Morning journal and courier., 1883-05-31

CLARK RecR.
RARsHALs.
Colonel Simeon J Fox, Colonel A Hendriek,
Frank Munson, Hugh Daley, Captain D
aRs 4 Riaa % Ke1
needy, Colonel John He1ley' M, AN NJ
G GfSH cs SSah JoRea Tsomas Sullivan AN
thony Cluf1, Barnes, Major W Stowe. 20 Hunt
ley Captain TbosS Captain
wilkins L. CowIes, william Smith, Dr. j
Doherty. Lieutenant Arthur Howarth. Charles F
Bollmann. j Kennedy, William Geary, r NJ Stevens,
William G Hubbard, Blakeslee, jr., NJ Dillon.
DIVISION.
Platoon of Police.
Assistant Marshals.
Detail from Police Force.
Battalion of Second Regiment National Guard, Col
Charles P. Graham commanding
Second Company Governors Foot Guard, Captain E.
]. Morse commanding.
Sassacus Drum Corps.
Disabled Veterans in Carriages.
Orator of the Day.
Admiral Foote Post. G. A. R., Post Commander j. D.
Plunkett commanding.
Company A. Fifth Battalion National Guard, Captain
Laden commanding.
C. C. I. Drum Corps.
Volunteer Company G. O. L Batta ion, Russell
Military Academy, Captain R. 7. French
,S e1mmanain S:na
Second Company Governors Horse Guards, Major H.
h. Strong, commanding.
SECOND DIVISION.
Rosinus' Band.
Chief Engineer Col. A. G. Hendrick.
Assistant Engineers.
Steam Fire Engine No l.
Steam Fire Engine No. 2.
Steam Fire Engine No. 8.
Steam Fire Engine No. 4.
Hook and Ladder No. l.
Steam Fire Engine No. 8.
Steam Fire Engine No. 6.
Steam Fire Engine No 8.
Hook and Ladder No. 3.
The procession moved over the following
route: Out north gate of Green, up Elm, to
Whalley avenue, to Howe street, to Chapel
street, to Wooster Square, to Greene street,
to Olive street, to State street, to Trumbull
street. to Orange street. to Chapel street, to
Church street, passing in review at City Hall
In front of the City Hall stood tenn
porary staging whereon stood the Mayor,
and members of the Court of Common
Courcil, the Fire Commissioners and other
city officials The procession was comph-
mented on all sides as very fine in appear
ance The soldiery moved with fine pre-
cision, and both marching and wheeling re-
fiected great credit upon them. The fremen
are a fine body-no city has finer body OF
firemen. The platoons of police numbered
about seventy and were headed by Chief
Webster who was mounted upon fine horse.
The police marched in excellent step and
with precision and wore their new light col
| ored helmet hats for the first time. The
| fremeu also appeared in their new helmet
hats.
THE EVENINGS EXERCISES.
The Grand Opera House was crowded last
evening by large audience to listen to the
Memorial day exercises. Captain George
M. White introduced Judge Torrance
the speaker of the evening, in few appro
pirate remarks. The following was the or
/ der of exercises:
1-Selections Second Regiment BanG
| 2-Keller's American Hymn,
| Chorus by toys under the direction of Professor
B Jepson.
| a-Tenting o-night. Mr. P W. Bush and chorus
| 5-Tramp, Tramp Tramp, '-'---
Comrade s. s. Thompson and Chsrul
9-Rea. White and Blue,
Comrade Il. A. Gray and Chorus
s9ratiCn IN n: Rbins oomFade David Torrance
Mr. P W. Bush and Chorus
1O-Recitations. .Comrade Willis Isbell
11-Selections. Second Regiment Band
Conrade s. S. Thompson and Chorus
Comrade H. A. Gray and Chorus
Comrade Jepson, Chorus. Band and Audience.
GRAFTON BY COLONEL. DAVID TORRANCE, OF
BIRMINGHAM.
That was, indeed, very notable struggle
in which you, my comrades, took an active
part not only in the vast extent of the field
of operations covering a continent, not
| only for the number of its eombatants
amounting to millions, not only for the
number of its engagements and the mighty
hosts of its wounded and slain, but still more
and chiefly for the origin and cause of the
strife and for the glorious results achieved.
Although we were almost unconscious of it
at the time and have been slow to recognize
it since, that was more than a struggle for
nationality. Behind the vast physical force
engaged it was force subtle, invisible, but
nj cfill fhot Siohfa6 noT1
non and pointed every musket and flashed
| from every bsyonet and glori6ed every red
field of the war. It was a war of ideas, a
struggle between Ii ht and darkness, betw cen
the civilization of pagan Rome and that of
the sermon on the mount. This it is that
lifts it up from the high level even of a
struggle for country to the higher level of a
struggle for humanity. ''God is always on
the side of the heaviest battalions,' snesred
the great FrenchmaH. Well, I devoutly be-
lieve in heavy battalions, but still mere de-
voutly bslieve that the North was victorious
in that war because that power that works
righteousness used our armies but as the
mortal instruments to accomplish its own
mighty purposes in the elevation of the racs.
That struggle did not begin in
1861, but centuries before. When
in the gray dawn of that
April morning twenty-five years ago the
first shot was fred at Fort Sumter, that was
| struggle that had been going on for over two
hundred years. In the year
1920 two events took place on this continent
apparently insignificant, but fraught with
tremendous possibilities of evil and of good
for the great nation yet to be.
In August of that year a Dutch vessel land
ed twenty African slaves at jamestown, and
in December of that year the Pilgrims landed
at Plymouth. The slaves were quickly dis
posed of. The disappointed adventures
who had hoped to find an Ell Dorado on the
banks of the James found in the sinews
of the slave some faint realization of their
early dreams. Unknown to themselves they
had fixed the destiny of the great republic
yet to be in favor of slavery. The perse
cuted few who found resting place at Ply
mouth were also, unknown to themselves, to
become mighty people in whose institu-
tons and laws the principles of freedom
should take deep root and flourish and grow
strong As yet it was but the seed time and
not the harvest with both colonies, and with
a vast continent before them they began the
great experiment together In spite of the
feeble protests of good men and in defiance
of law slavery rapidly spread.
In the one hundred and fifty years that
elapsed between 1920 and the revolution the
twenty slaves had become five hundred thou
sand. The system existed in every colony
Up to that time, however, it had caused but
little trouble. But when for the common
purpose of defence the confederation was
formed, and later when several States
claimed their share in the vast territory
which had been preserved by their common
valor and sacrifice, then the struggle began
in earnest. After brief and not very bitter
contest, by the ordinance of 1877,
the great Northwest was secured for
freedom. Unfortunately this ordinance
did not apply to all our territory and so Ala
bama, Kentucky, Mississippi and Tennessee
were admitted as slave States. The states
men of that day finding slavery closely inter
woven with the whole political and social
fabric of the colonies contented themselves
with measures which they fondIy dreamed
would lend to its ultimate extinction with the
least possible trouble. And so having passed
the ordinance of 1887 and provided for the
suppression of the slave trade at the end of
a few years they rested content with their
work.
But in 1898 Eli Whitney invented the cot.
ton gin, and In few years later water trans.