Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-03-30
FROM WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, March 20.
The San Domingo Treaty


The San Domingo Treaty was discussed
this afternoon.
Mr.. Nye advocated its ratification on the
ground of commercial necessity, and argued
that the time would come when all the islands
adjacent to our country would be under the
protection of the United States, and they
would occupy towards the country position
similar to that of sentnels to an army. He
called upon the Senate not to repudiate the
Monroe doctrine, but to consecrate them
selves anew to its enforcement.
Senator Patterson followed, taking strong
grounds against the ratification. He main
tanned that it was at this time contrary to the
interests of the country to acquire any trepi-
cal territory whatever, the sentiment gener-
ally being against such proceeding.
Mr. Casery has the floor and will argue
against the treaty when it shall again be taken
up.
The time for the exchange of the ratification
expired to-day, but in the absence of official
information the friends of the treaty say they
have no doubt that an extension of time could
be procured from San Domingo. The Senate
took no action whatever concerning the
tresty.
Letter From Adjutant General Town
send Announcing the Death of Gen.
George Ill. Thomas.
HEAD-QUARrERs ADJurANT GENERALS Or
F1CE.
1t has become the painful duty of the Gen
eral to announce to the army the death OF
one of our most exalted Generals, Geo. ii.
Thomas, who expired last evening at half
past seven, in San Francisco, California.
There is no need to turn to the archives to
search for his history. for 1t is recorded IN al
most every page during the past ten years.
But his class mates and comrades owe him
personal tribute in which he knows every
member of the army shares. Gen. Thomas
entered the military academy in the class OF
1886. and graduated in 1870 and was COM
missioned as I'd Lieut.. in the 3D. Artillery,
and sent to Florida, He served with his reg
iment continually until Dec. II, 1880 when
he became Captain, having particularly dis
tinguished himself at Monterey and Buena
Vista, Mexico On the 18th of May, 1855, he
was appointed to the I'd Cavalry as Major and
served with that regiment continuously until
he became its Colonel on the 3D. of May 1861.
The great civil war found him at his post true
and firm, amidst the terrible pressure he
encountered by reason of his birthplace,
Virginia President Lincoln commissioned
him as Brigadier General of volunteers, and
sent him to kentucky; there too his services
were constant and eminent in the highest de-
gree. He won the first battle in the West at
Mill Spring, Kentucky, and from tirstto last
without a day or hours intermisslon, was at
his post of duty, rising steadily and inevita-
bly through ali the grades, to the one he held
as Major General of the regular army at
the time of his death. At Shiloh, Corinth,
Perrysyille. Stone River, Chicamauga, Chat
tanooga Atlanta and Nashville, he fulfilled
the proudest hopes of his most ardent friends.
Gen. Geo. II. Thomas stood in the very
front rank of our war generals. The General
has known Gen. Thomas intimately since
they sat as boys on the same bench, and the
quality in him which he holds up for the adj
miration and examination of the young, is his
complete and entire dev otion to duty. Though
sent to Florida, Mexico, Texas and Arizona,
when his duty there absolute Punishment,
he went cheerfully and never asked the per-
sonal favor of exemption or leave of absence.
In battle he never wavered; firm and OF full
faith in his cause, he knew it would prevail;
and he never sought advancement OF rank or
honor at the expense of any one. Whatever
he earned of these were his own, and no one
disputed his right. The very impersonation
of honesty, integrity and honor, he will stand
to us as beau ideal of a soldier and gentle
man. Though he leaves no child to bear his
name the old army of the Cumberland, num-
bered by tens of thousands called him father
and Will weep Tor MN IN tears OF manly grlei'
His wife, who cheered him with her messages
of love in the darkest hours of the war, will
mourn him in sadness, chastened by the SYM
patty of the whole country.
The last sad rites due him as a man and n
soldier will be paid at Troy. n. Y. on the ar
rival of his remains, and the friends of his
family and his comrades who can be present
are all invited there to share in the obsequies.
At all military posts and stations flags will be
placed at half mast, and fifteen guns fired on
the day after the receipt of this order, and the
usual badges of mourning will be worn for 80
days.
Bv command of Gen. SHERMAN,
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