Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-10-10
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achievements: West Virginia loves
| to honor him as a distinguished citi-
zen; the United States of America es-
TEEN him as among her most faithful
servants; hut Mergantown loves him
not only for these marked aud distin-
gushing traits, but because he is
sBone of our bone and flesh of our
flesh. y
1.-The Star Spangled Banner was
then rendered very effectively and
reused great enthusiasm.
Governor Atkinson was next intro
duced and presented the sword to
Capt. Chadwick on behalf of the peo-
pie of the state. The cheering was
very great and the Governor never de-
livered better address than he did
this afternoon.
Remarks OF Governor Atkinson.
Captain Chdd,oick, ng Friends and Eel
lo,o Citizens,
In the American Republic, heroism
and romance go hand in hand. Hero
ism is like the ancient temple which
deflee tisne and storm, while romance
is like ivy which clings about the tenn
| pie and tenderly conceals the ravages
| OF the years as they ceaselessly come
and go Our Republic, young as 1t is.
has produced and is still producing a
| galaxy Of heroes whose names will
ever be the synonyms of ehivalry and
daring. The years of 1898 and 90
have been epoch years in American
History and American valor. Our
armies on land and sea, in those two
years, have won unfading and immor-
| tai renown. Their victories rank with
those at Salamis and Trafalgar, and
| the records they have made will be as
enduring as the stars.
/ Perfect valor consists in doing with
out witness all one should be capable
of doing before the whole world. A
crime against the civilized world and
posterity will grow in magnitude as
time rolls on, and will forever and to
the remotest times, blast the name
and the fame OF him who committed
it. But the man who does noble
and patriotic act, an act that will en-
noble hisfellow men, will be cherished
by the people that are good until the
centuries cease to roll.
/ All along the centuries, my friends,
the sword has been regarded as an
emblem of authority and symbol OF
/ power. In the sacred Scripture we
read of 'sthe sword of the Lord and OF
Gideon, and how, with it, that great
chieftain and defender Of the Faith
used it with mighty effect upon the
enemies of the living God. Shakes
peare, in immortal verse, describes
"the Sword of Democlesn suspended
forever above the heads of those that
persist in waywardness and wrong do
ing. The Egyptians, the Persians, the
Babylonians, the Greeks and the Ro-
mans, in the centuries agone, placed
the sword in the hands of their chief
tains, and with 1t was conveyed the
authority to command, pursue and
conquer and rule. The mighty sword
of England flashes in the sunlight all
around the world to-day. Our own
/ American Damascus blade" un-
sheathed in the cause Of truth, liberty
and higher civilization, is lifting Cuba
and Puerto Rico TO more exalted con-
ceptions of life and duty; and before
the nineteenth century passes into
history, it will, if ] mistake not,
bring to the inhabitants of the Phil
ippine Islands better government,
| broader ideas of civilization, greater
liberty, and eternal gratitude to the
American sailor and soldier, although
the formerly oppressed Filiplnos do
not seemingly understand it now.
War is right, forever right, when
waged for liberty, righteousness and
| truth; but war is wrong, forever
wrong, when waged simply for con-
| quest and extension.
/ We have assembled here to-day, my
countrymen, to honor one OF our citi-
zens who as sailor and soldier has
4 greatly honored us. Some of our en-
terprising pnblic-spirited West Vir-
ginians have brought the fact con-
spicuously before the people of our
State, that Captain F. e. Chadwick,
a native of this thriving city, is enti-
tied to more than passing mention,
because he commanded bravely and
conspicuously the flag ship New
York." when Ceryera's feet went
| down in the great naval battle of San
tiago. Brave as only Virginians can
be, Captain Chadwick, with the stars
and stripes floating from the mast
head Of his great American battleship,
amid shot and shell, that historic day
in July, 1898, with his other co-com-
manders in that immortal contest won
more. than Lord Nelson won at Ira
falgar: they won more than "a peer
age and grave in Westminster Alb
bey," they won the hearts and admira-
tion of all the people of 'sthe great
Republic. They won, indeed, our
admiration and our gratitude forever.
| am glad to know, sir, that there
are no spots upon the horizon Of your
long and eventful military career. 1t
is to-day and has ever been as spot
less as maiden's and as unsullied as
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