The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-17
DELIVERS AN ADDRESS.
Replete With "reminiscences of
the Country's Struggles.
Left His Breakfast to Make a
Speech at Hagerstown.

monies by the presidentnof the United
States and Governor Murphy the chief
executive of the state which was honor
ing its heroes. The special train bear
ing the president, Governor Murphy
and their party arrived here at $40
o'clock Governor Murphy was ac-
comDanied by Senators Kean and Dry
den, by several prominent state Off
Gals and by his entire military staff.
Special trains bearing nearly a thou
sand New Jersey survivors of the civil
war arrived after the arrival of the
presidential train.
The trip of the president from Jersey
City was devoid of special incident.
Many stops were made, and secret serv-,
Ice officers We're on guard throughout
the the night light After daylight crowds
greet the president. He appeared first
on the rear platform of his private car
at Chambersburg. Pa. shortly after 7
o'clock He simply greeted the crowd
president left his breakfast table and
ms breakfast guests, Governor Murphy.
senators Kean and Dryden. to address
throng of several hundred people. He
said:
i am on my way to accept on behalf
Of the United States government the
monument erected to the New Jersey
troops who fought at Antietam; but in
| Aoei eSA SSllSep go TO commemorate
the valor of every man who in the DAYS
that tried mems souls proved his truth
oy MS endeaYor in the service of the
national government CCheers1
1t is peculiar pleasure either todav
or any other day to see in the audience
the man who wear the button which
SHOWS that they fought in the Grand
Army of the Republic. They left to ms
Llot only a reunited country, but the
memory of the great deeds by which if
was made united. The times are easy
now compared to what they were in the
days from 81 to So, but we need to dis
play just exactly the same qualities that
made you win out under the lead Of
Abraham Lincoln. arisrr-t
L want to say how glad I am to see
the Grand Army of the Republic and
next TO the Grand Army want to greet
the future; l want to say how glad 1
am to have seen the children.
Just one word in, closing AS I said
we need to display the same. qualities
now that you needed in 81 A man was
not worth anything if he was not patri-
QUO ana decent: That was first and that
was not enough. No rnatter how nstri-
otto he was If he ran away he was no
good. In addition to decency he had to
have the qualities that would make the
decency effective.
1t is Just the same way now in
IrivIl life. man must be decent hon
est, upright, or he is bad citizen, and
IL ne has rot the qualities of honesty
and decency in him then the ADLER he
is the worse he is. 1 do not care how
able a man is, if he has not the root
of clean living in him, if he is not a
decent and honest man, if he is a bribe-
g1ver or a bribe-taker, if he is a man
who defraudS in public or private life
II ne is bad husband. bad father. bad
son, then he is poor stuff out of which
to make citizen You of the Grand
Army of the Republic left us what the
victory in no other war left us. If you
left the right of comradeship with the
vanquished you left us the right of
brotherhood with the men who wore the
gray and nothing pleases me more than
the fact that to an audience composed
of Union veterans one can always make
the appeal for the men who fought
against you and whose sons are now as
loyal as we are to the flag of our COM
mon country" (Applause).
At 10 o'clock the president and Gov
ernor Murphy, accompanied by Sen
ators Kean and Dryden, the entire
party and hundreds of citizens left
Sharpsburg station for the famous old
Dunkard church on the battlefield of
Antietam. There the brigades of vet
Grams in columns of tours escorted the
president Governor Murphy and dis
tinguished guests to the monument.
The monument is in the ornate form of
a Corinthian column of granite forty
feet high surmounted by a heroic figure
in bronze of an officer with appraised
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figure is intended as a representation of
Captain Irish of the Thirteenth New
Jersey 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
invocation had been pronounced by
Rev Dr. Frazier of Newark. Mr.. Smith
reported to Governor Murphy the final
work of the commission. On behalf of
4ofa of IpTcaV Governor
Murphy accepted the monument in
brief address.
President Roosevelt as he arose to
accept the monument on behalf of the
federal government was accorded an
ovation He spoke as follows:
THE PRESIDENT ADDRESS
Governor Murphy; and you, Veterans
of New Jersey; and you, men of the
greet you:
1 thank YOU of New Jersey for the
monument to the troops of New Jersey
who fought at Antietam and on behalf
Of the nation / accept the gift. We meer
today upon one of the great battlefelds
of the civil war. No other battle OF the
civil war lasting but one day shows as
great a percentage of loss as that which
occurred here upon the day on which
Antietam was fought. Moreover, in its
ultimate effects this battle was of mo-
mentous and even decisive Importance.
for when it had ended and Lee retreated
south of the Potomac. Lincoln forth
with publish that immortal paper. the
preliminary declaration of emancipa-
ton: the paper which decided that the
civil war. besides being a war for the
preservation of the Union,f should be
war for the emancipation of the slave.
so that from that time onward the
causes of Orion and Freedom. of ma
tionai greatness and individual liberty,
were one md the same.
Men of New Jersey. I congratulate
YOUR state because she has the right to
claim her full share in the honor and
glory of that memorable day; and I
Congratulate you, Governor Murphy. be-