The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-05-30
Champion Of Human Liberty
Declares the Rev. MIR.
Queen in Speech.
.AT PIIILTPPI REUNIoN
Historical Review of Prog
ress Made in Freedom
in America.


Pz1MlhPtJI, w. va, May 90
nag parade by school children. as
woli as big parade o. fraternal
Eoc.etles, featured the second day
OF the reunion of the Blue and the
Gray here with big crowd in town.
The decoration exercises were sol
emn and Impressive and the floral
tributes many. Among the promi-
nent speakers was the Rev p. T. L.
Queen, of Jacksonville, Fla. ma
tive OF West Virginia. He said:
It has frequently been my priv
ilese to address popular assemblies
on subjects covering a wide range
OF thought, and oftimes in the Inter
est OF measures touching human
hearts AMI Affecting human destiny.
But in the cells OF my brain there
IS no treasured recollection of an
event so rich in pathetic ana his
toric memory, as the event that has
awakened such widespread Interest.
and brought together such vast
throngs OF people. as the seml-cen-t
tennial celebration of the first bat
tie on land of our Civil war.
This little mountain city. hence !
forth, is to be famous as the cradlsI
scene of a nations new birth of civ
Eization..
~ Lexington ana Bunker Hill Wit
messed the Initial scene In struggle
for human freedom, and a repre-i
sentative form OF government, PHI
ippi, enlocked by mountain ranges,
saw the opening battle of the war
that convulsed a continent; that
changed the current of our political
history. and severed the chain thar
held the imprisoned freedom OF A.
GEO. 900 slaves.
These eneIrclIng hills, whose
snlintered peaks had been kissed By
the morning light of sixty centuries.
became the sounding board that
gave back the first echoing sound %
a conflict that has no parallel in tbs +
annals OF military history. Th2t
heroic deeds of men who wore the
Blue, and the men who wore thc
Gray, glorLiied the story of American;
valor on fields where arm es strug-
gled. The endurance and valOrous
deeds of both armies have no coun-
terpart in military achievement.
Their long marches. their fierce en-
counters, and desperate charges II
Eliminates the story OF patriotic en-
deavor with a glory brighter in its
radiance than the light OF victory
that giowed above the crimsoned
field of Austerlitz.
Fifty years of recedinG history
has disseminated the rank and file of
the two armies. Times unchanginE
order has consolidated them into
two grand divisions. one division is
eucamped On distant shore. in n
country unmarked by human
grave or Swallowed by the gloom OF
setting sun, and whose inhabit
ants learn war no more. a with
cred remnant of us, forming a
smaller d.vson, still fingers here
among the graves of our comrades
and the dissolving memories of the
past. awaiting the bugle's call to the
last final review.
Light Out"
These two words, when announced
by the bugle at the grave of a sol
dier, en-. tom zcs the entire story OF
human life. 1 do not know what in
huence touched the heart of the one
who set music to these words, but
their utterauce in the tremulous
tones of the bugle awakens the
memory of childhood songs, and
echoes the exp ring gruans of hui
mainly
The festivities arranged for this
occasion have been projected along
lines OF patriotism and brotherly
love, and no words should fall from
tho lips of speaker that would
mar the harmony which now pre-
walls between those. who fifty years
ago met each other on the embat-
tied pains in deadly conflict. The
prlvations and sorrows, the defeates
and victories OF the days OF strife
arc recorded in the book of Times
eternal registry. sealed by the
death angel of the dead century. OF
their occurrence.
Persistency of the Struggle,
must say. however. that the Civil
war OF which this quiet little town
felt the fret hattie shock, in all It's !
phases, was the greatest war of all ,
the centuries. The small sklrmish
that occurred here on the morning
of June 3, 1861. started IN motion a