Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-10-22

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 capital is to-day to
be unveiled. Vt 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 men,
cries would be poor indeed If we did not
recall them now, as we look along Penn
sylvania avenue and think of the great
triumphal march which surged down Its
length when. at the close of the war, the
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 m
Grating the great deeds of the soldiers
who preserved this nation, by suitable
at the national capital. l
trust we shall soon have a proper statue
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, l wish to con-
graduate all of you who a been instru-
mental in securing the erection of this
statue to Gen. Sherman.
The living can best show their respect
for the memory. of the great dead by the
upon the lessons taught by the lives
which made these dead men great. Our
homage to-day to the memory of Sher-
man 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 eager
and their toll, their endurance and pa
triotism, have made US and all who come
after us forever their debtors. They left
US not merely q reunited country, but q
country intellectually greater because of
its rich heritage In the deeds which thus
left 1t reunited. AS a nation we are
and devotion to duty displayed by the
men In blue, who won In the great strug-
gle for the Union, but also for the valor
And the loyalty toward what they re-
garded as right of the men in gray; for
this war, thrice fortunate above all other
recent wars in its outcome. left to all of
us the right of brotherhood alike with
valiant victor and valiant vanquished.
Moreover, our homage must not only
show itself forth in our deeds. It is q
great and. glorious thing for q nation to
splendid memories Of triumphs in the
past. But II Is a shameful thing for q
nation, II these memories, stir, 1t only
to empty .boastings, to a pride that does
not shrink from present abasement, .te
that self.satisfaotion which accepts the
high resolve n ~unbending effort Of thu
father as an excuse for effortless ease
We IA not afford to lose the virtues
which made the men OF 81 to '65 great ir
war. No mani is warranted In feeling
pride In the deeds Of the army and nayy
Of the past II he does not back up. thu
army and the navy Of the present. II VIZ
are farsighted In our patriotism, there
will be no let up In the work Of building
and Of keeping at the highest point Of
United States must hereafter play in tn,
world. and of making and keeping on
small regular army, which In the even
Of a great war can never be anything bu