Identifier: historyofcuyahog00glea (find matches)
Title: History of Cuyahoga County soldiers' and sailors' monument. Scenes and incidents from its inception to its completion.--Description of the memorial structure, and roll of honor
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Gleason, William J. (William John), b. 1846
Subjects: Cuyahoga County Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument (Cleveland, Ohio) Cuyahoga County (Ohio) -- History Civil war
Publisher: Cleveland, O., The Monument commissioners
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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eir jurisdiction. Liberty,my fellow citizens, is responsibility, and responsibilityis duty, and that duty is to preserve the exceptionalliberty we enjoy within the law and for the law and bythe law. ( Great applause.) The children were heard again in Zundels Ameri-can Flag Song. At the close of the swelling chorus,there was a great roar of applause from the crowd;even over at the Monument. Spectators in the blockscheerily waved handkerchiefs as a mark of their appre-ciation of the melody. Blended with the applausewere three hearty cheers given by the children for theflag. Their clear, musical voices, sent forth with allthe enthusiasm of youth, rang out in three lusty cheers.A little fellow in knickerbockers raised a laugh by pro-posing, in a piping voice, a tigah to supplement thecheers. Virgil P. Kline had wisely been chosen to read theDeclaration of Independence. He was dignified, asalways. His reading of the immortal production ofour forefathers was done with a fervor and eloquence
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EX-GOVERNOR JOSEPH B. FORAKER,Orator of the Dav. soldiers and sailors monument. 505 that was inspiring. When he had concluded, there wereshouts of approbation and exclamations of good,good, on all sides, ending with cheers. The Red, White, and Blue was sung by thechildren. They arose at a signal from the wand ofProfessor Stewart, and to the accompaniment of theband the strains of the patriotic song floated out on theair. A waving of flags attended the singing, and itaroused the unbounded delight of the audience. Theydid not alone applaud, but cheered enthusiastically asthe orator of the day, Governor McKinley, intro-duced ex-Governor Foraker. The gentlemen of thecommittee having these exercises in charge, said Gov-ernor McKinley, have been successful in many things.In nothing have they been more successful than in theselection of the orator of the day. I take great pleas-ure in introducing to you Hon. Joseph B. Foraker, theorator of the day. Ex-Governor Foraker advanced as his name wa

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