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

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hour. Help us all to give thanks for Thy
mercy. Help us all to- rejoice before
Thee for Thy blessngsFas they come to
patriot PAL today to 90 his duty In the up up
building IF ting greatest nation on earth.
Hear us IL ''our thanksgiving and our
praise.
Governor Shaw's Address.
Governor Shaw was introduced for
the address of welcome on behalf OF
the state. He said:
Officers and Men of the Fifty-frst low,
Infantry Volunteers: Eighteen month!
ago your departure from the state thai
messed with universal anxiety and solicit
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 firing
line, has made the state you left behinc
yetsprouder to call you hers.
1t is due you to have ii 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 Convinc-
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
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 thTSqgnou the
of friends of the regiment gathered at
the Preside to say good-by. for these
Iowans made many FRIENDS by their gen.
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
.kAkz h. tr,Rt hfn n
will be of great worth to you.
But 1t must not be forgotten that OF the
number who In the springtime of 1893
step. firm heart and lofty mien. some
have gone to their reward. and there Is
left US but the scant privilege OF tear
s n sneib Temperatures fnr the beTavsd hearts and
sad homes made such by their absence.
The righteousness of the end towards
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
shall have reached fruition, the remem-
brance that brother. father or ancestor
took part In the events through which
you have passed with such signal honor
will be a 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, universal
| righteousness and universal self gov
eminent because of what has been
| achieved by the army and navy Of which
YOU. citizen soldiers OF Iowa. have formed
| an Integral part.
little over a third Of a century ago
| there returned to this state, from war
that also reflected great honor upon the
| nation, a somewhat larger. but in no
| sense Drawer body of men. These
| heroes of the old war, by common con-
| ieges. II has been theirs to say whatever
| they pleased concerning the conflict In
| which they were engaged and to freely
| express their opinions as to the righteous
| ness or the unrighteousness OF the cause