
these people did not take up arms
against their adopted country, but
came promptly forward in support OF
the Union. Not only did their in
dustry Joined TO that OF the native
American, help To produce that ma
\ terial wealth which enabled the Gov
eminent TO carry on protracted war,
hut they and their sons made up
large per cent ~ our armies and
formed a large per cent. OF the dead
and wounded on every battlefield.
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her OF times while Sighting for the
fag of his country-yet he, IN hl'
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