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Source: My Impressions of America Source type: book Document type: book chapter Document title: “A Dinner with Heroes” [chapter 43] Author(s): Wagner, Charles Translator(s): Hendee, Mary Louise Publisher: McClure, Phillips and Company Place of publication: New York, New York Year of publication: 1906 Pagination: 270-78 (excerpt below includes only pages 276-77) |
| Citation |
| Wagner, Charles. “A Dinner with Heroes” [chapter 43]. My Impressions of America. Trans. Mary Louise Hendee. New York: McClure, Phillips, 1906: pp. 270-78. |
| Transcription |
| excerpt of chapter |
| Keywords |
| John Wanamaker (public statements); McKinley assassination (personal response); Theodore Roosevelt (assumption of presidency: personal response). |
| Named persons |
| William McKinley; John Wanamaker. |
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The event described below (no date given) occurred in Atlantic City
at the Medal of Honor Legion’s fourteenth annual meeting (p. 270).
From title page: Translated from the French by Mary Louise Hendee. |
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A Dinner with Heroes [excerpt]
Replying to the toast, “The President
of the United States,” Mr. John Wanamaker, recalling the assassination of President
McKinley at Buffalo, said:
“A country from sea to sea, and from the mountains
to the Gulf, shook and shuddered at the awful martyrdom upon the altar of liberty,
and all eyes turned to the young man who stood next to the grave of the great
McKinley. In the solemnity of a great crisis, conscious of the overwhelming
responsibility, with great dignity, surrounded by [276][277]
the old counsellors [sic] of McKinley, full of the spirit and policy of his
administration, this young man with the fear of God in his heart and love for
all the people in his soul, bowed his heart to God’s will, and bowed his shoulders
to whatever burden it brought with it. The years of study and the months of
the mountains, gave him a well-stored mind, large health, and a ready hand,
and the heroic soldier of San Juan, was sealed by the trust and homage of the
people, as the executor of the lamented William McKinley, and still more, the
administrator of the will of the people of the United States.”