Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-21
GARFIELD CAMP FEE.

Lucy LdU al luburauce VI StVV OAlys
GARFIELD CAMP FEE.
The Post Sumptueu,lY Entertains the q.
A. r. Comrades of St. Paul-Intsresting
Talk Around the Blaze-Pleasing Recita-
tions by Comrades and Others-A Beun-
tiful Repast, Etc.
Garfield post gave q largely attended
and pleasurable social and camp fire to all
the Grand Army of the Republic comrades
and their friends IN the city, their wives,
children and ~sweethearts, at Seibert's hall
on Seventh street last evening.
The lingual exercises of the occasion
were opened by the introduction of Gen.
A. G. Hawley, who after some touching al
iusions to the war and the actual reality
of the soldiers bivouack fires made a full
explanation of why the memories of these
touched every soldiers heart to the quick.
and why since the war those who par
ticipated in these g loved to gather
and live over again, as far as possible,
what had almost become to them like
the shadow of a dream.
After music, Miss Dunn was introduced
to the large audience gathered in the
dancing hall, and recited in a charming
manner a poem, entitled the "Blus and
Gray" Z
DR.. or rather Col. Leasure, was then in
troducsd. who said he was six years resi-
dent in Minnesota from the East; came
here for his health, and in this climate had
not seen a sick day. He, Of course, did
not feel the near acquaintance with the
Minnesota veterans that he did with the
1,2Q0 men he led to the call of his coun-
try,s and with whom he met the VIC
tories and reverses of the war
in the ninth army corps, who were pitted
against the enemy in almost every hard
battle of the struggle and SO many of
whom fell in the same. He had been by
many camp fires and many made thus by
bullets, and after the war, out of which be
came weighing but ninety pounds, every
time his gate opened, his door bell rung,
as he walked from sleep he could hear the
firing of the pickets until he came to Min
nesota where this nightmare finally de-
serted him.
He spoke t%ouchinglY of the fallen in
the war and of the intrepedity of courage
displayed by the AMI and file in battle
and the heroism with which they met
death without a murmur. In abiding to
the hardships of camp life, he said that
those who had been most tenderly nur-
tured at home were the last to
complain of the deprivations en-
countered in camp or in field.
He dwelt at length N the prediction of
croakers and foreign nations that after
our northern army had saved the country
that they would never return again TO
their homes and the peaceable pursuits
they had dropped to take up the musket,
but would turn and by outlawry and ban
ditti life destroy what they had preserved.
Yet both armies, when the wer was finish
cd, give the lie to this, by the most sub
lime act in the history of civilization,
while the army of blue, after the army of
the gray had dispersed, melted away into
the pursuit of the peaceful avoclations
like the pure snow beneath the rays of a
summers sun.
Tn speaker concluded with the state
ment that this army was an army of think
ing intelligent heroes, thousands of whose
rank and file were fitted to command bodies
of troops, and paid a touching tribute
to those Minnesota soldiers whose bravery
in going out upon the broad prairies and
nGhtlng the Sioux savages on Its frontiers
be said was a Drawer and more desperate
! deed than any done in the war of the re-
bellion, and one which he felt it's citizens
had never fully realized.
After q very hum orous recitation, sold
Chums," by Miss Ella Bailey. Comrade
Rev. r. r. Riddell made a very ELOQUENT
address. He dove down into the philoso-
ply of the laying aside of the sword and
the spear by the American armies and
their quiet return to the arts of oiviliza-
ton to the establishment of the world. He
said the solution of this quiet dispersion
was our public schools, and should any
power seek to destroy that system of ours,
we might as we'll give up the ship of our
free republic at once. He spoke
of the English pride in West
minister abbey, where lie the statesmen.
poets and scholars of thirteen centuries.
But 1t needed not antiquity to throw a halo
OF glory over the greater heroes of Amer
lea, whose tombs are at Mt. Vernon, at
Ashland, at Monticello, at Saratoga, and
the unknown graves of the southern battle
fields over which the roses have planted
themselves for adornment, which have the
great blue arch of heaven for their vaulted
dome, and which are lighted up by the
glowing sun of a free republic they have
preserved, and by the bright stars of this
magnificent western empire.
This was followed by the Rotations of
Miss Conley of Barbara F~reitche," of
Co nrade Becker of "John Burns, of Get
tysburg," of Conrade Morse "When this
Old Flag was new" and the pretty spoken
poem by little Bella Morse "God bless
you, soldier"
The conclusion of the festivities was q
dance by the ysung folks and a most
bountiful supper, enough for all and to
spare, of rich and rare variety of Wand
and CONNECTION, not forgetting a generous
supply of hot coffee and pork and beans
without which no boy in blue would con
slider himself we'll rationed.
Miss Geist's Musical Soiree.