The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-06-26
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hall und forming Ia plalouns
of twelve marched, headed by
the Marine band To the Generals resi-
doucc, on Twelfth street, where crowd
Of 2,OG or 3,Un citizens was
already assembled, The procession
was literally supplied with banners,
rockets, Roman candles and Noise
making devices. The banner of the
Army of Tennessee was displayed
from the upper windows of tcn,
logan's house. Ten, lognn's appearance
was greeted with storm OF cheers
When the applause subsidized, hc was
introduced In brief speech hN Gen,
GrCCn II. Raum, Gcn, logan then adj
dressed the nssomhlngC rs follows'
Comrades and Fellow CitiZcns;
The warm expression oicunidcncc ana
congratulations which you offer nae
through Your Chairman impress ne
with deep SENSE of gratitude. hrrrhy
tender my sincere thanks L. one und 'lil
my participating friends, for this demon
StruliOn of Your esteem ana klhu-
ness. Your visit nj this limc'
gentlemen, Is interesting To- me
in double aspect. ~ citizens
of our common country lchnrrils
tribute To me MS a public man, | meet
yuu with genuine pleasure and grateful
Acknowledgements; coming as You 90 IN
the character Of representative soldiers
aud sailors Of your country; your
visit presents feature leading
to u train of the most inter
cstlng reflections. Applause Your
asscmblagc i composed oil men VINO
gave up the pursuits of peace, ,relin-
severed the ties of friend
ship and yielded the gentle
and loving society of father, mother,
sister and brother, and in many instances
wife and little ones, 10 brave the dangers
of the tented field or crested wave,
to run the gauntlet of sickness III eli
mates different from your own, ANA pos
siblc. or even probably, TO yield up life
itself in the service of your country.
Twenty-thrcc years ago, gentlemen,
when dread war raised its wrinklcd
front throughout the land, many OF YOU
were standing with one foot upon the
portal of manhood. eager forthc conflict
with world which promised to bring
YOU honors, friends, and riches, ana lie,
peace and ease. in the society oil your
own family; but few of you had
passed the period of young manhood,
or advanced to the opening scenes OF
middle life. At the call, however, of your
endangered country, you did not hcsl-
tate to leave everything for which we
strive i'm this world to he defenders OF
the Union, without the incentive which
has inspired men in other
nations t. military career I a as
and sublet of ambition and an ascent to
power. Cheers. The safety Of our,
country having been assured and
its territorial integrity preserved,
YOU shcathed the sword, uniiNcd
the bayonet, laid away the muskett,
housed the cannon, dofled Your UNI,
forms, donncd the garments OF ciNil
life. buried hatred toward our brothers
of the South, and shook hands III
testimony of the mutual resolve to re-
habitate the waste places and cultivate
! the arts of peace, until our reunited
country should be greeted, prouder
| and grandcr than ever before.
Great cheers. Those years, have glided
into the perspective of the past
Since you responded TO your
nations have taken place. This passing
time has laid its gentle lines upon the
shouldered Your muskGts before
the first beard was grown
| but however lightly or however heavily
| it has dealt with you, YOU
soldiers and sailors organizations that
]
the heart has been untouched and that
your love of country has been intensified
with advancing years. lChecfS.
Yours arms have been a.
strong and your voice as
clear in the proclamation of peace as
when lent to the science of war, ana the
interest which you take in national
affairs, proves that you are patriollcallH
undetermined to maintain what you
fought for and that for which our lost
comrades gave up theirlivcs to secure tol
the benefit of those who survived them
[Cceers, long continucd.] During. the
last twenty years, in which we have
been blessed with peace, the Repub,
lican party has been continued
in the administration of the gov,
ernment. When the great question
of preserving or giving up the Union Of
States was presented to us, II
was the Republican party who affirmed
it's perpettlation. / open no wounds
nor do I resurrect any bad
memories in stating this as an undenia'
bic fact. When you and !, my friends
and that vast body of men who,. having
declared in favor of preserving. the
the last dread measure, the
arbitramcnt of war, we did so under the
call of the Republican party. Many OF
us have been educated by our fathers in
the Democratic school of politics
and many Of US were, actine
with that party at the time
the issue of war was presented to US. foi
years the Democratic. party had welded
me and had served theil
purpose under narrower views o.
an ideal Republic that then existed
The matrix of time has developed new
child of progress, which saw the light
of day under the name of the
Republican party. Its birth. an
nounced the conception OF higher
broader principle of human government
than had been entertained by our lore
fathers. But few of us,,perhaps none zone,
OF oar,v 'ho day. commit It broke upol
us gradually, like the morning sun, as
he rises in the misty dawn above the
mountain-top; at length it came III ltl
blaze, and for the first time in thu
history of our Republic we began, t.
give genuine vitality to the declaration
Of l756: "That all men are created equa
and entitled to the alienable right OF I'D
erty in pursuit of happiness" Cheers.
The Republican party was the unques
tionable agency which bore these rights
to the waiting age, and 1t was
Democratic idea which disputed
their value, flrSt upon lne her'
of battle and subsequently ant
ND to this moment at the polling places
Of the country. The Republican
party, then, represents the lates
function of governmental progress
and and it is destined to suryiv
upon the theory that the strong outlive
tie weak, until the developement Q
principles still more advanced shall
come, shall compel it to measure 1t
step with the march of the age o
go to the wall as an instrnmen
which has fulfilled its destiny. so lon
as the Democratic party shall cnns