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of governing the world. So long as force may be in-

voked in behalf of injustice and wrong, so long must

force be ready to meet and crush force when thus em-

ployed; as Washington said, "We must keep ourselves

in a reasonable posture of defense." (Applause.)

After more than one hundred and fifty years of na-

tionality, the sword of Washington and Wayne was

never drawn except in defense of American rights or

human rights and was never sheathed in dishonor. To-

night that sword rests securely in its scabbard. But if

it shall ever be necessary again to draw it, it will only

be drawn in defense of American rights or in defense

of human rights and it will never be sheathed in dis-

honor. (Applause.)

But in peace as well as in war, the perpetuity of this

nation depends upon keeping alive the spirit of Wash-

ington and Wayne in the hearts of American people.

Forgetful of self, rejecting ease and comfort and peace

for the arduous service of the camp and field, these

heroes will ever be an inspiring example to all Ameri-

cans. Let us build monuments to them like this, com-

memorating their valorous deeds; let us build monu-

ments to them in a Republic strong, prosperous and just;

above all, fellow countrymen, let us build shrines to

them in our hearts, upon which shall ever be kept glow-

ing the love of country.

 

BANQUET IN COMMEMORATION OF GENERAL AN-

THONY WAYNE AND THE BATTLE OF

FALLEN TIMBERS

The banquet at the Commodore Perry Hotel, To-

ledo, Ohio, was a fitting climax to the ceremonies inci-

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dent to the dedication of a monument to General An-

thony Wayne. The principal address by the Secretary

of War, Honorable James W. Good, who brought the

greetings of the President of the United States, was de-

livered in excellent form and listened to with the closest

attention by the large and appreciative audience that

filled to its capacity the spacious banquet hall. The ad-

dresses, as will be seen, were well timed and in keeping

with the dignity of the occasion. They were inter-

spersed with excellent music.

 

AT THE SPEAKER'S TABLE

The guests assigned to the speaker's table were ar-

ranged to the right and left of the Toastmaster as fol-

lows:

RIGHT

15--Nevin O. Winter, Historian.

14--E. F. Wood, Treasurer Ohio State Archaeological and His-

torical Society.

13--A. D. Hosterman, Chairman Revolutionary Memorial Com-

mission.

12--Mrs. W. I. Hadley, Regent Ursula Wolcott Chapter, Daugh-

ters of the American Revolution.

11--Honorable Roy H. Williams, President, Anthony Wayne

Chapter, Sons of the American Revolution.

10--Mrs. W. I. Sawyer, State President, Daughters of 1812.

9--Bruce Wilder Saville, Sculptor, Designer of Wayne Monu-

ment.

8--H. C. Shetrone, Director, Ohio State Archaeological and

Historical Society.

7--James A. Woodburn, President, Indiana Historical Society.

6--Aide to Major General Nolan.

5--Mrs. Fannie Smith Tobey, State Regent, Daughters of the

American Revolution.

4--Loren E. Sauers, Member Executive Committee, National

Society, Sons of the American Revolution.

3--J. M. Walling, Lieutenant Colonel U. S. Army, Aide to Sec-

retary Good.

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2--D. E. Nolan, Major General U. S. Army.

1--Honorable James W. Good, Secretary of War.

 

CENTER

Grove Patterson, Toastmaster.

 

LEFT

1--Honorable William T. Jackson, Mayor of Toledo.

2--Lieutenant Colonel Wade Christy, Assistant Adjutant Gen-

eral of Ohio, representing Governor Cooper.

3--H. Ross Ake, Treasurer of State.

4--Walter C. Peters, representing Governor Green of Michigan.

5--W. W. Farnsworth, State Senator.

6--Arthur C. Johnson, President, Ohio State Archaeological and

Historical Society.

7--Mrs. Herbert Backus, Vice-President General, Daughters of

the American Revolution.

8--Mrs. Helen Wolcott Dimick, Secretary, Ohio Society Co-

lonial Dames of America.

9--C. B. Galbreath, Secretary, Ohio State Archaeological and

Historical Society.

10--Charles R. Barefoot, Representing President Fenner, of

Ohio Society, Sons of the American Revolution.

11--Mrs. Frank E. Walters, Vice-Regent, Fort Industry Chap-

ter, Daughters of the American Revolution.

12--Edward S. Bronson, Mayor of Defiance, Ohio.

13--Miss Ethelind Daiber, President Toledo Chapter, U. S.

Daughters of 1812.

14--William Wayne, President Pennsylvania Society of the Or-

der of the Cincinnati.

15--W. J. Sherman, Chairman of Committee of Arrangements.

 

SPEAKING PROGRAM

When the menu had been served Toastmaster Pat-

terson rose and spoke as follows:

Ladies and Gentlemen: I am going to ask you to rise and

drink to the health of the President of the United States.

(All rise and drink to the health of the President of the

United States.)

If you will permit me, and I know that you will gladly, I am

going to violate all of the constitutional prerogatives of toastmas-

ter and not tell any so-called funny stories.

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I have a vivid, sharp and distinct memory of a time not so

long ago when I served as toastmaster on another occasion in this

same room and a man who followed well down in the program,

known and properly so for his wit, said the toastmaster had

allowed himself to be interrupted just often enough to save the

program. (Laughter.)

So when I came into this room I said to myself: this is going

to be a different kind of performance. I wonder how many of

us are familiar with the poem:

"O beautiful for patriot dream,

That sees beyond the years,

Thine alabaster cities gleam

Undimmed by human tears."

So it seems to me that the beauty of today is the beauty of

dreamers, the beauty of warriors, the beauty of pioneers who

saw beyond the years and we have come together to celebrate the

dream and the vision and the subsequent actuality. Have you

ever stopped to think that if one generation in its indolence and

its indifference should fail to pass on the ordinary knowledge of

the ages, the painfully accumulated experience of the rest,--if

just one generation in its indolence and its indifference should fail

to pass this on, then we would inevitably revert to barbarism.

It seems to me a very fine thing that we illuminate those

places of the earth which mark the spot where pioneers have

beaten a road through the wilderness to a better day.

Not long ago I made an automobile trip through the Valley

of the Shenandoah and through the South. I started down the

National Trail and stopped for a moment at a monument of note,

the monument to General Braddock in Pennsylvania with whom

Washington fought. Then I went across the battlefield of An-

tietam which is splendidly marked. It is a liberal education in

the history of the Civil War--this visit to the Battlefield of

Antietam and through the Shenandoah Valley with a stop at

Cedar Run. I stopped at Charleston, West Virginia, to look up

a little tablet which was buried down in the grass which says,

"Here on September 2nd, 1859, John Brown was hanged."

I looked at the statue of General Lee in Lexington and then

passed Salisbury, North Carolina, which perhaps did not mean

very much to me at the time. Still I am thinking about it. I

realized it was the beginning of the Daniel Boone Trail and the

beginning of the Andrew Jackson career. Both of them started

from that place in North Carolina.

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Then I came around in the woods of Southern Tennessee to

discover the grave of Mary Waterless, the secretary of President

Jefferson, sent by Jefferson to look into the Louisiana Purchase

to make a personal report to the President, and that grave has

been marked properly by the State of Tennessee. And all the

way through the South and increasingly so through the East and I

am glad to say a little here and there in the Middle-West we are

marking for this generation and the generations to come the places

where men by service and self-sacrifice and by visions and dreams

of pioneers, are building new highways by which this nation and

all the nations of the earth must finally come.

So I think we cannot be engaged in a finer work than in

paying tribute to the heroic exploits of General Anthony Wayne.

As the first part of this program, I am going to read a letter

from Governor Myers Y. Cooper of Ohio.

He says, "Owing to an important previous engagement, made

before the unveiling of the monument to General Anthony Wayne

had been announced for September 14, I find that it will be quite

impossible for me as well as Mrs. Cooper to be in Toledo for the

banquet.

"We should have been greatly pleased to be present upon this

notable occasion and personally greet such distinguished guests as

Secretary of War Good, and others. But, disappointing as it is

to both of us, may I not hope that, in conveying our sincere

regrets, you will see fit to extend our greetings at the banquet

scheduled to be held at the Commodore Perry Hotel and read this

necessarily brief expression of mine on the Battle of Fallen

Timbers.

"The Battle of Fallen Timbers, fought on the banks of the

Maumee on August 20, 1794, marked the last stand of the Indians

against the whites in Ohio during the Post Revolutionary Period.

It was at this spot that General Wayne ('Mad Anthony' Wayne)

marshalled his forces of intrepid, sturdy, weather-beaten men,

moved against the hordes of hidden savages and their white allies,

and came out victor.

"The Indians never fully recovered from Wayne's mad and

ferocious attack, and their spirit was completely broken.

"Had the Indians won on that fateful August day, all the

territory lying within the boundaries of the Alleghanies and the

Ohio and Mississippi Rivers would have been lost to Americans

and claimed by the British as theirs.

"In the Battle of Fallen Timbers Wayne lost only thirty-

three killed and about one hundred wounded. While the toll of

the Indians has never been definitely determined, it is known that

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their loss was far heavier than that suffered by Wayne's soldiers.

Following the Battle of Fallen Timbers many Indians fled to De-

troit, the British headquarters, and General Wayne departed for

Fort Defiance. He did not live long to enjoy the honor of his

victory, dying two years later.

"One of General Wayne's last acts was to receive from the

British, Fort Miami, which they formally surrendered in 1796

in pursuance to a treaty negotiated by Chief Justice Jay. General

Wayne lived long enough after the Battle of Fallen Timbers for

the Indians to learn to respect him and love him. So pleased were

they, by their treatment at the hands of General Wayne, that each

of the prominent chiefs, following the surrender of Fort Miami,

wanted to see and talk with him.

"General Wayne was a great soldier and a great citizen of

America, and it is most fitting that a monument to his memory

be erected at the scene of the Battle of Fallen Timbers."

The City of Toledo is honored indeed by the presence of

distinguished guests on this occasion and before this meeting is

over I am sure it is going to become quite informal and I am

going to have the pleasure of introducing these distinguished

guests to everyone present.

At this juncture I want to present to you the first speaker on

the regular program.

I think that a sense of security in a community is consciously

or unconsciously created when provided by the truthful fabric

in the character of those citizens who always feel their responsi-

bility to the rest of the community. Nowhere is that fabric of

character worn more becomingly, nowhere is it worn more tri-

umphantly than in our courts, and I am very happy to say that

the Toledo Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution is

fortunate in having as its president a distinguished jurist.  I

count it indeed a pleasure and a privilege to present to you at this

time the Hon. Roy H. Williams, Judge of the Circuit Court of

Appeals, and the President of the Anthony Wayne Chapter of

the Sons of the American Revolution, who will now speak to us.

(Applause.)

 

ADDRESS OF JUDGE ROY H. WILLIAMS

Mr. Chairman, Honored Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen:

I was asked to come down and stand in front of this instru-

ment called, I believe, a microphone. It is hard to imagine, I may

say, that there may be an invisible audience listening to what

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your distinguished chairman has said, and what everyone may

say here this evening.

We are living in a mechanized age, an electricized age, and it

is a wonderful age; and it is not out of keeping with our times

that there should be placed on the field where was fought the Battle

of Fallen Timbers, a monument to Anthony Wayne that expresses

the appreciation of the people of Ohio for the efforts of one who

has done well in helping to make and preserve American civiliza-

tion in the Buckeye State.

I suppose I am on this program because I hold an official

position in Anthony Wayne Chapter of Toledo. That is a pa-

triotic organization. I think its purpose is often misunderstood,

but it stands for those principles and those movements and those

objectives which gave expression to what was accomplished in the

Revolution and in the making of the Constitution of the United

States afterwards, and which would preserve America as it is

under that Constitution. There is a need, I believe, for patriotism

of that kind in America, an increasing need. This organization

which I represent stands for the highest ideals of American pa-

triotism.

Now when we think of Anthony Wayne, we think first very

naturally of the American Revolution. What was the American

Revolution? Of course we all know, but I think sometimes, per-

haps, we forget our landmarks. I think that sometimes we are

not mindful of the fact that the American Revolution was the

real beginning of constitutional government in the history of the

world. An important landmark was set when the Battle of Fallen

Timbers was fought near the City of Toledo.

When we think of the Revolution, we ought to have in mind

three characters often forgotten. Of course, we think of George

Washington always, because he was the Revolution, in a sense.

He was the great mind and the great soul around which that

movement for independence and for liberty was built, but he had

many who aided him. There are three names that are often neg-

lected: Robert Morris, the financier of the Revolution, who sub-

sequently spent some time in jail for non-payment of his debts;

Thomas Paine, the pamphleteer of the Revolution, without whom,

Washington said, the Revolution could not have been successfully

fought; and Anthony Wayne, the bull dog and fighting spirit of

the Revolution, the man who was always ready to fight and always

ready to fight with fists, with powder and ball or with cold steel.

And, when he went up Stony Point that night at midnight, at the

head of his column, firing there was, but not in his detachment.

As the ascent was made he gave the order to charge with fixed

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bayonets, and before the top was reached he was wounded. He

immediately cried out: "Carry me on. If the wound is mortal,

I want to die at the head of my column." That was the spirit

of Anthony Wayne. His work at Brandywine and Germantown

was outstanding, and at Monmouth when Lee gave way, he aided

Washington in rallying the American troops, and his strategy at

Yorktown before the surrender of Cornwallis showed his clever-

ness and ability as a soldier. His achievements in these battles

lead to the conclusion that it is very doubtful whether the Revo-

lution could have been successfully fought without the help of

Anthony Wayne.

After the Revolutionary War was over and the Northwest

Territory was created, we received by treaty the territory west of

the thirteen states and east of the Mississippi, and it was neces-

sary to open what was commonly called the Ohio country.  That

was one of Washington's important duties when he took the office

of President. Finally he selected whom? Anthony Wayne--and

the climax of the campaign that followed was the Battle of Fallen

Timbers. What Andrew Jackson was to Florida; what Sam

Houston was to Texas; what George Rogers Clark was to the

Northwest, Anthony Wayne was to the Ohio country. He opened

it up to civilization, and it is well that we honor his memory and

his name with a monument and a piece of sculpture that will stand

through the endless years of time, and should it crumble to dust

the patriotism of the American people and the people of the

Buckeye State will replace it, and see that it stands there con-

tinually honoring his memory.

A people, to a great extent, writes the history of its civiliza-

tion in its art and in its sculpture. This monument is a worthy

piece--a work of genius,--as you recognize. I wonder often if

whether or not, with all our effort to secure co-operation and har-

mony, there may not be a lurking danger. Of course, these

United States were built up through the medium of those two

things. Don't misunderstand me. But I just wonder if we can't

co-operate and harmonize at the expense of principle. There is

hardly any good thing that cannot be overdone, and it seems we

may get from this event and occasion the spirit of Anthony

Wayne. This country will endure so long as we maintain the

spirit of our fathers, and when I say that you know I think, es-

sentially, we ought to believe in America for Americans.

As with most everything that a public speaker may say, one

might be misunderstood. I mean simply this. None of us are

aborigines. The Indians were the aborigines. We all came to

America from across the water. We are still coming. It does

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not make any difference how lately a man came to America and

took out his citizenship papers and became a citizen of the United

States, provided he has become a typical and worthy American

ancestor and a typical and worthy American.

Our ancestors may have come over in the Mayflower and they

and we may not be patriotic in a true sense. It matters not

where a man is born, or when he came to America to become a

citizen of this country. The test is when he gets here, does he

truly carry on what the fathers began. Does he believe in Amer-

ica for Americans, and if he does, and helps maintain and uphold

and carry on our institutions, and is true to the constitution and

the flag, then he is a good American citizen. In that sense we all

ought to believe, I take it, in America for Americans. We should

not, however, have any sympathy for this propaganda that would

tear down the ideals of the past; uproot the monuments to the

heroes of this nation and tear the pages out of the school books

that record the deeds of valor and heroism. Our past is with us

and it ought to be sacred.

I am glad that these people here have taken occasion to erect

this beautiful, expressive, magnificent and appropriate testimonial

to the deeds of one of America's great warriors. Anthony

Wayne's ancestors came here because they were not afraid to

brave the perils of the wilderness. They were willing to fight

Indians and wild beasts, carry the frontier across from the At-

lantic to the Pacific, and build a strong, a great and a worthy

nation. He was merely carrying the torch which his ancestors

threw to him when he fought in the battles of the Revolution, and

out here at the Battle of Fallen Timbers. That was all. He did

his duty and he was strong in doing it, and more power to him.

May we get inspiration from the life and works of Anthony

Wayne. (Applause.)

Here followed the address of Secretary Good which

appears on previous pages of this issue. After express-

ing the gratitude of Ohio and all the guests assembled

to the distinguished member of the cabinet of President

Hoover for his excellent address and declaring that,

"no man in America by reason of his position, attain-

ments or careful study, could have spoken in quite such

a scholarly, understanding and appreciative way of the

exploits and character of General Wayne," the Toast-

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master introduced Mrs. Herbert Backus, Vice-President

General of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

 

RESPONSE OF MRS. HERBERT BACKUS

Mr. Toastmaster, Distinguished Guests and Friends: A story

was told me the other day of a farmer who took unto himself his

second wife. He brought her to the home of her predecessor.

After some time had elapsed she told him that she needed some

new shoes; that all her shoes were worn out. He said: "Well,

Samantha left a box of shoes in the cupboard. I think perhaps

some of those will fit you." She replied to him, "I know I have

taken Samantha's place but I never expect to fill her shoes."

(Laughter.)

Our beloved president is Mrs. Hobart. She was expected to

be here tonight but I am here in her place though I never did ex-

pect to fill her shoes. I am very glad to bring you greetings from

the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolu-

tion. (Applause.)

Mr. Loren E. Sowers of Canton, Ohio, past Presi-

dent of the Ohio Society of the Sons of the American

Revolution and past Director-General of the National

Society of that patriotic order, was next introduced and

spoke as follows:

 

ADDRESS OF LOREN E. SOWERS

Mr. Toastmaster, Ladies and Gentlemen: As the toastmaster

has already very vividly hinted, it is decidedly an embarrassing

privilege to be permitted to provide the anti-climax of an occasion

such as that of today which has been specialized so notably by the

presence and the stirring address of the Secretary of War rep-

resenting, as he has done, the United States of America upon

this occasion, and that magnificent address by Arthur C. Johnson

this afternoon.

Though embarrassing, it is still a privilege on behalf of the

President-General, the officers and the whole membership of the

National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution to bring

to you tonight greetings and congratulations upon the accomplish-

ments of this splendid thing which has just been finished today.

Under the leadership of the men who have had this task in

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charge, and particularly I have in mind my dear friend, Mr.

Walter Sherman, to whose heart I know this project has long been

so dear, this must be a day of very real satisfaction; and to all of

us Americans who love the history of our country; to our

Ohioans who know and love the history of our State, this day

must be one very full of meaning, and it has been. It is a typical

thing for us, from our standpoint of time and circumstances, to

understand just why we saw fit to bring back to mind an event

of one hundred and thirty-five years ago which has been cele-

brated today. One hundred and thirty-five years, yet but a mo-

ment of time compared to the ages of history. And so it is hard

for us to think of that event in terms of its importance.

Many of you know that it opened the way for the establish-

ment of the peace and civilization, and made possible the exten-

sion of the United States into the vast domain of the West. It

was a mission of peace and not of war upon which Anthony

Wayne set out. His achievement was one of peace and not

merely an exploit of war. Civilization, education, science, agri-

culture and the arts of peace were the camp followers of Wayne's

little army.

We humans are sometimes apt to think and talk dogmatically

with certainty about some things as absolute and perhaps there

are no two subjects about which people are more apt to dogma-

tize as if they were absolute than war and peace. One thing in

truth, as things we are told are relative, war and peace particu-

larly are relative. And the exploits of war and the achievements

of peace are so mixed up together that we cannot, in analyzing

history separate the one from the other. And always it has been

and always it must be that the peace, the prosperity, the happiness

and the security of a nation, so long as human nature is human

nature as we have known it, must in a large measure depend on

the readiness of the people to sustain the rights at whatever cost

and to defend the peace which they would enjoy.

This day has been one which ought to have been and I am

sure has been inspiring to everyone of us and all of us Sons and

Daughters of the American Revolution or Americans, all who

come over here with a newly inspired sense of duty, to serve our

country in such circumstances as may be given to us with such

opportunities as are ours. In peace or if need be in war, but

particularly to do our utmost in every possible way to uphold our

government, to maintain its force, its righteousness, its majesty

and power, its influence, its prestige among the nations and to

serve it loyally and obediently, doing our duty as citizens to the

end that ideals of our fathers may be accomplished in all the

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future and in the perpetuity of this Republic as a leader, the

leader it has been, the leader it should always be in carrying for-

ward in the world the cause of free government and righteous-

ness among men. (Applause.)

 

CONCLUSION OF PROGRAM

Toastmaster Patterson felicitously brought this de-

lightful banquet to a close as follows. We quote from

a stenographic report:

TOASTMASTER PATTERSON--No occasion was ever made less

pleasant by the introduction of a note of informality. We have

now reached the time to make this a very informal meeting and if

I can trust myself in the labyrinth of titles, which blanket me on

either side, I am going to try to introduce this audience to

these titles or these titles to this audience. I said quite pointedly

a moment ago that the speaking part of the program had been

concluded, but I know some of you who do not know the people

at the speakers' table would like to know who they are. I am

going to introduce most of them, perhaps all of them. If I drop

out somewhere along the line I suppose Mr. Sherman will help

me out. I will just introduce them. I will ask each one to rise

at the conclusion of the introduction, and make a bow.

I am going to introduce, first, Dr. Nevin O. Winter. We

believe he knows more about Anthony Wayne, with the possible

exception of the Secretary of War, than anybody else in the world.

He is the historian of this whole territory.

(Much applause as Mr. Winter arises and makes a bow.)

I now will introduce the chairman of the Ohio Revolutionary

Memorial Commission, Mr. A. D. Hosterman, of Springfield.

(Applause as Mr. Hosterman arises.)

Then the Regent of Ursula Wolcott Chapter of the Daugh-

ters of the American Revolution, Mrs. W. I. Hadley, of Toledo.

(Applause as Mrs. Hadley arises.)

Then the State President of the Daughters of 1812, Mrs. W.

I. Sawyer, of Akron.

(Applause.)

Then I want you to know particularly the sculptor who made

beauty a reality in this magnificent monument which brings us

together for this occasion, Mr. Bruce Wilder Saville, of New

York.

(Applause.)

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This afternoon those of you who were out at the monument

admired, I am sure, the manner in which the exercises were chair-

maned and presided over by Mr. H. C. Shetrone who is Executive

Director of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society.

(Applause as Mr. Shetrone arises.)

Mr. F. A. Godcharles is here representing the State of Penn-

sylvania, the home originally of General Anthony Wayne.

(Applause.)

I think that we take particular pride in our own representa-

tive of the United States Army and I am going to present Col. J.

M. Walling, of Toledo, in charge of the affairs of the Reserve

Officers in the district of Northwest Ohio, and who is acting aide

to the Secretary of War.

(Applause.)

Now, we are honored indeed to have with us not only the

Secretary of War, but the Major-General commanding the Fifth

Corps Area of the United States Army. So I present at this time

Major-General D. E. Nolan of Columbus.

(Applause.)

Now, going down the left, I am sure it is a comfort to have

as Mayor of Toledo a man who lends dignity to an occasion, and

combines that dignity with active and actual achievement for his

home city. I am very proud to present Mayor William T. Jack-

son, of Toledo.

(Applause.)

I now present the Assistant Adjutant-General of the State

of Ohio, Col. Wade Christy.

(Applause.)

We are sorry, of course, not to have Governor Cooper here.

We are glad, however, to have the State of Ohio represented of-

ficially and Governor Cooper represented personally by Hon. H.

Ross Ake, the State Treasurer of Ohio.

(Applause.)

When I see some of the men who have gone to the Legisla-

ture of Ohio from some of the other counties and districts I am

always glad that Ohio is represented in the State Senate by Sen-

ator W. W. Farnsworth, of Waterville, Ohio.

(Applause.)

He is not here. We will give him a hand anyway.

Now, of course, it would be altogether impossible to even

conceive of not introducing the boss. One might say I have a big

pride in introducing a fellow craftsman. I want to present Mr.

Arthur C. Johnson, publisher of the "Columbus Dispatch" and

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the President of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical

Society.

MR. ARTHUR C. JOHNSON--Mr. Toastmaster, may I have

one-half of one moment?

TOASTMASTER PATTERSON--Because you are a newspaper

man I will let you get by with it.

MR. JOHNSON--To invite all here present to the dedication

of the great peace shaft that we have in mind for Greenville, Ohio,

in 1936.

(Applause.)

TOASTMASTER PATTERSON--Mrs. Herbert Backus, Vice-

President General, Daughters of the American Revolution, of

Columbus.

(Applause.)

Mrs. Helen Wolcott Dimick, of Toledo, Secretary of the

Ohio Society Colonial Dames.

(Applause.)

You know in spite of the fact that Arthur Johnson is presi-

dent, there is someone else that has to do most of the work and

that is generally the secretary. I am going to introduce the secre-

tary, Mr. C. B. Galbreath, the secretary and editor of the Ohio

Archaeoloicgal and Historical Society.

(Applause.)

Now, I am going to ask the man who makes it possible for a

lot of people to become members of the Anthony Wayne Chapter

of the Sons of the American Revolution to arise. I say he makes

it possible. He does not fake up any records but he goes a long

way to find them--Charles Barefoot.

(Applause.)

Mrs. Frank E. Walters is Vice-Regent of Fort Industry

Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution.

(Applause.)

I think it is peculiarly appropriate that we have as one of our

special guests tonight the mayor of a city made famous in older

times by General Wayne. He built a fort up there and it looked

pretty good and somebody said, "Well, we will furnish something

for the Indians to shoot at that defies the Indians. We will call it

Fort Defiance." And in Mr. Edward S. Bronson we have the

mayor of Defiance, Ohio.

(Applause.)

We have the president of the Toledo Chapter of the Daugh-

ters of 1812, Miss Ethelind Daiber of Toledo.

(Applause.)

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TOASTMASTER PATTERSON--Next I want to introduce Mrs.

Fanny Smith Tobey of Hamilton, the State Regent of the Daugh-

ters of the American Revolution.

(Applause.)

Governor Green of Michigan, was expected to come but he

sent as his personal representative, Representative Walter C.

Peters of Monroe.

Now, I want to take a moment longer to introduce one other

of our very special guests. It is indeed,--it gives me a thrill to

present a man who is a lineal descendant of General Anthony

Wayne. He lives in a house built in 1745 by the grandfather of

General Anthony Wayne. His family has been in Pennsylvania

since 1722. He lives in Paoli, Pennsylvania, at Waynesboro, the

ancestral home of the Waynes. He holds the very high honor of

being president of the Pennsylvania Order of the Cincinnati of

which George Washington was made the first president, an organ-

ization made up of officers of the Revolutionary War and their de-

scendants. I will ask Hon. William Wayne of Paoli, Pennsyl-

vania to arise.

(Much applause as Mr. Wayne arises.)

I want to say in behalf of us all in having Mr. William

Wayne here, it indeed makes this occasion one hundred per cent.

We thank him for coming and we assure him that we feel very

much honored by his presence.

There is just one more man I am going to introduce and he

has had a special tribute paid him already. This monument would

not have been built, the memory of Anthony Wayne would not

have been properly celebrated, we should not be gathered here

tonight, we should not be honored by the presence of the distin-

guished guests had it not been for the years of effort and pains-

taking on the part of Mr. W. J. Sherman, the General Chairman

of this Committee.

(Much applause as Mr. Sherman arises.)

TOASTMASTER PATTERSON--In closing, I think we should

stand and I will ask Wellington T. Huntsman to lead in the first

and final verses of America, and that will conclude the meeting.

(All arose and sang the first and third verses of "America.")

(Adjournment.)

 

 

 

Vol. XXXIX--3.

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34        Ohio Arch. and Hist. Society Publications

 

LETTER FROM WILLIAM H. STEVENSON,

President of the Western Pennsylvania Historical Society

Among the letters received by the Chairman of the

Fallen Timbers State Park Committee is the following:

PITTSBURGH, PA., September 10, 1929.

MR. W. J. SHERMAN, Chairman,

Toledo, Ohio.

DEAR SIR--I have your kind invitation to attend the dedica-

tion of a monument to General Anthony Wayne on the site of the

battlefield of Fallen Timbers, Saturday, September 19th and ex-

ceedingly regret that owing to a previous engagement I cannot be

present.

The ceremonies connected with the unveiling and dedication

of this beautiful monument are of particular interest to every

Pennsylvanian, for it was in Pittsburgh that General Wayne, pur-

suant to President Washington's orders, organized "The Legion

of the United States."

General Wayne started to organize his Legion at Fort

Fayette, which stood at the corner of Penn Avenue and Ninth

Street (as those thoroughfares are known today) in Pittsburgh,

in the summer of 1792. There he gathered together a motley

crowd, mostly adventurers from the larger eastern towns and

cities. The terrible defeats of Harmar and St. Clair and the re-

ports of Indian atrocities committed on their troops served to

deter voluntary enlistments, and Wayne was compelled to take

what he could get. Soon he discovered that the environment of

Pittsburgh was not conducive to the maintenance of good dis-

cipline. Pittsburgh was but a frontier post infested with the usual

evils attendant on such places. Wayne did not have the present-

day power of creating prohibition zones, and he soon found that

Monongahela whiskey and military discipline didn't mix. So he

very wisely in the fall of the year removed his troops and their

equipment down the river on flatboats to the open country at this

spot, which came to be known as Legionville, where the men were

largely free from the temptations of the frontier town.

At this camp, Wayne put his men through a thorough school

of military training. He put into effect the lessons he had learned

in the Revolution from Baron Steuben, and which he had his

troops so effectively employ at Stony Point when he captured that

place with the bayonet. He taught the Legion all the drill of the

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