The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1903-04-11
ON SHILOH BATTLE F|Hl.
Dedication of Indiana's Monumer.
to Her Fallen Braves
at Shiloh.
NUMEROUS INDIANlAHS WEB PREsFN
Addresses Were Delivered by Ga.
ator Beveridge, Assistant Sec,.
tary of War Sanger, Gov. Durh,.
and Othcrs-The Monuments m.
Twenty-Five In Number.

Shiloh, Tenn, April THE % In.
diana monuments on Shiloh bath.
field were dedicated, Monday, with
interesting ceremonies. Several HIM
bred Indianians. including Gov. Dgr 1
bin and his staff. Gen. Lew Wallace
and many other prominent citizens Of
the state were present. Address,
were made by United States Senator
Beyeridge, Assistant Secretary Of
War Sanger, Gov. Durbin and Others
Gov. w. T. Durbin presented III,
monuments to the government.
In the absence of Secretary of Wg
Moody, Assistant Secretary Sanger
received the monuments in behalf Of
the United States, paying an eloquent
tribute to not only the soldiers Of In
diana. but to all who fell on the mem.
orable battlefield.
senator BeNcridGe's Address.
Senator Beveridge said in part:
"Since all must die, how fortunate 10
die for an undying cause and under
the approving eye of history.
so fell those who fell upon this
field. For they gave their lives toI
save the life of the nation and his.
tory recites no nobler story than the
story of their sacrifice.
Their blood was shed to make the
American people a single nation, and
not forany lesserpurpose. Allthe other
results of the civil war were incident
to that; and so they died, 10 less for
the people of the south than for the
north, and the American people undi
yded, indivisible. Their martyrdom
was 10 establish forever the brother
hood Of the fag-a relationship so
lofty that it can not see sections with.
in the boundaries of the republic.
THAT great purpose they probably
accomplished. Devotion to the nation
is to-day the first principle of all
Americans. 1t is now the idea and
ideal Of MS all. men and women Of
north and south alike.
How little those words, northern
and southern. Let us forget them
How much grander the single word
America Let MS think Of that and
that only It is the word the spirits
of our heroes whisper to our souls
to-day 1t is the word for which they
gave up their mortality. Let MS who
live be worthy Of our dead.
"And let us who live be tolerant Of
the views Of those heroes Of the other
side who died before the guns Of our
heroes here and elsewhere. Only the
years can tell what minor elements
Of just opinion were confused and
tangled in that cataclysmal conflict
For us it is enough-a fullnesS to
know that our central thought of ma.
tionality was true and that our broth
ers Of the other side assert it now
even as we ourselves assert it.
"But when men die for ideas, who
dare dcnounce them all and utterly?
The lof'iest quality Of human char
acter is tolcrancc-th luftiest but
one, and that one justice. Tolerance
chen and loving kindness and Chart
able forgiveness on both sides, and
through all the land sweep reasona
blencss, Nothing but these are i'm
portant for in these abies truth, and
truth is the only sovereign,
James Whtcomb Riley recitcd "Old
Glory" Several thousand persons, in
Guiding many thousand confederate
veterans, were interested spectators,
With the Indiana party was Miss
Nellie Grant, Of san Diego, Cali
granddaughter Of Gen. T., 5. Grant,