Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-09-13


| that humanity ana courage are virtues
common 10 our race, limited by no geo.
graphic division, monopollZed by no sec
ton. Whatever regrets may linger IN any
| bosom, 20 one OF US has any reason to blush
| for the events OF the greatest com Dat known
to human annals. There was never a war
where there was so little Of public wrong,
so much of private generosity; never a YER
dict so decisive, whose consequences have
oeen so oenefcent. We are wont TO boast
and not without justification, Of our robust
common sense. We are won't 10 assert.
and with good assurance, that we are moth
| ing if not practical people. But IL Is
sometimes denied by the untrave!ed that
we are q homogeneous people, aud preten-
sions TO exceptional virtue are set
up here and there oy provincial self-com-
plccency which i'm agines itself annOinted
and elect | have been in every State and
territory OF the Union, and eau truly say
| that | never encountered this particular
| claimant that l did not discover him 10 DO
| a cheat, though / have gone away from no
one of them where l had not found some.
| thing to make me proud Of my country and
my countrymen.
The best heritage, therefore that we can
| leave to those into whose hands we must
| ere long commit the future, is this good
| knowledge, that what differences exist
upon the territory EN- moraced oy the Uuited
| States, vast as 10 is, are purely local and
external, that Massachusetts and Mississ-
| ippi are, in reality, Coln ortlble terms, and
! that il needs but ten days and change OF
raiment to convert typical Vermonter
! into a typical Texan. declare this as the
sum Of my own observation and exper-
J ience, as the result Of great and varied op-
| portunities for viewing aud studying the
! character OF our people from ocean 10
ocean, declare il simply, earnestly. and
shall maintain IL always. Should any one
ask you whether l believe 10 l
| beg you TO tell him that 1 know
1t and have seen it put 10 the test and
proven many and many time. Upon u /
! rest the case Of the nation against It's Olgots.
| Ii the future is TO be as glorious as the
! past, IL must be universally realized aud
! Ouceded-illustrated by common consent
and association, Illuminated by nation
ality, going back for its Inspirations 10
! Bunker Hill and y Yorktown, and taking up
| the old, sweet song, where the fathers left
! it off, precisely as If nothing had happened
I TO interrupt II.
Its echoes ringing in my ears, come 10
you to-day, with arms wide open. It's
! hopes singing in my heart, beg you 10
come 10 US, with your arms wide open.
| Thank God, the flag you viii find there Is
our flag as well as your hag-the flag of q
reunited people and glorious repuolic-
| to freeman ali over the world at once
! symbol and a pledge
! ''Ob, long may IL wave,
Der the land Of the free and the home Of the
bIaye.'
Mr.. Watterson was applauded az fire.
quent intervals during his speech, ard
! when he had finished the walls OF the
| theatre seemed almost TO shake, so
great was the ovation rendered the
| Kentucky orator.
The next business wSs the fixing OF
the next encampment place, and Louis
vile was selected by an unanimous and
rising vote.
The nominations for Commander-in-
| Chief were then taken up and the
names Of Messrs. l. NJ Walker, Of To-
diana, and Lawler, OF Illinois, were pre-
sented. Nominations were closed and
the convention adjourned until to-mor-
row morning.
PIrTsBURG, PA, September t2.-The
Woman's Relief Corps held its first ses-
sion this morning. The National Pres
| idont, Mrs. Sarah c. Mink, in her re-
| port said that the movement 10 obtain
pensions ior army nurses had been
pushed duriug the year and referred TO
work due ia securing general observ-
ance of memorial day.
The Daughters Of Veterans held a
very brief session this morning and ad-
| journed until tomorrow morning, when
| they will elect national officers.
The last parade Of the encampment
occurred this afternoon, when the Union
ex.prisoners OF war turned out 1000
strong, every State in the Union having
one or more representatives Ia the
| ranks.
PIrrsBURG. PA, September 12.-The
! convention of the Ladies OF the q. Il.
r. wentinto session this morning in the
First German Evangelical Lutheran
| Church. Mrs. Amanda /. Wetheran, Of
Anoka, MINI, presiding.
PIrTsBURG, PA, September ~. -
General Daniel e, SIckles was rendered
a reception in the First NJ. E. Church
bv the members Of his old coFps, the
| Third.