Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-02
wish that the remaining steps necessary t

| wish that the remaining steps necessary to
reach a perfectly sound and healthy condition
| OF the currency may be taken. The enor.
! nous gain in the tonnage of American and
foreign vessels entered at the seaports OF the
United States is shown by the following tom
mage: In 1866, 5000, 194 tons Of tonnage /;
1870, 6,210, 1S9 tons of tonnage; 1850, 10
26l, 045 tons. Never could the man engaged
in legitimate industry or business reckon more
confidently upon a reasonable remuneration
| for his labor and capital than at the present
time. The people of foreign nations under
stand this almost as well as we understand 1t
| ourselves. From all parts of Europe people
are coming to America, people not less thrifty
nor less intelligent than those they leave be-
hind, to share with us the Astounding pros
perity which We now enjoy. They come here
to better their condition, because we are
prosperous, because we are at peace at home
and abroad. and because they hope here to
find civil and religious liberty. The guaran-
tees which SO strongly attract immigration
are the truths for which We fought in the war
for the Union. Let US resolve to do all we
can IN our respective places in life saaredly
to guard them, not only for ourselves and our
posterity, but for all mankind.
General w. T. Sherman made brief
speech, and
GENERAL GARFIELD
Followed. In answer TO the charge often
made that spirit of sectionalism pervades
these reunions, be said There is nothing
more national in all this Republic than the
spirit which saved the Union. Continuing,
he said We fought for the whole Union, and
the spirit that animated us was the spirit of
nationality against that of sectionalism. To
defend the truths for which we fought is
wholly national, and is sectional in nothing
1t was sectionalism against which we fought.
1t was the spirit of nationality which we de-
Tended, and which we will defend while we
live. Now, therefore, in the presence Of these
veterans, in the presence of these leaders, in
the presence of these thousands of citizens,
and under these flags, we assert the national
ity OF our cause, embracing within its grasp
all the interests of the whole country. What
material object is more grandly national
than the Mississippi river? Our victory
made that river of one people from Fort
Benton, far up by the British line. down
to the Gulf, and every drop of water
from the lakes of the far North goes singing
of the Union all the way till it joins the
tropical ocean. Our legions sang the songs
of the Union along its banks. and made the
people that inhabited its shores one people. l
trust, for evermore. The great mountain
chains that God made are one, and the peo
pie and the government that dwell on their
nights and valleys are like the ocean-are
like the everlasting hills; and We believe they
will be one forever. Now, soldiers and fellow
citizens, thank you that we are able to stand
together at this late day, after our late
triumph, and rejoice that those who died did
not die in vain, that those who lived did not
struggle and suffer in vain, and that those
old flags which have come back torn with
contests are full of the glory with which your
valor crowned them. Good-by.
In the evening public reception was given
in honor of President Hayes, General Gar
field and other distinguished gentlemen, and
gorgeous display of fireworks and artillery
practice by the Cleveland Gatling Gun Bat
terry took place.