In the main address of the day cal! Price, in etlogizing the gallant Gen, 'Ward, said 'We have. made x pilgrimage to this sot to-day, Inthe season. when it'fs"oue custom In "America to. pay Tbute to the heroic dead who have fiven their Hives In the sericea Honour the memory of fellow Countryman' whose intrepid valour son fr the respect adm Non of, the people among whom he "his Tol. We are tasembled at the spot dedicated to his memory thent"in recogmtion of his outstand=
MAmerien owes much to the dashing soldiers at fortune. so in the early sot her politfeal_ development contributed so largely to the shaping of her destiny. In tum she has sent fut many brave sons and bold to write their names upon the tablets fof fame in other parts of the world. Among all of these it would be dim. cull {0 find a more strikingly heroic figure, a higher example of valour, dash, resourcefulness and _unilinch= ing determination than Frederick townsend Ward, General of Chinese 'Ever Vielorlous Arm; Ward carved his name indelibly upon the history of the ages on the Hround where we now stand, As 'Americans we are justified in' our pride in him. As men of military experience, it is fitting that we pay Fespectful homage to his - glorious memory.
Ward was born in Salem, Novem ber 20, 1831. His forebears came over from Kent in the carly sixteen Twundreds. They were" men and women of sturdy fibre of the type
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