The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-23
IN ROOSEVELT'S STEAD.
Vice President Fairbanks Speaks at
Dedication of Soldiers Monument.

Ogdensburg, N. Y, Aug. 23.=At the
soldiers monument dedication here to-
day Vice President Fairbanks was the
principal orator He spoke as follows:
bring you the cordial greeting of
President Roosevelt, who greatly re-
grets his inability to join with you in
the dedication of this monument to its
exalted purpose. This monument had
It's inception in noble, patriotic i'm
pulse. 1t will stand as the symbol of
the gratitude of a great people for the
services and the sacrifices of brave
men, who, more thon a genera
ton ago, went down on the
battlefield to preserve the integrity of
great and wholesome lesson to the
present and to future generations 1t
will recall the deeds of men in SUI
premely perilous hours of our national
history, and it will emphasize the fact
that men are honored most who help
their fellowmen. This memorial has
yet higher significance. 1t has a mean
ING for those who behold it which no
Formal words can adequately express.
II STANDS as pledge of national unity.
1t stands for the everlasting suprem-
aey OF one flag. 1t inspires d deeper
love of liberty. 1t keeps ablaze the
nres OF freedom upon the affairs of our
hearth. 1t signifies the triumph of a
righteous cause. Such is now the de-
iberate verdict of history. This is at
tested by the common Judgment of
mankind. Victor and vanquished re-
Jo1ce in the complete re-esta blishment
Of our national solidarity. They each
see a new glory in the republic puri-
ned in the fiery furnace of the great
civil conflict Each yields willing
tribute to the valor of the other. Bet
ter or Drawer men never faced each
other upon the fields of battle than
those who met under the leadership of
Grant and Lee. This memorial teaches
double lesson: Valor, fortitude and
patriotism in the merciless shock of
war; amnesty, mercy and pardon in
the tranquil ways of peace. 1t stands
IN powerful advocacy of the equality
of men under our institutions. The
sword OF the nation was drawn in or
der that the equality of men beneath
the flag of the United States might be
an accomplished living fact
1t proclains the everlasting truth
that the rights of men upon the Amer
lean continent cannot be trampled in
the dust that the rights of the hum
bleSt are as sacred as the rights of the
most exalted.
While we pay homage to those who
stood in defense of the nation we do
nor withhold from those who fought
to overthrow the republic an express
sion of our admiration and esteem We
are not wanting in regard for those
vino, through mistaken judgment
raised their hand, against their own
friend and protector--the flag OF the
United States. They We're our kind .esl
We were then divided but We ere now
reunited, and God grant that no power
on earth may drive us asunder; that
no national exigency may arise which
will not be met equally by all sections
of the republic; and that nothing will
confront US which will not be faced
by a united people-stronge because
of the results of the civil war.
AS we stand here in the presence
of this imposing evidence of peo-
pies reverence and gratitude '
pledge anew our fealty to the institu-
tons provided by the valor of soldiers
and sailors of the republic.
We are to go forward meeting with
brave hearts the burdens which rest
upon a great people. Advancing ana
expanding power bring new tasks, new
questions. but the principles which