The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-09-14
PATRIOTIC SPEAKERS TALK.
Some Eloquent Addresses Are
Delivered to the Members.
WILL MEET AT MILLERsBURG
At the Next Annual Reunion, in September
10O1--Oldest Sons Of Deceased
Members Admitted to
Membership In the
Association.

AeeOcl0tiOns
The fourteenth annual reunion of the
survivors of President Lincoln's first
call for troops, assembled in this city
Tuesday in the Odd Fellows building.
The local veterans have had prepara-
tions for this event in progress for
many weeks and the visiting veterans
were we'll cared for and splendidly en-
tertained.
The organization is known as the As
sociation of the first Call Troops Of 81,
and out Of the $4,000 who responded
there are still few living. The reunions,
naturally, are not attended by all the
survivors, many of them being in dis
tant parts of the country or unavoid-
ably prevented from attending. So far
as can be learned there will be about
SO in attendance during the sessions
OF the association Tuesday afternoon.
The present officers of the association
are:
President, Lyman S. Ensign, Canton;
atcing secretary, A. d. Braden,' Canton;
treasurer, ]. C. Milligan, Coshocton.
THOSE IN ATTENDANCE.
The following veterans had registered
their names on the records at noon,
Tuesday:
John Fitch, Millersburg; J. L. Poor
man, Thomas Gould, Dresden; j. G.
Milligan, Coshocton; John Weidman,
Navarro; j. w. Collier. ]. d. Marshall,
]. E. Maston, Roscoe; ]. c. Shank, Mas
sillon; s. b. Hawkins, Massillon; w.
Fl. Coe, Coshocton; T. ]. Platt, Gosh
octon; William Nicholas, Columbus;
S. H. Nicholas, Coshocton; c. c. War
J ner, w. II. Robson, Wooster; Lyman
s. Ensign, Canton; John Stephan, Mas
sillon; George Bender, Canton; Gabriel
Swihart, Massillon; G. w. Cline, Can
ton; S. w. Seashrlst, Alliance; G. w.
Brown, Fairhope; jackson Shank,
Abraham Miller. Alliance; y. Roy, Alli-
ance; Samuel White, Orrville; John
Nauge, Newville, Pa, Harrison Bald
win, Canton.
The banquet room in the hall was
thrown open at noon and the veterans
were seated at long tables, upon which
there was a fine display of viands and
delicacies. The session opened at
o'clock.
The fourteenth annual reunion of the
first call veterans was convened In the
Odd Fellows hall in this city Tuesday
afternoon at o'clock. President Lyman
s. Ensign, Of the association assem-
bled the veterans and Comrade r. A
Cassidy. who was called forward, di-
rected the singing Of few patriotic
stanzas, followed with prayer. Pres.
ident Ensign then introduced Mayor
Robertson, who delivered the address
Of welcome.
The mayor said:
"Mr. Chairman and Ladies'; Veteran.
of the First Call: 1t Is always a pleas
ure to me to welcome to our city G
body Of men or women, who meet either
for the betterment Of their financia
condition or to discuss Industrial ques
tions, or to meet as you have met today
for the purpose Of reuniting as old com
rades who served in the war Of 81.
'It could give me no better pleasure
and know that no body Of men ar
more respected, are more welcomed b.
our citizens, than body of men lik
yours.
you were the men, who in April 81
responded to the first call Of Abraham
Lincoln for troops to preserve and pro
tect the union and put down the re
bellion which had then been inaugura
ted.
THAT those in authority were mis-
taken as to the magnitude which tina
war was to assume, Is clearly apparen
from the number Of men that were re
quired to respond to that call for 1890
troops. Why, in some Of the grea
battles of that great rebellion ther
We're more men engaged on the one sid
than were called for on the 18th. {
April 1861.
"This was a time, however, when tn
courage, the patriotism and the loyalt
of the citizens of this country WEI
tried. The wars In which we had bee
engaged prior to that time were thos
in which we were contending with a
enemy without our borders, soldiers {
different lands.
BROTHER AGAINST BROTHER.
"ln this war you were engaged wit
Americans. those who had been yo'
brothers in citizenship in this countr
IT had been said by the critics Of the o
world that this government could NJ
Withstand the rebellion. While we hs
been successful in our wars with TO
eign foes, they said war among OF
own citizens would overthrow the go
ernment. Indeed, the author of Il
Declaration of Independence had d
clared in his old days, that the soldi
was the rock upon which this goverl
ment would stand: but when he hea'
the condition which overcame tn