New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-05-08
STATUE OF CIVIL
WAR HERO UNVEILED
GEN. G. 3. M'cLELLAN's MEMORY
HoNoRED BY ARMY OF THE
POTOMAC.
Address by President-He Pays
Tribute to the General and to
Observation-Disclosures Peace of Right
eousness and Justice.

Washington, May 3.-With appre
pirate civic and military ceremonies,
and in the presence of a distinguished
audience, the heroic equestrian statue
of bronze Of Maj Gen. George B. Nc
Clellan, erected under the auspices of
the Army of the Potomac, was I'M
yelled here Thursday. President
Roosevelt made the principal speech
and, with Gen Frederick D. Grant on
his right and Gov. Stokes, of New
Jersey, on his left, witnessed an i'm
posing military parade of regulars and
militia
Widow and Son Present.
Mrs Mcclellan, the generals widow,
Mayor George B. Mcclellan, of New
York, son of the general, and DR..
George Mcclellan, Of New Jersey,
nephew, who pulled the string re
leasing the flags in which the statue
was enveloped, occupied seats on the
presidents stand.
Brig. Gen. Henry G. Dwight, U. S.
volunteers, the president of the So
ciety of the Army of the Potomac, pre-
sided AS the great national flags
which enveloped the statue swung to
the breeze, there was an exclamation
of admiration from the vast assem-
blage, accompanied by the firing of a
salute and the playing of "Star Span
gled Banner
" Speech of the President.
The president delivered typical
speech, in which he touched upon
variety of subjects, including war,
peace, national pride, the family, and
the qualities that make for brother
hood and fraternity. After extending
a greeting on behalf of the nation to
Mrs Mcclellan and her son and 9th
ers, the president said:
ITO Gen. Mcclellan it was given to
command in some of the hardest
fought battles and most important
campaigns in the great war of this
hemisphere, so that his name will be
forever linked with the mighty mem
cries that arise when we speak of
Antietam and South Mountain, Fair
Oaks and Malvern, SO that we never
can speak of the great Army of the
Potomac without having rise before
lis the figure of Gen. Mcclellan, the
man who organized and first led it.
There was also given to him the pc.
culiar gift, one that is possessed by
very few men, to combine the quail
ties that won him the enthusiastic
love and admiration of the soldiers
who fought with and under him, and
the qualities that in civil life endeared
him peculiarly to all who came in con
tact with him.
I'VE have become accustomed tc
accepting as a matter of course Ger
tain things which would be well nigh
impossible in any country save ours
SO that it seems most natural that the
president of the United States, wher
he drives down to take part in a cele
bration like this, should have as his
personal aids both the sons of the
men who wore the blue and the sons
of the men who wore the gray. A
Americans, when we glory in wha
was done under Grant, Sherman
Thomas, Sheridan, Mcclellan, Farra
gut, we can no less glory in the valor
and the devotion to duty as it wa
!, given to them to see the duty, of tn
men who fought under Lee AM
Stonewall Jackson, and the Johnson
3 and Stewart and Morgan
} Peace on Right Terms.
. 1--WE have listened recently to
> great deal of talk about peace. 1t i
n the duty of all of us to strive TO
s peace, provided that it comes on tn
IS right terms I believe that the ma
IS who really does best work for tn
e state in peace is the very man who a
need will do well in war. If peace
merely another name 70, self-indu
> gence, for sloth, for timidity, for tn
avoidance of duty, have none of i
sp Seek the peace that comes to the jus
q man armed, who will dare to defen
his rights if the need should aris
Seek the peace granted to him VIII
D will wrong no man and will not sui
a NIT to wrong in return. Seek tn
d peace that comes to us as the peao
4 of righteousness, the peace of justic
Ask peace because your deeds an
y your powers warrant you in asking
y and do not put yourself in the positic
a to crave it as something to be granite
n or withheld at the within of a
D other"
Tribute to the Women.
\ The president said there was OF
person in this country he put ahes
q of the soldier-''the really good VOL
an, the good wife and mother wi
has done her full duty" She often h
pretty hard time, said the preside1
: and he added:
"Yet the woman who thus with
q Dor and anxiety brings up children
blessed among women, blessed amor
men. do not pity her in the least.
respect and admire her and hold b
worthy of admiration and honor. T.