Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1898-09-01

life. You have undergone unavoidable pri-
Vations and dsappointments in the SER
vice you have rendered Army life is very
| different from homo life and while you
| have not stood on the battle line YOU
, have none the less done your full duty
ana none have done more. You were the
first to go and you are the first to return
to your friends. You have performed
nobly every task given you. You went
as far as you could go and were eager
| to go further, so you return with the
proud consciousness of duty done. We
welcome you in this return, proud of the
service you have rendered and of the
peace you have so patriotcally assisted in
| securing. Those of your number who
went to return not are affectionatcly re-
mombered. The memory of the brave
| dead has the lasting gratitude OF a low
| Ing people, and the SICK of which there
are 80 many have the sympathy and most
careful attention of the State and will
| continue to have to the end Of their SER
' vice. You return, my brave boys, to the
friendship the kindred and the homes of
! a grateful state and the applause of an
/ appHeciotive future awaits you.
Thir'y-threc years ago this State Wit
messed the muster out of II regiments of
brave, war-worn veterans at the close Of
u war which secured "a union of the States
forever and now II witnesses the muster
OUT OF one regiment at the close of Il war
Whlch opens new era of national cndca-
Nor IN which, If wisely led, we must rise
To greater prominence among the ma
tions That you may know more fully tho
greatness of the work YOU have aided [
viii take the liberty to present to you
some OF our distinguished citizens who
VIII remark upon rational expansion and
the country's future
After the applause which greeted the
governors rcmafts had subsidized he in.
Enn ts. H..
veteran Of the civil war; Gen. Howard 3"
who was greeted with "A tumult of cheers
BY the boys. lie said in part:
GEN. HOWARD's REMARKS.
"Comradcs:-Thcrc is one man in this
country who has done his duty and his
whole duty and done it all the time dur
ny the present war. That man Is WI
liam Mckinley ard as you have chcered
me | want you to cheer him." The boys
responded with will ard gave three
ruusing cheers fOr the President TIE
general continued: IL wish you had seen
service In Cuba or Porto Rico or at Na-
Mia ESQ do wo.'D shouted some of the
boys, nut | am in position to osympat h.2c
with you: fOi | wanted to 20 to those
places and could not" At the close Of
Gen. Towards speech he was loudly APP
plaudcd
SENATOR PROCTOR SPEAKS.
In introducing Senator Proctor Gov.
Grout alluded to the senator's services at
the beginning of the war. AS the senator
stepped on to the platform to reply ne re-
ceivcd an ovation. He said in part:
Now that tie war is over it is well
that you arc back. The fortunes Of war
did not call you TO foreign land to meet
foreign foe but to the harder service i'm
Il camp, which has proven unfortunate.
More lives of Ncrmcntcrs were lost by
garrison duty in the South during tho
civi! war than in the battles of Gcttys-
burg or Spottsylvanin. And in the same
way YOU nave had he harder part to bear
ana the people of the state thank YOU for
the way YOU have borne II. You have
done your duty where YOU were ordered
and wished to so to the point of the
greatest danger. None could do more.
The governor has alluded to my part IN
the beginning Of this war. No one per-
son caused It: it was the result Of tho de-
mand of the pcorlc of this country. II
was the decision OF this people that Span
ish rule in Cuba should not continue and
to enforce that decision this war has been
fought. Now as there arc others to speak
after me- ! will make my speech short so
as to set a good pattern for them
The governor next introduced Congress
| man Powers in "A few well chosen words,
Judge Powers spoke in part as follows:
CONGRESSMAN POWERS SPEECH.
Soldiers Of Vcrmont:-Th war has
been best described by the often used
phrase "a war Of humanity Europe re-
mainel silent in the face OF terrible
wrongs pcrpctrated on lcfcnCc,ess people,
| but the United States saw the conditions
prevailing in Cuba and said that they
| must cease and If international law did
| not provide a way for bringing this about
they said that they would add II new
! dogma % int ornltiDlal law And pIrT,'