The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-24
MEMORY OF ILLINOIS DEAD.
MONUMENTS WE'RE DEDICATED AT
ORCHARD KNOB.

Followed by GOV. Tanners speech
Receiving Them and Presenting
Them to the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Made by Senator CuIIom.
! Chattanooga, Tenn, Nov 23.-The ex-
ercises OF dedlcating the 1O7 monuments
| and markers of the state of Illinois on
the battledelds surrounding the city were
| held to-day at Orchard Knob. the site
I of one OF the principal memorial shafts
and famous during the Civi War as the
headquarters of Gen. Grant
Among the visitors were Senator Cul-
/ lom, Gov. Tanner and staff, Commission
/ er of Pensions H. Clay Evans Gen. H. V.
Boynton, representing the Secretary of
War, and large delegation from the
Confederate camp of this city.
! Maj. Charles A. Connolly delivered the
/ speech presenting the monuments to the
/ Governor of Illinois in behalf of the Ill-
nois comm ssioners. He said in part:
THE state of Illinois. rich as she is in
a strong Industrious citizenship in fertile
/ le DIS and gen al innate, in her busy fac
tories, her won3rous city by the lake. snd
her hundred thrifty m nor cities, is yet
richer in her notable sens and her mem
ory Of their achievements.
! Greater than all, she remembers that
she gave to all coming time the one truly
great figure which t. nineteenth century
has added to the Pantheon of the world,
Abraham Lii ccln--he who could direct the
sreates most dea6ly struggle If he ages,
ard yet like an incarnate spirit of mercy,
/ stoop 10 assuage the grief and wounds of
the vanGuishe1.
illinois remembers too, that she gave 10
the nation a Grant in whom the soldie
of the world found an exemplar cor
| that was patient, peIs stent heroic in war
and all that was kindly and generous und
, thoughtful of The vanquished when his
hour of victory came
"Ah, yes, Illinois also remembers the
| 10000 Of her sons, who left their prairie
homes 10 do battle for he flag and the
| Union they were born under, and in the
days of her peace and prosperity she gives
with loving hands, her treasure, to rear
I these 81 an tie memorials TO the fallen ones,
which shall carry the story of their
heroism to the coming centuries.
And Illinois rejoices 10 rear these mon
uments on the mountains of Tennessee,
| which were bathed in the blood of heroic
men, struggling for free government in the
| early dawn of our nation-mountans of
| Tennessee! where the hardy pioneers of
the last century first lighted the watch
| fires of freedom in the Southland, and
who, with their descendants, have shown
that
| " Freedoms battle oft begun
Bequeathed from bleeding sire to son,
Tho baffied oft is ever won
mountains Of Tennessee! reared by the
hand of God! Fit minister for the resting
| Place of heroes sacrificed to freedom and
union.
And Illinois is glad TO find the monu-
ments of Georgia, Tennessee, and other
sister states of the South reared alongside
her own to ommemorate the heroism of
their sons who wore the gray.
Men who breast foe and fall on the
| deadly edge of battle, ennoble human ma
ture, whatever may be the blazonry OF
the banner under which they fan, by the
devotion to duty which they display.
IF their cause be wrong, it dies; but
| the brave soldier who fought for it sur
wives his cause, even though he sacrificed
his life for it, and his heroism lives in
the history of the world, and in the hearts
of all who love heroic manhood.
1.-THE present is brief pageant the past
| soon dims with the lapse of years, the
| passions of the hour soon fade as the years
| of future, like a torrent roll over them,
| but the right soon emerges from an this,
| and is seen by all as light in a lofty
place.
england long ago was torn by her War
| of the Roses the red rose the symbol of
one side; the white rose the symbol OF the
| other
To-day the antiquarian may, by diligent
| search learn why one rose was red ana
the other white but the men of England
TODAY are sailing the seas TO distant At
RIGA to do battle for their country, with
never thought why one rose was red ana
| the other white.
$50 to-day, the sons of the men who
wore the blue and the sons OF the men
who wore the gray, animated by the hero
ism of their fathers, and each loving MS
| country equally well, standing shoulder
| TO shoulder, defending their country's flag
| in the distant islands of the sea where
! the fortunes of war carried it, and where
the people, both North and South, follow
| their victorious marches with proud ac-
claim
'.The blue and the gray of their fathers
| have blended into the blue of the skies
| that bend over the land of their devotion,
| and they keep their country's flag in the
air with the inspiration drawn from the
hundred battlefelds Of their fathers
Gov. Tanner, in turning these monu-
ments over to you, 1 beg to say TO you
that the erection of them by our commits
sion has been a labor of love, and do not
| forget that the Illinois regiment in which
| YOU served as a private soldier, bore
conspicuous and honorable part in the he
| roic drama enacted on these surrounding
| mountains and valleys, and as an Illi-
| noisan / rejoice that the private soldier
of thirty-five years ago, comes here as the
| chief executive of the third state in the
Union, to receive these monuments reared
| 10 commemorate the heroism of his COM
| rades.
Gov. Tanners Response.
Gov. John r. Tanner of Illinois received
| the monuments, and. in turn, presented
| them to the government.
| Gov. Tanner, in closing his address ac-
| eepting the monuments, said:
1T only remains that l now present to
| the Park Commission, in behalf of Illi-
| nois. these monuments, and in doing so 1
| can ask no more than that you may keep
| these graves as green, here under God S
| Southern sunlight, as they nave always
been, and shall ever be, in the hearts of
| the generous people of Illinois whose
cause these heroes Sc valiantly upheld"
Gen. Henry V. Boynton, president of
the Chckamauga Park Commission, re-