The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-12-20
Ex PRESIDENT HAYES SPEECH.


General Hayes, in beginning his ad-
dress spoke briefly of the history of the
loyal legion, and reviewed its formation
and the society in Cincinnati which, he
said, was unquestioned to prototype
of the loyal legion. What will be the
future OF this order, said he, what
will be its influence on its members
and lis countrymen, and especially on
the young who are growing up to take
our places? 1t is not and will not be
political organization. The loyal legion
is essential to maintain the memory
of our comradeship in sacred war.
Our honored companion, who SO
largely at this time and this place is
in our thoughts. in his terse and en-
phatic way, gave the whole pith of the
question.
sad General Harrison, politics
cannot break the bond of comrade-
| ship" In this the general made no
mistake. The links tast unite US were
welded when we stood together as com
rades on holy ground fighting for
eternal right. Where is the holy
ground? If anywhere, it is where q
man freely dies for his felloWmen.
That sublime privilege was
THE CROWN OF LINCoLN's FAME,
and We of the Loyal Legion and our
comrades of the Grand Army ca1.rever-
emily thank God that we are permitted
to stand by Lincoln and our nations
history. What shall be the teaching
which the Loyal Legion will give to the
companions of the order? That to
their countrymen and to posterity it
goes without saying that the ideas we
fought for are the principles of the
Loyal Legion. Those principles are
without regard 10 sect or party of our
choice. We hold to our faith that the
American Republic, in the language of
the Supreme Court. is an indestructible
union of indestructible States. The
general government was threatened by
the doctrine that the allegiance OF the
citizen was due only to the State. Our
faith is that the citizens allegiance is
to the United States, and that the
United States Is in authority and duty
in the fullest possible sense nation.
The contention of our adversaries was
that slavery was of
PERPETUAL AND DIVINE ORIGIN.
Our faith is that statute nor law can
make the false phantasy of that man
that can hold property in man. The
cornerstone of the slave-holding sys-
tam was the impious dogma that might |
makes right. The trail of this serpent |
is over all human society, and is found |
where the footprint of q slave was
never seen. The talk of the LOYAL Lee |
gion is that universal suffrage is essen !
tlal to liberty, and that there can be no |
fitting exercise and no full |
employm emit of suffrage without the |
universal education of the weaker |
nations around US with whom we deal, |
the Indians, the children of misfortune, |
of poverty, of evil habits and of crime, |
who are at ell orr doors. The faith we |
learned in the school of war with |
respect to them is that they are the off |
spring
OF OUR COMMON FATHER,
and that social distinction and wealth
were of little avail in that bloody trail |
and that everything deferred to man J
hood. Therefore, we would incuIcate |
sympathy with manhood and respect for |
manhood wherever tits found. Above all |
our faith is in America and American |
principles. We have no quarrels with |
Europe nor any foreign people, but |
we prefer that their notions, folIies and |
vices shall remain on the other side |
of the Atlantic. We have enough |
vices, follies and perils of our own.
We importfrom Europe altogether too
many. We believe IN American home |
and in the character and virtue of the |
American women, which makes
American homes happy. When the
great trial came and the calamity had
to be met, Mr.. Lincoln said: IF all |
that has been said by orators ard |
poets since the creation of the world
IN PRAISE OF WOMEN
were applied to the American women it
would not do them justice for their
conduct during the war. God bless the
American women" Finally, the last
fatal mistake the south made was in its
doctrine of state sovereignty. They
thought each wenld represent q
separate government, and all
of them would wave helplessly and
miserably over the States and dscord
ant, discovered, beligerent States. The
faith of the Loyal Legion is the reverse
of all this. We believe the whole of
the American Republic, every State and
every acre in the State, belongs to
one flag; the old fag-:he stars
and stri es-the flag of Washington and
Lincoln, the flag of the United States.
1t represents a people great, pros porous
and happy, whose heritage would be as
long as they are guided by wisdom and
justice, the enjoyment of unbroken
harmony and perpetual peace.