The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-10-09

luuAfluudl eIIOrJ, ana IndC tnc restraints OF
laws should be reserved for the turbulent
and disorderly. That is what makes your
community peaceful. that makes these farm
homes safe 1t is not policemen, it is not
soldiers. IL is this great and all-pervading
American sentiment that examines law,
and above all it is sshat pervading thought
that gives to every man what is his and
claims only what IS ours [Great appliance.
LESSON OF THE WAR.
"The war was only fought that the law
might not lose its sanction and its sanctity.
[Applause.] IL we suffered that loss, dis
menberment would have been a lesser one,
But we taught those who resisted law and
taught the world that the great sentiment
of loyalty to our written law was so strong
In this country that no associations, con-
spiracles or combinations could overturn it,
LGood, good, and applause. Our govern
ment will not fail to 90 on in its increasing
career of development, so long as we
hold up everywhere, in localities,
in communities and in the nation this
great thought that every man shall keep the
law which secures him in his own rights,
and shall not tranple upon the rights Of
another. [Applause Let US divide upon
tariff Glaughter] and finance, but let there
never be division among the American peo-
pie upon this question, that nowhere snail
the law be overturned In the interest of
anybody. [Applause1 l believe to-day
that the great rock Of our Sc
curity is this deeply imbedded
thought in the American heart that it is
not here as in many of our Spanish -Ameri-
can countries, which sometimes gave their
devotion to man. for we,give our devotion to
law, to the constitution, to the flag. [Great
applausel So it was that in that hour of
gloom when this, the richest contribution of
all the gems that Illinois has set in our
national diadem, Abraham Lincoln, [pro-
longed applausel fell in that hour
of consummation of his work by
the hand of an assassin. Garfield who
was to meet a like fate, might say to the
trembling and dismayed people on the
streets of New York, Lincoln is dead. but
the government at Washington still lives.
[Great applause aud cheers.
THE PAST AND THE FUTURE.
1--WE have had here to-day this procession
Of veterans, aged and feeble many of them.
That is retrospect, and in these sweet chill
dren who have followed we read the future
How sweet it was in the procession
to see them bearing in their infant hands
these same banners that those veterans
carried amid the shock of battle and the
dying of men. [Applause.1 / had occasion
at the centennial celebration of the iDaugu-
ration of Washington in New York, being
impressed by the great display of national
| colors, to make at the banquet suggestion
| that the flags should be taken into the
| school houses [applausel and | am glad to
know that in that state there is a pretty
| little drill of children that pays honor to the
| flag" Prolonged applause
The President studiously avoided politics in
his address. Indeed, he frankly stated that
on such an occasion as this, participated in
| by men of all shades OF opinion, be would
not utter word to mar the harmony.
The President was followed by Secre tary
Tracy in a brief speech.
LAYING A CORNERSTONE.
Congressman Grosvenor also spoke, and
| the party then repaired to Knox College
where the cornerstone OF Alumni hall was
to be laid. After an invocation by the
President and short sketch Of the college
| President Harrison made a brief speech, In
which he said the present ceremony was
entirely in accord with the patriotic i'm
pulses which had stirred our hearts to-day
for from the beginning the trainers of
our institutions looked to education as one
of the best if not the only guarantee of their
perpetuation." He closed by rededicatirg
the institution TO trnth, purity and loyalty
and love Of God.
The cornerstone was then placed in posi-
tion, and the President, with mortar, care.
fully closed it and covered the seams with
| InOTbdE. dppiauSc kE6oUol biilo pOi-
formance, which brought the ceremonies
! to an end.
REUNION OF HARRISoN'S COMMAND.
The party now repaired to the hotel foI
| dinner, and at 5 o'clock reunion OF the
first brigade. the Presidents old command
was held at the opera house. To this it was
found imperative to admit only the old
| veterans and their immediate families, and
even then the opera house was almost
inadequate. President Harrison was
escorted from the hotel to the scene of
the reunion by committee headed by
Gen. Daniel Dustin, United States sub
treasurer at Chicago. and formerly colonel
of the One hundred and fifth Illinois infan-
try. The appearance of President Harri
son on the stage was the occasion for ar
outburst of cheers from the assembled
| veterans that made the very walls tremble
Gen. Dustin then called the meeting to
order. After the applause had somewhat
subsidized, President Harrison addressed the
veterans of his old brigade. Gen. Dustin
also spoke, after which the President an
nounced his desire to shake each member of
his former command by the hand.
The veterans mounted the stage one by
one and grasped the Presidents hand. The
President was then driven to the hotel
| where he retired to a private room until
O'Clock.
ATTENDED TWO BANoUETs.
This evening the President attended {
banquet given by the Phi Delta Theta So
ciety at College nall, and later a banquet
given by the First brigade, at the First
Christian church. The President made 9
brief speech at the banquet The best
thing In it was this extract:
II were to select a watchword that woulC
have every young man write above his dool
and on his heart it would be that good word
Fidelity know of no better. The man who
meets every obligation eto family, to society
to state. to his country and his God, to the bes
measure of his strength and ability, cannot
fail of that assurance and quietness that comes
OF good conscience, and win seldom fail OF the
approval of his fellow men, and will never fai
of that reward which is promised to faithful
| ness.
The President was urged by Director
General Davis of the worlds fair to visit
Chicago, but replied that it would be i'm
possible for him to do 80 on this trip. He
left Galesburg tonight for Ottumwa, la.