Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-09-07

Andrew.
The twentieth regiment Of Massachusetts
the last of the sixteen called for the war
commanded by Col VIM. Raymond Lee,
graduate of West Point, and a classmate of
jeff Davis, had handsome and generous re-
ception on their arrival in New York. Gov.
Andrew, who happened be in the city, took
part in the soldiers fare, and made the follow
ing admirable speech -
Mr.. Chairman and Gentlemen This occa'
sion, in no sense and by no right, is mine. No
| part Of its honOrs pertain to me. Here pres
ent in the city OF New York, called by engage
| ments which pertain to my duty, had the
happiness of finding myself in position to be
! enabled to unite with you in doing honor to
the twentieth regiment Of Massachusetts vol
unteers. Applause. TO my old friend, Col.
| Lee three cheers Tor Col Lee, who, with
| generous devotion and alacrity, without mo-
| ment's delay or hesitation, drew his sword, at
my invitation, to lead regiment of Massachu
sets soldier citizens and TO his accomplished
| officers and brave men be all these honors due.
| Upon the heads Of such as they even Proyi-
dcnce will pour its benignant benedictions,
| and upon their memories the most fragrant
| gratitude of our posterity shall rest Loud
| applause. Whatever fortunes may betall
| them in the field, whether they shall return
| with their shields or be borne upon them, for
| ever and forever be those brave men remem,
| bered as among the earliest among the best
| among the truest, tirmest and most patriotic,
| who have, or will hereafter draw the sword for
| American liberty and constitutional law. APP
| pause And now, sirs, | cannot at this mo-
| merit forget that our sister New England state
Of Connecticut is at this very hour resigning
to dust all that was mortal Of one New Eng
| land man whose name and memory shall be
as immortal as the stars-Lyon, applause the
| great, the heroic the accomplished soldier, the
| true, hearty, and nnfiiuching patriot, who, at
the head OF his column, tell, beyond the dis.
! tant waters Of the Mississippi. New Eng.
/ land, Connecticut, reclaimed his ashes and
/ mingles them with her dust. But his spirit,
7 lowering over this busy and this distracted
| but hopeful scene of care, and toll, and aspira-
| ton, is with us now and always. TO him,
aud to such rs him, all that grateful hearts can
| pay, OF solemn and yet joyful memories, be-
/ longs. lie sleeps well in his soldiers grave.
| Others however, accompanied him to the 81"
| lent land, marching through the Jordan of
| death beneath the American flag tor American
rights. Applause. Aud OH how happy,
| now sweet 1t is to die for such a cause
! Cheers. To such as he and his what can
| We say, what better than in the words of the
! great poet OF British liberty =
TheT ashes sha be Watched and patGered m the
last.
And from their scattered DUST around us and
| abroad,
Shall spring a precious seed of witnesses for God.
For, sir, this is not war for man alone, for
country alone it is war for humanity and
| Tor God. To us was intrusted this work Of
political salvation, democratic republican iber-
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and OF all other loyal states, having walked up
to the trumpet call of their eOuntrys woe aud
their country nope, to re-establish upon i'm
mutaole foundations the rights thus chaeng-
Ell, and TO confirm national life. This war,
slrs, Is III no sense sectional one. II isa war
OF ideas, grant you, but ideas are universal,
and not sectional (Applause.) 1t is Ameri-
can only IN the sense that our liberty is Amer
lcan, embracing within the ample folds OF its
care, oil Its promises and its hope, all those
VINO, residing with us, are faithful to our
cause (Cheers.) l cannot now fail to call to
your recollection, that in the recent brilliant
| eApioll Oh our haPai ana, our military arms oil
the coast oil North Carolina, citizen OF New
| OK, the venerable and gallant Commodore
| Ntringham lcheers) united his well-earned
! laureis with those that garlauded The younger
brow OF Massachusetts general-Butler
| { Three cheers for Is. Il. Butler) Nor would
/ It be possible to me to forget that among the
heroes OF that day there was none more de-
serving Of his country's honor, or OF proud
mention ON the brightest page of her history
than the colonel and men of the New York
twentieth regiment Of volunteers, under the
| command OF an adopted citizen from the Ger
man Fatherland, Col. Max Weber Three
cheers Ion Max Weber, | can not de-
scribe the emotion which all OF you
must have felt and in sympathy with which
all tue hearts must have beat, as they
heard the record OF that gallant German regI.
ment from New York. which, upon the eoge