The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-06-10
TELEGRAPHIC
ARMY OF THE POTOMAC
REUNION.
Sherman's, LiDcOIn's and
81 Other Speeches.

80 Other Speeches.
Hartford, S.-General Sherman spoke
this evening at great length, to the en-.
campment. He said there were few
idlers in the army now; they were pio-
neers of civilization and aids to frontier
enterprise The army was fine in ply
sique, intelligence, patriotic sentiment
AID heroic quality. He referred to the
value OF the reg uar army as disclosed in
our last Wsr He denied that army re-
| unions Keep alive the animosities of war.
but the contrary WAS the case. He de-
clsred that 10 spite of JEFF. Davis ssser-
ton In bis late book, he approved of
Grants movement from Warrington to
Richmond by land, instead of water
It was lucky for Davis that General
tombstone didn't obey his orders in '64.
| and assume the offensive. General Sher-
man discussed the campaigns about
Richmond. He denied DAVIS charges
Of cruelty In removing the population,
and utterly denied the story of robbery
told by Davis, he declares that Wade
Hsmpton's troops burned Columbis be-
fore the Union army got there, and then
abandoned 1t, add now DsYis, taking the
word Of Hampton, who was not there,
says he (ShermsnJ burned it. He would
allow no man, not even JEFF. Davis, to
question his statement Of thing seen BY
himself. Cotton on the streets was set
on fire by Confederates. and that ignited
the houses, portion of which were de-
stroyed, his men being unable to check
1t owing 10 the inhammable
nature Of the material. General
Logan's troops saved all that
remained of the city; without them, not
9 house would have escaped. The same
thing occurred in Richmond. On an
other occasion he might burn the city if
government would be served thereby,
but his orders as to, Columbia were pur-
posely most msrciful, because of old 1850
cistiOns which made him kindly disposed
there. The claims of British owners of
cotton there, had been -overruled BY
competent court, because it had learned
that the CoRfederatss burned it. The
commission was UNANIMOUS on this
point. 1t was a case Of scores of highly
reputable officers and thousands of men,
against the unsupported word of Wade
Hampton, who was not there. Hell
would not have believed that DAVIS
would have ordered the war continued |
in the guerilla way, had he not said go in |
his book, and joe Johnston deserves the |
gratitude OF the country for ending the |
war In defiance to Davis order.
Mark Twain followed Sherman.
The toast 'The President ofthe United |
States" was received with immense
applause. Secretary Lincoln was also
crested with d warm welcome as he re-
sponded. He merely said the President
was better able to take care of himself
than he. He then said: One hundr. d
years ago the governor of the patriotic
colony within whose hospitable borders
we are tonight, may have kno ~n well
OF distant frontier post called Detroit,
but beyond, extending thousands of
miles towards the setting sun, was vast
wilderness upon which little encroach-
ment had been made since century be-
lore that charter was hidden in the oak
IN this town. 1t certainly never entered
bis thought, that within another century III
The feeble government which he was II
helping to establish would exert its I'M
disputed sway over every foot of ground
between his home and the Pacific Ocean,
and that people of more than 90, OOO, 900
would be enrolled under th9banner and
nail the name of Broth& Jonathan.
Applause Less than 100 years ago an
of mine was killed by hostile
Indians at his own doorstep in Ken
lucky. Yesterday it became nv official
duty to sign formal orders for the estab-
ishment Of signal service station on
and Of the United States nearly
- far west from San Francisco
% California 10 from Kentucky. LAD
plauss.) Il is hard, even if it was pos
;ible, to grasp the details of the marvel
ous growth ofthis country, but its causes
are plain, On this fertile continent was
set, full grown, che civilization of the old
world, and with it was planted liberty, /,
hat liberty under law required By repre-
government, which found its
earliest expression ina compact written
mere in Hartford 10 1888 Applause. J
The nation began its career of prosperity
when our fathers s.aked their lives and {
fortunes upon the proposition thet al s
ell, then all dangers to our repu bic dis t
appeared. Dangers which come to ether
governments from uprisings of the OPP
pressed are unknown here, for We have
no oppression. Military despotism, :
which, in the hope Of our enemies, was
70 crush US, has never been heard Of Us
I'm surrounded on all sides by those who
we're to support it and be part Of it. is
They have welded eli grades Of military =
power. They are now in all ranks of t
.iVil and military life, and no one can be If
more patriotic than am in wishing TO It
zach and every one of them long life II
md success to every endeavor. The :
American republic know they stood be-
'ween liberty and anarchy, and it is will n
ng to trust them for the future. (Con- '.
inued applause.)
At the close Of Secretary Lincoln's
psech, Gen. Barnum called for three
cheers for the worthy and honored son Of
he great smAncipstor, Abraham Lin
,oln. They were given with will.
Senator HaRleY also spoke.