The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-16

ity rests upon the man in public life. We | meet in the capital of the nation. in the | city which owes it's existence to | the fact that it is the seat
 of the National Government. It is well for us in this place, and at this time, to
 remember that exactly as there are cer- tain homely qualities the lack of which will prevent the most brilliant man alive l from being a useful soldier to his country, so there are certain homely qualities for | the lack of which in the public servant no shrewdness or ability can atone. The
 greatest leaders, whether in war or in peace, must of course show a peculiar 1, quality of genius; but the most redoubt- | able armies that have ever existed have been redoubtable because the average sol- dier. the average officer, possessed to high degree such comparatively simple qualities as loyalty, courage, and hardi- hood.
 Dishonesty and Cowardice. And so the most successful gov ernments are those In which the average public servant possesses that variant of loyalty which we call patriotism. together
 with common sense and honesty. We can as little afford to tolerate dishonest
 man in the public service as a coward in the army. The murderer takes single life; the corruptionist in public life. whether he be bribe giver or bribe taker, | strikes at the heart of the commonwealth. In every public service, as in every army, there will be wrongdoers, there will oc- cur misdeds. This can not be avoided; but vigilant watch must be kept, and as soon as discovered the wrongdoing must be stopped and the wrongdoers punished. Remember that in only so far as there is wise and resolute public sentiment behind It.
 In the long run. then, it depends upon us ourselves, upon us the people as a | whole, whether this government Is or is not to stand in the future as 1t has stood in the past; and my faith that 1t will
 show no falling off Is based upon my faith in the character of our average citizenship. The one supreme duty Is to try to keep this average high. To this end 1t is well to kep alive the memory of those men who are fit to serve as ex- amples of what Is loftiest and best in
 American citizenship. Such a man was General Sherman. To very few in any generation is it given to rendGr such ser vice as he rendered: but each of us fin
 his degree can try to show something of | those qualities of character upon which, in their sum, the high worth of Sher- man rested his courage, his kindness, his | clean and simple living, his sturdy good sense, his manliness and tenderness in the intimate relations of life, and finally,
 his inflexible rectitude of soul and his loyalty to all that in this free republic
 is hallowed and symbolised by the nation al flag.
 As soon as the applause following Pres
 ident Roosevelt's address had subsided David B. Henderson, of Iowa, former speaker of the House of Representatives, spoke on behalf of the Army of the Cum
 berland. In eulogy of General Sherman he said:
 'The language of this statue tells what he fought for-peace. To recount his l battles Is to give a history of the Civil War. He never drew his sword without | drawing blood and making permanent history. His march to the sea is gen. erally regarded as his greatest campaign, but this is an error. It was brilliant | campaign-the world so rated it-but 1t
 did not come up to the genius and gran | deur of the campaign immediately fol- | lowing it when he carried practically rhe | same army from Savannah to North Car | olina. That was the greatest work of | Sherman's life'
 MT. Henderson, in the sourse of his ad-
 dress referred to Booth, Guiteau and
 CZolgosz as ''horrid, damnable, manifes- | tations of our national growth" For the secretary of the APrcy of the
 
 Grosvenor. of Ohio, in a speech said of
 General Sherman: His fame will go for ! ward to future generations as the fame | of a great American soldier not confined
 by the limits of any society, but expand ing and growing and glorious as the honor of an American soldier ever shall | be-"
 General Thomas J. Henderson of IIIin- | ois. eulogized sherman OH behalf of the
 society of the army of the Ohio Speaking for the Society of the Army
 of the otomac, General Daniel E. Sick | les, said:
 Sherman fills conspicuous pare in
 the history of great commanders. He will
 always hold high rank in the estimation
 of Americans, as one of our foremost he-
 roes. He is grouped with Sheridan and
 Thomas among the chief lieutenants of Grant"
 The ceremonies closed with the bene- diction pronounced by the Right Rev.
 Henry Yeates Satterlee. biship of Wash | ington.