The National tribune., 1884-11-20
THE GRAND ARMY.
Prospective Tour of the Commander
in-Cbief.
HEADQUARTERS NOTES.
Sap,ening Of the National Executive Committee
Hospitalilies TO the Visiting Comrades.


4ospitalilies TO the Visiting Comrades.
TOLEDO O., Noy. IL
The event OF the week at Headquarters was
the meeting of the Executive Committee of
the National Council of Administration, con-
vened BY Special Order, No. j, of the Com
Tnauder- in Chief, on Wednesday ?. IN. and IFS
attendant pleasures under the direction OF For
syth Post There were present Comrades sam
mel Harper. Pittshurg, Pa; Samuel Wells,
Buchanan. Mich; Herman $. Fox, Geneva, \.
Y, and J. J. sullivan. Millersburg, O., members
of the Council, together with q. M.-Gcn. John
TAYLOR of Philadelphia, and :. Y. Dept COM
mander r. Il. Brown, of GAINESVILLE, .. Past
Commander-in-Ch Chief Robt. b. Beath and In
spcctor-Geu. o. A. James were also expected,
but at the last moment were unabio 10
meet the engagement, as announced by teie-
graph Most of the guests arrived at an
early hour, and the morning was spent most
pleasantly in social reunion at the Adjutant-
Generals Office, followed by drive over the
city under escort of Commander-in-ChiefJn o.
s Kountz, Judge AdVocdte-GcDeral ID. X Aus
tin aud others.
ROUTINE BUSINESS.
The meeting involved principally questions
of routine business, no action Of special inter
est TO the public being taken excepting in the
selection of a design for Grand Army emblem
attic button TO be worn on the lapel of the coat,
which is 10 be recommended az the next annual
Encampment for adoption. The design chosen
was that exhibited at Minneapolis bearing tho
medallion of the center Of the badge star.
which is certainly very neat and appropriate,
and, as more coBveGIeD; insignia Of member
ship than the badge entire, must meet with
general favor
THE BANQUET.
After the meeting banquet was served at
the Draconian Club ROOMS. presided over by
the Commandcr-in-Chief; there being seated.
besides the visiting comrades, the following
representative members of the Order In the
city: Judge Acknowledgement Austin, Adjt-
Gen. Alcorn, Post Commander VIM. Corlett,
p. III. Bowling J. X Hamilton aud NJ. J. En-
right.
At o'clock Committee from Forsyth Post,
consisting of Comrades Dustin. Wooson and
Foster, escorted the entire company TO the Post
hall, where large proportion OF lis members
and number of comrades from neighb0ring
Posts were assembled in
CAMPFIRE
to receive them. After the greeting extended
the honored guests in the brief but eloquently
earnest remarks of Commander Corett, and
seats given them on the platform, all joined in
the singing of patriotic hymn, followed by
the welcome of tho Commander in Chief as q
representative of both the National and the
local organizations.
The words of the Commander were full of
that warmth and enthusiasm which such Occa-
siens inspire, gracefully waving all formality
of reception, and offering instead the cordial
fraternal greeting of true comradship, which
hospitality was attested by frequent and hearty
applause He alluded, with manifest pride. to
the fact that this month marked the 18th year
of the existence Of Forsyth Post. the growth
and prosperity and noble deeds of charity Of
which were known far and near, paying just
tribute TO the fidelity of the charter members
II of the Is of whom are now iVing,-none
having contributed more largely TO its success
than the present Commander of the Post
William Coriett.
QUARTERMAsTER-GEN. TAYLOR
was next called npon, responding in a most
happy manner TO the flat;ering reception ac-
corded them, aycrrng, nevertheless, that the
Quartermasters place was never at the front,
and rejoicing that il was not, inasmuch as max
ing speech meant coming to the front, and
he was no speech maker. Certainly if the Gen
erals reasoning WAS true, his appreciative au-
dience must have thought he had temporarily
deserted his post, so successfully did he sus-
tain the role of orator.
he was naturally proud to be a citizen of
that grand old State OF SO many noble imsti-
tutions lPeansylvania, pre-eminent among
which is the Grand Army Of the Republic.
The wonderful progress and remarkable sue
cess of the organization he considers due to the
rigid and juGicious discipline maintained, and
mental principles of the Fraternity,
Charity, and Loyalty. No Department or Post
can hope 10 reach that complete success for
which it is intended, without a full compre-
hcnsion of the spirit and meaning of these
principles practically sustained - and the
greatest of these is Charity"
sIGHTLEss SCARS.
1t is fact too well known that many a
brave soldier, who has withstood the shot and
el.I I.s41 4
habits and vices which render him unfit to be-
come the good citizen. One of the important
missions OF the Grand Army is to reclaim all
such,-and the speaker had known of many
cases,-tO gather them into its fold, surround
them with an atmosphere of Fraternity, Char
ity, and Loyalty, that shall restore their latent
manhood-that manhood which must exist in
every true soldiers heart.
He, therefore, regarded The humble part he
had taken in this great work as the proudest
record of his life.
OHIO VOLUNTEERS
Comrade j. J. Sullivan being next called for
acknowledged the compliment in short but
pithy speech, and as a representative of the
Grand Army of Ohio. took occasion to enter
somewhat into the statistics Of her record of
volunteer soldiery. he said Ohio sent into the
field as volunteers 10000 gallant soldiers,
10000 Of whom never returned, and he hoped
the friends of the Order would never rest until
every surviving soldier within our borders be-
come members. The Grand Army Posts are
the legitimate homes of every soldier of the
rebellion.
In the course Of his remarks he prophesied
that il the enthusiasm of the Grand Army of
the State was to be measured by that existing
in Holmes County, Ohio would soon meet
Pennsylvania roll of comrades and go them
$4,000 better.
SENIOR VICE DEPARTMENT COMMANDER Z. &.
BROWN
was next of the visiting comrades called Col
Brown is always the right man in the right
place, and never more thoroughly at home to
the requirements of the hour than when before
Grand Army audience. He is an old friend
of the Order i'll Toledo, and his introduction
met with hearty welcome from the boys"
He was loud in his praises of the many achieve
ments of Forsyth Post, and said that Grand
Army men had for years been accustomed 20
lay their evergreen garlands on her altar; and
now additional and Inherited honor had
been conferred in the election of one of its
members,
THE DRUMMER BOY OF MISSION RIDGE,
70 the highest position among the most honored
Of men, that of COmmander-in Chief of the
Grand Army of the Republic. Then, as if this
was not enough TO turn the heads of the SOL
diers and citizens of Toledo, a like appropriate
and exalted honor had been conferred by the
Woman's Relief Corps as noble a band as ever
misunderstanding Mrs Kate Brownlee Sher-
n