The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1901-05-03
HONOR GRANTS MEMORY R /.
Ga1ena Holds a Celebration of Sew.
enty-Ninth Anniversary of NV
the Hero's Birth.
THE TOWN IS CROWDED WITH GUESTS.
pov M Cunsaulus. of Chicago, tho
Orator of Day-Pays n"re AfA"ueo
to Warrior and stntcsman-Letters
of Regret from Distinsuishea
People Read. -

Galena, Ill.,, April 29.-The seventy.
ninth anniversary of the birth OF zen.
Grant was celebrated Saturday. The /,
occasion was the tenth of the series
and was in every respect successful.
The train from Chicago arrived at l:1s
y. III. and brought the speaker OF the
day-Rev. DR.. Frank w. Gunsauius-.
and q party of distinguished guests,
who were escorted to Turner hall by
the Platteville state normal band and
the f. D. Kittoe post, G. a. H.
The address delivered from the
stage of the hall by Dr. Cunsauius was
pronounced one of the finest orat1ons
given from that platform and warmly
received by an audience OF immense
size. The city was decorated in honor
of the event, which was participated IN
by the leading citizens of the towns
and villages within radius OF loo
miles. Letters of regret from Mrs.
Gen. Grant, Mrs. Sartoris, Admiral
Dewey, Chauncey NJ. Depew, Senator
Allison and other prominent Amerl-
cans, were read in connection with tho
exercises, which included special
musical features by Miss Clara X.
Sheean of Chicago; Marion 3. Green,
6f Dubuque. William Rippin, presi-
dent of the Grant Birthday assocla-
ton, delivered address of welcome.
DR.. Gaunsaulus' Address.
Rev. Frank w. Gunsaulus, the orator
of the day, in his address said:
1--WE are worthy of the memory of Grant
only when We have his magnanlmlty.
straightforwardness, heroism and sense OF
justice toward the oppressed of every race.
1t Is demoralizing for US to paraoe our
shallow skepticism rs to the Vaiue "
emancipation and the necessity Oh nonese
suffrage for the negro in the presence
of this great name and seek to slmulate
contentment as to the condition OF 'he
freed men when the thunder OF MS u1icoAA~
promising righteousness mis- our eats'
Justice must be done to the negro WIZ
has the ballot in his hands and the iran
chise must be protected, or we must at last
sink int abysses of hypocrisy with Grants
monument casting a shadow over US.
Need of Emulation.
"Our American life needs now as never
before to emulate the man who was as
gentle as he was strong. who never kne"
how to boast and who believed IN the SIM
plicity OF righteousness. 1t was Grant VINO
prevented the republic from breaking its
moral contract made by the greenoack,
and it will be the American spirit such
as we then saw incarnated In Grant al a
moment when dividends were counted
more precious tnan honor or MANHOOD
which shall now redeem our pledges to
the negro who was as efectiVe as tAe
greenback in helping to purify our flag.
A Word for the Negro.
"When Grant sent Sheridan to Louisiana
to carry justice to the negro. ms was q
Republican, which must always believe
that a flag worthy of respect will protect
its citizens, black or white from outrage
and wrong 1t will require stern hero
ism al the north to beat back wave OF
supercilious and unmanly prejudice
against the negro which will as PRACTICAL
ly deprive him of his civil rights as that
same prejudice once enslaved him at the
south 1t is a great day when Wise, or
Virginia, who has IN his blood the MEM
ory of that Wise, Of Virginia.. who hung
John Brown, stands courageously against
the apparent decadence of the Union
League club, of New York city, and helps
to bring it back to the standard under
which it fought in the days OF Grant and
Greedy Commerce alism.
1T was mercantilism which was willing.
to permit Lincoln and Grant to be inef-
fective against the slave power nearly a.
years ago. 1t is now d sodden and greedy
commercialism which chokes the con-
science of the republic, and nothing but
the love OIL JUSTICE III WHICH AHc S"OIu "
Grant was sharpened and ground will save
our nation and our constitution as before.
So long as state sovereignty may annul
constitutional amendments and destroy the
liberty or threaten the ballot Of an Amer
lean citizen, be he black or white. we are
utterly unworthy of the memory of Ulysses
s. Grant. His spirit alone makes US ma
ton"
Bank in Michigan Town Robbed.