Show N MEMORY E RAVE MEN i Monument to New Jersey Soldiers Dedicated I ERECTED ON HISTORIC FIELD Ceremonies Take Place at Anlietam Battleground President Roosevelt Delivers an Address Ad-dress in Which He Pays High Tribute to Veterans Sharpsburjr N T Sept 17 Under Un-der l lowering skies the magnificent monument erected on the historic bat I tlellcld of Antictam by the State of New Jersey to Its men who fought in the great engagement was dedicated today I The occasion was rendered particularly notable by the presence at and participation j partici-pation in the ceremonies of the President Presi-dent of the United States and of Coy Murphy the Chief Executive of the State which was honoring Its heroes The special train bearing the President Gov Murphy and their party arrived here at a10 oclock President Roosevelt as he arose to accept ac-cept tho monument on behalf of the Federal Government was accorded an ovation In the course of his speech he said PRESIDENTS ADDRESS IVe meet today upon one of the great hit t tlellclds of the Civil war No other battle of the Civil war lasting but one day shows as great a percentage of loss II as that which occurred here upon the day on which Antictam was fought Moreover More-over In Ito ultimate effects this battle was of momcntout and even decisive Importance Im-portance for when it had ended and Leo had retreated south of the Potomac Lincoln Lin-coln forthwith published that Immortal paper the preliminary declaration of emancipation the paper which decided that thu Civil war bcaldcs being a war for lie preservation of the Union should be a war for the emancipation or the slave so that from that time onward the causes of Union and of Freedom of national na-tional greatness and individual liberty were one and the same If I the issue I of Anlietam had been other than It was It Is probable that at least two great European powers would have recognized the Independence of the Confederacy Con-federacy so that you who fought here fortyone years ago have the profound satisfaction of feeling that you played well your part In ont of those crIses big with the fate of all mankind Vou men of the Grand Army by your I victory not ouly tendered I all Americans your debtor forevermore but you rcn i i clcrcd all humanity your debtors If the Union had ben dissolved If I the great I edifice built with blood and sweat and tears by mighty Washington and his compeers had gone down In wreck and ruin the result would have boon an incalculable In-calculable calamity not only for our people and must of all for those who In such evict would have cccniingly triumphed I for nil mankind Tin great American Republic would have become como a memory of derision and the failure fail-ure of the experiment of Ulf government by a great people on a great scale would have drllghied the heart of every foe of republican Institutions Our country now so great and so wonderful would have been split Into little Jancllng rival nationalities fach with a history both bloody and contemptible It was because you the men who wear the I button of the I Grand Army triumphed In those I dark years that every American now holds his head high proud In the knowledge that I he belongs to a Nation whose glorious past and great present v lll be succeeded by an even mightier future whereas lied you failed we would all of us North and South East and Wet b h now treated by other nations at the best with contemptuous tolerance at the t worst with overbearing Insolence Moreover evemy friend of liberty every believer In selfgovernment every Ideal 1st who wished to see his ideals take practical shape wherever he might be In the world knew that the success of all In which he most believed was bound up with the success of the Union armies In his I great struggle I confidently predict that when lie final judgment of history is recorded it will ho paid that In no other i I war of which we have written record was I It more vitally essential for the welfare of mankind that victory should rest whore It llnally rested There I hare been other wars for individual freedom There I have bon other wars for national groat ness Hut there has never been another I war in which the issues at stake were so large looked at from either standpoint Benediction was pronounced by tHeRe I Rev William II McCormack of New Jersey a veteran chaplain I VISITED HISTORIC POINTS A greater part of the afternoon was spent by lie President in an Inspection of the points of historic Interest on the i I battlefield The monument Is In the form of a Corinthian column of granite forty feet high surmounted by a heroic llguro in bronze of an officer with upraised sword leading his men In charge The figure Is Intended as a representation of Capt Irish of the Thirteenth New Jersey volunteers who was the only New Jersey officer killed at Antictam |