Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1880-06-23
GEN. GARFIELD's SPEECH.


introduce Gen. James A. Garfield.
Loud cheering
GEN. GARFIELD's SPEECH
Fellow Citizens: "While I have
looked upon this great array, | believe
/ hare gotten new idea of the maj
esty of the American people When /
reflect that whenever you find sover
eign power, every reverent heart on
OF earth bows before it, and when |
remember that here for hundred years
we have denied the sovereignty of any
man, and in place of it we have assert
ed the sovereignty of all in place of
one, | see before me so vast a con-
course that it is easy for me to imagine
that the rest of the American people
are gathered here tonight, and il they
were all here every man would stand
uncovered and in unsandaled feet in
the presence of the majesty of the only
sovereign power in this government
under Almighty God Cheers And
therefore to this great audience [ pay
respectful homage that in part belongs
to the sovereignty of the people. |
thank you for this great and glorious
demonstration. | am not for one mo-
ment misled into believing that it re-
fers to so poor thing as any one of
our number. | know it means your
reverence to your government, your
reverence for its laws, your reverence
for its institutions, and your oomplir
ment to one who is placed for a mo-
ment in relations to you of peculiar
Importance. For all these reasons |
thank YOU | cannot at this time utter
a word on the subject of general poll
ties.
[ would not mar the oordiality of
this welcome, to which, to some ex-
tent, all are gathered, by any reference
except to the present moment and its
significance. But ] wish to say that
@ portion Of this assemhlage tonight
are my comrades in the late war for
the Union. For them / can speak
with entire propriety, and can say that
these very streets heard the measured
tread of your disciplined feet years ago
when the impepiled Republic needed
your hlnds and your hearts to save it,
and you came back with your num-
bers decimated, but those you left be-
hind were immortal and glorifed
heroes forever, and those you brought
back came carrying under tattered
banners and bronzed hands the ark of
the covenant of your Republic in
safety and out Of bloody baptism of
war fcheers, and yoa brought it in
safety to be saved forever by your
vaIor and the wisdom of your brethren
who where at home, and by this you
were again added to the great civil
army of the Republic.
| greet you, comrades and fellow
soldiers, and the great body of distin
guished citizens who are gathered here
tonight, who are the strong stay and
support of the business, of the pros
perity, of the peace, of the civic ardor
and glory of the Republic, and | thank
you for your welcome tonight. 1t
was said in welcome to one who came
to England to be part of her glory, and
all the nation spoke when it was said
Normans and Saxons and Danes are we,
But all of us Danes in our welcome of thee.
And we say tonight of all the ma
ton. of all the people, soldiers and
civilians, there is one name that YIELDS
US all into one 1t is the name of
American citizens under the Union
and under the glory of the flag that
led US to victory and to peace. Ap-
plausa For this magnificent well
come, I thank YOU with all there is in
my heart.
Floating in a Well.
PITTSBURGH, June l5.-This AFTER
noon Lille Elliot, 6=year-old school
GIRL while ON her Wav to school