The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-04-09

oguin broke forth in applause, and for time
the vocal deadencd the sound of the instrument
tai music. When the cavalry calls were sounded
the troopers, ali calling on Sheridan, yelled and
yelled, and another wild scene of enthusiasm
was the result. Cheer followed cheer, and the
bsnd-master was almost non-plussed. Finally
the audience became quiet, when General Sherl-
dan, who was the presiding officer OF the occa-
sion, stepped forward, and made the following
speech:-
General SherIdau's speech.
Comrades, this meeting will come to order
The Rev. MIR: Pomeroy will open our meeting
with prayer
General Martindale's Grafton.
ReT. Mr.. Pomeroy then stepped forward and
made a short prayer, after which General john
IL. Martindale was introduced, and after the
applause had died away, delivered the following
| address, the point in reference to the fifteenth
amendment being loudly applauded:-
thence You %Ss &
ss one OF joyous reunion But there linger yet in
the measured tread Of the sDesd Msrsh with arms re-
SON atcnaod the funeral Roafse Of George H. Th9mas
most ef OF 0 SnV Eo
R 70 9 bis bst m b nn P ass 0siR to
To-Day we hear nations wall Of sorOw 1t is the preuie
Gentlemen: the Importance of each particular day
in the revolving year could be estimated By the conse
Inemorates then this 9Th day of April IN couatry
ca lendar.
Only five the morning dayned the Array
the falls the Appomattox. full panoped pressing
wards excited with victory and expectation OF the
der OF the Confederate Of Virginia with that sur
render the closing scene in the tragic bloody drama of
Do you see in that transaction the mere success OF one
anoherg AS the centuries have rolled ay
there have been sqrrsndsrs Of defeated to yctorios
grander than great victory in the iod The nation the
tree people me % United sStes the heart hear ana sou soul and
threatened with destruction by the proracted patrcida
the glorious colors OF that historic PANORAMIC! -
Our Cne was there in clear, decisive, but generous
welded not army Alone but all the wsghty issues of
Our nation not yet hundred old but iu that
civilizations. On that memorable day
S anphe e 0sd S
dishonor in the victory of the the defeat OF
TIMES Of all the nations OF the earth.
To-day we removed but short distance from the
witness the trst transports of nations Joy When the
electric fir. spread the glorious intelligence, what
vsded the country like magic inspraton thousands
Uoa you S
but gather the aspirations of the hearts which, all over
Thank Gqd Thank Gd Our Boys may home
ardent embraces in which they were claspsd when, ut
| length discharged, they welcomed home again!
Man proposes God disposes'
do not believe the principal in the trans
action which We now commemorate then onmprehen1sd
yet fully BUT they
has impressed with faith way
ont Of that surrender would emerge tn. American ideal
as the Fathers first declared it rsm Hall
Assembled as we are we might indulge in pleasing
Hy o the e' Poto@ae 1t viii not be to
light its battles Ger a!anEto recount the individual
supSoss we might d. eli on its aohioVemsnts in don
tbs poo S 70 mot be- de
Its aao % o @ s q and
stern purposes weakened BY d
And there is another line of retro,pection and pros
pecton to be briefly and plainly but boldly considered
s S this ali the % np Sey % Of
ereat event. Just comnemorated- no longer open to
to remain with the Army the
wd Sd the II ho TCa Sh%f ss
conducted That army like all the others of the Unon
mated BY their convictions and enthusiasm It makes
in the ied Our battles were sgainst countrymen
n IN h ens IL S %
Union. -, . =, .,o po.oro. .,.
placed between the Confederate and the National cap
@ os rs Il tSe most
were tine boodiest of the warits
sye II true that it was required to work out long
than ailInatye signs It rose out OF the Sst great re-
Of Bull Rua but preserved the last great
Tho final success, considered its relations to the
out Re greet the earlier reverses. Within month past
the G bo ed s 1S rank IN h
Conede[ate H Virginia Feys,ted the gr5asas b
that series OF nov p9Pai1Ty
aTmS IN lS6s fought and Te1ed down the
to the james river Hs1han and Harrison's Landing
the 18th OF after crossing at White
on Se RRRs Ro
friend suppose had seized the crossing over the
swamp be Sre,, ore the movement %asl begun i
have seized it) what would have become OF then!
late themselves that the campaign Of that year the
army saved perhaps because the the
Raappahannock and Potomac rivers. ,,...,-,.
| The of too immense to be decided then.
taken i've years of protracted strife the since
the surrender of Appomatox to reveal the magnitude of
tense preIudces hostile to liberty and common to both
sections which provoked the war II was not war for
ACKNOWLEDGMENT conquest; 1t
the nation and assimate the people; ,
The truth CLEANS like the sun abaze at MONDAY that
this nation II il would be free must recognize mot
glitterng geserates. but living vital parts) the po
tical equality oi ne eaens an1 @ 1nIj & 1e P P6%e9 I'm IN
ssd Chief Justice fancy in tha great case of Sanford
States and citizens synonymous terms, and moan
who, according to republican institutions, form the
sovereignty and wh0 hold and conduct the government
through their REPRESENTATIVES, They arc what we
famary call the sovereign people, and every citizen
renty A nd the Chief Justice proc eeded 10
African descent were not included and were not an
tended 10 be ineluded under the word Citizen IN tho
Constitution and coud therefore claim none OF the rights
and privileges which that ln9trument provides Tor ana
SECURES to citizons United states and de-
cared that, on the contrary, they at that time con
sidered subordnAte ana inferior class OF beings who
had been subjugRled the dominant and wnoher
emanopated not YET remai.ed subject to their au
The argument rested historical fact, which
be denied that this class OF persons had beeu intro
duced into the country captiyes, held and sold as
nty after It's adoption the states could not be
prohibited by law OF Congress; from allowing the mpora
on OF these captiyes, In short they could not be c
the Constitution, because they liable 10