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TRIBUTE TO PRESIDENT M'KIN
LEY.
General H. B. Darlington Before the

Franklin County (Ohio) Bar.
The Hyde Park (Mass.) Gazette OF
Saturday last contains the following
article, which will be of much interest
the fact that General Darlington is
widely known here:
At memorial meeting of the Frank
lin County Columbus Ohio Bar, on
Saturday, September 81, in tribute to
President Mckinley General H. B.
| Darlington, with one exception the only
surviving member Of that bar In 1S4S,
but now on the army retired list, and a
resident Of Hyde Park, closed brief re-
marks as follows:
Forty years ago, when I parted
with you for other duty, the very ex-
istence of this Union was in peril To-
| day we meet in the shadow Of another
solemn ordeal And yet, through a
| widening rift in the great sorrow cloud
| that has dropped tears all over the SEN
! tient earth, there seems to CLEAN a SUI
| pernal radiance from the Great White
| Throne. Between earth and sky, the
| incense wave of heartfelt prayer has
filled all space; and even although the
Almighty Father did not spare to us
the bodily presence of the beloved Nc
Kinley, He did bring his children to
His own presence; and a people at the
footstoo1 of divine grace and mercy
shall never be sent empty away"
Brethren Of the Franklin County
bar! Two thoughts seek expression be-
fore we part. The first is this: The
dignity of your profession has been en-
HANGED by the events we are gathered
to consider If the church be the sane
tuary Of moral force, this temple Of JUS
tice no less represents that civil force
which is ordained to protect society
from violations of moral obligation.
"Anarchos'' Is best and most compre-
hensively translated, Without God in
the world Screen your eyes a mo-
ment and imagine that possibility, we
men Of the law. And then magnify
your profession as the conservators of
law
my other thought is this: The
mightiest nations of the world realize
at last that one common foe is under
mining and endangering all social order
and all domestic peace; that ambition
for physical preponderance must yield
to the demands for common self-de-
Tense. against deadly foe; that they
must speedily converge their might |
against this lawless and goddess enc
my, in the interest of fraternity, reci- I
procity and charity, or they will chal-
lenge a world wide confiagration of
all that is righteous and blessed on
earth.
1T is thus and just now that we must |
take inspiration for the future. The |
rumbling wheels, the heavy tramp, |
tramp, tramp of our citizen militia, the
solemn dirge, the floods Of tears, the
art-aches and the signs Of last week
are still above and around US, never to
be forgotten. The nation has felt a
sudden jar as if the Supreme Director |
of all things had for moment set a
break upon our progress, perhaps to
check the impetuous rush for gold and
greed; but the nation will move on to
perpetual and world wide destiny If, in
companionship with God, and never
without God, it shall make righteous
ness the spur of its progress land the
ideal goal Of it's race"
The Ohio citizens and papers gave
cordial welcome to their former citi-
zen and adjutant- general, who put the
first twenty-six regiments into the field,
and who, besides commissioning Gar
field, Hayes, Mcclellan, Rosecrans and
others, mustered the late president into
service. They recall the fact that be-
sides thirteen regiments of volunteers
and eight regiments Of militia thus
promptly placed in the field, on May 6, !
1851, he issued a general order No. 16,
referred to in Appletons Annual Cy ,
distributing among the coun-
lies an assignment of one thousand ad- !
iitional companies, as reserve, which
arge force was afterwards summoned
% verify his prediction of the duty Of {
ohio, to have one hundred thousand !
more men ready upon demand. His {
telegraphed to Secretary $
Cameron, that "the result, however s
ong, would be certain that Ohio had I
'orn enough ahead for a year. and r.
would go to the Gulf if necessary was T
10 "crazy utterance.' as some declared, n
nut an estimate of duty and ability now e
appreciated and honored by the Buck S
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