The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1902-05-22
GEN. RosEcRAss SLEEPS AT ARLINGTON

The remains of Gen. YIN. S. Rosecrans
were reinforced at Arlington last Friday
in the presence of a most distinguished
gathering headed by the President of the
United States. Speaker Henderson opened
the proceedings with a tribute to the life
and services of Gen. Rosecrans.
President Roosevelt, after Suiiuding to
the rich worth Of Arlington and Mt Yer
IoD to the Nation, said:
eff it were not for what Arlington sym
bOliZes Mt. Vernon would be little or moth
ing; if it were not for what was done by
Rosecrans and his fellows, if it were not
for what they did, then the work of Wash
ington would have crumbled into bloOded
chaos. and the deeds of the founders of
this Republic would be remembered only
because they had been another of the
many failures of the spirit of liberty in
this country. Without the work that you
did, the work of the men who fought to
successful close, the revolution would have
meant nothing. To you il was given to do
the great work which if left undone would
have meant that all else done by our people
would have counted for nothing. And you
left us reunited country, and therefore
the right, the brotherhood, with an all
pride in the gallantry and self-devotion Of
those who wore the gray and were pitted
against You in the great struggle
The very fact that we appreciate more
and more as the years go on the all-impor-
tance To this country and to mankind of
your victory makes it more and more Dos
sible for us to recognize in the heartiest
and the frankest manner the sincerity, the
sef-devotion and the feaIuy to the right
as it was given to them TO see the right of
our fellOw-Americans against whom you
fought. And now the reunion is so COM
plcte that it is useless to allude to the fact
that it is complete. (Applausc.J YOu left
us another lesson in brotherhood. Today
you come here, comrades of the Army Of
the Cumberland, the man who had a com
mission, the man who fought in the ranks,
brothers because each did what there was
in him to do for the right each did what
he could and all alike share equally in the
glory Of the deed that was done. Officer
and enlisted man stand at the bar of his
tory TO be judged, not by the difference in
rank, but by whether they did their duties
in their respective ranks. tApplause.D And
Of how little account, looking back. the
difference in rank is compared with the
doing OF the duty; and what was true then
is true now. The doing the duty we'll is
what counts"
Continuing, the President said:
"Therc are those of each class of whom
| have spoken who have addressed or will
address you today. They are entitled to
| speak as comrades Of the great dead. We,
| the younger among us, are entitled only to
pay the great dead the homage of those to
whom ordered liberty has been handed
down as 4 heritage because of the blood
and the sweat and the toll of the men who
| fought TO a finish the great civil war. You
| taught us in war. Great have been the
lessons you have taught lis in peace since
the war. Reverently and humbly the men
who came after you FASTENED to acknowl-
edge the debt that is owing to you.
''You We're the men of the mighty days
who showed yourselves equal to the days.
| We have today lesser tasks, but shame to
us If we finch from doing or fail to do
well the lesser tasks where you carried TO
| triumphant victory a feat as difficult as
| that which was set you. And here in the
presence of one of the illustrious dead
whose names will remain roreyermore on
the honor roll of the greatest Republic on
which the sun has ever ;;hone, here in that
| presence it behooyes all Of us, young and
! old, so!emnly and reyerentially, to pledge