The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-11-25

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at The Civil war yet g
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ffie wounds are healed. the
* the mighty deeds Of vslor
fed On one side no less than
other has become the CON-
IsrfthGa OF All our people N
fter Of this country Tlle
SsfeIiet,s with which this 'ls true
1v5n l1,- what Is occurring here
we meet together TO raise q
Inent 10 a great Union general.
Dresehce Of MANY Of the sur
81 the Union Army; ana the
sestaI.y OF War. the man ct enc
a 81 the Army. who. BY virtue Of
once occupies a special relation
Z, t11e celebration, is himself man
VINO fought in the Confederate service.
Few indeed have been the eountr les
Where such conjunction would have
Been possible. and blessed indeed ar 8
Il Il not only possible. but seems SO
entirely natural as to excite no com
ment whatever.
mere Il another point In General
5she4i tlsln.s career which IT is COON
TOR all ms TO remember whereas
Grant. sherman ana Thomas
~ tf1e old .ative American stock. the
parents Of Sheridan, like the parents
OF Iyslrraqut were born on the other
side OF the water. Any one os the;
five was Just as much a type Of the
real American OF what is best III
America. as the other flour. VIC
shoId keep steadily before our NINA
the fact that Amerfcanism is queS-
tion or principle OF purpose, Of IDEAL
| TsIn az character: that 1t is not q
matter OF birthplace, or creed, or line
of descent Here In this country
tho representative of many old world
RACES are being fused together into
| a new type, n type the main features
of which are already determined, and
twere determined ut the time OF tfae
| RcvolItfonag-y war. for the cructble
| in which all the new types are melted
| into one was shaped from l1tG to
1883, and our nationality was detn-
ftelv fSed IN all its essen talS By the
| men OF Washlngton's day. The
strains Will cot continue to exist sep
arately in this country as IN the Old
world. They win be combined In one :
land of this new type those men Will
! hest, represent what is loftiest in the
nation.s past. what IS finest in her
hone for thu. future, who stand each
tsoleIy on his own worth rs n man:
! who scorn TO do evil to Others. and
lwh0 refuse to submit to wrongdotnE
| themselves: who have in them no
| faint of weakness; who never fear to
tight when fighting is demanded by 4
| sound and high morality. but who
| none BY their lives to bring ever near
4 er the day when justice and peace
Ishall prevail within our own borders
land in our relations with al foreign
| powers
Mucn of the psefuIness of any ca
ireeer must lie in the impress that IL
mikes upon. and the lessons that II
| teaches to. the generations that como
4 after. We of this generation have our
own problems to solve, and the condi-
tion OF our solving them IS that we
shall all work together as American
citizens without regard to differences
Of section or creed or birthplace,
llamentabiy sundered our fathers ono
from anothr but the spirit of burning
I devotion to duty which drove the nj
| forward, each to do the right as it
was given him to.see5 the right. in the
great years when Grams. Farragut,
Sherman. Thomas and sheridan. when
Lee and jackson, and the Johnstons,
the valiant men OF the North. and tho
valiant men OF the South. fought to a
| finish the great Civil war. They did
not themselves realize. in the bitter
ness of the struggle, that the blood
and the grim sunercing marked the
death throes of what was worn out
and the birth pangs of a new and
more glorious national life. Mighty
| Is the heritage which we have receiv-
ed from the men of the mighty days
! We, In our turn, must grid up our
loins TO meet the new issues with tho
same stern courage and resolute adj
hercnce to ar ideal. which marked
I our fathers who belonged to the gen
creation of the man in whose honor
we commemorate this monument to-
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