Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-08-12

toast OF the Grand Army of the Republic"
know you need but a word from me, because in
your heart of hearts, every man and every
woman and every child in the State knows the
Grand Army of the Republic. We have come
among you; we stay with you tonight, and we
go away tomorrow with our hearts full of your
hospitality with gratitude in recollection of
your kindness which shall never be eflaced.
In nay old home here in Sacramento. after 81
years absence, am very glad to stand up and
speak to nv soldiers and of the great deyelon-
ment, and say of the great State of California
IL IS indeed a golden State: the men are golden
men, the women are golden women, and may
God bless them. Applause
Music by the band Red, White and
Blue"
GENERAL JOHN A. LOGAN
Was greeted with three ringing cheers and
tiger. In response to the toast, & The
Heroes of the War" he said
Mr.. Chairman, Ladies and Genaemen: think
man would have good deal OF cheek 10
undertake 10 talk here tonight, and he GER
tainly would have a very uncommon voice If he
expected anyone to hear him. I have noticed
all of the speeches that have been prepared:
now this speech, referring to Governor Fair
child, mas evidently been written over week;
because they tell the exact time when Governor
Fairchild was born and when he came to Cali
fornia; and from the dates and years given l
think he must be over hundred years old now;
and every person that has been spoken OF here
has always been some one that was in Cali
fornia in the early days-I was not one of those
men; but l intend to do better than any OF
these others-if | ever do come TO California l
win stay. Now, what is the toast you asked me
to speak to?
HEROES CT THE REBELLION
Heroes of the Rebellion" The heroes, my
eountrymen have lived since history has been
written. Were to undertake to speak OF the
heroes of the late Rebellion it would REQUIRE
more time than you would be willing to grant
to me here to night. But those that were heroes
according to the commonest denomination of
man will live in history But the true heroes of
the war are not the men that are usually re-
eordedin history. The heroes of this great Re-
belliOn were the poor men who left wife and
they were to receive. When they bid farewell
to their wife, and they kissed their
babes, on the brow OF the hill, or
in the yard or beneath the shady
tree that grew there, leaving them to be cared
for by the mother or the charity of friends
that man and his comrades, that when the lines
were broken and his comrades fell when the
man that stepped 10 the vacant spot to take his
chances,
THAT WAS THE HERO
OF the late rebellion. A man may be q hero in
the idea of heroes for moment; ne may shine
like fixed star through history for all time, or
he may fall in a twinkling and be obscured for
ever; but the man who goes tothe vacant spot
who goes through patriotism-not for glory not
for himself. not for poWer-but because he
loves his country, reveres his flag and has an
affection for republican institutions, that man
lays his life down for that purpose tina. is the
hero that will live in song and in story, and in
the memory of mankind.
There are others that were heroes or herOines;
the woman that left her home, her fortune and