The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-10-04
IOWA WELCOMES VETERANS.
Governor Jackson Delivers an Interesting
 Address to Them.

Address to Them.
 Council Bluffs, Oct. 3.-The twenty sixth annual meeting of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee convened at Royal Arcanum hall this morning. Gen eral G. M. Dodge, the presidentjip the chair.
 Prayer was offered by Rev. Father Sherman, son of General ". T. sher- man, after which General Dodge ex- tended greetings to the veterans as- sembled. He alluded feelingly to the death of members, including General Rusk. A committee was appointed to select officers. The reports of Corre- spending Secretary General Hicken- loper of Cincinnati, and Recording sec- retary General Force of Ohio, were then submitted. The reports show that the society is in a f1ourishing condition, but the death-ron has commenced to cut heavily into the ranks.
 This afternoon the veterans, headed by the Second Infantry band, marched to the residence of General Dodge, where public reception was held. It was attended by hundreds of people, including the visiting members of the society and the leading society people of the city. General Dodge was assisted in receiving by Mrs. John A. Logan, the generals three daughters and other ladies, The decorations in and about the house were beautiful. Tonight a public meeting was held at the Dohany theater at which Mayor Clever, on be- half of the city, and Governor Jackson, on behalf of the state, delivered ad- dresses of welcome to which General Dodge responded. Governor Jackson spoke as follows:
 | "Iowa bids welcome and good cheer to all union soldiers, and especially does she pay loving tribute to the Socie- ty of the Army of the Tennessee. The burning passions of war have been util- 1zed by you to melt the armor of hate and mould 1t into loving friendly tokens of peace, charity and love, bright as the pages of your history, lasting as our national existence. In no country but our own, in no time until this genera tion, in no fraternity but in the Society of the Army of the Tennessee could such a spectacle of patriotism crowned by the laurel of national majesty be presented. This fraternity must grow dearer to you with each recurring year. This society, this organization was con- ceived by comrade minds in the smoke of battle. It was borne mid the roar of the laundering guns of victory. The brightness of the present is illumined by your deeds of glory and those of you here tonight can live days and weeks in the inspiring words of old com manders, in every word picture, in every voice 8 poem, in every sentence an incident, in every form a stage on which was enacted the prowess of courage and the display of unselfish valor reproducing the most stirring scenes ever witnessed by mortal eye or carved by the sword of war.
 s'While many of the arts of war have been obliterated where nature held full sway, yet time has year by year cut still deeper the furrows in your faces, bent the military bearing, silvered the hair of youth to the fitting accompani- ment of age and thought. Yet time has been partial to you and in this great honor have in bidding you welcome to oud loyal state amid the surround ings of this patriotic city Of Council Bluffs I implore that Providence, which rules us all, that time may gently flood your ways with the light and sunshine of happiness and love to a late ending in the bonds of eternal peace. Most sim cerely does the great state of Iowa, in the name of it's entire population, bid me give you cordial welcome"