Benjamin Harrison actually said...

It was as if heaven was approving the human liberty and human equality typified by that flag.

It gives me special pleasure to combine with that tribute, which I have usually been able to pay since this day was instituted, to the dead ...

I have neither the strength nor the voice adequate to any extended speech to-day.

How vividly come to my memory many battle scenes; not the impetuous rush of conflict, but the cover of sadness that followed victory.