Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-06-12
IMPROVED o. R. NJ
Reception of the Grand Incohouee by the
Sacramento Tribes.

sacramento Tribes.
Saturday evening, at Turner Hail. the four
Tribes of the Improved Order of Red Men
that are located in this city gave public re.
caption at Turner Hall to Charles II. Litch.
man, the Grand Incohonee Of the Order, who
is making brief visit to this coast. There
was good attendance, but the hall was not
crowded as had been anticipated. The exer-
cises proved interesting and kept the atten-
ton of the audience. J. P. Counts presided,
supported by P. G. S. J. p. II. Wentworth.
P. G. S. Grove L. johnson, G. J. S. Charles
L. Spencer G.. G. of r. w. S. VIM, and by
Chiefs George Turner and A. Andrews.
Mr.. Counts, with few remarks on calling
to order. stated the object of the meeting.
The First Artillery Band then played an
overture. ?. G. S. Grove L. johnson was
then introduced. He said the Order needed
no eulogistic speech from him. Its works
spoke for it, Its members needed no en-
enlargement in remarks from him-they
knew its virtues and continued in its
good works, ard they are sufficient
encouragement. But the outsider might
be interested in knowing something in
detail concerning the Order, and he was glad
to say that there was present one who was
eminentlY fitted by education and eloquence
to enlighten them, and besides he was the
cohenee of the Great Council Of the United
States, Charles III. Litchman. It had been
assigned to him to welcome the Great Chief
to the State and the city of Sacramento. 10
doing so he desired to impress upon his mind
that the welcome it was his privilege to ex
tend in behalf of the Red Men of Sscrs-
mento was cordial, hearty. and in all the
warmth of true fraternal regard. He
but echoed the feelings of the hearts of the
Sacramento brotherhood. and of every men,
Der in Sacramento, when he extended to him
sincere welcome. He knew of none better
fitted than the Great Incohonee to preach
to the pale faces touching the Orders true OBJ
ject, and he invited him to do so. He
sketched briefly the history OF the four
Tribes in Sacramento, and concluded amidst
applause.
After music by the band, Mr.. Litchman
was introduced. He spoke clearly, freely,
and with much earnestness. He has pleas
ing delivery, is positive and concise 10 his
statements, and is possessed largely of the
gracss Of oratory and has fine COM
mand of language. He began by saying
that he felt it not only duty, but pleasure
be could not in words fully express, to &C.
knowledge the fraternal greeting extended by
the Red Men of Sacramento. In all ways
they had manifested toward him not only the
courtesies that his official station might have
merited, but warm brotherly hospitality
and Sincere effort, and a successful one, to
make his visit one OF unalloyed pleasure-lis-
orally, they had found him stranger and
had taken him in. Out of the fullness of his
heart his mouth spake. He then entered
upon history of the Order. He sketched it
first from the standpoint of the official his
tory issued by the Great Council, in
which the origin of the organization
is dated in the year 1872, during the
on the Delaware, and as having originated
from purely patriotic motives among the
soldiers of that command How, at the
close of the war. they carried the Order with
them into civil life, and how it was reorgan-
izsd in 1884 and took on its present form. He
analysed the motives that led the soldiers Of
Miffiin to found the society, and sketched
the molding process by which it dropped all
other and took on the garb Of fraternal
organization, having for its chief corner
stone the principles of q Freedom" the
bonds of Friendship" and the work of
CHARITY" these three being the watchwords
and motives of this American Order
| He then took up the historic theory
that dates the Order far back in
the revolutionary days, which doctrine is
warmly maintained by Lindsey, and who is
still continuing his researches in that direc-
ton. Should he make good his claims, how
ever, the speaker proposed to put in a claim
for his own State, and to show that the tax
ing on of the forms and customs common to
the American sborigine for special organized
efforts and aims was first made manifest in
the celebrated Boston tea party" From
this he passed to review of the present OBJ.
jscts of the Order which are unsectarisn and
unpoliticsi, andl wholly fraternsl. charitable,
helpful, and calculated to advance men in the
social aud moral scale. On these subjects he
spoke at lensth, and with occasional passages
Of wit and humor, as he referred to the ritual,
the adoption of the customs of Indians as
types for :" work" in the tribal organizations,
snd gave the reasons therefor. He spoke for
some forty minutes, was frequently APP
plauded, and was listened TO with close atten-
fiop