The National tribune., 1905-11-09

The monument erected by the State
Gated Thursday. Nov. >, in the presence
of great concourse. embracing the
Governor of Ohio aud manv distinguiSh-
ed men and high officials. Command
er-in-Chief Tanner was the orator, ana
said:
The people of the great State Of
Ohio, through their representative
here assembled, have met to-day for
the elimination OF 4 loving and patriot
ic task.
As the official head of the great or
ganiZation which so fully represents the
100000 surviving veterans of the Union
armies of 81 To 90, l count myself
fortunate in being privileged TO attend
this ceremony and take an humble part
therein.
Permit me to congratulate those who
had the placing of This memorial of our
hero, and who put ii here. rather than
in any one of your great ccntcrs of
population. There are many places III
Ohio where in future time ii would
lave been observed by many more peo-
pie, but none where it could have been
So approx riately placed.
Brought here from the place of his
birth waen a babe, but a year III age
Il he entered the Military Academy at
West Point.
This is the landscape his youthful
eyes gazed upon; these are the fields
where he played or worked-aS a boy
plays and works in country life; these
are the highways he trudged along on
his way to school, or oft-times, as he
confesses SO naively in his Memoirs, on
his surreptitious fishing and swimming
expeditions in the company of his
youthful accomplices, Binckly and Gre
nier, which so many times brought
them in uncomfortable intimacy with
the reproving switch Of Schoolmaster
McNanly.
What thorough boy we know him
TO have been and how easy for us To
accept in full faith the traditions which
have come down to us through the
years; of the readiness with which he
would doff cap and coat in fistic cham
pionship of some weaker chum or dis
tressed diminutive damsel.
These characteristics of the boy were
but the outcropping of the full-grown
man, who, WI en- the guerdon of the
fray was the perpetuity of the Nation
and the preservation of the hope of lib
erty the world around, was to be found
only in the very front and thickest of
IT, daring all, risking all, thinking al
ways and only of the mighty trust SO
largely reposed in his hands
mat ne ala not QcSplSe the day OF
small things is amply evidenced by the
fact that, at the age of IA, he eagerly
accepted employment at q compensa-
ton of So per month and presumably
board. If Tot lodging
Faithfulness and capacity brought
this sum up eventually to SO per
month, which continued to be his in
come till the dream of all his boyish
life was realized, and he was started on
his military career as cadet at West
Point.
Who Gares undertake to picture the
day dreams our embryo hero INDUCED
in during that then long journey from
this spot to West Point? Not I, and
vet Ii is altogether probable that the
widest of them failed to reach the
height of his life's achievements
Is it possible, think you, that in those
hours marking the elevation Of his
young soul, the Goddess of Destiny per-
chance stopped and whispered an init
nation OF the long and weary years of
waiting. Ct close attention to present
duties, Of gradual development and
preparation, till at last when the awful
shock of 81 broke upon US he, at least.
was ready; and soon, by leaps and
bounds, took his proper place in the