The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1907-05-09
STATUE OF civil
WAR HERO unveiled
GEN. q. q. ,M'cLELLAN's MEMORY
HoNoRED BY ARMY OF THE
POTOMAC.
Address by Presldent-He Pays
Tribute to the General and to
Women-Advocates Peace Of Right.
eousness and Justice.

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Washington, May 3.-With appro-
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, eSected 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, SOL Of the general, and DR..
George Mcclellan, of New Jersey, a
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 a typical
speech, in which he touched upon a
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 men-
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
US the figure of Gen. Mcclellan, the
man who organized and first led it.
There was also given to him the pc
culiar gift, n 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 to
accepting as a matter of course GER
tain things which would be well nigh
impossible in any country save ours;
so that 1t seems most natural that the
president of the United States, when
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. AS
Americans, when we glory in what
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 was
given to them to see the duty, of the
men who fought under Lee and
Stonewall Jackson, and the Johnsons
and Stewart and Morgan.
Pe,ro a - Rioh& ->
I'VE have listened recently to a
great deal of talk about peace. It is
the duty of all of us to strive for
peace, provided that it m on the
right terms. I believe that the man
who really does best work for the
state in peace is the very man who at
need will do well in war. If peace Isl
merely another name for self.indul-
gence, for sloth, for timidity, for the
avoidance of duty, have none of it..
Seek the peace that comes to the lust
man armed, who will dare to defend
his rights If the need should, arise.
Seek the peace granted to him who
Will wrong no man and will not sub
NIT to wrong in return. Seek the
peace that comes to us as the peace
of righteousness, the peace of Justice.
ASK peace a your deeds and
your powers warrant you in asking it,
and do not put yourself in the position
to crave it as something to be granted
or withheld at the within of an.
other"
Tribute to the Women.
The president said there was one
person in this country he put ahead
of the soldier-""the really good wom-
an, the good wife and mother who
has done her full duty" She often has
a pretty hard time, said the president.
and he added:
yet the woman who thus with Ia.
Dor and anxiety brings up children is
blessed among women, blessed among
men. l do not pity her in the least, I
respect and admire her and hold her
worthy OF admiration and honor. The
selfish creature, man or woman. who
reaches old age having achieved ease
by Sinking duty, is to be heartily des.
pissed and not envied. Our admiration
l - a. 3d.. " LH