The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-23
FORTY MONUMENTS
TO OHIO SOLDIERS
Governor Herrick's Speech is
Cheered at Vicksburg
WOUND ENTIRELY HEALED
Many Agencies Have Worked to OBJ
literate the Bitterness, Hatred
and Distrust Once Exist
ing Between Sections.

vicksburg. Miss, May 22.-Forty monu-
ments erected by the state of Ohio to
its soldiers who Iel in the siege of
Vicksburg, were decicated in the National
Military park here today. The services
were largely attended. Governor Herrick
and staff of Ohio with a party of 1850
Union veterans from ONO and the First
Regiment of the ohio National Guard,
were cardially received. Governor Her
rick and Governor Vardaman of Missis-
sippi reviewed a procession of the Ohio
and Mississippi National Guard this morn
ing. Later, at the park, the dedieatory
programme was carried out. An address
by Governor Herrick was listened to with
marked attention and his reference to
the family quarrel'' of those who wore
the blue and the grey, was loudly
cheered The visiting Ohoans were ten
dered a barbecue this afternoon and
camp fire held tonight.
At the dedication ceremonies Governor
Herrick, said in part:
Was Family Quarrel.
"This great family of states, as is too
often the case with other families, be-
came estranged because of divergent opn-
ions in regard to something inherited
from the fathers-the institution of sav-
ery-but family-ilxe, were finally brought
together around the open graves of their
loved ones
''The prophecy of Lincoln uttered while
yet the terrible storm was brewing dis
playing the provision of seer, has
been fulfilled:
The mystic chords Of memory
stretching from every battlefield. and
patriot-grave, to every living heart and
hearthstone all over this broad land, will
yet swell the chorus of the union when
again touched, as surely they will be by
the better angels of our nature
Had Lincoln lived, there can be no
doubt that the re-adjustment would have
come long before 1t did and the mistakes
OF the reconstruction policy. which were
harder to bear for many than the war,
would have never occurred. The recon
Citation has been slow but 1t is now
happily complete.
Many agencies have been working to
obliterate the bitterness, hatred and dis
trust once existing between the sea
tons. II remained for the policy pursued
In connection with the Spanish American
war to dispel the last vestige of sus-
picion, or hostility that fingered between
tne HortH ana SOutn. Nnen President Nc
Kinley gave Generals Fitzhugh Lee and
Joe Wheeler commissions in the army of
the United States he but expressed the
confidence In the loyalty of the south
which was held by the people of the
north.
Uphold High Standard.
THE high standard of our citizenship
will continue to be upheld and carried
forward if the father of today does not
permit the bequest of his dollars to sub
merge the spirit of '76'-a marvellous as
set which warns the blood of his boy.
There are in our day. as there will be
in future days, questions constantly arls-
Ing upon the correct and COURAGEOUS set
tlement Of which the welfare of our coun-
try will depend. Problems growing out
of the present-day industrial conditions
and evolution. the discovery of effective
means Of protecting the people from the
expressions of over weaning greed. the
preservation of friendly relations between
labor and capital besides many others
that are recognized by all students of pub
lie affairs, are such as to call for the
greatest patience. the profoundest wis
dom, and the most lofty patriotism for
their proper solution. / have no SYM
pathy with the pesslmist who persists In
crying that the world Is growing worse.
IT is better, relatively, IN the aggregate
than at any other period in all the scores
of history There is more true religion
In the hearts of men. more true charity
praticed more millions showered from
the hands of philanthropists and more
attention show every just cause that lacks
attention shown very just cause that lacks
resistance than was ever before known.
There are Instances too numerous OF in
dividuals corporate and organized oppres-
sion, but we can rely upon their correc-
ton through peaceful methods. In seek
ing to right the Individual wrong there
should be no delay In righting these |
wrongs; we should be careful to do moth |
ing that will impair the general well |
fare"