The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-07-29
HARRIsoN,s FLAa srEEoH,
On the Occasion of tho Raising of the Stars
and stripes at the old Forge House-No
Politics, Simply Patriotism.

fohtlcs, simply Patriotism.
Old Forge, N. Y, July 2S.-An Ameri-
can flag was raised in front of the Old
Forge hotel here yesterday, and GEN
eral Harrison talked patriotism for ten
minutes to $50 men and women. Those
who hoped that he would say some.
thing political did not know him and so
suffered disappointment His remarks
were confined entirely to the Fourth of
July style Of oratory, and nothing he
said had amy significance whatever.
The day dawned duh and rainy, and
the dizziness and rain increased steadily
as the time passed until a constant
downpour fell upon the little gather
ing at the foot Of the Fulton chain of
lakes.
General Harrison, with his private
secretary, Mr.. Tbbott, arrived from ths
Dodd camp in a small launch. Cannon
doomed as he climbed the steep board
walk leading from the lake to the
piazza of the Old Forge house. Mr..
Mowry was chosen as the presiding Of
flcer. He is prominent democrat, and
one of the leaders of the Cleveland fac
ton in the state. His introduction CT
General Harrison was eagerly listened
to- but he carefully avoided snags and
contented himself with few flattering
sentences. The other speakers We're
Assemblyman Sanger, ex-senator Mills
and Mr.. Mcclure.
The ex-president spoke as follows:
''Mr. President and Neighbors and
Friends: congratulate you upon the
success which has attended this patri-
| otto effort. You have triumphed over
all conditions. / thought for a time
this morning that you would postpone
| to more suspicious day the raising
| of this handsome flag at Old Forge.
"And, after all, this beautiful emblem
of liberty never shines so well as when
it's background is dark. 1t has been
loved best when the clouds were low
| In those dark days in it's early history,
| when it seemed that the God in whom
our fathers trusted had forsaken them;
when their resources seemed almost
| spent and their indomitable valor to
have reached its last attainment, the
| flag which was the first emblem of our
organization for free government shone
so brightly and so luminous and so
| drew the hearts of men and the love
and prayers of women, that in that
dark day we were lifted out of the val
ley of despair and defeat to a glorious
contamination, and to a victory that
surprised the world.
| And so, in the serious days of our
later conflict for the integrity of the
| union, men seemed to love the flag
most when fortune was most against
| it. In the dark days of SO, when every
! circumstance of almost every campaign
seemed to be adverse, when Kirby Smith
! had penetrated the Cumberland Gap
| and was Threatening the Ohio river
| cities; when Buell. was returning unsuc-
| cessful from his campaign through Ala
| bama; when Mcclellan seemed to be
| rendered powerless In the peninsula
| tn that time when the clouds hung
very low, there was revealed another
| triumph of the national spirit and
another Illustration of the indomi-
table patriotism of our population
For just at that time when Mr.
Lincoln's call came for 100000 volun-
teers, though there seemed to be for a
time a rest and pause, yet 1t was only
the rest which the water makes before
/ its Leap over Niagara. That call was
responded to with magnificent i'm
pulse and quickness that again sur
prised the world and renewed the
heart and courage of that noble mar
who presided over the destinies of oui
country; and again these clouds were
lifted with the pledge that in no time
of darkness would we forsake the flag
"That flag stands to us for a senti
| fr1,s rf,t; ,+i IN, itra1 t, n,
combination of colors that made it, II
the bunting of silk of which it is made
there is nothing 1t is that 1t stand!
for that what makes it dear to us. i
is not the land of ours, wide, rich ant
rich as it is; it is not this wonderful
scenery that opens to us here
these mountain peaks, these grea
lakes, these enticing summer grounds
nor the great plains of the west, where
while we rest, the farmer is pushins
the plow to fill the granaries that car
feed the world, it is not this stretch o
land, these rivers and mountains anc
plains; it is not the product of these
1t is not Wall street; it is not the Pro
duce Exchange; it is not bulk meats
it is nothing that has bulk. 1t is some
thing that lives in the heart; 1t is al
enshrined sentiment that makes thi'
flag, and it stands for a glorious his
tory.
, eve look upon that flag and we thinl
of Bunker Hill, and we see the gallan
band expanding the last charge of am
munition and battling with clubbet
muskets over the breastworks and re
firing at last defeated; yet, as some on
said, Britton won the victory that da.
and we kept the hill 1t speaks to II
of Lexington and Concord, of Vale.
Forge, of Saratoga, of Yorktown, an
of all those great achievements. w
look upon it and think Of Washington
We look again and see the benign fac
of Abraham Lincoln. We look agai
and Grant and Sherman and Sheri
dan are revealed to us. We sc
upon its folds the story of Vicksbur
and Chickamauga and Chattanooga, c
Gettysburg and of Appomattox. 1t
the story that is woven into it tina
makes it precious to us; 1t is thus tina
it inspires It is that for which
e stands-a union of states, a governmen
of the people, for they made it; b
/ the people, for they conduct it; and fo
the people, for it has missed it's objec
if it does not accomplish their good.
f 'It stands for a government of Law
: for a civil organization; for a const
tuition that has assigned powers.
Y stands for the thought that our peopl
s have pfedged their LOYALTY to systel