Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-02-05

Alpheus Feleh and Hannibal Hamtln- Mr.. I
Bradbury vas to have been here tonight. |
hu: this moreiag be vas tAksr Iii. l trust
not seriously. AMI be did not dare TO come /
out tonight, bat, comrades. he has found
able bodied substitute, ard present TO you, |
not to say much bat TO bos his acknowledge I
msn,s, Comrade Hannibal HAmiin-
The Ba- Hon Hannibal Hamiin.
"Bred Of yoar westhi3 e.s. we Stage yoa
-Lers's Labor Lost
Mr.. Toassmasser, Lartes and Gemfiem<s:
Comrzds Hannibal Hamiin-"H Honor
bright Vas What be told me. The Grand
Commander is a gentlemen and he has told
you that | vas a9t 10 make speech here
rouiga,, and was induced 10 remain upoa
tina, express condition Tina, is 50. Now.
am neither going to talsify my own word
or his am Ding TO keep him within the
line of truth, ard mean 70 stay there my
self. / have said 80 many
times that am never going
to speak ain that i, is time for me to
stop if | an going 10 be 4 man Of truth,
80 am going to stop nov. Mr.. President,
uHde: tbe inscrUtabie laws of a divine
Providence il is true that brother Brad
bury, brother Fetch snd myself are the
Only Surviving senators who listened pain
fu;iy to the speech of Daniel Webster on .
certain sevea!h DAY of March. We alone
are spared.
did not come here to speak, bat l did
come here to testify TO my true and hor-
-st devotion to the organization of the
Grand Army of the Republic. / want to
ra ~ hN mo- thar I hatipya
in it. wanted to testify by my presence
here that believe il to be the most noble
organic ,,ion in the world and while
see before me the worthy chaplail.
challenge him and challenge every Chris
tian denomination ia all the world to show
as good care of the poor, the sick and in
firm of the various societies as we do of
the poor old soldiers We swear little
once in 4 while. have said good many
times thai man eouli no, be a Christian
without swearing LITTLE; he must do it to
give the evidence of his sincerity. DO
say that the manner IN which they look
after the poor, the sick ani the dead is the
exhibition of the noblest charity that can
BE- shown BY any society existence.
Bat, comrades, | am no here to talk.
roastma.ter Micbarl.s introduced ex-
Governor Selden Connor Who spoke as
fGllows
Maine in the War.
Ex-Governor General Selden Conner
Then none was for party.
Then all were for the state
-Macauiey,
VI. TDastmaster, Ladies and Gentlemen
Your POSTMASTER hss confessed to you
in advance that / am a substitute, drafted
an 1 not volunteer substitute, In the place
OF my brother who is unfortunately IN
able 10 be present, and who did not leave a
speech for me.
Il have had my bounty aud now would
like TO desert Perhaps il would be as well
il retire early in the engagement which |
promise TO DO. | perceive by the reading
of this toast that il was not prepared by "a
ci'izen of Maine; it shows that our toast
master is not Que of us If so he would
have said "fhe State of Maine in the War. "
Il has been noticed by our western country
men that when they meet with citizen OF
our Stale he does not say II belong in
Maine, but am citizen Of the State of
Maine"
| don't know what caused that peculiar
ity, whether it was the pride which pos
esed our people after their emancipation
from the alliance with Massach ,setts that
they laid emphasis upon the words Of the
State of Maine, but am inclined to think
it is owing to the brevity of our ram., and
every citizen of our State has such pride in
his State .hat he wants to bring Ii out loud
clear and emphatic, AMI therefore he says,
Il am from the State of Maine
One of our citizens in another State has
written lecture upon this State which he
aptly entities The Enchanted Land. Ii
is indeed an enchanted land. He who has
seen our Own noble coast the waters tapping
its far reaching sands or rolling against its
headlands; he who seen ITS beautiful is
lands in silver seas, AMI its noble rivers
rolling, tumb.ing and bounding to the sea
who has seen its lakes and
ponds, Ike silver set in emerald
he who has visited our growing cities, our
beautiful villages, our lovely homes, by the
rivers and mountain sides. must indeed own
he spell which our State works upon all
who see her, and they cannot wonder at
the love which the citizen of Maine has in
his heart for his own native State.
But dear as is our State to us the call of
I 'Gl showed that it was not narrow patriot
ism which the citizens of Maine held in his
heart None rallied with re..alacrity when
the tocsin of was sounded and as
often as father Abraham called for more
so often did Washburn and Cony and Co
burn pass the word to the citizens of Maine
and The call was promptly answered.
| need not tell you comrades, how well they
did their duty there.
l. Il s
imperial State of New York, OF Michigan,
of every State in the loyal North, whose
troops marched shoulder to shoulder with
the troopsSf the State of Maine, wha,
kind of men Maine soldiers were and we
will abide b. the verGict.
The soldiers of Maine, why was it COM
rades that when the call was made upon
these boys they lett tnelr homes here fsr
! from the scene of war, 10 encounter danger
and dea'h IN every tormf What was he
To Hecuba or tlecuba 10 him that he should
imperll his life, what magic was there in
the words ~ mon anu Liberty" that should
lead him TO distant scenes 10 encounter the
worst thai humanity eau encounter? II
was because he was an intelligent citizen
Of this great free commonwealth, the great
est the earth has known.
Ii was not necessary that the boy should
be historic or constitutional student to
know the worth of that which was i'm
perllled He knew that the Puritans
crossed the sea to found here common
wealth wherein they could have liberty
of consci ence and that the chance
was worth all the sacrifice which
they made. He knew the words of the
founders of the Republic. He remember
ed the devotion with which Washington re-
gsrded the union of the States. He knew
what the flag Of the country signified, and
for that comrades he was ready TO lay down
bis life fof his country.
Ia closing, General Conner said that the
youth and strength of the soldier could not
be restored, but Maine is here and through
this organization it has perpetuated the
work and the service of these men in the
war.
You are still continuing to serve, in the
highest manner. your State and your
country, a. you did twenty 1--WE years ago
you still continue in the strongest terms of
your organization, by the strongest bonds
of comradesbip which binds together your
love and devotion for your country. and
your example is the strongest lesson that
can be given to posterity to secure devotion
TO the State and to the coun ~.
Toastmaster Michaelis introduced Gener-
al Stephenson of the National Home at
Togus who spoke as follows:
National Hore-.
General Luther Stephenson, Jr
The broken soldier, kindly babe to stsy.
sat by his rre, and ia ked the night away
Wept DER hi wounds or. tales Of sorrow done.
>houiderrd hi- rrGtch, and showed how fields we're
won Gotdsnnh
hr. ToaSfmastsr, Ladies and Gentiepap
The people of this country, with lib