Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-05-02
GEN. GRANTS Birthday.
The Seventy-Ninth Anniversary Of
Gen. Grants Birth Cele-
brated at Ga1ena, Ill.
A NUMBER OF GUESTS FROM CHICAG0.
Among Them was Rev. Frank w.
GunsauIus. Who was the Orator
of the Day, and Who Dwelt Upon
the Innate Honesty that rcrineat.
cd Grants Character.

Galena, ILL.,, April 2s.-The seventy
ninth anniversary of the birth of Gen.
Grant was celebrated here. The oc-
casion was the tenth of a series and
in every respect was successful. u
speaker of the day, Rev. DIR. Frank
W.. Gunsarlus, and a party of distin-
guished guests arrived from Chicago
at 1:1s o'clock and were escorted to
Turner hall.
Rev. DIR. Gunsaulus' address was
warmly received by an immense audi
ence. The city was decorated in
honor of the event, which was par
ticipated in by leading citizens OF
towns and villages within a radius OF
100 miles. Letters of regret were read
from Mrs. Gen. Grant, Mrs. Sartoris,
Admiral Dewey, Senator Chauncey M
Depew, Senator Allison and other
prominent Americans. VIM. Rippin,
president of the Grant Birthday asso-
citation, delivered the address of well
come.
Rev. Frank w. Gunsaulus, the ora,
tOT VI TIC udS, III OAO NO0ASO LII"
address, said:
Grant only when we V his magnanimi-
ty. straightforwardness, heroism and
sense of justice toward the men OF
every race. 1t is demoralizing for US TO
parade our shallow sceptfcism as to the
value of emancipation and the necessity
of honest suffrage for the negro in the
presence of this great name and seek to
simulate contentment as to the condition
of the freedmen when the thunder OF his
IL riTh II mir
ears. Justice must be done to the negro
who has the ballot in his hands and the
franchise must be projected. or we must
with Grants monument casting a shad-
ow over US. Our American life needs now,
as never before, to emulate the man VINO
was as gentle as he was strong, who
never knew how to boast and who be-
lieved in the simplicity of righteousness.
IL was Grant who prevented the republic
from breaking its moral contract made
by the the greenback. and it will be ;h7
American spirit such as We then saw In
arnated in Grant at a m when
dividends were counted more precious
than honor or nanhood, which shall now
redeem our pledges to the negro who was
as effective as the greenback in helping
to purify our flag
when Grant sent Sheridan to Louisi-
ana to carry justice to the negro, his was
a reDublicanism which must always be-
lieve that a flag worthy of respect will
outrage and wrong. 1t will require a
stern heroism at the north to beat back
a wave Of Supercil1ouS ana unmanly
prejudice against the negro which will ls
practically deprive him of his civil rights
as that same prejudice once enslaved him
at the south. 1t is a great day when
Wise. of Virginia, who has in his blood
the memory of that Wise. of Virginia,
who hung John Brown, stands courage.
ously against the apparent ~decadence of
the Union League club of New York city
and helps tn bring it back to the stand
ard under which 1t fought in the days OF
Grant and Lincoln. 1t was mercantilism
which was willing to permit Lincoln and
Grant to be ineffective against the slave
power nearly forty years ago. 1t is now a
sodden and greedy commercialism which
chokes the conscience of the republic, and
nothing but the love of justice in which
the sword of Grant was sharpened and
ground Will save our nation and our con-
stitution as before. So long as state SOW
ereignty may annul constitutional amend
ments and destroy the liberty or threat
en- the ballot of an American citizen, be
he black or white. we are utterly I'M
worthy OF the memory of Ulysses 6.
Grant. His spirit alone makes us a ma
ton"