St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-13

lures, waltzes, serenades, marches and
war songs. Throughout the entire ev
ening Maj. G. @. White was indefatig-
able in providing for the comfort and
convenience of all.
AS soon as the companions and their
fair guests had thoroughly discussed
and enjoyed the virtues of an admir-
able menu, the band marched in single
file to the front of the dining hall,
and forming in a group there, played
America" while everybody rose and
sang the glorious national hymn In
concert. Then Commander Castle de-
livered the Introductory address as fol-
lows:
COMMANDER CASTLES ADDRESS.
The Military Order Of the Loyal Legion,
jealous In garnering all the fruits OF victory,
seeks to preserve a broad approach Of fame
for the named and nameless heroes OF the
war. Pursuant to that conservation, we would
transmit this sacred natal day as an ami
versary, freshening with each years augment
ed interest until the triumphant angel of the
apocalypse shall come, with a bridal coronet
upon her brow and her feet in the dew OF
the millennial morning.
Priceless beyond estimate was the blood Of
our precious slain-transcendent beyond ex-
preston the aggregate OF their honor When
the grandeur Of their exploits is glorified by
the purity. of their motive, the brightest rec
ords of antiquity pale in the blaze OF an un,
wonted. splendor. And whatever OF universal
the completeness of their triumph is still
withheld, may confidently leave to time, TO
God and to history, -
ing to rank and station. The Loyal Legion,
most largely composed of those proudest OF
their service as enlisted men yet not ashamed
of having been deemed worthy of promotion
delights to recognize the equality OF merit and
of comradeship among all soldiers Of the
Union. We meet tonight as companions
comrades patriot citizens, in commemora-
ton of one into whose glory all our petty
achievements will one day merge-around
whose splendid name our minor ambitions al
ready cluster and cling.
He was obscure in origin, Graded in pro-
foundest poverty, unframed in society, un,
cultured in the schools. Yet when the can
of duty came he was ready and by tne
power of his abilities, his character and ms
wonderous deeds he was lifted to such emi,
nence, that the accumulated renown OF all
the kings of the earth for thousand years
fades in the presence of his rising lame.
Rugged and massive he was; surely not fair
and smooth to look upon; yet with an i'm
posing physique, magnificent personality,
as the future will idealze him. How superb
ly he looms even now, as with long arms fold
ed in statuesque dignity and head erect, he
calmly fronts the scrutiny Of the ages
Rugged and massive and imposing but not in
ert; there were internal fires to fuse the min
eral mound there was an expansive soul
that elevated this massiveness and made 1t
majestic
He will sweep and, swing through the chron-
lcles of futurity glowing planet engirt with
a zodiac of patriots attended with constella-
lions of heroes AS his name beams forth
from the annals of this marvellous century,
Its rays will strike back countless reflections
from names of others, whose service and
sacrifice contributed to make his era immor-
tai. He lived alone. He wrought nightly,
but he had mighty and Almighty help, He
toiled terribly, but he was grandly aided
and gloriously upheld Lincoln and his gen.
eralsi Lincoln and the soldiers of the Union!
Long and lustrous the battle roll of those,
the living and the dead, who smote and
stood and held the hope of unborn nations
amid the tempests Of a thousand flaming
fields.
First to be named by all tongues, our last
commander, the silent soldier of freedom.
It was his imperial privilege to lead us to the
final triumph, and nobly to succeed where
others nobly or ignobly failed. He spontane-
ously evolved strategies and combinations
beyond the grasp of associates or adversaries,
confounding all science by their amazing
simplicity and only comprehensive in the
light of invarable success. With stupendous
strength he wheeled the isolated legions of
a continent into one linked battle-line of
victory. Having warred bravey and ruled
wisely. it was his last distinction to teach
the suffering Christian, how to die. The tow
ering granite above his breast will always
thpob with the unstilled pulsings of his
patriotic heart, and the statue which crowns
Its summit will speak to us evermore, in ac-
cents tuneful as the song of immortality
upon the lips of cherubim.
Second only to that matchless cheftain
was the leader of the march to the sea- In
war he was bold, aggressive, terrible-the in
carnation of absolute force. In peace he was
tender and true. In and in peace love
of country was his passion and pride; his