The record-union., 1898-10-20
WOUND UP IN
GREAT SPLENDOR.
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with the widows and the stricken
mothers, wherever they may be, Amer
lea. incarnated spirit of liberty, stands
to-day the holy emblem OF households
in which the children abide in unity,
equality, love and peace.
The South answered the call to arms
with it's heart, and its heart goes out
with that of the North in rejoicing at
the result. The demonstration lacking
to give the touching of life to the pic
ture has been made. The open sesame
that was needed to give insight into
the true and loyal hearts, both North
and South, has been spoken. Divided
by war, we are united as never before
by the same agency and the union or
hearts as we'll as of hands.
When that great and generous SOL
der, L. S. Grant, gave back to Lee,
crushed, but ever glorious, the sword
he had surrendered at AppomattoX, that
magnanimous deed said to the people
of the South: You are our brothers.
But when the present ruler of our grand
republic, on awakening to the condition
of war that confronted him, with his
first commission placed the leader s
swords in the hands of those gallant
Confederate commanders, Joe Wheeler
and Fitzhugh Lee, he wrote between
the lines in livid letters the words:
There is but one people of this Union;
one flag for ALL The South, Mr.. Toast
master, will feel that her sons have
been well given, that her blood has
been we'll spilled, if that sentiment is
to be indeed the true inspiration of our
nations future. God grant 1t may be,
as 1 believe it will
THE President as the next toast on
the program, and to that ex-Flce-
President Stevenson replied. Mr. Ste
venSon'S address, which was constantly
interrupted by applause, was in the
following words:
Not Chicago alone but Illinois. the
State that gave the immortal Lincoln
to the Presidency and to the ages, bids
you welcome, Mr.. President
1.-The incumbent of this great Office
holds with unchallenged title the most
exalted station known to men. Mon
archs rule by hereditary right, or hold
high place only by force of arms. fhe
elevation of citizen to the Presidency
of the United States is the deliberate
act, under the forms of law, of a SOW
ereign people. AS an aspirant, he may
have beenl the choice only of a political
party, but as the incumbent of the
great office he is the representative of
all the people-the President of all the
people.
1T augurs we'll for the future of the
Republic when the American people
magnify this office; when they honor.
as now5 the President, who has SO ably
upheld its dignity; SO worthily met its
solemn responsibilities; SO patriotically
discharged it's exacting and imperative
duties. It is we'll that to the people
was intrusted sovereign power of
choosing their Chief Magistrate. II is
our glory in the respect of more than
a century that none other than ratri-
ots-statesmen well equipped for the
discharge of its tirelesS duties--have
ever been chosen to the Presidency.
May we not believe that the past is
the earnest of the future, and that dur
ing the rolling years and centuries the
incumbents of the great office - the
chosen successors of Washington ard
Lincoln-in the near and in the remote
future will prove the guardians and
defenders of liberty-the guardians and
defenders of the rights of all the pco-
pie
However it may have been in the
past, the United States energies from
the conflict with Spain an united peo-
pie. Sectionalism is forever obliter-
ated. Henceforth, for all time, we pre-
sent to foreign foe an unbroken front.
NO less important is the fact that
the United States of America to-day,
as never before, commands the respect
and admiration of the world. No for
eign coalition, however, formidable. can
excite our serious apprehension Of
alarm. For all this, all honor to our
brave soldiers and sailors: all hoEor
to the helpful and sympathetic feeling
of Americas patriotic women.
"As in the early morning and noon
of the nineteenth century, America
gave to the world its best lesson in
liberty and in law, SO in its closing
hours it has given to all the nations
a never forgotten lesson in the dreaded
war.