Morning journal and courier., 1892-06-13

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 by Secretary Tracy-PrOfessor w.
 c. wilkinson Will Read an Original
 POem-Addresses by Other Promt-
 nent Speakers.
 WOODSTOCK, Conn.,, June 12.-The cele- bration of the Fourth of July in Roseland park, Woodstock, promises to be, so far as speakers are concerned, one of the most attractive of the series which began twenty two years ago Q870), when President Grant, the Russian minister, General B. F. Butler and others were present. The exercises will be called to order and an address of welcome made by Congressman Charles A. Russell of Connecticut. Senator o. Fl. Platt of Connecticut will act as president of the day and will speak. An address will follow by the secretary of the navy, Hon. B. F. Tracy. An original poem, "Ode to the Republic" will be read by Professor William c. Wilkenson of the Chicago university. Senator W. D. Frye of Maine will follow with an address on ''The American Ship" The balance of the program arranged is as follows: Address, "Freedom Growth, D by Attorney-General W. H. H. Miller; ad- dress, ''Our Indian Fellow-citizens," by General Thomas I. Morgan, commissioner of Indian affairs; address, ''The Press," by Colonel Elliott F. Shepard, editor and proprietor of the Mail and Express. New York; address, 'Immigration," by Con- gressman Henry Cabot Lodge of Massa- chusetts; address, s'The West," by Hon. John v. Farwell, merchant, Chicago, Ill. Other prominent speakers are also ex- pected. Letters will be read from sev- eral distinguished gentlemen, who, on account of expected absence in Europe and other causes. cannot be present, among them one from Louis Kossuth, the Hun garian patriot, now ninety three years old. in the evening. During the twenty-two years of these celebrations nearly l5O of the best known people in the country par ticipated in them. The list embraces Presidents Grant, Hayes and Harrison; Vice Presidents Hamlin, Wilson, Foster and Morton; Cabinet Officers Blaine, Nc Culloch, Sherman, James, Evarts, Wind ham, Noble and Tracy; United States Judges Matthews, Miller and Drake; twelve United States senators. name ly, Buckingham, Platt, Hawley, Logan, Palmer of Michigan. Frye. Dawes and Patterson or New Hampshire; members of congress-Wait, Waldo, Hutchins, Buck, Grosvenor of Ohio, Long of Massa- chusetts, Russell of Connecticut, Butter worth, Mckinley, Reed and Sim mons; governors-Jewell, Chamber lain, Andrews, Taft, Harrison of Connecticut, Lounsbury Bulkeley, Bigelow and St. John of Kansas; Generals, Ere mont, Mcclellan, Howard, Wilson, Gree ley, Porter, Woodford, Fitzpatrick, Arm strong and Fisk; presidents of colleges and seminaries, McCosh of Princeton, Bart la&k of nor Hill ofu uoruorl Amherst, Northrop of Minn., Patton and Rankin of Howard university and Frank
 lin W. Fisk of Chicago; Professors Gold win Smith of Toronto, and Rufus P. Rich ardson of Dartmouth; Bishops Coxe, Ha- ven and Vincent, Poets Whittier, Holmes, Stoddard, Queen of Roumania, Maurice Thompson, Will Carleton, Longfellow, Joaquin Miller, Mary Clemmer and others; clergymen, Drs. Storrs, Guy Ter, Paxton, Wayland, Cock, Gregg, and others. Historians -Bossing, Chan ming, Winsor and others. Editors-Henry J: Raymond, Dr. Bulkley, Dr. Ward, Murat Halstead, Dr. Carroll and others. M Dps~ aS1 a.oras msncy Holt, and others. Temperance reformers John B. Cough, Neal Dow, J. Ellen Foster and Frances B. Willarn.
 All the above named persons have actu- ally taken part in the public gatherings in Wood stock, and all were present in person except Longfellow, Whittier, Stoddard, Thompson, Mrs. Moulton and the Queen of Roumania, from whom original poems were received and read. The poem writ ten by Mr. Longfellow, which had never been published, was received through the kindness of an intimate friend of his, after Mr. Lonsfallows death.