Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-10-19

a letter of regret: CoLkIine was also in
vIted, bat could not come. The Gov
errors with their STATS, and the Cen
erals and stats. marines and soldiers.
and the favorite troops of the State
made an imposing display. while Joined
with these were visiting troops, veser-
ans, civic societies. etc, which made the
procession four miles long. II marched
IN five divisions, and five bands of music
were in each division. The line of
march was crowded with people who ap-
Plauded enthusiastically. The windows
and steps were everywhere filled With
ladies VINO clapped their hands or.waved
their handkerehiefs as the troops
marched past. At few minutes before
10 O'Clock Governor Cleveland and staff
Governor Brown and staff of Rhode
Island, Senator Hawiey of Connecticutt
aRd other invited dignitaries took seats
on the platform.
As the head of the procession reached
| the grand stand there WAS great snthu-
| siasm among the people. The Tower
nors of the different States, b lyard, the
| chaplain. the orator, the poet, and 9th
ers who had special part assigned
them in the exercises, wheeled in the
ranks TO the review-stand, where a
march past took place to enlivening
music. and the parade was dismissed.
| People then FASTENED TO the lawn in
front of Washington's headquarters.
where the exercises took place. After
an introductory overture by the fine
| sand of the Seventh Regiment, Mayor
Ward called the assemblage to order,
and DIR. ). Iraneus Prime offered a
prayer. A to deain was sung by a hun
dred voices, and the band followed. and
then Senator Bayard WAS introduced
as president of the celebration exer-
| cises. The Senator delivered an elo-
quent address. which was frequently
appiauded.
Senator Bayard, on taking the stand.
said he certainly felt honored at having
been selected To preside over the cere-
monies, and, as a 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 inde-
pendeHce and cherished the honest fame
| of their forefathers, whose fidelity and
courage were well attested on the long
battle fields which stretched from Long
Island to the Savannah River. The
| orator said they had assembled on this
| occasioL, drawn TO yether by the COM
mon impulse of brotherhood of Ameri-
can citizenship. not as citizens of any
State, but of the United States. Re-
viewiag the historical incidents which
lead to the declaration of peace, Senator
Bayard said: Who can read the his
| tory of the eight eventful years from
l175 to 1888, even at this lapse of time,
without breathless interest and agita-
ton, mingled with wonder at the result?
Who can rise from its perusal without
realizing sense of absolute conviction
| of the presence of the hand of overrul-
| ing providence III human affairsf such
q one must indeed be strangely and alb
normally constituted, and he who fails
| to comprehend the true value of the
virtues which marked the characters
of the men of that period, when they
| were the instrument of providence in
| bringing forth strength ont of weakness
and victory out of defeat, can know but
| little of the true origin of our present
| happy condition, of the methods by
which it WAS attained and conditions
| under which alone we can hope to pre-
serve it." The Senator reverted to the
| fact that after the Surrender of Corn
wallis under the wise recommendation
Of Washington orders for furlonghs had
| been literally granted to officers and
| soldiers 10 90 To their homes, and but
comparatively small body of men re-
| manned when peace was formally de-
ciared. "For upon those brave men,"
| said the speaker. had fallen the chief
| stress and burden of the struggle, its
sufferihgs and exposures; the perils
of war had been dreadfuily aggravated
| by the want of proper supplies and still
more by the delusive system of paper
money. The miseries brought about by
the fiction of irredeema5le paper our
rency were equal to all the other woes
combined. Their starving families.
their honorable debts, their daily needs,
were ali subjected to the curse of de-
preciated currency" He said the men
who had fought to establish their coun-
try's Liberty never received their
stipulated pay, and despite these
promises never kept, the army
disbanded and melted away not
| without angry remonstranoes, not
without serious threatening, not indeed
without proposed reasonable organ
izations, which last Washington with
stood with his fiery indignation and
ground to powder under his feet" con-
tinued the orator ''never was fight In
which personal character with armies
being led to victory was more thrill
ingly manifested hor its value to the
country proven more important than In
this dangerous crisis when the crown
of unchartered power and military am
bition was held out his grasp. only tt
be dashed to earth by his love Of the
country which never for q moment wal
obscured by personal interest or am
bition. Ii art can ever present In mar.
BILE or on canvass the true likeness II
soul and body of this great man. thu
occasion of his thus putting under hi
feet the solicitations of unlawful powe
: and ambition will surely be selected
The speaker then said, il We looked TO
/ the cause for the success of the Unitet
Colonies of the embattled farmers VIII
, withstood the mighty armies an.
armaments of Great Britain, i
was due not only to valor ant
determination but to the common prac
tical virtues essential to a people o
weak in wealth and resources. Ho'
} high and clearly out against the sky Q
history rises the column OF persona
) character of these patriot sires ~ sal
I the orator. He compared their high IN
: tegrity to the venality which historian
have disclosed TO have been the rul
among the English rulers from Georg
. Ill. down.
Senator Edmunds said: 1t was wa
! GU one side for dominion, regardless Q
: Justice, by a rich and powerful empir
: whose forces were welded undeE an ad
: | ministration weakened by corruption
!, immortality and profliRate expenditure
.. in which patriotic objects were little n
Qarded and the qualification Of passio
: stood in lieu of the conscientious pul
|. suit Of the public welfare. On the oths
y side, with force numerically feebl
and almost wholly unsupplied with th
siuews Of war, Was a scanty band OF a.
ricuItural colonists, animated by a pull
!. and lofty love of liberty, standing
+ defense Of their birthrights, homes an
. tiresides, sustained by religious faith
II the Justice Of their cause and aided
a the practice Of honesty and frugality
y the administration Of their resource
They emerged from the contest victor
Gus and unstained." He concluded B
= declaring that 30 long ~ their cour'
| was emulated the Republic would STAN
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