, 1885-09-10

AAh' ADNfff u SCI VI SUIT
Grant is dead. But his work and yours
lives, lives to bless as q complaining
millions of men, Here permit me to re-
peat what | SAID at one of your camp fire
meetings: Napoleon and his marshals,
glittering with decorations, and flushed
with wondrous victories, presented a grand
spectacle to the old world, but one which
pales and sinks into insigni6cance when
compared with that presented by Gen.
Grant at Appomattox when he directed
the confederate cavalry to retain their
horses, las they would be needed to
plough with. Soldiers, in peace, as in
war, you have followed closely in the foot
steps OF your great leader, and, year after
year, as you meet on
flames eternal camping ground"
to decorate with bright spring flowers the
graves of your dead comrades in sublimity
Of manhood you select the most beautiful
garlands and sweetest flowers for the grave
of him who fought in opposing ranks,
To day, following the example Of our dead
hero, we thank God that NOW we have
peace, and we give most hearty welcome
to those who fought in the opposing
ranks; brave and true men often differ.
but always respect each other, and now
the blue and the grey-shoulder to shout
der are ready to meet the outside world
in the cauaa of fraadom
Fellow citizens. do we care for our coun
try today do we glory in her beauty and
in her strength? do we realize the impor.
lance Of national unity and sectional har-
mony? do we take pride in our starry ban
ner and what it represents: If so, do honor
to the soldiers of the union and let us sec
to it that we, faithfully and well. do our
part in handing down to posterity the
free institutions saved at so great a cost.
Wyoming gives hearty greeting to Camp
jeffrey and all its friends"
Mayor Reel being absent from the city
j. c. Baird. Esq, had been appointed
by the president of the council to repre-.
sent the city, and ably did Mr.. Baird per.
form that duty in the following eloquent
speech which he delivered with %oratori-
cal power as Cheyenne's welcome to the
visitors. Being introduced, Mr.. Baird
spoke substantially as follows:
"Gepaemol Of he Grand army of
HE Republication behalf of the city of
Cheyenne and the citizens | bid you vel
come to the hospitality of our little NUM-
cipality. Though we are young in years
and small in stature, We trust that We shall
equal cities of greater age and larger size
in the bounty of our good, the beauty of
our ladies, the valor of our men and in the
manifestation of good will By all. We
trust that the occasion of your visit may
be festive and joyous aud profitable. We
hope you will be able to say, truthfully, it
is good for us to be here. and that you
will long remember the event and the peo-
pie concerned with it. We congratulate
you hat you have chosen as the place of
your encampment our beautiful Italian
climate where It never rains laughter: it
simply pours.
Permit me to extend to you the freedom
of the city. Take it and do as you please
with it, and if it pleases you it will please
us. 1t will be our endeaYor to entertain
you all pleasantly.
The speaker then went nn to extend the
utmost freedom of the city in Il humorous
way.
But seriously, there is some meaning
10 all this circumstance and pomp of war.
You do not come here to gloat over the
fallen foe, nor TO renew the warlike spirit
of the late war. But you some more to
instill into the generations succeeding YOU
the principles of liberty and union for
which you fought, that these principles
may be maintained for all time.
The people feel honored by the presence
OF the Grand Army among us. You be.
long to a generation senior to many of us
who are here to-day to welcome you. We
hail you as the heroes of our nation. We
feel within US the rising spirit of CRATE
fulness and venention at the contem-
lation of your deeds. We resolve more
firmly, if possible, to cherish your mem
DRY when We reflect upon what you have
dared and suffered that the nation might
live.
After depicting tho stirring scenes Of
the war, the departure of troops, the
scenes of carnage and the return of the
victorious troops, the speaker proceeded.
Gentlemen Of the Grand Army, there
is yet n SID side to your natures. Yours
is an organization that is essentially melt
ing away with the rayages Of time; your
years are numbered for eternity. On
each succeeding encampment day when
you meet to renew the old-time friend
ships and to fight over again, in peaceful
converse, the battles for the union, you
cannot, separate without the noistened
eye. the saddened heart and the ~sorrowing
countenancc Of each one have told the
doleful tale of death, How hat one,
and another, and another of your com
rades has been mustered out of the ser
vices of life and enrolled amongst the
hosts of heaven. Even yet the heart Of
the nation bleeds over the departure Of
your greatest comrade. Your grand COM
mander, who led you and your comrades
at Donclson, at Vicksburg, and finally to
Apnomatox, has passed from the scenes
of his earthly triumphs to that lasting
peace for which he so eloquently prayed.
And thus must the advancing years
find your numbers wasted, your hairs
grayer grown, your blows more deeply
furrowed, and your forms, once erect,