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RTHE DEDICATION WELL ATTENDEDMONUMENT UNVEILED TO REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER AT CE-DAR\ HILL CEMETERY.PROF. LAFOLLFTTE S EAKSProgram For Occasion Under Direction of Grand Army of Republic and Woman's Relief Corps—WilliamHill Was 109 Years Old.x., 84.. 11..1253..3327 ..1193 .. 139 ..1955 • • '89..1372..3216 ..1245 .. 148 ..1902 .1314..3267 ..1223 ..1927 ..1340..3309..1151.. 142 . .1927 . .13823234 . .1298 .. 139. .1879. .1355. .3150 ..1174.. 139 . .2106 . .1044. . 3204 . .1250 . .1979 . .1225. .3179 .1169 . 180' .1999,.1180».3234 .1309 . 154 .1924 .1310.3226 1225 . 146 .1932 .1294i Notsuitrorce.The dedication of the monument to James Hill, Revolutionary soldier, last Sunday, at Cedar Hill cemetery, was an event that will go down in local history, for it goes to show that the fires of patriotism kindled in those early years, are still burning upon American hearthstones, and warming the hearts of a great people. The exercises took place at two o'clock, last Sunday afternoon in the presence of a good crowd of people, including eleven descendants of Mr. Hill.Mayor Elza O. Rogers presided over the meeting, but the program prop-er was under the direction of the G.A. R- and W. R. C. Rev. F. L. Hardy, of the First Baptist church offered prayer, and America was sung by r. quartette led by Ben H. Coombs. The monument was unveiled by the Woman’s Relief Corps, assisted by Jesse Neff and Jacob Cobb.The address of the occasion was made by William LaFollette, professor of mathematics in the Lebanon high school. Mr. LaFollette said:“Two feelings are prominent in my mind on this occasion. One of filial reverence, the other of patriotic devotion. The first due to the fact that the ancestors whose name I bear, together with three brothers, served in the Revolutionary armies from Morristown to Yorktown. The other is due to the knowledge, gleaned from history, of the importance of the work done during the period through which Mr. Hill passed and for which we have met to honor him today.“The Revolutionary period has been so often and so well told by others that repetition now would be inopportune save to mention the opinion of the great English statesman, Gladstone, with reference to the constitution which was the crowning work of thar period. He said of it: “The constitution of the United States is the greatest political document ever struck from the mind of man at a given time.’“The thought to which I wish to call your attention today is the character which made the Revolutionary period possible. The type of character which made possible the birth of a new nation and which could maintain that nation had its origin in the conditions under which these men had come to the new world and made homes and defended their lives and preserved their rights two thousand miles from the protection and the ‘support of the government to which they were subject These conditions compelled them to depend upon their jg own resources and administer justice which caused them to resist the injustice put upon them, by their government in Europe.“Another phase of character which grew out from those conditions, was devotion to duty. We sometimes forget the importance of the Revolutionary war because of the small amount of space given it in our histories.We should remember that it lasted twice the length of the Civil war and conditions were such that the armies defending our little country could not be supplied with wood and other supplies as we are accustomed to find in connection with modern Warfare. It was devotion alone that held Mr. Hill and his com-patriots true to their convictions during such extremities as Valley Forge, where the snows of winter were reddened with the blood from their naked feet.It was devotion which made Gen. Ross make the following reply to the British emissaries who had been sent to bribe him to betray his country: ‘I am not worth buying, but such as I am,ed no farther than the Mississippi river. Yet within one and a Quarteir centuries the new nation created dui*» ing their period has grown until it: over-shadows the continent and no less than four hundred constitution* for so many different countries hvo-been patterned from highest fruits o£ their devotion.“So may we build better than tho short view of the present presents to our knowledge by taking these mem for our patterns. By preserving tho virtues which adorned their Jives and!I doing as they, the best we know uo* der any and all circumstances- So may we live up to our opportunities and perpetuate the nation which thejr gave their lives to establish.”James Hill, in whose honor tho monument was erected was born Dec*. 3, 1745 near Danville, Va., and dielt;£ April 9, 1854 at the home of Williamr H. Williams, three and one-half mile* east of Lebanon at the age of 10* year*Mr. Hill was so well known in this community that he was tendered % military funeral, the soldiers of the* war of 1812 and the soldiers of th* Mexican war participated. Among£. the pall bearers at the funeral were: Gen. Wm. C. Wise, Riley Colgrove*. James Silvers and Levi Lane.The monument dedicated Sundajr was erected by the board of commissioners at a cost to the county of $50* The monument is of Indiana ston* and is suitably inscribed., and j King George III is not rich enough to buy me.’“Still another important factor in the character of the men of this per iod, was self-control. Courage has been defined as self-control under trying circumstances and tried by this rule those men were marvels of courage.“Unless we can take from this incident something that will make us better Americans we have used the opportunity to little purpose. To raise a stone and to carve a name are easy things. What we should do is to determine in our hearts that the virtues which adorned the characters of Mr. Hill and his com-patriots shall be cultivated in our lives to the end that the nation to which they gave’ such devotion shall be perpetuated.“In conclusion, these men builded better than they knew. The wildest dreams of empire in that day extend*Lintiff I life that mar-se of 1 her The twice : she that : her lares with his appi-TAFT ON RESULTS.“The returns insure the election of Governor Wilson to the presidency. This means an early change in the economic policy of the government in ref-erence to the tariff. If this rchange can be made without :halting prosperity, I sincerely :hope it may be.“The vote for Mr. Roosevelt, :the third party candidate, and --for Mr. Debs, the Socialist can- *didate, is a warning that their **propaganda in favor of fundamental changes in our constitutional representative government has formidable support.“While the experiment of a change in the tariff is being carried out by the Democratic administration it behooves Republicans to gather again to the party standard and pledge anew their faith in their party’s principles and to organize again to defend the constitutional government bawled down to us by :our fathers.“We must make clear to the young men of the country, who have been weaned away from sound principles of government by-promise of reforms impossible of accomplishment by mere legislation, that patriot* ism and common sense- require them to return to a support nf our constitution. Without compromising our principles, we must convince and win back former Republicans and we must reinforce our ranks with const it lit ion-loving Democrats.“We favor every step of progress toward more perfect equality of opportunity and ridding society of injustice. But we know that all progress worth making is possible with our present form of government, and that to sacrifice that which is of the highest value in our governmental structure for undefined and impossible reforms is the wildest folly. We mustfacj *be danger with a. clearknowledge of what it is.“The Republican party is equal to the task. It has had no nobler cause. Let us close ranks and march forward to do battle for the right and the true.”M::, oc-louth Puea-onse mtedBay View Club. ijThe Bay View Club Aiet with Mrs. Charles Shepard, Monday afternoon, Mrs. Shepard ami Mrs. M. F. Camp* bell being hostesses- Mrs. May Wif* son read a well prepared paper on “Indiana and Her People,” and Mrs* George Spahr read a paper on “The-Literary Spirit of Indiana,” that showed the Hoosier state to be in the forefront in literary attainment. Mrs* Coverdale gave a review of Meredith Nicholson’s “A Hoosier Chronicle.** Refreshments were served. The club’s guests were: Mrs. L. E. Brown, Mrs Mary Miller and Mrs. Mark. Jones.Another Operation.. Charles, the five-year old son of Elmer Gullion, of LaFayette, who has been ill almost since a babe, was op« erated on last Monday at St. Vlndfcnt hospital, Indianapolis. Eight ounces, of pus was removed from the Ibft side of the head. His tonsils were al*~ so removed, and an adenoid takeni from the nose. This is the seventh) time the little fellow has been operated on.^A Joint Institute.The district school teachers of the? county are arranging to hold a joint Institute, to take the place of the institutes in the several townships in December.
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Lebanon Patriot
Lebanon, Indiana, US
Thu, Nov 07, 1912
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