Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-09-18

required to punish crimes against them; and
unless he will oppose the admission of any
man to either house of Congress whose seat has
been obtained by the violation Of the fifteenth
amendment. The right of suffrage is the right
of self protection. Its free exercise is the vital
air of republican institutions.
To establish now the State rights doctrine of
the supremacy of the States, and an oligarchy
! of race, is deliberately to throw away an essen
| tial part of the fruits of the Union victory.
The settlements Of the war in favor of equal
| rights and the supremacy of the laws of tho
nation are just and wise, and necessary. Let
them not be surrendered. Let them be faith
fully accepted and firmly enforced. Let them
stand, and, with the advancing tide of business
prosperity, we may confidently hope, bY the
| blessing of Divine Providence, that we shall
| soon enter upon an era of harmony and pro-
gress, such as has been rarely enjoyed by any
people.
PRESENTATION OF CoLoRs.
A pleasant feature of the reunion was the
presentation of a beautiful flag to the Twenty.
third regimental association by the ladies of
| the reg iment. Mrs. j. B. Falkerson, of Cleve-
| land, made the presentation in q neat and ar
propriate speech. Gen. Kennedy eloquentiy
responded in behalf of the regiment. The pro-
cession was very imposing, and would have
done credit to any of the larger cities. At the
business meeting of the regimental association
President Hayes and nearly all the old officers
! were reelected, after which Gen. Sherman was
called for and spoke as follows:
Ladies and all: Laughter) In the army which
| had the honor to command we had no ladies
| but at tho same time we had their hearts, which
| was the best part of them. It seems to me al
most as dream the war in which we all par
| took, covering the whole continent on which
depended SO much of the future, not only of
America, but of the whole world. You old men
before me now were boys then in hopes, but
men in the full career and full vigor of life.
You own farms and you are mechanics here in
| Ohio, in this beautiful valley of the Mahoning
You threw aside everything with one single
| purpose, the most glorious which God has
given us on earth, to defend your
country and its institutions your fathers have
given you. You put on the blue coats. You
started some through the valley of the shenan-
doah, others went with me further south, but
we had a single purpose. Although I did not
| have the honor to command you as soldiers,
still We We're in one common army with one
| common purpose. How glorious has been the
| result. None of us foresaw it then. None of
| us hardly realize its value and importance
now, but the children we see to-day will
look upon US. you private soldiers,
sergeants, corporalsas, well as your colonies, az
the leaders as merely means whereby to prepare
this great continent of America as the future
| of the best, the most virtuouA, most indus
now passing off the stage. We pass as old
men now. It is very hard for us to think we
are old men, soon to be gathered to our common
destiny, but no matter what our fate be in the
future the past ia secure, and it is of unestima-
BILE value TO the world at large. Every man
India, will turn to America as
Here in Ohio you do not feel it. You
always had quiet, orderly, law-abiding COM
munity. In Kentucky it is little worse, but
they are becoming as you are. The same in
Georgia and Alabama. They inherited slavery
from their fathers. That slavery grew to he a
curse, and God himself ordered that it cease
from the face Of the globe. You and I and all
of us We're instruments in its removal. 1t has
now passed into the rear. It will never occur
again. Such thing as man selling man will
never occur again in America, and probably in
no other part of the wotld, because Spain and
SO that henceforth such thing
az slavery on the earth will not occur again.
and then will have been fulfilled the prophecy
Of the scriptures. We were simply instru-
ments in the hands of Providence in fulfilling
a destiny more glorious, more beautiful, more
transpired since the days of Moses.
Very few in the United States foresaw in
1861 what we were destined to do. Yet in four
or five years Of hard toll, some labor, some ex-
posture and by sacrificing some of our glorious
companions, we have attained that which will
go on for years, ten years, twenty years and
hundreds and thousands of years, so that the
members of the Twenty. third who are now
before me along with two or three hundred reg
iments from Ohio and the thousands and'mo
regiments from all parts of the United States,
have fulfilled in the history of the world an
end which has its beginning to-day and will
| not have its end until we are all summoned be.
fore the common tribunal of mankind.
I do not profess to have done more than a
single mans share in the work of the war;
Your President, who was your colonel, towards
whom you have right to turn the affections
Of your life, was an instrument in the hands
| of power greater than ourselves, and to-day
| you and the millions and hundreds of millions
| yet to come the children whom you love better
than yourselves, will enjoy its fruits. 1
remember myself when living in
| South Carolina and Louisiana, talking
with slaves and with their masters. They were
men like ourselves. They knew that some
thing was in the wind. They could not ex-
| actly see what it was. Henry Clay said him.
self he could not solve this great problem. Mr..
| Webster, likewise, probably the strongest in
| tellect we ever had in America Every man
within hearing of my voice, when he goes to
his bed should thand God that slavery has
passed from the earth forever. (Applause.)
have come at this time to your town with
the President of the United States, because it
struck me as very strange fact that man who
presides over the destinies of forty-five or for.
! ty-eight millions Of people, the President of
the United States, equal to the car of Russia.
or to the king or queen of England, should
descend from his high office to come here
and mingle with his comrades of the Twenty
| third. (Applause.) This you would not see in
Europe, Asia or any other land on EARTH He
comes to you and presides over your delibera.
| tions. He was once your colonel. He is still
| I.
towards each and every one of you now as it
did in 1864. That is type of human charac-
ter which you will not find anywhere else on
this globe. But the world must come to it.
We are but the agents of a power
far above us. We hardly know each
in b i've ,otd ,nb doing gos tbat
which he is appointed to do, if it be merely
| as a stoker to an engine or merely as a laborer
on the streets, if he does we'll that which he is
appointed to do, he will do something material
| to the progress of the world, and I
hope and pray that every member Of the
| Twenty-third having already proved them
| selves good soldiers, will continue to be good
| citizens, and lay the foundation for our future
empire so deep and strong in the human he art
| that all the power of hell can not shake it.
| Hayes at Detroit.
DETROIT, Sept. 17.-The programme for the
reception OF fIeslQent hayes IN TINS city to-
morrow comprehends the meeting of the Presi.
dental party on the steamer Northwest, by the
mayor and all government officials, for which
purpose the steamer has been chartered to 81
down the river as far as Crosse Isle The
United States steamer Fessenden will fire the
regulation salute on the arrival of the Presi.
dent, and he will be escorted to the residence
of -ex-Gov. Baldwin. After breakfast the
military and naval officers of this post will pay
their respects. At IL o'clock, under escort
of the city military, President Hayes
| will proceed to the fair grounds, and