Omaha daily bee., 1883-12-01

i Of our civil war, let US devoutly pr.y
that the hour which witnesses Its compile
ton may behold a rebellion overt Grown,
a Union restored, q constitn ion uhim.
paired, civil liberty ant the pursuit of
happiness the i~nalienable birthright of
the weakest, the poorest and the lowliest
citizen in all our borders. Then with
full hearts and bounding pulses we may
renew the strain,
Great God, we thank Thee for this goodly
home,
This bonnieous birth.land of the free,
Where wonders FROM afar may come
And breathe the air of liberty;
Still may It's flowers untr arnpled spring,
it, harvest wave aud cities rise
And long TIL time sh al fold his wing,
Re main earth's loveliest paradise"
Incide tall y we are reminded that Mr..
Poppleton 3 connection with the Union
Pacific as its attorney began n few days
before he delivered the above speech
at the breaking of the ground, and he
has continued in tho service of the com
pany ever since, being now its general
attorney, and is the only general officer
who has continued with the road from the
day that the first spade of dirt was turned
over until the present time.
SPEECH oP JUDGB LARIMER.
Ladies and Gentlemen: The heavens
are verborating around lis aud above us
from cannon planted on either shore of
the river near by which divides the state
of Iowa from your territory, but they
are not deluging the soil with the blood
Of fellow countrymen. No, it is another
cause in which they are speaking; it is
the cause of progress, of civilization, of
peace, and this, the day we celebrate, is
one of it's days of triumph.
Although / have thought and hoped
with you for years for the c~onsummation
of the event we are here to day to csle-
brate, and with which the interests of
the people of Omaha and Council Bluffs
have ever been so intimately identified.
yet it has remained until this day and
hour a subject of which we could not
speak with any degree. of certainty. But
it is said that the president, as he was
authorized to do, has designated this as
a point, and that here on the banks of
that turbid stream which rolls at our
feet-which takes its source thousands
of miles above us, when it is so small
that a single OK would drink it dry of a
summers day-ls to be the crossing of
that great national th%oroughfare which is
to unite and bind together with bands
of iron the Atlantic and Pacific, we look
upon this as an event in the history of
this country and of our people as worthy
of comemoration. Az yet this is u
sparsely settled country, but with all the
elements for the creation of agricultural
wealth, which is the basis upon which all
others rest, we may now, by the location
of the road, expect a large accession in
numbers. With such a country as we
have here, with such a future as there is
before it, the odlous relations of land
lord and tenant, which is only another
name for that of master and slave, now
existing in the older states, will be placed
III process of gradual extinction. Here
is the great northwest-the seat of en-
pire aud the land of imperial power
the poor man of the east may come,
possess and enjoy a spot of this green
earth that he may call his own, and no
thirds or halves be exactea from his
store. And they will come as Others
have come before them, for there ssaid to
be- a principal in man which has ever i'm
PEELED him toward the setting sun 1t was
said to have been this that tool the patri-
arcns of old to the land of the Mediter.
raneau, impelled Paul toseek Rome, Aug
Justine the land of the Briton; nor was it
lost sight of when Columbus planted the
banner of the cross in the new world,
nor when the Meyfl,wer cast anchor in
the harbor Of Plymouth. 1t has brought
you and me to the beautiful and fertile
prairies of the west, and with our coun
try once more at peace with tho world
and with itself-for every star on that
emblem of our nationality which floats
yonder a state, and every state a star
will bring thousands more to s~ojourn
with US.
OF the president of the United States
| would say that if many of his acts have
not given the same satisfaction that we
may to-day feel for the part he has taken
in the location of the road, it would be
charitable to say that in other matters
he may not have had such consultation
and advisers as our friend Mr.. Dey, who
ran the line of u proposed Pacific rail
road, making this a terminus.
Ladies and gentlemen, for calling upon
me accept my thanks for the honor you
sought to confer on your neighboring
clty, Council Bluffs.
George Francis Train, the great
enthusiast, made a stirring and
witty speech, which was greatly
enjoyed by the audience. In
his speech he predicted that the Union
Pacific railroad would be completed be-
fore The year 1870. This was considered
a little too extravaganza, and caused con-
siderable laughter, but his prediction
came true. The following was
MIR, TRAINS SPEECH:
l have no teIegraphic dispatches to
read, no sentiments to recite. The Off
cial business is over, aud as | happen to
be lying around loose in this part of tho
country laughter at this particular time,
it gives me a chance to meet some of the
live men of Nebraska at tho Inaugural
ton of the graudest enterprise under
God, the world has ever witnessed. Zap
plause.
America is the stage, the world is the
audience of to day. While one act of
tho drama represents the booming Of
the cannon on the RIpidan, the Cumber-
land and the Rio Grande, sounding the
death knell of rebellious war, the noxt
scene records the b oming of cannon on
both sidos of the Missouri to celebrate
the grandest work of peace that ever at
attracted the energies OF man. The
great Pacific railway is commenced, and
affair as we'll as l do, no doubt would ever
arise as to its speedy completion. The
PRESIDENT shows his good judgment in