San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-09-19
TIE PURITY OF PEACE
Speech of Gen. Grosvenor on Chick
amauga Battlefield.

amauga Battlefield.
CHATTANOOGA, Sept. 10. = The
Veterans of Ohio, in dedicating
their state monuments on Snod-
grass hill, Chickamauga battle
field yesterday, were addressed by
Gov. Mckinley, ex. Governor Camp
hill, Gen. Chas. III. Grosvenor and
others.
Gen. Charles H. Grosvenor said
in part:
ave meet today upon this sacred
spot to celebrate the heroism of the
American soldier, the great results
Of battles, and the greater victo.
ries OF peace. We do not come
with words of elimination or with
memories charged with bitterness
or envy. We join here, as Ameri-
can citizens upon one of the great
battlefields of a great war, to dedi-
cate for all time to the American
people these monuments and this
battlefield. We do this to remind
those of coming generations of the
heroic races from which they de-
scended; to exhibit to them the
enormous cost of the institutions
bequeathed to them, and placed in
their keeping; and to forever ap-
peal to those who are to come after
us, that they guard, protect, and
forever cherish, imperishably and
immutably, the results of the great
war.
ave do not come with words OF
criticism or bitterness-we, of the
north. The achievement Of which
we are proudest, and we'll may be
proudest, is, not that we conquered
in war and by physical force over
threw the armies Of the Confeder-
acy; but that we restored the
union of the states, or in more
fitting terms, that we pre-
vented the overthrow of the Union
of the states; that we stood in the
deadly conflict, not to change our
institutions, but to save the union |;
not to commit revolution, but to
save the flag as, the representative
of great Union; that we fought
to restore the constitution as the
supreme law of the land. But
more proudly yet do we contem-
plate the fact that these efforts
were no unavailing; that the
result aimed at has been accom-.
plished, and that the union Of the
states today is a union OF hearts
and a union of hands, and 9
union of states none can sever. Is
there anything greater, any
thing more charming to the heart
OF an American patriot than the
love OF the American people
for this union, this consti-
tuition and this power? 1t
is our protection against enemies
abroad ii is our assurance against
disturbance within lit is the beacon
light to other nations and the
sheet anchor of ours. 1t is the
doctrine of the American home,
the American Preside, American
institutions, the American Union
and the American flag. And we
will protect it at home and we will
vindicate it abroad; and in the
hour OF its peril, in the hour OF its
danger, IL that hour shall come, in
the time that tries the future OF
this great fabric OF government, IL
the hour shall come, there will
rally to the flag Of the Union, there
will rally to the constitution
of the country, there will rally
toour in institutions, wheth-
er it be to protect our terri
torial integrity, our dignity as a
nation, or our position upon great
political questions international in
their character, there will be found
men and the descendants OF the
men OF 1861, who fought to destroy
the Union and who fought to up
hold it; the men and the descend
ants OF the men who, at Gettys-
burg, and South mountain, at
Shiloh and at Nashville, and here
upon this sacred spot, stood and
fought and bled and struggled,
going forth as mighty army with
banners, to vindicate, to cherish
and protect the flag Of the Union
that we love-"
Railroad Talk From Georgetown
GEoRGETowN, Tex, Sept. 10
(SpeciaD-D. H. Snyder, president,
and s. Kelly, Superintendent Of