Ellen Kay Bond Speech

              The ladies of Chillicothe have deputed me to present 
this banner to you, "the friends of the Soldier, Patriot, and 
Statesman, Genl Wm Henry Harrison." 
It is a pledge of the intense interest they indulge 
for the glorious cause of constitutional liberty-a cause they 
have been taught in every period of their existence 
to venerate and love. 
We resign to your charge this token and point 
to the motto, "in war without fear, in peace, without 
reproach," which his whole life has ever sustained; 
and feel a proud conviction that you too, will recog- 
nize, and in your lives, illustrate the noble virtue 
of that sentiment. 
It is your privilege to act, ours to feel; your 
duty to protect, ours to inspire, to animate. 
Our Fathers, and our brothers, have ever sustained 
the honor of the American name, and cherished 
a profound respect for those who have fought the 
battles of our country: they have never offered a tribute 
to valour, but it was the impulse of a pure and 
devoted patriotism, and we while echoing their 
example, claim that sentiment as our rightful 
heritage. 
We look to the name of Harrison, and hail 
it as connected with the past, the present, and the 
future history of our dear country; and his private 
life has ever proved the truth of what he has so beau- 
tifully expressed that "to be eminently great, it is 
necessary to be eminently good." 
As he was the ruling spirit on the fields of