The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-10-19
NEwBURG CENTENNIAL.
Grand Demonstrations and Flo
quent Addresses by Eminent
Men

Men.
Newburq, NY, 1s.-The weather is
delightful for the centennial celebration
Of Washington disbanding and taking
leave Of his victorious army. at least
sc. 600 strangers are in town. A large
aamber of vessels, including yachts,
.team boats and United States war ships,
are riding at anchor III the bsy. At
ooon scores OF steam boats had arrived,
bringing military and excursion parties
The Seventh regiment Of New York,
With veteran corps, arrived By special
trains. Owing to the late arrival OF
State troops, The parade wss not orning
at the time appointed for the march.
Trains on tie Budaon River road were
d lsyed BY the breaking down Of au en-
gine OF q way train with nineteen
CT wded coaches.
Governor Cleveland snd staff arrived
from Albany at 1880. The train Lad
eighteen coaches crowded with passen.
gers. President Arthur sent letter of
regret. Oonkling was also invited but
could net come. The Governors and
their staff, generals and stats, marines
and soldiers, and fsvorite troops of the
State made an imposing display, while
joined with these were visiting troops,
veterans, civic societies, etc., which made
procession four miles long. II marched
in FIVE divisions. Five bands of music
were in each division. The line Of march
was crowded with people, who applsuded
enthusiastically. Windows and eteps
were every where filed with ladies,
who clapped their hands or waived
handkerchief as the troops marched
past. At . few minutes before 10 Gov
ernor Oleve and and staff, Governor
Brown. of Rhode Island. and staff, Sem
alor Hawley, OF Connecticut, AID other
dignitaries took seats on the platform.
AS the head of the procession
reached the grand stand there W s
great enthusiasm among the peo-
pie. The governors o. different
states, Senator Bsyard, the chaplain,
orator, poet, and others who had a
special part assigned them in the
exercises, wheeled in ranks to the
reviewing stand. The march past
took place to enlivening music, and
the parade was dismissed. The
people then fastened to the lawn in
front of Washington's headquarters
where the exercises took place.
After an Introductory overture by
the band of the regiment, Mayor
Ward called the assemblage to order
and DR.. Sylvanus Prime offered
prayer. A. TIE Dam of a hundred
voices and the band fello we'd and
then Senator Bayard was introduced
as president Of the celebration exe--
cises. The senator delivered an
eloquent address, and was frequently
applauded. 81
Senator Bayard said he certainly
felt the honor of having been Sc
lected to preside over the cerernon-
les, and as q native of one of The
original thirteen states he accepted
it in the name Of Delaware, whose
citizens treasured the memory OF
the part their ancestors bore in the
struggle for independence and cher.
ished the honest fame Of their fore.
fathers, whose fidelity and courage
were we'll attested on the long line
of battle fields which stretched from
Long Island to the Savannah river.
The orator said they had assembled
on this occasion, drawn together by
a common impulse of the brother
hood of American citizenship, not
as citizens Of any State, but of the
United States. Reviewing the his
torical incidents which led to the
declaration of peace, Senator
Bayard said: Who can read the his.
tory of the eight seventful years
war, from rs to '83, even at this
lapse Of time, without breathless in
terest and agitation mingled with
wonder at the result? lie who can
rise from its perusal without realiz-
ing a sense of absolute conviction
of the presence Of the hand Of an
everything providence in human
affairs, must indeed be strangely
and abnormally constituted, and he
who fails to. comprehend the true
value of the virtues which marked
the characters of the men OF that
period, who. were instruments of
providence in bringing forth
strength out of weakness and vic
tory out of defeat. can know but
little of the true origin of our present
udUpY CUuukGlOls VI bAO AaOtllOuS w
which it was attained and the con>
ditions under which alone we can
hope to preserve it. The Senator
reverted to the fact that after the
surrender of CORVALLIS, under the
wise recommendation of Washing
ton, orders for furloughs had been
literally granted to officers aud
soldiers to go to their homes and
consequently but small body of
men remained, when peace was
formally declared; for upon those
brave men, said the speaker, had
fallen the chief stress and burden OF
the struggle, its sufferings and
exposures. The perlls OF the war
had been dreadfully aggravated by
want of proper supplies and still
more by the delusive system OF paper
money. The miseries brought by
the fiction of an irredeemable paper
currency were equal to all other
woes combined. Their starving
families, their honorable debts, their
daily needs, were all subjected to
the curse of a deprecated and viii
ated currency. He said those who
had foughG to establish their eoun-
trv's liberty never received their
stipulated pay, and despite promises
never kept, the army disbanded and
,oaltoT5-ewav- without angry