The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-05-30
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DISCU S ED
"A CT eat Speech
On Great Theme

y! y, .1NDIANAPoLlS, May 30. = Presi-
4 dent Roosevelt made the address Of
the day in this city for the memorial
occasion. 1t was u magnificent set.
ting forth Of the accomplishments Of
{ a great nation and his tribute to those
who preserved the nation was unusual
i " beautiful.
The Presidents address in fall was
Z as follows:
= For more than one reason am pc
uliarly glad that this year speak on
Memorial Day In the Stale Of Indiana.
1 There Is no other class Of citizens 10
whom we owe so much as 10 the vet
erans Of the great war. To them is
Bwas given to perform the one feat
Z with which no other feat can be com
\ pared, for to them, is was given 10
+ preserve the Union. Moreover, ypu
men who wore the blue, blessed he.
yond the vlctors In any other war Of
$trecent times, have left 10 your e3an:
Z trymen more than the material re-
suits Of the triumph, more even than
! the achieving the trinmph itself. You
4 have left country SO genuinely re-
united that all of It's now, in whatever
4 part OF this Union we live, have q
right to feel the keenest pride, not only
lin the yalor and self.deyOiion of you,
ithe gallant me who wore the blr'
{ but also In the vafor anu seif.dcvotfon
of your gallant opponents who wore
the gray. The hero whose monumeL;
7 we to-day uaYeil. by his life bore Singh.
lar: testimony TO the completeness Of
the reunion. General .awton in his
youth fought gallantly in the Civil
War. Thirty.three years afterwarl he
again marched to war. this time against
a.foreign foe, and served with dlstn,
S gulshed ability and success as q geh'
eral officer, both in Cuba and In tho
Philippines. When he thus served l.
was In an army whose generals In.
cluded not only many Of his old com,
rades In arms, but some OF his old Op,
J ponents also. as. General Wheeler ani
y Gen. Fitzhugh Lee. Under him, botn
among the commissioned officers and
{ in the ranks, were many men whose
4 fathers had worn the blue serving side
Z by side with others whose fathers had
worn the gray; but all Americans now.
and nothing bHt Americans, all uni
& ted in their fealt yand devotion TO their
common flag and their common COM.
try, and each knowing only the gen.
erous rivalry with his fellows as to
who could best serve the caHse for
} which each was ready to lay down
life itself. To General Lawton It be.
fell actually TO 10y down his life: n
tragedy. but one of those noble trac.
edies where our pride rises above oHr
& sorrow. For he died In the fullness
OF time, serving his country with en-.
Z tire deYotlon--a death that every man
may well envy.
Indiana in the Civil War furnished
4 even more than her share OF brave
soldiers. 1t also fell 10 Indiana to fur.
nfsh the greatest Of ali the war gov.
ernors VINO upheld the hands Of Abra.
/, ham Lincoln; for when history dea.
nltely awards the credit for what was
done in the Civil War, she will put
tile services Of no other civilian. save
alone those Of Lincoln. ahead Of tn,
services Of Governor Morton. No 9th
er an who rendered such services ms
he rendered wored under such ter.
rihie disadvantages, and no man with.
i out his iron power could have achIev.
ed what he achieved during the last
two years Of the war. when he man.
aged the State government Of Indiana
solely on money obtained by pledgiug
his own personal honor and personal
Z fortune; and yet never for one mo.
nent relaxed in The help be gave 70
Lincoln and Chase and Seward and
Stanton in the Cabinet, to Grant ani
Sherman and Sheridan and Thomas n
\ the field 1t was work that only the
issirpnGest man could lave done. and It
was work vitality necessary for the
sake Of thesnation to do.
The mel Of the generation watch