The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-08-04
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OF War-Spssoh Of Present SlgniheRneu
Made by PrsSIlent Mckinley Ia New
York city 10 SIay 1ss9-LlmIthtIOns Of
Human Vision.
Washington dispatch 10 the St. Louis
Globe Democrat: In conversation one
day last week President Mckinley refer
red to a speech he made In New York
city Us long ago as the sOth Of May, 1889.
He quoted from the language he used
then. The significance OF his action
was that to his mind, in certain sense,
parallel was presented now.
Wars and revolutions can not hx In
advance the boundaries OF their infiu-
ence or determine the scope OF their
power"
That was the keynote Of the Presl-
dents conversation, He had been ask
ed some questions, to answer which de-
fnitely required looking forward be-
You'd what he conceived to be ''the
boundary Of human vision." He was
enunclating his belief that It was bet
ter to do the present duty TO the utmost
ability and to feel the way to conclu-
or should not be the exact course OF the
government In the eESL And then the
President went back to the revolution
and to the clvii war and recalled his
tory's lesson. He recalled how unfor-
seen were the results OF those wars
when they were begun. He referred TO
what he had said in his address on the
American volunteer soldiers at New
York nine years ago. He rehe arstd those
views as haylng a bearing or the sItua-
ton to-day.
On that occasion the President said:
'And. my fellow citizens, We not only
knew little Of the scope and proportions
OF that great war, or the dreadful sac
rIGee to be Incurred, but as little knew
the grand results which were to follow.
We thought az the beginning, and we
thought long after the commencement
Of the war, that the union to be saved
was the union as II was. That was our
understanding when We enlisted, that 1t
was the constitution and the uniOn-the
constitution as II was and the union as
It wRs-for which we fought, little heed
ing the teachings OF history, that wars
and revolutions can not fix in advance
the boundaries OF their influence or de-
termlne the scope OF their power. His
tory enforces no sterneT lesson, Our
own revolution OF 1776 produced results
unlocked, for by It's foremost leaders
Separation was no part OF the Original
purpose. Political alienation was no
part OF the first pan Disunion was
neither thought Of nor accepted. Why,
in lT75. on the fifth day OF July. in Phil
ndeiphia, when the CoEtinen;a. Con-
gress was In session. declaring It's pur-
poses toward Great Britain. what did It
say? After declaring that IL would
raise armies, It closed that declaration
with this significant language:
Lest his declaration should disqulet
the minds OF some Of our friends and
fellow subjects in other parts Of the enl-
plre. we assure them that we do not
mean td5dissolve the union which has
SO long and happily subsisted between
US.
our fathers said in that same declara-
We haye not raised armies with nmbi-
tlous deS!gns TO separate from Great
Britain and establish Independent
"Th9sk were the views OF our faith
ers. ThbSe we're the Views entertained
by the soldiers and statesmen OF colo
nial days. Why, even the Declaration
OF Independence which has sounded the