40 Presidential Addresses 



I thank you for having given me the opportunity 

 this afternoon to come before you and to lay the 

 corner-stone of this building. 



AT THE EXERCISES OF THE SOCIETY OF THE 

 ARMY OF THE CUMBERLAND, ATTENDING 

 THE REBURIAL OF MAJOR-GENERAL WIL 

 LIAM STARK ROSECRANS, ARLINGTON NA 

 TIONAL CEMETERY, WASHINGTON, D. C, 

 MAY 17, 1902 



Speaker Henderson; and you, the Comrades of the 

 Great Chief zvhose reburial in the National Cem 

 etery here at Arlington we have met together to 

 commemorate: 



Speaker Henderson in his address has well said 

 that the builder rather than the destroyer is the man 

 most entitled to honor among us ; that the man who 

 builds up is greater than he who tears down; and 

 that our homage should be for the fighting man who 

 not only fought worthily but fought in a worthy 

 cause. Therefore for all time, not merely the peo 

 ple of this great reunited country but the nations of 

 mankind who see the hope for ordered liberty in 

 what this country has done, will hold you, the men of 

 the great Civil War, and the leaders like him whose 

 mortal remains are to be put to-day in their final 

 resting place, in peculiar honor because you were 

 soldiers who fought to build ; you were upbuilders ; 

 you were the men to whose lot it fell to save, to per 

 petuate, to make stronger the great national fabric, 

 the foundations of which had been laid by the men 



