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sible, and blessed indeed are we that
in our own beloved land 1t is not
only possible, but seems entirely ma
tural as to excite no comment what
ever.
There Is another point in General
Sheridan's career which it is good
gor us all to remember. Whereas
Grant, Sherman, and Thomas were
Of the old native American stock,
the parents Of Sheridan, like the
parents of Farragut, were born on
the other side of the water. Any
one Of the five was just as much a
type OF the real American. as the
other four. We should keep steadily
before our minds the fact that AM
ericsnism Is question Of principle,
of purpose, of idealism, Of character;
that 1t Is not a matter OF birthplace,
or creed or line of descent. Here
in this country the representatives
OF many old world races are being
fused together onto a new type, q
type the main features of which are
already determined, and were deter
mined at the time of the Revolution
airy war: for the crucible in which
all the new types are melted into
one was shaped from 1916 to 1889,
and our nationality was definitely
fixed in all its essentials by the men
of Washington's day. The st -ains
will not continue to exist separately
In this country as in the old world.
They will be combined in one; All
Of this new type those men will best
represent what is loftiests in the
nations past, what is finest in her
hope for the future, who stand each
solely on his worth as man: VINO
scorn to do evil to others, and who
refuse to submit to wrongdoing
themselves who have in them no
to fight when fighting is demanded
by sound and high morality, but
who hope by their lives to bring
ever nearer the day when justice
and peace shall prevail within our
own borders and in our relations
with all foreign powers.
Much of the usefulness of any
career must lie in the impress that
1t makes upon, and the lesson that
It teaches to, the generations that
come after. We of this generation
have our own problems to solve, and
the condition of our solving them is
that we shall all work together as
American citizens without regard to
differences Of section or creed or
birthplace, copying, not the divis-
ions which 80 lamentably sundered
our fathers from one another, but
the spirit Of burning devotion to
duty which drove them forward.
each to do the right as 1t was given
him to see the right, In the great
years when Grant. Farragut, Sher-
man, Thomas, and Sheridan, when
Lee and jackson, and the Johnstons,
the valiant men Of the North and the
valiant men of the South, fought
to finish the great civil war. They
did not themselves realize, in the
bitterness Of the struggle. that the
blood and the grim suffering marked
the death throes of what was worn
out. and the birth pangs of new
and more glorious national life.
Mighty is the heritage which we
have received from the men Of the
mighty days. We, in turn, must
grid up our loins to meet the new
issues with the same stern courage
and resolute adherance to an ideal,
which marked orr fathers who be-
longed to a generation of men in
whose honor we commemorate this
monument today.