Litchfield enquirer., 1865-08-24

beloved, have fallen out,' one by one, on the hurried march, on the southern hills and plains in starving prisons, by the more merciful mis- sile of death, in all your glorious campaigns. If as orderly sergeant, should call the names of this proud rolIsof honor there exhibiting the roll of the deceased soldiers) not one would respond in voices audible ohuman ears. Roll of honor. let their names be spoken with heads uncovered by all the living present These forty=one martyrs have stood between us and desolation and horrors indescribable These names arc indclibly inscribeL on the tablets of our hearts.
 Did say this glorious list was not here? l recall the words! It is pleasure to me to believe that in the disembodied form, tAey ere present, and look down kindly on these our ef- forts to do fitting honors to their manly deeds. and those of the survivors present; and, that If permitted, by an allswise Creator, they would whisper to us in spirit voices their ap- probation of our reverence and veneration- It IS beautiful thought, that those war worn spirits are guardian angels still 10 us in time of peace, as they were before our bulwarks in time of battle
 Happy is the lot of the children of the sold. fer here to-day. Long shall they and their succeeding generations point with pride to the heroic deeds of their fathers, and trace with becoming affection their ancestral lineage to
 
 There is another class here tonight whom we greet kindly, tenderly and affectionately It is the widows and orphans of those, who have fallen in this great contest for human lib erty. We would cherish you all in your future lot in life. We would cherish you for the good acts of those you held most dear, and whom amid tears you gave to your country.
 !. And now, soldiers, returned to us, thus hap pily, thus honorably, we will only add the devout aspiration, that in resuming the various avoeations of civil life, you may be blsssed in all your lawful undertakings, and may still continue to show the same high and ennobling qualities in the arts of peace, as you did in the arts of war and may still be as in the proved past, heroes in the defence of liberty and law. a-.f...-...l ....5.
 Capt. Sperry, of Co. l., 2d C.V. Il. A., pre- sented beautiful album te the Chairman, in behalf of the boys of Woodbury who have served in the war. .......-
 MR. CHAIRMAN Among those who have la bored for the soldiers, there is one whom we can never forget t-who has stood by us through good report and evil report, and whose kind attention to our families during our absence, has laid us under obligations. We would not forget him if we could, and we could not if we would The returned soldiers of Woodbury, icptescHliuS HesTiy every CoHHeCtlCut heSl- ment, therefore have thought this a proper time to present this beautiful album to you The late Q. NJ. Sergeant B. Wellman, of Co.,. I. 2d c. V A., who was shot through the face while on the charge at Cold Harbor and was duly reported dead, but who is with US here tonight, whcs yields inc pen as artistically as the rife, has written the following inscrip- ton on the fly leaf: i.a .o. ... Presented to P. M. Trowbridge, Esq, by the returhed soldiers of Woodbury, in grateful re- membrance for his acts of continued kindness both to themselves and families. The photo- graphs of our fallen comrades will be collected and placed first, and the living after them, thus will be preserved the the pictures of the living and the dead s.. .. -.t .s... l suppose every individual who is. called upon in public, must either make a speech, l sing song, or tell story. Make speech l cannot, sing song I will not, and therefore the story only remains to be told. ........ 4. went out with the committee appointed to decorate this hall, for the purpose of gathering evcrgreens, and had scarcely arrived in the woods before we were confronted by Copper | head We have secuied him, and here he is in this glass jar immersed in his appropriate ele ment-Ccmmissary Whiskey-he measures 3 feet 2 inches in length, and 4 inches in circum- ference. As our friend, Wm. Cothren, Esq, has always had q mertal abhorrence for these reptiles. we present him into his hands for safe keeping. Some of our sages have said that this reptile is cousin to the rattle snake. Such however, is not the case, I have traced i their geneology, and find there is no relation ship. The copperhead is twin brother of that old serpe9t 9b5s ihe [hs ,ha other hand is respectable reptile he always gives warning of his presence.
 | Let me remind you that the old flag that first waved over an American man-of war. was the representation of Pine Tree with q rattle snake coiled at it's roots, with the ominous words :-' Don't tread on me, and if our cous- ins across the water. and our erring bretheren in the south had needed those words it would have been better for all concerned
 l There lived many years ago in he far west a man by the name of Jenkins, who neither 1 feared God nor regarded man-he had no re l speet for the persons or property of his neigh bors, ,--this same Jenkins had three sons named Thomas, Richard and Henry, but for short we | will call them Tom, Dick and Harry, Every mothers son of them real chips of the old block There also lived among them hard shell Baptist minister, who used all his moral suasion to reform them without effect. As the time passe on, the boy Tom was bit by rat, tlesnake. the good minister was called to pray for him, and he prayed thus, 70 Lord we thank thee for rattlesnakes we thank thee that thou hast sent one to bite Tom send an other to bite Dick send another to bite Harry, and Lord, send the biggest kind of rattle snake to bite old Jenkins for nothing but rat tie snakes will ever bring the Jenkins'es to re pentan;e. 5 s.eazrs asa q33t-It+y3 "af
 Now sir, think for the first two years of the war, we all prayed something like that minister, and I think when Meade met the ene- my at Gettysburg, and when Vicksburg be- came Internationally Granted, when Gilmore planted his Swamp Angel, and sent his minis tering spirits in the tangible form of Greek
 fire into the heart of Charleston, think our | prayers were for the first time answered. There was rattlesnake after Tom. When Sherman marched his victorious columns | through the Carolinas and Georgia, I think there was a rattlesnakc after Dick When Sheriden, with the glorious old 9th, Sth and | 18th Corps swept with the bosom of destruc- tion the Shenandoah Valley. I think there was rattlesnake after Harry; and when Grant moved on to Richmond, think there was the largest kind of rattlesnake after old Jenkins l himself, and the Jenkin'es were brought to repentance.
 | In other words this accursed rebellion that took the sword has perished by the sword, and | so let every conspiracy against law and order perish. One more incident and have done, 1 lis a matter of history in our war with Mexi- co. There were number of our soldiers deser- ted their flag and went over to the enemy nearly fifty of these were captured and tried by