Identifier: dedicationofeque00worc (find matches)
Title: Dedication of the equestrian statue of Major-General Charles Devens and of the monument to the soldiers of Worcester County in the war for the union, July 4th, 1906
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Worcester County (Mass.). Worcester County Memorial Devens' Statue Commission
Subjects: Devens, Charles, 1820-1891 Devens Statue (Worcester, Mass.)
Publisher: Worcester, Mass. (The Commonwealth press)
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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f your Commission,on behalf of Worcester County, as its representative, I acceptthis beautiful memorial. After the applause which followed Mr. Goodalesremarks had ceased. General Draper introduced theorator of the day, Gen. Steward L. Woodford, of NewYork, who served with General Devens in the war,and was also for four years, as District Attorney forNew York, under General Devens direction as Attor-ney General. Just before General Woodford was introducedthe rain, which had been falling, ceased and the suncame out. He was received with cheers and spokeas follows: Mr. Chairman, and women and men of Worcester: The summer rains have fallen like a benediction on themonument we dedicate to-day. They have made the earth greenand glad and will return in harvest and in fruitage. So thememory and the influence of the leader and the soldiers to whomwe dedicate this monument will return in the harvest of betterliving and higher citizenship and in the fruitage of a stronger andmore enduring Union.
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X ■r. ■JOS W y,a bC > It was my peculiar personal privilege to receive and my dutyto promptly accept your generous invitation to be here and sharewith you in these services. For a little time I served in the samearmy corps with General Devens—the old Eleventh of the Armyof the Potomac. It fell to my lot to be the Military Governor ofCharleston, before he came to assume that command. For fouryears I served as the law officer of the United States at NewYork under his wise leadership as the Attorney General of theUnited States, and I am grateful that I was honored by his friend-ship until his death. Brief shall be my story of his work and worth. At forty-one years of age he was here in Worcester, a suc-cessful lawyer and respected citizen, courtly in manner and up-right in life. On that quiet Sunday morning in April, 1861, whichsome of you so well remember, the telegraph flashed into yourhomes and churches the tidings that Sumter had been fired on.The next morning, April 15th, h

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