The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-05-13
VETERANS AT CAMP FIRE.


London Tuesday night was the mos
elaborate event of that nature that ha
taken place in the city on the Thames
There were two thousand veterans ant
friends of the old soldiers present. Gov
ernor George p. Mclean, who wal
present with his staff, was the guest o.
honor
The list of speakers in addition tt
Governor Mclean, who made charac
teristic address, included Ex-Governor
Thomas M Waller, ex-Congressmar
William L. Simonds, who was the de-
partment commander of the state two
years ago; Mrs. Elizabeth Fl. Bevin, OIL
East Hampton, president of the Wo-
mans Relief corps Mrs. Harriet j
BODICE Of Hartford, Congressman
Charles A. Russell, the Rev. James w
Bixler, of NewLondon, Arthur T. Bogue
Of Hartford, commander of the Sons of
Veterans, and Major G. A. Appel, OF
Middletown.
| Department Commander John *.
1 Bucklyn acted as toastmaster at the
festivities Mayor Wilson M. Dart, of
New London, welcomed the veterans.
Chaplain Lowell of the house, was in
troduced and spoke Of his war expert
ences
| Governor Mclean, who was received
with storms of applause by the old
| soldiers, said in the course of his adj
| Dress
| I don't like war; but like to see col
diers. l don't like a fight, but ! always
like good fighter in just cause. The
lighting record Of Connecticut is good.
At home ard aboad her sons have
fought well about many matters and
much of the time since 1859. AT home
they have been alert to defend their d.
vision fences, and by the flreside and
in town, district and church meetings
they have ever been faithful to opinion
and seldom detected in the acknowledge
ment Of error They began with Indi-
ans for neighbors, and while the Indi-
ans lasted it was good fighting any
time and anywhere. Powder and lead
finally got the better of arrow and TOM
ahawk, and when the original owners
of the soil had been killed or scat
tered and their land sequestered or well
and truly paid for in rum or it's equiv
alent, our Puritan property-loving fore
fathers began to do business with each
other.
Connecticut fought her way to the
front in good New England fashion,
obedient to royalty and the Westmin-
ster creed, intensely pious one day In
the week. and jealousy guarding town
authority and the sanctity of private
property during the other six.
In 1855 she gave valiant aid to the
king, but in 177e things had changed. |
Our thrifty grandsires had mada and
saved little money, and their dread Of
the tax gatherer was almost as great |
as that possessed by the goodL men of |
the present generation, and 1t was
more difficult for good men to avoid the
payment of taxes then than 1t Is now.
Connecticut never really expected to |
get along without king, and her sons |
secuted the idea Of being rev.
The colonists thought the |
king would soon decide to let them
alone, and his redcoats wanted him to.
Il was not really war, neither was 1t !,
FUN for king or colony. The soldiers
suffered much from hunger and expos
ire, but very little from gun powder.
More men were killed in one day at
Chattanooga than were killed In the
eight years Of the so-called Revolution
IF course they fought some, and they
stuck to it, and the eagle finally in
ubated and screamed freedom, while
he people practiced slavery and made
money.
I do not wish to be unjust or over
'rtical Our forefathers were good and
in their way. I like the
modern way the best. They walked In
he path revealed to them by such light
IS they had; IL 1t was dim light and !
ed them to the left some times it was
ot their fault. We make mistakes
ow.
The eagle had no sooner got his feath-
rs than he began to moult North andI
outh cotton was master, and the CEN
err asles in many churches were oceu
led by men directly or indirectly in
crested in the profits of slave labor,
nd the ministers preached according
y No one hoped for abolition in 1850,
nd very few cared for Il. In 1857 the
hief justice of the United States de-
Jared that the constitution not only
but established human slav-
ry John Brown tried abolition in
-ansas, and his son was shot dead be-
1re his eyes by clergyman. He tried
gain at Harper's Ferry and was there
pom hanged according to law. In 1861
from the northern states
romised to do everything in their
over to perpetuate slavery If the
1uth would remain in the Union. Phil
nc +ooL In oL oyoryfhipr he had said |