The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-08-13
An Immense Gathering of the Boys in
Blue" at Columbus. Ohio.

Say.
New YORK, Aug. G.-Thc reception
and serenade rendered tonight to Gen
| Garfield ut the headquarters of the Re
| publican national committee, on Fifth
avenue, turned out TO be n brilliant sue
cess, Fifth avenue and the surrounding
streets, beng throngcd with an enthusi
astic crowd. The rooms of the commit
tee were thTongcd carly with prominent
! Republicans, among whom were noticed
| Senator Logan, Lieut.. Gov. HOskins
| Congressman Conger, Amos *. ThOmp
son, of Ohio, and Senator Dorsey. Short
| ly after s o'clock, Il squad of police
| opened a passage in the thrOng, estimat
cd TO be 10000 strong, and escorted Gen
Garfield to the rooms of the committee
AS the presidential candidate was recog
niZcd, cheer after cheer rent the air, and
even after he disappeared within the in
closure of the committee rooms, the
| fealty of the crowd expressed itself by
hOarse shouting until the General APP
| peared on the balcony to review the pro
cessIon when scene of great cnthusi
asm ensued. Hats flew in the air, and
| il was with the greatest difficulty the pc
| lice were able to keep clear the passage
way for the boys in blue TO pass. The
! first was colored organization, and then
| came Garfield and Arthur clubs of the
different assembly districts. After tho
clubs had settled in their respective
| places, General Sharpe introduced Gen
eral Garfield. who was received with en-
thusiastic applause, which lasted OveI
ten minutes. When the cheers had
! died away, he spoke rs follows:
COmraeies # the "Boys a. Blue" aud feiLoa
| citizens IF tie NetD York.
l cannot look upon this great assem-
! blage and these old veterans that have
marched past us and listened 10 the wei
| come from our cOmrade who has Just
| spoken without remembering how great
a thing it is to live in this union and bt
u part of it, (Applause) This is New
York, and yonder, towards the battery
more than hundred years ago, Il young
| student of Columbia college was arguing
the ideas of the American revolution and
| American Union against the unanimou:
| loyalty 10 monarchy of his college presi
dent and professors, and by-and-by ht
went into the patriotic army, and was
| placed ON the staff of Washington
! (cheers), to fight the battles of his cOun
| try (cheers), and while in camp, before hG
was twenty-Onc years old, upon drum
head, he wrote Il letter which contained
the germ ofthe constitution ofthc United
States. That student, soldier. statesman
and great leader of thought, Alexander
| Hamilton, OF New York, made his re
| public glorious by his thinking, and left
his last impress upon New York-fore
most state in the Union, Applause
And here on this island, scene of his
early triumphs, We gather tonight, sol
diers of a new war, representing the same
ideas of union and glory, and adding tC
1 thp column of nODntnnrts Of IJ,,,
ilton, and Washington, and the heroes
that the revolution reared.
Gentiemen-ideaso utlivc men. Ideas
outlive all things, and you who fought in
the war for the Union fought for immor
tai ideas, and by their might you
crowned our war with victory (Grcai
| applause.) But victory was worth moth
| ing except for the fruits that were under
| it, in it, and above il, and We meet to
night as veterans and comrades, TO stand
sacred guards around truths for which
we fought (long and prolonged cheers
and while We have life to meet and grasp
the hand of comradc, we will stand 10y
the great truths of the war, good, good
and loud cheerS); and comrades, among
the convictions of that war that have
sunk deep in our hears, there are some
| that we can never forget. Think of the
| great clevating spirit of the war Itself
We gathered boys from our farms and
shops, and stores, and schools, and
homes, from all over the republic. They
went forth unknown TO fame, but ne
turned enrolled on the roster OF the I'M
mortal hero. Great applausc.l T''er
went in the spirit Of those sol = :.
/ Henry at Agincourt, of whom il ,s..t
who this day sheds his blood y llh in
shall be nay brather; were he ne'er 81
vile, this day shall gentle his condition, >
fought in il iApplause And hs