The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-09-24
|BATTLE MONUMENT
IS Dedicated
President Roosevelt Attends Unveil-
ing of Memorial to Heroes
Of Antietam.
he ACCEPTS MONUMENT on
BEHALF OF The GOVERNMENT
Thanks Residents of State of New
Jersey for Splendid Memorial to
Her Dead Sons Who Fell on Fa-
NOUS Observation-Disclosures Adj
vice to Present Generation.

AASA D~pU SoAS wa
nous Observation-Disclosures Adj
vice to Present Generation.
Sharpsburg, Md, Sept. 18.-Under low
ering skies the magnificent monument
erected on the historic battlefield of
Antietam by the grateful state of New
Jersey to it's men who fell in the great
engagement, was dedicated Thursday.
The occasion was rendered particularly
notable by the presence at and partici-
patton in the ceremonies Of the president
of the United States and of Gov. Murphy,
the chief executive of the state which
was honoring it's heroes. The special
train bearing the president, Gov. Murphy
and their party arrived here at $40
o'clock. r
At Hagerstown, Md, where the train
was switched from the Cumberland Val
ley railroad to the Norfolk & Western,
the president left his breakfast table and
his breakfast guests, Gov. Murphy, Sen
ators Kean and Dryden, to address a
throng of several hundred people.
AT ten o'clock the president and Gov.
Murphy, accompanied by Senators Kean
and Dryden, the entire party and hun
dreds of citizens, left Sharpsburg sta
ton for the famous old Dunkard church
on the battlefield of Antietam. There the
brigades of veterans formed in columns
of tours and escorted the president, Gov,
Murphy and distinguished guests to the
monument. ... .-' ~
Description of Monument.
The\ monument is in the form of an
ornate Corinthian column of granite.
40 feet high, surmounted by a heroic fig
ure in bronze of an officer with appraised
sword leading his men in charge. The
figure is intended as a representation OF
Capt. Irish, of the Thirteenth New Jer:-
sey volunteers, who was the only New
Jersey officer killed at Antietam. After
the assemblage had been called to order
by James O. Smith, Of the New Jersey
monument commission, and an invoca'
ton had been pronounced by Rev. DR.
Fraser, of Newark, Mr.. Smith reported
to Gov. Murphy the final work of the
commission. On behalf of the state O.
New Jersey Gov. Murphy accepted thu
monument in a short address.
Address Of President.
President Roosevelt, as he arose to &C
| cept the monument on behalf of the fed
eral government, was accorded an ova
| ton. .,:
In opening, the president thanked tn
people of New Jersey for the monumen
to the troops of New Jersey who tough
| at Antietam, and on behalf of the ma
ton accepted the gift. No other battl'
! of the civil war, he said, lasting but on,
day showed as great a percentage Of los'
as that which occurred upon the da.
on which Antietam was fought. More
| over, in its ultimate effects the battl'
was of momentous and ever decisive i'm
portance, for when it had ended and Lee
had retreated south of the Potomac
Lincoln forthwith published that i'm
mortal paper, the preliminary declara
ton of emancipation; the paper which
decided that the civil war, besides beinI
a war for the preservation of the union
| was a % " SAO lA1oA1SlpoA1Oh VI III
slave, so that from that time onward tn,
causes of union and of freedom, of ma
| tional greatness and individual liberty
were one and the same.
Duty Of Present Generation.
.'It now rests with us in civil life :,
continued the president, ito make goo
by our deeds the deeds which you VIII
wore the blue did in the great years from
81 to 'G5. The patriotism, the courage
the unf1inching resolution and steadfas
endurance of the soldiers whose triumph
was crowned at Appomattox must b
supplemented on our part by civic cour
age, civic honesty, cool sanity and stead
fast adherence to the immutable law
Of righteousness.
Fight for Governmental Honesty.
In closing, the president said the fgh
for governmental honesty and eficienc,
can be won only by the patience and reso
luton and power of endurance, such a
displayed by the revolutionary an
union armies. "We need the same typ
of character now that was needed b
the men who with Washington first in
augurated the system of free popula
government, the system Of combined lib
erty and order here on this continent
that was needed by the men who unde
Lincoln perpetuated the government
which had thus been inaugurated in tn
days Of Washington. The qualities es
sential to good citizenship and to goo
public service now are in all their es
sentials exactly the same as in the day
when the first congresses met to pro
vide for the establishment of the union
There are many qualities which w
need alike in private citizen and in pub
lie man, but three above all-three TO
the lack of which no brilliancy and n,
genius car atone-and those three ar
courage, honesty and common sense"
While President Roosevelt was speak
ing rain began to fall in torrents. Th,
stand had a canvas cover; but the waite
went through 1t as If it were a sieve.
After the benediction had been pro
n%ounced, the president held an informa
reception in the rain, shaking hand
l.