Las Vegas free press. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1891-1???, 1892-04-09
JUDGE 1oNa's ADDRESS.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, MEMBERS
OF THE VISITING PosTs:

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, MEMBERS
OF THE VISITING PosTs
When called upon at a late hourlas
evening by committee from Sher-
man Post with invitation to take the
place in the exercises tonight some
time ago assigned to one of our most
distinguished and eloquent towns
men, | was much inclined to use a
judicial expression to ovcrrue the
application, but | was 50 earnestly
reminded by the committee that 1t is
a first duty 81 q sold,u to obey or
denS, that here / am Hndcr orders
from Sherman Post TO extend to all
visiting comrades aud friends n
49,. bearty.welcome 70 the Inequalities
of-the post, to the city Of the Mead
lows, and to our homes and hearts.
We give you welcome for the victor
- les your valor in battle won.
When dark clouds lowered over
the nation, casting gloom and doubt
into many patriotic minds, you all,
but especially the soldiers of the ear
lier days of the war, saw more clear
- ly than your associates the road
which duty babe you follow, and
with sublime courage followed 1t
through the mud and storm of tenn
-. pestnens' seasons, often with moth
ing but the wet and bare
ground for resting place and
only the darkness of night for a
covering. You followed this road
of duty by day and night when the
=. roar Of battle told you that comrades
were falling by the score and deadly
blows werebeing received and given.
Steady, with nerve of steel and heart
of iron, you Pressed on, over pools of
human gore, past the dead or wound
ed bodies of relatives and friends,
on, ever.on, through the storm of
deadly bullets, through the smoke and
- Carnage of terrible battle, on the
road Of duty, death in horrible forms
all about you, danger everywhere,
the life of great republic in the
balance. Forward, band of broth
ers in holy cause, you marched, un-
-s--'~-ti] NJ last the contest was ended, and
the old flag torn and tattered it Is
=. true, but all the more lovely for that
4 fl9ated once again undisputed, from
lake to gulf, from ocean to ocean, the
beautiful Emblem of the Republic of
Republics For all this your com
rades in arms, Sherman Post, extend
YOU double welcome Welcome to
its hall, to the camp fire and the city.
SO long as liberty is held sacred
among men, so long as constitu.
tional, "indissoluble union of indie
structible states" continues to exist
on this continent, may the union sol
g diers be remembered with grateful
- hearts, and in the distribution of the
' gsod tlEngs Of life, my fellow citi.
u zens, give 70 them substantial recog-
milton. Let us not forget, in the
activities of life, that we owe to the
union soldier more than kind words,
which are only pleasing to the ear
~ .an@ gratifying to the heart Let us
~ as citizens remember. that this is an
intensely practical state of existence
ard that loaf of bread to one IN
need is worth ton of compliments,
and that a position to an old soldier
sas where he can earn the comforts to
make himself and family happy is of
sSarsmore value than glowing speech
or: complimentary resolution. 1t
should be matter of principle with
every ,son and daughter of the re-
public, where all things are substan-
= tally equal in matters of favor or
employment; that those who peried
their lives that the Union might live
should be preferred. Duty, however,
is not all on the side of the citizens.
The soldier has done well. In the
work already accomplished, in the
example placed before generations TO
come, as an inspiration in the hour of
peril, the soldier of the union has
made grand record; but thereby he