The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer

REVOLUTIONARY HEROES

Of Maryland to Have a Monument—Vice-President Stevenson's Address.

BALTIMORE, MD., April 3.—Vice-President Stevenson came to Baltimore this afternoon from Washington to open the great bazaar in the aid of the monument to be erected to the memory of the Maryland heroes of 1776.

At the fifth regiment armory Vice-President Stevenson was introduced by Edwin Warfield and he delivered the following address:

To-night you inaugurate an enterprise in which not only the people of Maryland but American citizens everywhere feel a proud interest. I congratulate you most earnestly upon the auspicious opening of this great exhibition. This undertaking—that of erecting a monument to the memory of the revolutionary heroes of this grand commonwealth—it is the one that appeals to all patriotic hearts. Too high praise cannot be awarded to those who unselfishly devoted time and labor taken from the busy cares of life in order that the memory of those who died in defense of their country may not perish. The societies here represented who have undertaken this noble work, not only deserves the greatest measure of success, but the thanks of all the people of this great state.

History records the fact that Maryland played no mean part in the great struggle for colonial independence. The courage, the self-denial, the sacrifices, the sufferings of her sons make up one of the brightest chapters in her history. I may be pardoned for reminding you of the fact that one of the little army which during the seven years struggle, coped with British regulars on many a bloody field, more than 25,000 were furnished by the colony of Maryland.

You are proud, and justly so, of your great state, of its splendid progress, as with the rolling years it has kept even pace with the foremost of its sister commonwealths; proud that no stain of dishonor has ever dimmed its escutcheon. You glory in her traditions and memories; in the long list of statesmen and heroes, whose achievements make luminous the pages of two centuries of Maryland history. In your prosperity and glory forget not the men who, in the stormy days of the revolution, gave their lives as the price of their country's liberty. You have to-night inaugurated a glorious enterprise. In honoring the memory of the revolutionary patriots you honor yourselves. Let it not be forgotten that the work of loving hands will not only bear to distant times some record of the illustrious, but will stand for a sure monument of the patriotism and gratitude of the living.