Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-10-22
GREAT GENERAL LAUDED BY
THE PRESIDENT.
ART STATUE UNVEILED
Equestrian Figure Of the Intrepid
Leader OF the Union Forces in s'Ie
Memorable March to the Sea De-
Dictated at the National CapI
toll.

Washington, Oct 16.-To the ac
compartment of cheers from thou
sands of Threats and stirring martial
music and in the presence of a most
distinguished gathering Of men hign
i in the councils of the nation, little
William Tecumsen Sherman Thorn
dyke yesterday afternoon drew the
folds of old glory from the heroic
statue of General Sherman and added
one more work of art to the already
magnificent collection owned by the
nations capital.
President Roosevelt the highest in
the ranks of civil, military and Official
life and many hundreds of veterans
who followed Sherman through the
civil war attended the exercises. Pres
ident Roosevelt and General David 5.
Henderson made the addresses.
President Roosevelt spoke in part
as follows:
To-day we meet together to do
honor to the memory of one of the
great men whom, in the hour of her
agony, our nation brought forth for
her preservation. The civil war was
not only in the Importance of the Is
sues at stake and of the outcome the
greatest of modern times, but it was
also, taking into account it's duration,
the severity of the fighting, and the
size of the armies engaged, the great
est since the close of the Napoleonic
struggles. Among the generals who
rose to high position as leaders of
the various armies in the field are
many who will be remembered in our
history as long as this history itself is
remembered. Sheridan, the incarna
ton of fiery energy and proves;
Thomas, farsighted, coolheaded,
whose steadfast courage burned ever
highest in the supreme moment of
the crisis; Mcclellan, with his extra
ordinary gift for organization; Meade,
victor in one of the decisive battles of
all time; Hancock, type of the true
fighting man among the regulars;
Logan, type of the true fighting man
among the volunteers-the names of
these and of many Others will endure
so long as our people hold sacred the
memory of the fight for union and for
liberty. High among these chiefs
rise the figures of Grant and of
Grants great lieutenant, Sherman,
whose statue here in the national cap
ital is today to be unveiled. 1t is not
necessary here to go over the long roll
of Sherman's mighty feats. They are
written large throughout the history
of the civil war. Our memories would
be poor indeed if we did not recall
them now, as we look along Penn
great triumphal march which surged
down its length when at the close of
the war tie victorious armies of the
east and of the west met here in the
capital of the nation they had saved.
There is a peculiar fitness in COM
memorating the great deeds of the
soldiers who preserved this nation.
by suitable monuments at the national
capital. | trust we shall soon have
a proper statute of Abraham Lincoln,
to whom more than to any other one
man this nation owes its salvation
Meanwhile, on behalf of the people of
the nation, wish to congratulate all
of you who have been instrumental in
securing the erection of this statute
to General Sherman.
The living can best show their re-
spect for the memory of the great
dead by the way in which they take
to heart and act upon the lessons
taught by the lives which made these
dead men great. Our homage to-
day to the memory of Sherman comes
from the depths of our being We
would be unworthy citizens did we not
feel profound gratitude toward him.
and those like him and under him.
who, when the country called in her
dire need, sprang forward with such
gallant eagerness to answer that call.
Their blood and their toll, their en-
durance and patriotism, have made us
and all who nop,n eo~ox-a-