Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-21
THE VETERANS.
TIE REUNION OF THE 4RIAY OF
THE CUMBERLAND
a Grand Gathering OF Heroes of the War
Grafton by Gen. 0rOsvenor-A Defense
of Garfield by Gen. Cox.

annual Union of the Society OF the Army
O. the Cumberland opened to-day, Gen.
Ehil Sheridan present and Gen. Nathan
Kendall, OF Utah. and j. S. Fullerton, of
ST. Louis, accom- PANIED him, and a great
many disting cishe<i generals, among them
halrchild, Of Wisconsin; Morgan, Of Hi
nois; Craft, OF Terre Haute; Grosverner of
Ohio; Cox, lof Cincinnati, and Rusk and
Ninkler, OF Milwaukee, were pres
emf, besides large number OF dis
tingushed guests. The business
meeting held during the forenoon, ad-
lourned after the appointment OF commit
tees and the afternoon was devoted to an
excursion on the lake. Quite o number of
the military guests visited the driving park
where prize drill, arranged by Tillotson,
Of Detroit, progressed. This however wa
e private affair, not. connected with the re-
nnion. An enthusiastic meeting was held
at Schlitz park in the evening, fully 1000
people being present in the large hall.
Gen. Sheridan presided, and responded
amidst prolonged applause to an
address of welcome by Coz. Rusk
en- the part aof the state
and Mayor Stowel on the part ofsshe city.
Gen. G. 4. GrosRener, orator OF TIE oc
casion, delivered the annual address. in
which he said, after paying an eloquent
tribute to soldiersof the war:-''Let the sol
diers Of the Union demand that the touch
stone of political preferment shall be
honesty and capacity. Let them. however
strong il partizan attachment they may
be, yet demand that no good servant of
the government, no faithful administration
Of its justice or its purposes, shall be
Inundated and crushed down because
he does or does not subscribe
to the special interests OF the
special party Or man. Place the civil ser
vice CT the government away above writ
ten rules and regulations Place st where
we have placed the education OF cur peo-
pie, upon the great questions OF Loyalty
and union. Place the idea Of civil service
reform and the purity and honor of the
civil service, in the education, IN tho hearts,
III the love Of the people, and the citadel
can never successfully be attacked Differ
We lnaJ, and properly, about methods Of
administration, and We may differ
fairly about the results of
administration. We may select
diverse roads, but EYe mast all travel
towards one common center OF govern
, ment-perfeciion Again, let the sold er
demand that under ala circumstances, and
forever, the MANNED or disabled SOLDIER of
the war; his widow, his orphan, his mother,
his father.6hal be the wards and the ben
ehcjaries pf tee justly distributed bounty
Of the government. See to it and demand
it, that the pledge Of the people OF this
country made to the soldiers in 1861 shall
never be forgotten, shall never be com
promised, shall always be saeredly and
honorably frlfIed.''
Gen j. ID. Cox delivered ,a glowing
eulogy upon Garfeld's youth and man
hood, refuting ISLANDERS, and saying: CLOS
tile criticisms have laid hold upon his
correspondence with Secretary Chase in
the summer cf 1868 as q basis Of attack
ing him in his relations to Gen. Rosecrans
assuming the authenticity OF the CORE
spondence (Which is questioned by some
who are most competent to iuGge) there
are facts ia the prior relations of Chase
and Garfield which throw an
interesting light upon the letters
themselves. When Garfield entered the
Ohio senate In January, 1860, it was at the
close Of the governorship OF Chase, and
the inauguration of Gov. Dennisou. Gov
Chase resided at Columbus, and his house
was the natural center for the ardent Union
men who were earnestly considering the
probable course Of events ia that great
crisis. No trait of bfr. Chase;s character
was more marked than his habit of seek
iFg the friendship OF able and promising
young men, of guiding their opinions by
the weight Of his Own experience and
Judgment, and CT attaching them to him
sell by o heaTtiness Of friendly intercourse
of which the delicate fattery on the part
Of so distinguished a man could not bat
prove attractive to men conscious of pow
ers 1hich they had not yet had full oppor-
tunIty Of exhibiting. The intimacy that
was thus established between Chase and
Carl ED was close one, and though Gar
fields individuality and powers
not, 20 long in the position of political
follower of any man, it is certainly true
that. he was fer serae years one of CO.
secretary Of the treasury az theirsleader,
because he seemed to them to be the
abroadest and wisest OF those who. at the
beginning Of the WAT. had G controlling
influence in afairs. After his election to
congress, Garfield. ccnvaIescent
from his illness OF the summer.
S1cs ordered TO Washington
upon court martial service, and.in prepare
ton for his new political duties, he, OF
course, cultivated every opportunity of
getting into the inmest copnsels OF the
leading men there. This friendship with
MIR. Chase ana his family was already a
basis for more than ordinary easy en-
trance into tho confidence of the presi-
dent and the cabinet, and there is no lack
of evidence that Mr. Chase continued to
occupy toward Garfield, IS meznber-esect
Of the next house the relation CT g political
Leader, with whom his duty to the
country demanded o close cooperation.
and with whom, slso, confidential relations
Ge1e both public duty and personal
privilege. It is almost equally clear that
ROaecrans began to occupy some political
position after the battle of Stone river. I
know that seine, whose opportunities for
knowledge age peculiarly good, insist that
part, at least, Of the Gelay in movement the
by -RosecraEs was in accordance
with suggestions Of political advisers,