The Press., 1894-07-05
(From Gen. Hawleys speech at the Trinity Col lege flag ra1sing)
 THE FLAG.

(From Gen. Hawley's speech at the Trinity Col
 lege flag ra1sing0
 THE FLAG.
 have not said enough concerning the flag. It would require volumes. When the flag was young it had many interest ing adventures. Its first entrances into many harbors are duly recorded; it's early voyages toward the north and south poles, and into all the oceans; it's gallant fights and triumphs in the revolution on land and sea, and it's glorious continuation at Yorktown; it's sea fights in the war of 1812; it's visit to Lundy's Lane, and it's triumph at New Orleans-are they not all recorded? And it went with Scott's ten thousand from Vera Cruz to Mexico. These old veterans remind me of later days. You should have seen it after Beauregard fired upon it as it fiuttered over Major Anderson, of Kentucky, on guard in Fort Sumter, April 12, 1861. He would not surrender. In the last des- perate emergency he accepted, April 13,
 
 these terms: The departure of the gar rison, with company arms and property, and all private property, and the privilege of saluting and retaining his flag.
 The battle-torn banner had been hoist ed over Sumter at noon, Dec. 26, 196O after an earnest prayer by the chaplain that it might long continue to wave over a united and happy people.
 Early on Sunday morning, April 14th, Anderson was ready to leave. He fired a salute of fifty guns, lowered the flag, and the garrison, in full dress, embarked on the steamer "Isabel," the band playing "Yankee Doodle" Then the major left the fort to the tune of "Hail to the Chief" A party of confederates, led by Governor Pickens and General Beauregard and his aides, came over to Sumter and took pos session. The flag had been lowered but not captured. Precisely four years after wards, Major Anderson, then major general in the army of the United States, again raised this identical tattered flag over the battered ruins of Sumter
 The "Isabel" conveyed the garrison to the Baltic" and the confederates, stand l ing on the beach, uncovered their heads as token of respect for the gallant de- fence. When the major reached the Baltic his precious flag was raised to the masthead and saluted with the cheers and | the guns of the other vessels of the relief l squadron. It was again raised on the ''Baltic" as it arrived at New York on | the 18th, when it was greeted with sa- lutes from the forts and the shouts of thousands of welcoming spectators. An! you should have been in New York | when the news of the fall of Sumter came As historian says, when the stars and stripes went down at Sumter they went up in every town and county in the loyal states. Every city and village blossomed with banners. On forts ard ships, on church spires, on flag-staffs of colleges, hotels, stores, and private dwellings, and public edifices everywhere, the old flag was flung out and hailed with enthusi- asm. Its prose became poetry, and it had sacred value it had never before possessed.
 "The demand for flags was so great that the manufacturers could not furnish them. The price of bunting went up from $4. 75 to 1928 apiece. Book muslin used for the stars, worth from six to ten cents was sold for three dollars yard. Loyal women wore miniature banners on their bonnets, and men carried the emblems in breastpins and countless other devices"
 The patchwork of red, white and blue which had many time failed to even at tract attention, woke millions of people to battle. Everywhere there were meet. ings and flag -raisings and impassioned addresses. A monster meeting gathered Aplil 20, in New York, estimated at 1OO,. GOO in number. Four stands were erect ed around Union Square. Anderson's ragged flag was placed in the hands o the equestrian statue of Washington Hon. Jon A. Dix, Hon. Hamilton Fish William T. Havemeyer, and Moses H Grinnell presided at the stands. Repub lican and democrat, conservative and rad ical shook hands and stood shoulder tt shoulder.
 On Sunday, April 25th, in nearly all tho churches in New York sermons were preached referring to the war. Major Anderson and his wife attended service al Trinity. On the 27th, the vestry of Grace church desired that a flag should wave from the apex of the spire of the church 265 feet from the ground, and after des perate attempts the flag was raised anG floated out freely in the air amid tumultu } ous cheers. Eight days earlier, Apri 18th, flag, 40 by 20, was flung out upor flagstaff from window in Trinity church steeple, at a height of 24O feet while the chimes played "Yankee Doc dle'' and the Red, White, and Blue, winding up with "Alps We'll" Catholic churches, Episcopal churches, Dutch Re formed churches, Presbyterian churches Baptist churches vied with each other il patriotism. .. sWhy is it," said Edward Everett ir Boston, "that the flag, always honored is now at once worshipped, l may say with the passionate devotion of this whol, people? Why does it now float, as neve before, from masthead, tower, and stee pie, public edifices, temples of science and private dwellings in magnificent dis play of miniature presentiment Le Fort Sumter give the answer"
 Reverdy Johnson, of Maryland, said:
 'Though not especially impulsive,
 cannot imagine how an American eye cal look upon that standard without emotion The twenty stars added to its first con stellation tell it's proud history, its might. influence, and it's unequalled career. Tn lman who is dead to the influence of ou