Morning journal and courier., 1888-07-04
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 FROM ALL QUARTERS. |QUEsIIONs OF TIE HOUR For Blue And Gray To Pon- der.
 COLLEGE OARsMEN AT WORK. No Electric Lights On
 Broadway. \ BIG CUT ON DRESSED BEEF. The Liability Of The
 Sugar Trust.
A BIG CUT ON DRESSED BEEF.
THE BLUE AND THE CRAY

! Will Garry Pleasant Memories o Their Reunion on she Field at Get tysburx-M0re Monuments Dedicated | to she Fallen Heroes.
 GETTYSBURG, July zS;-Promptly at | o'clock the procession composed of the sam, military commands as yesterday entered th' | National cemetery, Colonel Gibson, thu ! ranking officer present, leading. As Conter nos band filed past the rostrum it strucl up the popular airs from Erminie, 9Th, over the shady lawn and tickling the crowi by its inappropriateness. After the Nintl New York had tramped past and the cavalry had thrown the dust over the prominent people on the rostrum General Robinson, oi New York, arose and leaning heavily on hh crutches requested Rev. Dr. Twitohell oi Hartford, Ct., to open the second day's re- union exercises with prayer; The praye. was listened to with uncovered heads and when in concluding he began to repeat the Lords prayer the crowd joined in. The poet oi the occasion, George Parsons Lathrop, was unable to be present, but part of his poem was read by General Horatio 0. King, the secretary of the society of the Army ot
 
 dience with much applause. When the oIa- tor, George William Curtis, was presented three cheers were called for by General Sharpe and he was greeted with hearty ap- plaase at the conclusion of his oration:
 Ar. Curtis, after reviewing some of the phases of the great battle, said among other things:
 indeed remain which will sternly try patriotism and our wisdom. But they will be appealed to the these peaceful popular and parliamentary conten- tions which beft patriotic and intelligent republi can people. do not mean only that party politics and measures will be discussed mean that great m ae saxey M n 5he sS5 administrative reform Of the suffrage, questions of
 local 6 6earng snd interest but G 9f nati0nai i'm inn
 be discussed everywhere in the Union Our popu- tsa of .n1 oter o5e oe5er1 is f4s @ Fourth of July. IL is our national festival. Yet vast nHmbaTs Ia9 of the people, esewSegSe W Sh have no knowledge of the sublime significance of asm as the stars and stripes greet the suspicious morning. This is a fact Of profound significance longing of the Greek heart for Greece The soul of the German thrills everywhere to the music of his fatherland The Hishmsn is still the exile of Erin The wandering Savoyard hears in his dreams the Rang des vaches among his native mountains. The Scotchman, whose land is merged in mighty en- pire, is still true to Scotland, and wherever he wan ders bears in his yearning memory every Scottish traditions historic events and the mories of ia nous men. But miscellaneous multitude, sprung brate instinctively to common memories and asso- cations, would lack that supreme patriotism which is the moral defence of 0 nation.
 Let us beware, then, how we recklessly water our life-blood. Webster said at Bunker Hill, We are govern eoTernments mi We shali be recreant to the duty of Chat headship if we permit the fundamental cond rights, of good laws and of just administration to be imperilIed by the ignorant. lawes sile aud dan
 and Gans of h country esd SIe w kindly heart and hospitable hand towards all the inc world shall come here If America is to re- main the head of free governments and the hope of that constitutionsI liberty has it's own laws and conditions, and that only by respecting and enforc ing them can liberty fo< ourselves ana for all men Akin to this Is the problem of the suffrage Sub ject to the constitutional guarantee of republican form of government, and of no discrimination against race color, the regulation of the suffrage State upon subjects of . common interest neces- sariy affects the Union. The suffrage is the main affects it iniurousy touches the national sensorium and the whole country thrills. No community DO. frsge can habtuafy disregard that e9uslity with out moral deterioration, growing indifference to democratic republican principle If ignorance and semi-barbarous dominance be fatal to civi- and deliberate defiance of law In national union of States where fair elections are assumed, votes. in the event of closely contested po would inevitably destroy the conviction that the apparent CTS and that result would be challenged amid vo- lent disorder It is not enough that national cleo
 ton be fair it must be the national conviction that No honest man should delude himself with the theory that this is local question. In New York there is very large class of ignorant unAmerican voters who barely speak our language, who have tions and who alien in tradition, sympathy and spirit. It is class oE no single nationality, but is enough to control the Etate, and as the cleo toral vote of New York is very important it might easily decide Q national election. But whatever it's ignorance or degradation, this is 8 class of legal voters They haTs @ been % enfEanehssd fraud force or by any illicit method this class of voters should be deprived of their legal right 1t would not be 8 New York question alone Virginia, Mississippi Maine Minnesota would be equally con cerpeds The national peace S would . be & &mPersd
 either legally annulled or freely exercised If
 y interests every American citizen from the Penob scot to the Rio Grande. 2 question which while must be honorably entertained and patrioticsy ad. justed; 1t is the question of free legal ballot
 be the spirit of our political contentionsY Can we wrest from the angel of ths hour any blessing So
 not have to this consecrated spot only to de clare our joy and gratitude, nor only to cherish Selves to Union ia it's submest signiicanceF Here
 last is its sacred secret revealed. It lies in the Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of the Potomac. It lies in the manly emotion with which
 the generous EoSS OnIy Inc Sl0cer1LY ana
 courage of ancient foe and scorns suspicion of lingering enmity. It lies in the perfect freedom of
 now nps0nt for H three days have giowed S in these \ heroic hearts and echoed in this enchanted future of our beloved country May they go before \ us mighty march pillar of cloud by day, of
 if we and our chIldFen shall comprehend that they
 fundamental conditions of the life of the repuo-
 iGng csHen eoen with o
 of civilization which the imagination cannot fore | shail be ceiebrated. the generation which shall
 gather here in our places will rise up and call us
 hour will have yielded his most precious benedic-
 tion and in the field of Gettysburg. as we now be-
 M sne fe Ie ts ngng hues of the | landscape we may see the radiant symbol of the
 triumphant America, of our pride our hope and our
 The number in attendance to-day was not so large as yesterday and the enthusiasm was E less plentiful Tonight banquet was ] served at the Springs Hotel. The following monuments were dedicated to-day:
 Top GeneraI Hammond, Colonel Penfield, Major S B. Ryder and Colonel A. H. Waite taking part in The iz6th New York infantry. "Garnard Tigers, '
 The he sintyseventh New York Eirst Long Island voIunteers) ''Beechers Regiment on Culp's Hill Rev Thomas K. Beecher of Emira, orator.
 Aneie Major General W. T. Rosecrans, orator. " | Battery B. New York artillery, Rsv. W, M. Beau
 The Thirteenth New York battery.
 ! The Signal Corps association of the Army | of the Potomac held crowded meeting here | to-day. They determined to erect an impos- | ing tablet on Little Round Top, a short dis tance to the right of the place where the bronze statue of General G. K. Warren will be unveiled in October commem. | orative of the work of this branch of the army in the battle. They also elected General Jesse Merrill pres. ident and decided to hold their annual re. | unions at the time of the encampment of tht l G. 4. R. Governor J. B. Gordon of Geor
 eia, whose eloquent speech set the crowd | fairly wild yesterday afternoon, was com pelled by his official duties to leave for At lanta this afternoon. Before going he said
 "This meeting was great success and i these reunions between the soldiers could oc cur yearly it would serve to cement th' friendly feeling of the blue and gray nor closely and to bind the North and South s' firmly that there would be no North, D, South, but one country linked together b,
 the chains of indisaolnble friendship"
 No exercises are scheduled for to-morroy
 and the day will probably be quiet as far a
 the Army of the Potomac is concerned. A