Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1889-01-11

Fully i've hundred ladies and gen
tlemen attended the joint installa
ton of Custer Post, G.. A. r AM
Custer Relief Corps, w. r. c.. a
the Odd Fello1s' Hall Wednesda,
evening.
| The Post officers were installed b,
Hon. Ell. E. Bartine, District In
spector, and those of the Relic
Corps by Mrs Chas. f. Bicknell, a
the conclusion of which Mrs. Bick
nell in the following eloquent man.
ner presented Mrs. NJ A. Murphy,
the President Of the Corps, with an
elegant gold and enameled badge Of
office
Mrs. President, a very pleasant
duty has been assigned me this even
ing. One year ago you were elected
to fill the highest Office within the
gift of this Corps and tonight you
have assumed its responsibilities and
labors for another year. 1t is need
less for me to say to you personally
or to those here assembled that you
have performed the duties of that
Office in manner creditable to your
self, beneficial to the Corps and sat-
isfactory to its members. We de-
sire this evening in q simple though
appropriate manner to manifest our
appreciation of your womanly quail
ties and your efforts for the good of
this association. We could think of
no more fitting testimonial than this
badge. emblematic at once Of our
Order and the position you have SO
worthily filled for the past twelve
months. 1t possesses no great IN
trinsic value. 1t is plain and simple
in it's workmanship and design, but
it is just as perfect a memento of
our Association as though it we're
studded with the rarest and costliest
gems. 1t represents the sacred tie
which has bound and still binds us
together. 1t bespeaks the divine vir-
tue of charity, which comes like an
inspiring sunbeam to the household
of suffering, restitution and sorrow,
and admonishes us to throw its
tender mantle around and about the
faults and mistakes of friends or
1t tells of woman's de.
votion to the sentiments of loyalty
and patriotism, sentiments which
have flied our land with liberty
and the world with light. 1t recalls
those days when to lay the founda-
tions of that liberty our forefathers |
bare footed over ice
and snow and shivered in the |
Winter blasts at Valley Forge. 1t |
brings back the dying voice of Law
renee pleading with his men not to
the ship Perry carrying
his flag to victory through the foam
mo waters of Lake Erie /; Jackson
in blaze of glory at New
Orleans and the Veterans of Scott
planting the Stars and Stripes upon
he frowning battlements of Che
1oltepec. 1t is symbol of the adj
niration the women of America
lave always felt for those heroes
Who have fought in defense of their
and upheld its honor and
lignity on land and sea. More than
II this it is reminder of the dark
nd terrible days of 81, when after
learly a century of unparalleled
our dear old flag fell dis
IGNORED for the first time over
;umpter's battered and broken
walls. 1t represents that spirit of
oyalty which clothed our boys in
lue and sent them forth to battle
With a mothers prayers for their
afety still ringing in their ears, the
oft pressure OF loving arms, tender
aresses and farewell kisses still
arm upon their cheeks. 1t tells of ,
hat loyalty which braVed the deadly
wamps OF the Chickahominy
called the ragged crags of Mission
sidge for which they dared the
tormy and treacherous deep (; for
hitch they faced the roaring bat
cries Of Port Royal, Mobile and :
be Mississippi, and for which they
id down their lives by thousands :,
pom thousands in the rebel prisons
{ the South. 1t tells US also of ;
nat loyalty which broke the solemn
fitness that sweet Sabbath morn
lg at Appomatox while yet the :
almy breath of Springtilne was soft
pom hillside and valley, and filled
le air with glad shouts of victory h
nd peace and sent the flag of the :