The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-06-24

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Comany B. third regiment, Anoka,
Capt. Geo. D. Bartlett.
Camp l, S. of ", St. Paul, Capt.
Paul E. Heninger.
Drum Corps, of Camp 4, Minneapolis
w. T. Rines Post No. l42, G.. A, R.,
W. Giltner, commander. .r
Members of Division Encampment,
S. of ", Col. Geo. P. Kelly, command
ing.
Princeton Lodge No. 20s, l. O. O. F.,
J. w. Goulding in command.
Gen. Custer Camp No. 50, Princeton,
I. r. Southland, captain.
The parade was fully three blocks
long. The Uniform Rank of the
knights of Pythias excited admiration
over the splendid manner in which
they rode their horses, and executed
their movements. The Grand Army
| Veterans too were out in force and
their large number in line excited
most favorable comment. The mill
tary appearance of the two companies
of the National Guard caught the pub
lie eye and the armed camps of the
Sons of Veterans did themselves proud.
AS the parade turned into Main
street, Governor Clough, accompanied
by his military staff, took up a position
on the reviewing stand opposite the
opera house. There were in the party
besides the governor, Adj utant
General Muehlberg, Col. Push, Col. r.
A. Seng, Col. Montfort, Col. Listoe,
Col. Hobo, all of St. Paul, Col. Fitz-
gerald, Col. Barrows, Col. Hartley,
Col. Campbell, of Minneapolis, and
Lieut.. Mccoy, y. S. Army.
The governors appearance at the re-
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mass of people who at once t1ocked to
the place, anxious to see and hear all
that was to come. The moving col
umn passed the governor, saluting the
colors while doing so, then counter
company front, before the governors
cheers for the governor, taken up by
every man in the long line. Col. Pat
terson mounted the stand and introdu-
ced the governor and his staff to the
assembled multitude, who again broke
finally restored Governor Clough
stepped to the front OF the platform,
and in clear ringing voice, addressed
the assemblage, which listened atten-
lively to all he had to say. The gov.
ernor said:
GOV. CLOUGH'S ADDRESS.
members of the Minnesota Division
of the Sons of Veterans, Gentlemen and
Fellow Citizens: It is with pleasure
that I meet with you this day as you
assemble to keep alive the memory oil
the gallant deeds of your fathers on the
tented fields of the south. am glad tc
meet you on this, the 18th day OF June
the one hundred and twenty-frst ami
versary of the battle of Bunker Hill
the first great battle of the war of in
dependence. I am glad to meet you i1
this town of Princeton, whose name
suggests the battle of Princeton, New
Jersey, on January 3, l777, one hundred
and twenty years ago.
''Y our assembling here to-day, ir
your thirteenth annual encampment
recalls thus the patriotic deeds, no
alone of the veterans whose sons yol
are, but also brings to mind those
earlier scenes of valor and of devotion
to the cause of independence, equa
rights and personal liberty. The coun
try in which we dwell is a wonderful
: country. There is no other land be
meath the sun so rich in the materia
resources, the fertility of it's soil, tn
, wealth and variety of it's minerals, with
. rivers and lakes suited for commerce
beyond the dreams of men in the oil
world in bygone ages. But this coun
try, with all it's resources and posi-
bilities, had been lying here open t.
the sun and the rain for untold cen
| turtles before the advent of the whit
man and it was nothing. Contrast tn
Minnesota of seventyive years ago
when it was the hunting and fishing
| ground of the Sioux warriors, with tn
Minnesota of to-day, or with the Min
, nesota of fifty years hence, as we ca
see it by the eye of prophecy. TIL
land was as fertile seventy-6ve year
= ago as tits to-day. The sun then shon
as kindly and the rain fell with a
much consideration for the tiller of tn
soil as now. The same wealth Of iro]
ore lay beneath the surface of our lam
: and the rocks were as valuable TO
5 building stones as we find them to-day
j. when we employ them in the construe
| tion of bridges to span our rivers, or a
r when we shape them to erect on
a stately churches and office buildings
Our forests were vaster seventy-fv
4 years ago than now when we are turn
e ing them into lumber for counties
- AOuoCo 11o AOLlCS I'LL Ac1PPy buu COl
j. tented people. But these resource
0 were nothing seventy-tive years ago.
takes two things at least to make
great nation. We must have not onl
the natural or material resources, sue
k as we find here in Minnesota and tn
n northwest. We must have a people t
e develope those resources. The Indian
e could not utilize them, and they wal
S dered, a few vagabonds, about tn
n great commonwealth, and their wal
s and tumults were as empty of result
?. for human good as they possibly cou]
9 be. They were as proftless and meal
d ingless, so far as progress was col
q cerned, as the fight of the hawk or
q the wild beasts over their prey. Al
IS other race came on to the scene abol
(, two generations ago, and all begins I
d change. Minnesota, that sixty veal
q ago supported only a few thousar
s. Indians in d style of living that O,
g beggars and vagabonds would despi:
and reject, now secs within it's border
t, the pleasant and happy homes of ove
g a million and half Of prospero,
e people. And standing here and looki1