The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-26
STATUE OF SHERIDAN
IMPRESSIVE HxERClsns AT UN-
 YELLING IN WARRINGTON
President Roosevelt, General Horace Porter and General Lake Wright Pay Tribute To The Gal-
 HMmt Soldiers.

| | was the inspiration of one of the most I<stirrinx poems of the war between | the States, was celebrated at the na- tional capital today when an heroic l equestriene statue of the gallant sol- l dier was unveiled amid scene of martial splendor.
 The President of the United States. Brigadier General Horace G. Porter and General Luke E. Wright. Secre- I tary of War, all paid glowing tributes | to the memory of the brilliant leader. One of the most impressive features of the occasion was the parade of | troops under command of Major Gen. ! eral J. Franklin Bell, chief of the | stan, U. s. A.. reviewed by President Roosevelt and a large assemblage.
 President Roosevelt spoke as fol- | lows:
 It. Is eminently fitting that the Ma | loom as heroes before the eyes of our people, should be httingly commemos rated here at the National Capital, aha tha unveiling of this staue to General Sher idan. His name will always stand high on the list of American worthies; he showed his greatness with that touch of originality which we call genius. ,. Indeed this quality of d,ssd 6sii tended to overshadow his solid ability. We tend to think of him only as the was in reality not only that, but also 8 great commander. Of course, the fact in his career most readily recog- rily. modern art of handling masses of fullest possible effect. not only in the @ prsesde and RsiUns folioW q 5sttic, d but in the battle itself. But in addition he showed in the Civil War that he was first ssy Of aat and SG %Sen as in ne pendent command. His record in the valley campaign. and again from Five Forks if APDOmHtttox is s,.ansv Sns disat the close of the great war. in a field where there was scant glory to be won by the general in chief. he rendered q unnoticed; for in the tedious weary In- he who developed in thorough going winter, which. at the cost of bitter hardship and peril. finally broke down the banded strength of those formid-
 His career was typically American, for from plain beginnings he rose to the highest military position in our land. We honor his memory itself and moreover. as in the ease of the other great commanders of his day, his career symboltzes the careers of all those men who in the years os the to risk everything, including life itself. and to spend the days of their strong
 st s. yyogng yor ftsn n yalOs9us are taunted with having only a mate taunt is sufficiently shown by the pres Grand Army, you the comrades of the 6ead general. the men who served with and under him. Tn all history dination of Self. of the exaiting of 8 being among the people of great na- ton; than was shown by our own pee
 And you, the men who wore the blue would be the first to say that this same Sody WSen I9 fe o the Ri6ss of S who 'S; wore T the % SiSe. bEesSful % s"ah was the wysrng wsf st s nna the s.S Sss of the sra cy in this, that, now that the wounds are healed, the memory of the mighty deeds ot valor performed on one side the common heritage of all our people in every quarter of this country.
 The completeness with which this here today. We meet together to raise "a monument to great Union general. in the presence of many of the sur. yivors of the Union Army; and the
 
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 There is another point in General H. aa~-N -Na. a.I- IA. all of us 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 wa- ter. Any one of the i've was just as what is best in America. as the other our our minds Sia the fact W that % Amegicanism 9gi4T1 is a question of principle, of purpose. of idealisn, of character; that 1t is not 2 matter of birthplace. or creed. or the representatives of many old-world races are being fused together into 2 new type of man, a type the main features of which are already deter. time of the Revolutionary War; for the cructble in which all the new types are melted into one was shaped from l776 tteIy fixed in all its essentials by the men of Washington's day. 7The strains will not continue to exist separately in this country as in the old world. They will be combined in one: and of this new type those men will best repre- sent what is loftiest in the nations past. what is finest in her hope for the future, who stand each solely on his worth as a man; who scorn to do evil to others, and who refuse to submit to wrongdoing themselves; who have in them no taint of weakness; who never fear to fight when fighting is demand. ed by a 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 lessons 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 sec. tion or creed or birthplace copying, not the divisions which so lamentably sundered our fathers one from anoth- CT, but the spirit of burning devotion to duty which drove them forward. each to do the right as IL was gwen him to see the right in the great years when Grant. Farragut Sherman, Jackson. and the Johnstons the valiant men of ~the North and the valiant men of the South fought to a finish the great civil war. They did not them- selves realize, in the bitterness of the struggle. that the blood and the grim what was worn out and the birth bangs of a new and more glorious na- tional life; Mighty Is the heritage which we have received from the men