The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-09-20

ing the adventures of the thirty-one men
reported killed by Indians. They were
tour days without water, and four men
and twenty seven horses died from thirst.
The officers finally reached Double
lake, where they found six men of their
command. These started with filed cam
teens to bring up the furnishing men,
and all alive at that time were brought
IN. The story Of the sufferings and res
cue OF the men forms a thrilling chapter
in the history of border warfare.
The story told of Sitting Bulls depart
ure from Canada is very touching. The
gentle savage had attended council
with the British officers in the neighbor-
hood, and afterward took part in a scalp
dance. The scene recalled sweet recol-
lections of the happy days when he was
harvesting the hair of hundreds of Ameri-
cans, and he sighed as he thought how
long his scalping-knife had rusted in
glorlously in it's sheath. There was
young half-breed in the company, Do
minion Government scout, upon whose
plentiful shock of hair the great chiefs
eyes rested longingly. Some words ex-
cited the longing into an irresistible i'm
pulse, and Sitting Bulls revolver was
lnstantsneously drawn and aimed. A
heartless Canadian officer sprung between
the two at this moment, and rudely said
to the noble exile, Z" I want you to un-
derstand that you cannot commit devil
tries here as you do in the United States.
give you and your tribe five days to
leave this country. II you are not gone
then, I will fight you. Ii you are ever
caught here again, orsif you shoot this
man, [ will have you hanged" Sitting
Bull put up his weapon, packed up his
scalps and other jewelry, and sadly shook
the dust of inhospitable Canada from his
feet next day.
Speech of President Hayes.
At the dedication of the soldiers mont
ument at Dayton, Ohio, the Presiden-
delivered the following address
| My FRIENDS: few unprecedented sentences,
little plain soldiers talk is all that YOU will
expect. This monument reminds me, and as
I mention it, will remind many in this great
audience, of the first soldiers monuments that
we erected in 1861. You all remember what
they were. all who took part in those first
battles of the great conflict remember and can
never forget the feelings of sadness with which
we saw the remains of our dead comrades
gathered up and placed in their last resting
place. They were gathered up, you know, by
the parties detailed to burythe dead, carefully,
respectfully, tenderly, and, when the shallow
grave had been dug and in their uniforms they
had been laid away and covered, then their
comrades looked about to see what me-
mentO they could have, and they left little
! fragments, frail fragments of cracker boxes,
marking with pencil the name of theregiment
and company of the dear comrade, hoping that
they would in some way be useful, little per-
haps dreaming at,the time that to the private
soldier should be erected with granite and mar
BILE and brass such a structure as we now be-
hold. Behold the change Instead of that
little fragment, perishable and frail, we have
these enduring monuments forever to gaze
upon. How glorious the change! Does it not
remind us of the growth in the sentiment of
all mankind of the appreciation of theworth of
what those men did? Then we hardly knew
what was to be the result of it all, but now we
know that these men were fighting the battle
of freedom for all mankind. Now we know
that they have saved to liberty and to peace
| the best part of the best continent on the
globe AS this work compares with the frail
cracker-bOx memorials, SO does the work which
| they have done compare with any comparison
of it which we then could have had. Forever
hereafter we shall remember the American
| private soldier as having established free ma
| ton, where every man has an equal chance and
fair share in the race of life. This is the work
of the American private soldier, and, as that
monument teaches many lessons, let us not for
get this one. 1t is monument to remind us
that many are still living of that great army
who are the victims of that war. Some have
lost limbs, some have lost those habits and
characteristics which enable men to eucceed in
| life Wherever theV are let us remember al
ways that the debt to the dead American SOL
der can be best paid by kindness and regard
to the living American soldiers.