The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-10-21

compliment feel too deeply to adequately
express. Voters, you bore a conspicuous and
honorable part in the war of the rebellion
You made for yourselves, for Indiana, for
the American people, record that Is imper-
ishable. Coming ages will read the story of
your dangers and sacrifices, of your patriot
ism and OF your courage with admiration.
To every call made by the nation for oelp
ana having a voting population of
300. 900 only, sent to the front 20S. 600
men, 10000 OF whom were volunteers.
aud although the government. in its ex-
tremity, five times provided for draft,
IL 600 of the 20S, 600 only bad TO be con-
scripted to meet the nations requirements.
Not only In men, but in money, the muscle
and sinew of war did Indisna perform its
duty and show it's devotion to the cause OF
civil liberty. Its legislature made most lib
eral appropriations to meet the great
exigencies, and the various counties donated
most literally to the volunteers and for the
support OF the families of the soldiers. The
county donations alone reached the sum OF
s., 500 900. Indiana soldiers were in every
department OF the service. Your banners
were unfurled in every march, from the
Missouri river to the Chesapeake Bav,
from the beautiful Ohio to the Gulf.
Wherever the Union army rested in its
weary march, whether on the plains, In the
valley or on the mountainside, there was to
be found the bivouac of the Indiana troops
smoke of every conflict, aud on every battle
field they lay bleeding and mangled, there
OFFERING UP HEROIC LIVES.
q, 900 is the contribution Indiana made to
the death roll, that the Union might not
perish. What was the reward of this great
sacrifice? The slave pen and the
and the whip have fallen from the nerve
less arm of the master. 100000 men
and women. held In a relentless servitude,
have been made free often think of the
eulogy pronounced upon Wilburforce,
when 1t was said he appeared in the pres
900 emancipated West India slaves. But
you, my fellow soldiers, have done more.
| You appear to-day in the forum of the ma
ton, bearing in one hand 5000 900 letters,
and in the other $685. 900 charter deeds OF
American citizenship, and with those chains
and those charter deeds you chal-
| lenge the admiration of the living present
and the ever advancing future. These,
my fellow soldiers, some of the
great things you have done, but might say
that you have done more than that. You
saved a nation the last and only hope of
civil and religious liberty in the world. Had
it perished, the sun OF free government
would have gone down in clouds and gloom,
| perhaps never to have appeared again above
the horizon for coming centuries. Did you
ever think what government Is this for
which you sacrificed so much? 1t is q gov
eminent, not OF the king, but one
In which every American citizen
is the peer of the king. 1t is not govern
ment in which Office descends to q titled
nobility, but one in which the humblest
may aspire to the highest Office within the
gift OF free people. 1t was said by very
eloquent Irish orator that however humble
the man, no viewer humble the habitation,
1t might be old and dilapidsted, its roof
might be broken so that the rains of heaven
might pour through it, through its cracks the
LIGHTNING OF HEAVEN MIGHT FLASH,
yet it was inviolate against the sp-
proacb of the king and all his army. APP
plying the same picture to American cit
izenship, how true it is with the little boy
tina, is In yonder field to-day, that lives in
the little cabin by the hillside, however
humble be may be, the lightning may
flash through the cracks Of his cabin, and
yet the time comes, when he nay-we
have examples of it-aspire to become the
chief magistrate OF 100000 OF free
people-a position prouder and grander
than to have worn the diadem of the
Caesars In the palmiest DAYS of the Roman
Empire. [Applsuse.] Such government
as that you saved. Such institutions as these
you have transmitted to the coming genera
| lions, for which you not only receive the
gratitude of the present generation, but you
| will receive the prayers and grateful &C.
acknowledgements of all free people in all
coming time. But, my fellow-citiZens,
| upon an occasion like this
we should not forget that
army we have left behind on the battle
fields of the rebellion, those comrades who
repose under the shadow of the magnol Ia
tree, and on the riverside and by the noun
tains of the fair South land; the unepi
! taphed, unmonumented dead, who have
nothing to mark the spot where they lie
except those little fluctuations of the cart
that mark their abiding place. We should
| remember the %, 900 that we left behind US,
and pay grateful tribute to their memory.
Fellow soldiers, have said what has been
assigned me TO say. In behalf of the capital
of you great state, now give you greeting
and welcome.
speech he was wildly cbeered by his com
rades in arms of war times. Then after the
rendition of several selections by the Union
aud the band including the Gem of the
Ocean.
"HIGH PRIVATE COFFEE"
prominent young attorney of Clay county,
was introduced by General Browne, who
referred to him as one of the men who had
helped to heap greatness upon Sherman and
Sheridan and the rest of the
generals. Cies of "more suear;'
greeted the announcement of The name OF
| Coffee, creating much merriment. Mr.. Cof-
fee commenced his remarks by referring TO
the campaigns In which the soldiers of Indi-
ana participated, and he showed conclu-
sively that the Hoosier boys were found In
the front ranks OF the fiercest fights from the
beginning to the end OF the war.
He facetiously recounted the
| pleasanter phases of the war,
he required with happy effect 10 the funny
tat ut Nw,f~
others tents after tin cups, csnteens and tin
plates. They proceeded upon the principle
that ii an unknown man confisca; ed their
mess ware they had a right to tt taliste on
the most convenient c0mrade. Then he
spoke feelingly and fitingly of their great
sacrifices, and tesrfully told of those who
had given up their lives will