The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-10-18
OVATION FOR GEN. HARRISON
HE TALKED BRIEFLY OF WAR
TIMES AT BANQUET TABLE.
Little of Importance at the Business
SessiOns-The Indiana COM
mnndcry Meeting.

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guests were present, and. as usual. when
the Loyal Legion is concerned, the occa-
sion was most enjoyable. The tables were
beautifully decorated and the menu was
par excellent.
During the service of the banquet Mon
tani's orchestra entertained the guests with
patriotic and popular selections. 1t was
nearly IL o'clock when Admiral Brown.
who acted as POSTMASTER. introduced
Major James S. Ostrander. the first after
dinner speaker. After extending n cordial
welcome to the visitors. Major Ostrander
closed his remarks as follows:
ut is thirty-fve years since the sun rose
and set on Appomattox- The land you
found discovered, discordant and belliger-
ent,' and made united, contented and free,
has had new birth as under "a wizard
touch since the bugles sang truce Peace
fully, in the main, we have marked the
years with triumphs and pressed steadily
to the forefront OF nations, assigned by
nature and by natures God There has
been some effective laundering OF battle
off Manila and Santiago to clear the sky.
All honor to the worthy sons who there
maintained the glory OF the flag, who now
uphold its honor In the borderland of civ
ilization: but the manifest destiny of this
great Republic to lead the peoples of the
earth, teaching liberty. enlightenment and
progress wherever waves the banner OF the
free, was not more immutably fixed those
May and July mornings, under Southern
suns. than 1T was written by divine hand
on that April day long ago, when these
warning States were forever made one.
From a nation struggling for the right to
be to a nation Offering its blessings to re-
hottest lands and showing TO all the powers
of earth the straight honest road OF honest
life is as surely the fruit won from Apo
mattox as the rising sun is the dawn of a
new day.
Loyal to a faith as true as truth. as
just as justice a generation ago, unchanged
and unchanging now, when prophecy
knocks at the door of fulhllment, we are
here tonight TO renew our pledge of un-
dying feaity to the holy cause of mans
brotherhood and charge the sons by all
their patriot blood to carry to successful
end the work the fathers leave unfinished.
Proclaim liberty to all the lands and unto
all the inhabitants thereof until in the
earth pressed by the chained foot of a
slave. no air of heaven laden with signs
of the oppressed. but the whole blue dome
that vaults the world resounds with the
hosannas of the free.
Externally welded TO that faith Indiana
clasps hands with all the Communicates
OF the Legion and through the medium of
their chief bids them a thousand welcomes.
Honor. length of days and the peace of a
glorious sunset to the heroes who led lib
erty out of bondage, lifted humanity to
kinship with kings and fixed the stars in
our constellation a light of hope. inspiration
and promise TO the tempest tossed of all the
WOIlu.
GENERAL HARRISON APPEARS.
Just before Major Ostrander began his
remarks. General Benjamin Harrison, who
had been expected to be present at the
banquet, and who was unavoldably de-
tanned. put in an appearance at the door
of the large ordinary in which the BAN
ouet w n served. and was given an ovation.
Every man in the room arose to his feet
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seat reserved for hin at the right of the
postmaster. When called upon by Toast
master Brown General Harrison spoke
briefly of his regret at not being able to
take part in the reception accorded to the
visiting members of the Loyal Legion, say
ing that he could imagine no more pleas
ant duty. 1t was well. he said. that the
members OF the Loyal legion should get
together occasionally in order that they
might remember that they had once taken
part in a real war. He said there had
been some stirring events that had taken
place lately and they had taught the peo-
pie more than anything else the wonder
full progress that had been made since
the civil war.
If said General Harrison. ''the vet
Grams of the sixties had been the excellent
marksmen found among the soldiers of
to-day there would have been many more
vacant seats here tonight" After eulogiz-
irg the soldier of the sixties General Har-
. ca4a tht sun VI thdt 6AOat iQSSt
were in evidence everywhere. '.Who can
deny" said he, that he has not a nobler
birthright and a better manhood to-day
than If the Confederacy had been estab-
lished? 1t made out of US one people with
one flag"
The short addresses toward the close
were excellent. Colonel Nicholson, the re-
corder-in-chief, told in a most effective
manner of the charge Of the Twenty-sev-
enth Indiana up the side of Culp's hill in
the battle of Gettysburg feat so gallant
that General Slocum, in his admiration, said
TO his staff, I'VE raise our hats to the
T~wenty-seventh Indiana" Lieut.. Col. John
r. Foster. who commanded the regiment In
the charge. was present. as was Capt. Jo-
seph Balsley. Captain Hodges, OF st. Louis,
desired 10 shake hands with any man of
the Twenty-fifth Indiana. with whom he
was brigaded. Captain Hornbrook, OF Ey-
a~nsville. of the Twenty-flfth, had gone
home. General McCook spoke briefly and
sang a patriotic song. 1t was 1890 when
the company broke up. singing America
Others who responded TO the call of the
were Maj. William II. Lam
bert. OF Pennsylvania; Capt. Harry c.
Adams. of Indiana: Capt. James Parker,
OF New York, and others.
Major Lambert, in responding to the call
OF the POSTMASTER, paid a warm tribute
&c the monument erected in this city as a
memorial to Indiana's sailors and SOL
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memorials ever erected and that il beau
tifully typiied the beginning and the end
of the war. ION one side" said Major
Lambert. 1.-THE flaming torch OF war is held
aloft, but on the other peace sits en-
throned telling 10 the world the story Of a
million men who laid down their arms and
forever gave to the flag their united al
Iegiance. Is it not ridiculous to even think
OF Imperialism in this day and age. when
we remember the millions of men who bore
arms curing the civil WARP
THE GUESTS.
The visiting guests of honor In attend
ance at the banquet were: Lieut.. Gen. John
NJ. Schofeld, u. S. A.; Col. John
p. Nicholson. Gen. William L.
James. Maj. William p. Huxford,
u. s. n. Henry 8. Burrage, Col.
John Cassels and Maj. William II. Lam
bert. of Pennsylvania; Paymaster c.. ID. +.
Barton. Paymaster A. Noel Brakeman and
Capt. James Parker. OF New York: Mai.
Charles A. Hopkins, OF Massachusetts,;
gistus j.. Cheney, OF Wisconsin. Mai.
George l.. Paddock. Capt. Il. A. Otis and
Can't. r. II. Mason, OF Illinois: Capt. Ar
mold c. kemper, Lieut.. Max Mosler and
Gen. Il. i. Cowan, OF Ohio; Lieut.. Edward
L. Darlington. Mai George w. Chandler
aud Gen r. W. Swift. OF Michigan: Capt.
James A. Sladen. Of Oregon; Capt. William
i. Hodges. Of Missouri: Mai Edward RAN