The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1868-06-12
ON THE MOUNTAIN TOPS.

Quite pleasant little affair occurred
near Cheyenne, May 25th. An excur-
sion party, composed of distinguished
gentlemen and ladies, was proposed to
visit the highest summit on the Central
Railroad and hoist there the stars and
stripes with the Union nominees in
scribed upon it. To will was to do, and
the party was soon en- route. Among
the large number composing il are given
the following names in the Cheyenne
Leader: Hon. Frank B. Aver, of Nashua,
N. H; Hon. WIN. H. Kemble, OF Penn
sylvaniR, and lady; b. II. Brown and
lady Hon. H. c. Howell and lady, with
Miss Linda Howell, their daughter w.
II. Kern and Howard Kern, of Philadel-
phia; Hon. ID. Mct'onaughy, of Gettys>
burg Dist, Pennsylvania; Charles Will
liams, ESQ. of Manchester, y. H; E.
Gould and Capt. K. Vaughan, of the
same State; Major Bent, of the Union
Pacific Railroad; Hon. w. +. Sanders, of
Montana n. A. Baker, of the Cheyenne
Leader. The party proceeded to Lara
mie and, on returning, halted at the
Summit, where, on rugged mountain
cliff a hundred feet in hight, the banner
was hOated to the wooing winds, and
three times three was given with a will
and oft repeated for Grant and Colfax,
the flag, the Union and the Union plat
form. Numerous speeches We're made
by Messrs. McConaughy, Aver, Baker
and others. Among the speakers was
Col. w. f. Sanders, who, although not
to the manor born," was native -
enough among the old Rockys TO do the
honors, and was called to the front for
the first speech. Montanians do not
need the assurance, but it is not less
gratifying to hear him ere he crosses
the threshold of the mountain empires,
give the watchword of Republicanism
and repeat again the bond of allegiance
| to the good cause whose champion he
| has been in times past. We have but
room for his remarks:
Mr.. Chairman, Ladies' and Gentlemen: It's
not necessary that American citizens should
be welcomed TO any portien of American soil,
else would /, an old resident of the Rocky
Mountains, in behalf of their loyal pioneers,
bid you q generous welcome.
1t is fitting that New Hampshire and Penn
sylvania, the White Mountains and the Ale
ghanies, should join in planting upon the
summit of the Rocky Mountains the banner
of our country, bearing upon its folds the
names of freedoms valorous champions, Grant
and Colfax.
It is the attestation of history that freedom
holds her most tenacious life in mountain re-
gions. They are not alone thrones of eternal
frost-they are also fountains Of perpetual in
spiration. A patriotism rs pure as these
mountain springs has occasIoned this demon
stration. 1t will not be without its rewards,
in the frmer resolution we all shall carry to
our homes to so act and live that liberty shall
be the universal boon, not only to us in Amer
lea, but to all men, everywhere. Assuredly il
were not plstitude TO say from this outlook
upon the Pacific and Atlantic coasts the reso-
tion that our whole country shall be one,
shall gather intenser strength as years shall
rop onward to centuries.
Good bye is now the word. 1t, too, has its
lesson, that while, as a measure, we labor co
elect Grant and Colfax, principle, we in
culcate the truism that the rights of each are
safe only in the hands of the many.