Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-06-21
BATTLE OF %TIPPECANOE.
Extracts Of Henry Watterson's Fam
Gus Speech at the Celebration.
IMPRESSIVE SERVICES.

The T%ippecanoe Battlefield associa-
ton held it's annua exercises in the ta-
%bernacle of the battle-ground. near La
fayette, Ind, Sunday. Special trains
on all roads were run and an immense
crowd attended. The graves of the
men who fell al the battle of Tippe-
canoe were beautifully decorated. An
address was delivered by Henry Wat
terson. editor OF the Louisville Courier
Journal, his subject being Heroes in
H~omespun.'
Mr.. Watterson was accompanied to
the battle-ground by a committee of
fifty prominent citizens. At the con.
%clusion of the ceremonies on the uaJtle-
field. the party returned to the city,
where MIR. Watterson was banqueted
at the Lafayette club and a reception
vas neld. In part, Mr.. Watterson
said:
Travelling from out the twilight of
the past into the radiance of the pres
ent, and tracing as We so the history
of the country along the glorious but
rugged route OF batlefields by the glare
of fagot-flame and rifle-fash. it seems
ages since T~ippecanoe; since Harrison
and his hunting shirts met and van
pushed the hordes of the two Tecum-
SthS, yet, are there men sun llNllS,
and here today. who, if they were not
contemporary with the event and its
valIants, distinctly recall the spirit
of those times; the aspects. the very
familiar features of those valiants: the
atmosphere, the form and body of an
epoch, when, from Fanueil hall. in
Boston, from Raleigh tavern, in Vir-
ginia. to Fort Wayne and old Vim
cennes pom the confines of this Dor
derland, the redskin and the redcoat
alike stirred to it's depths the heart of
the young republic.
There were giants in those days:
and there was need that there should
be. No vestibuled trains, nor palace
coaches waited to fetch them hither;
no noisy procession, with banners way
ing and brass bands playing. marched
forth to honor their arrival. They
journeyed for the most part afoot.
They picked their way through track
less canebrake and wooded waste,
across swift running ~bridgeless
streams, their f1int-locks their commits
saTiat.
Our lot has been cast in easier
times, has beer laid on broader, larger
lines. We live in an age of miracles.
We gather the fruit of the tree which
these, our forefaIhers, planted. From
the ashes of their campfires rise the
schoolhouse and the cour house. The
church marks the spot where the
b~lockhouse stood. The war whoop of
the savage is succeeded by the neigh
of the iron horse, the CLEAN of the tom
ahawk by the fare of the electric
lamp. Danger of the kind that was
their daily, hourly. companion is to us
unknown.
Ours is a government resting on
public opinion. Each man is his own
master, He can blame nobody but him
self If he goes astray. Has not the tele-
grapn annihilated time and space?
Does not the daily newspaper bring
him each day the completed history of
yesterday? Is he not able to read, to
mark, and, inwardly. to digest the
signs of the times? With these helps,
why should he not be able to reach
intelligent and just conclusions? = =
7 these ends, whatever our polit-
ical belongings and affiliations, let
each of us here today resolve faith
fully to address himself. Party spirit,
held within the bounds of reason, re-
strained by good sense and good feel
ing, is an excellent thing. 1t is of the
essence of our republican being. | can
truly say that | have never loved any
man less because he did not agree with
me; and, though | chide him for mis-
peryersity, | respect his right. The
bedrock of civil and religious liberty
is the law; the bell tower OF freedom
is tolerance.
The hunters of Kentucky, the pio-
neers of Indiana, united as brothers in
the bonds of liberty, fought the battle
OF T~ippecanoe. 1t was not a great bat
/ FL, -. latf1o- no Ettt Il npAtrAl mighty
in its consequences; the winning and
the peopling of the west; the ultimate
ryescue of the union from dissolution;
the blazing of the way to the Pacific.
They were comrades in hearts and
comrades in arms. BE it ours to bless
and preserve their memory and to per
petuate their brotherhood"