The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-13

land, Vice-PreSident Stevenson, repre-
sentatives of the supreme court, diplo-
matte corps, congress, army veterans
and colleagues of the late general.
The unwilling was preceded by a
military demonstration, in which the
Second army CORDS, at the head of
which General Hancock achieved his
greatest victories, participated.
The exercises were opered with pray
er by Bishop Satterlee, of Washington.
The principal address was delivered
by Senator John NJ. Palmer, of Illinois,
major general of the United States
volunteers during the war. A salute
was fired as the statue was unveiled.
Seven hundred invited friends were
present, including many relatives of the
general.
CLEVELAND'S ADDRESS.
President Cleveland made brief ad-
dress, in which he said: "A grateful
government today pays tribute to the
memory of one of our country's noblest
sons and bravest defenders. Willingly
prompted by patriotic inclination, We
have assembled to witness a nation. IS
appreciation of valiant deeds in time
OF war. and its recognition of civic vir-
tues in time of peace. We give this
monument to the dead; but the dead
endows our gift with a significance
which makes it of priceless value to
the living. 1t is an open book con-
sbantly teaching the lesson of sincere
and Steadfast love of country. Those
who look upon its grand proportions
in years to come will be reminded Of
such sacrifice and service as have made
our nation great and our people happy.
With this monument before our eyes,
those in public station who are charged
with the peoples interests and with
making and execution of their laws,
can hardly forget that honest effort to
secure the public veal and a stern in
sistence at all times upon
FAITHFUL AND UNSELFIsH
discharge of public duty in the places
they occupy, are as essential to the
safety and preservation of all that
Americans hold dear as bravery and
herusm on the field of battle.
THE perpetuity of our popular gov
eminent, depending upon our fidelity
to the principles ON which it rests; the
vast interests of a conhding people,
promoted and guarded only by hon
esty and faithfulness in their service,
and obedience to those national obliga-
tons which our membership in the
family of nations exacts, should be
sufficient to enforce upon those trusted
by. their coumtrymen the lessons which
this monument teaches.
Let US all, however, open our minds
and hearts to the sentiments, especial
ly appropriate to this occasion, and
let our
SENSE OF PUBLIC DUTY
and our patriotic aspirations be quick
ened and stimulated by a voice from
the grave, admonishing us that our
obligations as servants of the people
are made more sacred and our incen-
tives to vigilant citizenship more i'm
presSive because we have in our keep
ing the fame and glory Of our coun-
trys heroic dead
Senator Palmer's address was de-
voted to eulogy of the manly and SOL
dierly qualities of General Hancock,
and contained a beautiful tribute to
his wife, who was his biographer
THE military qualities of General
Hancock" he said ARE well known TO
the country. The story of his brilliant
services has been told in detail by BIZ
ographers, but General Grant has con-
oensed his real character and reputa-
ton into a few sentences: Hancock
stands the most conspicuous of all the
general officers who did not exercise a
separate command. He commands a
corps longer than any other one, and
his name was never mentioned as hav-
ing committed in battle a blunder for
which he was responsible. He was a
man of very conspicuous personal APP
pearance His genial disposition made
him friends. and his personal courage
and his presence with his command
in the thickest of the fight, won for
him the confidence of the troops serv-
ing under him "
Continuing, Senator Palmer said: Il
have said that Hancock has
AN EYE FOR a BATTLEFIELD.
The terms 1 use are not technical, but
they describe a quality in an officer
that every practical soldier under
stands. 1t has its application to the
field like that of Gettysburg, and in a
less degree to Chickamauga. When
he reached Gettysburg, Hancock found
the position held by the union forces
menaced by startling dangers. AT once
he saw the advantages of the position
and boldly resolved that this great
battle should be fought to determine
the fate of the continent. To be great
is to be equal to the requirements OF
great occasions and it is to the skill
the courage and the resolute GOODNESS
of Hancock that Gettysburg was Sc
lected as battlefield, and it is to the
officers of all ranks and grades and tc
the hardy resofute courage of the pri
vate soldiers of many states that the
country owes the crushing repulse OF
the confederate forces.
Now that we have. ceased to strug-
gle against each other, we know with
absolute confidence that the men Of
every section and of all parts of the
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and alike willing and ready to defend
the integrity of the union and the
HONOR OF THE NATION
against all and every foe. Americans
of all sections and of all parties, of one
common country now know, respect
and confide in each other, and we will
transmit that sentiment of respect ant
confidence to our children, which viii
afford a sure guaranty for interna
peace and the defense of nationa
honor
But at the beginning of the. strife
between the sections the officers of tht
army were embar raised by difficultie.
of an altogether different character
For the most part they had been eGm
! Gated together in the national nilitar,
school; they knew each other we'll ant
none of them doubted the courage Of
the resolution of the other. They wer,
citizens of different states, and som.
of them were overcome by the delu
sion that
THEIR PARAMOUNT ALLEGIANCE
was due to the state of their birth Of
! of their dcmicile.
when I characterize the theory o
primal allegiance to the states as {
| delusion, confess that the embarrass
ments of the army officers born in tn;