The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-07
ON FIELD OF SHILOH INDIANA DEDICATEs MoNu-
 MENTs TO DEAD. Senator Beverid9e is the Orator of the Occasion and Pays Tribute
 to Valor and Love of
 the Country.

Shiloh Battlefield, by telephone to Cor. nth, Miss, April s.--Indiana dedicated and presented to the government the twenty-two monuments erected at q cost Of s26.ooo in honow~of the twenty-two reg iments that stats had in the battle of shiioh, Two special traafn end a aA6tS of passenger boatS bkea9lit Soe people from Indianapolis this morning.
 General Lew Wallace presided at the dedicatory exercises and in his address he said the army of the Tennessee had no commander at Shiloh and was need lessly surprised by General Albert Sidney Johnston.
 The monuments were presented to the State by Colonel James Wright of the In- diana Commission which has had charge of their erection.
 Governor w. T. Durbin presented the monuments to the government, and they were accepted by William Carey Sanger, Assistant Secretary of War.
 The National Commission was repre- sented by Colonel Josiah Patterson of Memphis. Tenn. Governor Frazier of Tennessee was represented by General Gordon of Memphis.
 Senator Albert J. Beveridge of Indiana spoke at length and eloquentiy. His per oration was as follows:
 How shall we tell which one is rtRht7 Who Is to decide7 Patience! God will decide. No harsh words. No denuncia- ton. Trust the common thought and conscience. Trust the people. 'Vox pop- uli, vox Def-the voice of the people is the voice of God. If in the long run that maxim Is not true. republican gov- ernment. democratic institutions, the rule of the people is a mistake. And the peo- ple's government is not a mistake. It is the truest thing in the world and the most righteous. In saying that we but re- peat what our heroes wrote in their blood.
 With this thought then. we meet all problems. troubles dangers, doubts se- rene and brave. Conflict of capital and labor, foreign war. domestic broils. aRita- ton and unrest vexed questions and sit- uations so perplexing and so grave that no key to them seems possible-aiI will yield to the master key made of the com bined sense and conscience of the Amer lean people. To doors so solidly shut that opening appears hopeless time will 1t ana turn that master key.
 ''Time and the people-they will make all plain and right at last in this republic of ours. Time and the people and over all. the Father-who dares doubt our outcome, remembering them7 Who, re- memberinR them, can cherish hate? Who remembering them. can be bigoted or despairing7 With malice toward none, with charity for all-these are the lofti- est American words yet spoken. Met us live up to them and be calmly patient! Let us live up to them and be splendidly hopeful! Let us live up to them and so come into that perfect knowledge that Riveth peace and light. Thus and. only thus shall we be worthy of him who spoke them and these fallen ones."
 James Whitcombe Riley recited "Old Glory"
 Several thousand residents of this part of the State. including many Confederate veterans who fought at Shiloh. were in- terested spectators.
 With the Indiana party was Miss Neil Grant of San Diego. Cal. grapddaughter of General '. s. Grant.
 When the fleets of the boats passed the Cherry homestead this morning. which was General Grants headquarters at Shi- loh, the boats landed to allow Miss Grant to go ashore for few minutes.
 General Wallace is expressing anger to what he calls an inaccuracy in the blue prints issued by the National Park Com mission, as they give Sherman's brigade the position which he insists was occu- pied by the First Brigade of his com mand.