The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-08-31
President Harrison at Malone.

President Harrison and party attended
a meeting of the Grand Army Of the Repub-
lie at Malone, n. Y, on Friday. The pres
ident was most enthusiastically received
and made one of those speeches that have
become the admiration of his countrymen-
expressing an Americanism, that's broad and
deep and noble. Such an America az Pres
ident Harrison portrays has been created by
the republican policy administered by
long line of presidents every one of whom
will live in the history of this country,
every one of whom has contributed to the
country's glory and greatness, and none
more than President Harrison from whose
felicitious words at Malone we quote the
following
Ladies and Gentlemen and Comrades of
the Grand Army of the Republic:-I very sim
cerely appreciate the friendly invitation ex-
tended in your behalf, which has given me
the privilege of standing for few moments
among you, and of exchanging greeting as
friends and as American citizens. The nom
partisan assemblages in which we gather to
express common interest in the institu-
lions of civil government under which we
live, a common respect for public authority
and a common love for the flag, are full, |
am sure, not only of interest, but of benefit
to all who participate in them.
l fancy that we are entering now as peo-
pie upon career when our external influ-
ence in commerce is to be larger than ever
before. We have in large part completed
our great works of internal Improvement
We have accumulated prodigious
wealth as people, and see no reason why
the Unites States should not from this day
forward step into position of power and
influence among the great commercial ma
tions of the world such as she has never en-
joyed. APPLAUSE
." From causes as to which we differ, we
have come to a condition recognized by all
We have been deprived of our once proud
nQrtiCin1tinn trade
the world. / think we should now resume
it. Applause. The wise and timely in
auguration of a new navy has demonstrated
the capacity of our American shipyards to
produce the best ships in the world. APP
plause. The government, having pio-
neered in this work of shipbuilding by the
encouragement it has given to our con-
structors and our artisans, has paved the
way now for building great ships of COM
merce. Applause. And | take great de-
light in the contemplation of the fact which
/ believe is now assured that before another
year has rolled around one of the swiftest
and best of all the great lines of steamships
that go out of the port of New York will
| bear the American flag at the fore APP
| plause], and the tribute we have paiu to
foreign nations in the way of freight charges
l believe will speedily in large measure be
abrogated forever.
"These great stores of agricultural prod
| ucts which we pour out from our granaries
to feed the nations of Europe should, and, l
believe, speedily will, be delivered at the
port of LIVERPOOL in American bottoms.
| Applause. We will avail ourselves of all
these natural resources, of this vast capac-
| ity, inventive and constructive, which God
| has bestowed upon us, in the belief that it
has been given to us primarily that here, in
this land that so long waited the founda-
| ton of free republic, that republic and its
people might attain the highest develop
ment in wealth, intelligence and morality,
among the nations of the world. APP
| plause.
We have had a great struggle within
ourselves, | believe that we have seen the
last serious outbreak against the supre-
macy of our constitution that we shall ever
see Applause. The one cause that could
divide our people, human slavery, has, I'M
der the favor of Cod and by the Union
army, been abolished forever, and Lincoln's
proclamation has now the assent of the
South itself. Applause, The law and
| the constitution, as the object of every
American citizens generation and his will.
ing obedience, is the one faith and the only
safety of our people. Applause No
cause can be advanced in this country upon
the lines of lawlessness. Applause. In
telligence and morality among our people
the church, the school and the home-thest
great rocks upon which our institutions and
our safety rest-we will cherish and pre-
serve. Applause.
"And now, comrades of the Grand Army
of the Republic, surviving veterans of thai
gallant band that from these mountains and
valleys went out to defend the flag, give
you comrade' greeting to-day. God bless
you, every one! God forgive the heartless
ness of that American in this bright day o.
prosperity and unity, who can begrudge tc
any one of you the just dues of your hard
service" Great cheering.