Daily globe., 1879-06-22
Municipal Court.
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discharged.
| State vs. Bernard Cassidy, D. S. Burns,
| Thomas Bardan, drunkenness. Discharged.
State We. VIM. Beck, Francis Murphy, and
| Thomas Mullen, drunkenness. Committed
| to Jail for five days each.
| WELCOME TO THE FIRST.
! Mayar NIcCormicL's Address Upon the Oc-
! casion of the Reunion Of the First Min
! neso,a at Waseca.
The following is the admirable address of
welcome delivered by Mayor Mccormick, of
| Waseca, upon the occasion of the recent re-
union of the First Minnesota:
SOLDIERS OF THE FIRST MINNESOTA: 1t is my
| pleasant duty this occasion, behalf of
the citizens Of Waseca, to extend to you cor
dial greeting and welcome-in the name of
our wives, our daughters and our sweethearts
to invite you to partake of our hospitality and
officially president of council to extend
to you the freedom of our city and the courte-
sizes of its officials. All of which is offered in
| as lavish and prodlgal a manner as be done
| consistently in community which furnished
to the last Minnesota legislature the only mem.
| bers of both House and Senate elected on the
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OF observation around our young city YOU
| should fail to discover any salient points of
! difference between our peaceabe, quiet, we'll
| ordered temperance community, and the
| whisky-cursed localities from which YOU re-
spectively hail, unless it may, be that we boast
the greatest number of saloons in proportion
| to our population, do not in your surprise at
| tempt to solve the paradox or let it shake your
faith in political temperance but accept the
facts as you find them, and learn from our ex-
perience how to reconcile your most advanced
ideas, politically, on this momentus question,
without interfering personally with your nat
ural tastes acquired habits. Robert Laird
Collyer gives an incident of his observation
among the hard working and harder drinking
coal miners of Pennsylvania.
One Of them whom he called Pat had Just
filed his glass two-thirds full of raw whisky,
when his co-laborer. Mike. said:
pat, thought ye was total abstainer?"
$50 am, says Pat.
''Bat why do you drink?" says Mike.
"Bedad," says Pat, Its total abstainer l
am, but not narrow and bigoted one."
This community is in favor of prohibition,
but not in narrow and bigoted sense.
Representing the business men and business
interests OF our young city, my words of well
come will be brief, leaving to others more
gifted by nature and better fitted by profess
sional pursuits the pleasant, privilege of re-
hearsing the history of your valor and your
victories, garlanding with immortal ivy the
records of yonr patriotism, cruwning with un-
fading laurel the column of your fame, and
decking with fragrant flowers of eulogy the
memories of your fallen comrades who have
fought their last fight, and now quietly
sleeping in silent tents of shade await the
revellle and roll-call of eternity's morn.
As American citizens we are gratifed at hav-
ing this opportunity afforded u, to assist in
promoting the pleasure of reunion of the de-
| fav, ,S}orc = 1har
upon you their future continuance, that the
heroic achievements Of our citizen soldiery
may not be lost sight of amidst the more
peaceful victories of legislation, or the sordid
and selfish pursuits of commerce.
While you and do not turn with pleasure to
the scenes of privatiOn, suffering, hardship,
| carnage and death which mark the field of bat
tie, yet the memories of dear friends glorifed
by the heroisn they displayed when the life of
our nation was at stake, anlmateS US to COM
| memorate their names and their fame as mem
bers Of the immortal throng who by their deeds
! have given celebrity to their nationality, and
| reflected back upon their country with brighter
| refulgence the luster they received at birth.
One nation after another has risen into prom
inence, hourished for decade or century. and
| eventually gone down before the aggressive
| march of a conquering rival, which in turn
soon met the same fate. Of many of these
| nations the only records of their history trans
rior rulers and the story of their heroic achieve
| ments on the sanguinary field of battle.
American history is fully crowded with
events and men Of renown as can be produced
from the annals of any country of equal age,
but as soon as the cloud which threatened dis
aster is dispersed We seem to forget the hand
which averted the peril, and with full conf
dence that our civilization develops the hero
| for every emergency We relapse into the hurry
| and hustle of money making, and occupy our
| minds with thoughts which we designate as of
more practical utility. We are not nation of
hero worshipers. The atmosphere of our po-
tical and social institutions teaches the citizen
that the merits of his ancestry cannot erect the
| structure Of his own success. We live in the
active present. and believing in its possibilities
are prone to ignore and bury the past. It is
not, however, alone for the opportunity of can
ceiling our obligations to you that we would
promote and continue these reunions. Beyond
the debt of gratitude we labor under, and the
feelings which should prompt recognition of
true manhood in men. wherever displayed, We
owe it to our posterity to keep the standard of
| American valor high.
| Lives of great men all remind US
We can make our lives sublime,
And departing, leave behind US
! Footprints on the sands of time.
| The example of the brave is an inspiration
to the timid; the recital of their deeds Of valor
will quicken the pulse, and stir mems blood
| like tne SOun0 or martial music.
| There can be no doubt that PIutarch's heroes,
portrayed in his graphic style. have generated
manliness and courage in fifty generations.
| The early settlers of Puritan New England,
| Quaker Pennsylvania and aristocratic Mary
land, though dead. still live in the influences
they impaired to their respective settlements.
| Our sires of revolutionary fame, who have also
taken up their abode in the windowless palaces
of rest, still live among us in the record of
their lives, still sit by US at the table and hold
us by the hand. breathing noble life into us,
helping us to reproduce their life and illus
trate their character. As this present is deep
ly rooted in the bygone past, and the lives and
examples of our illustrious forefathers still
continue to influence u.s. SO in after years your
deeds and your fame will fun nish the model of
manhood from which and upon which another
generation will grow to maturity.
Were star quenchesd on high,
For ages would it light,
Still travelling downward from the sky,
Shine on our mortal sight.
So when great man dies,
For years beyond our ken,
j The light he leaves behind him lies -.
Upon the path of men.
l The war of the rebellion is over. Its history
is daily receiving contributions. Its incidents
are fresh in our minds and its battlefelds are