Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-11-09

hour. Help us all to give thanks for Thy
mercy. Help us all to rejoice before
Thee for Thy blessings as they come to
patriot today to do his duty in the up
building II the greatest nation on earth.
Hear us in our thanksgiving and our
praise.
Governor Shaw's Address.
Governor Shaw was introduced 70,
the address of welcome on behalf OF
the state. He said:
Officers and Men of the Firty-frst lows
Infantry Volunteers: Eighteen months
ago your departure from the state thai
was even then proud Of you was wit.
messed with universal anxiety and solici
tude. Today your returning footstep.
make glad Iowa's every loyal heart You
journeyings have been most carefully
watched, and the record of your noble
conduct. both in camp and on the firms
line. has made the state you left behinc
yetsprouder to call you hers.
1t is due you to have it said on thi,
occasion that no report concerning you
has brought either shame to the homes
from which you went or a blush to those
who have followed you with their good
wishes and their prayers. The press dis.
patches have all been of the most favor
able character and have borne corvinc-
ing proof that the one regiment whose
heroic mission was far towards the setting
sun. like the three regiments from your
state. who with equal fidelity followed the
same flag in other directions, had not for
gotten either their manhood or their self
respect. On the morning after your de-
parture from San Francisco on your re-
turn trip the papers throughout the coun-
try contained the following: Hundreds
of friends of the regiment gathered at
the Preside to say good-by. for these
tlemanly department while in camp here.
Drunkenness and riotous conduct are
strangers to these sturdy Hawkeye veter-
ans" Such a report shall be sacred to
your state, and the truthfulness thereof
will be of great worth to you.
But 1t must not be forgotten that OF the
from who cam IN fs With OF proSd
step, firm heart and lofty mien. some
have gone to their reward. and there is
left us but the scant privilege OF tear
sympathy for the bereaved hearts and
sad homes made such by their absence
which they strove, the justice of the
| cause for which they died and the re-
| Spouse to duty ever imperative constitute
| the only Justification for the sad sacrifice
| been so recently accomplished by Ameri'
| can valor, when future years shall have
| added thereto their settings and the hopes
| of improved conditions for the oppressed
| both on the east and on the west of US
| shall have reached fruition, the remem
brance that brother. father or ancestor
you have passed with such signal honor
will be priceless legacy to your descend
ants The cause of liberty has not suf
fered at your hands; human rights have
not been transgressed: human hopes have
not been blighted, but the world Is some
what nearer universal peace, uniyersa
| Righteousness and universal self gov
| eminent because of what has beer
| achieved by the army and navy or whicf
YOU. citizen soldiers OF Iowa. have formed
| an integral part.
A little over a third Of century age
| there returned to this state, from wal
| that also reflected great honor upon tht
| nation, a somewhat larger. but In nc
| sense Drawer body of men. These
| heroes of the old war, by common con-
| ieges. 1t has been theirs to say whatever
| they pleased concerning the conflict In
| which they were engaged and to freely
| ness or the unrghteousuess OF the cause