Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-09-07

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meeting the needed expenditures OF
printing. and binding the historic ros-
ter Is unable to give attention to that
work and that it has not been done.
The report of the treasurer was as
follows:
N. Fl. Fossett treasurer. in acct
with :lst Me. Reg. Association:
Bal. III Treasury 1904 $124.O5
Dividends Nov. 19O4-May, 1905 4.21
Sept 9Th. 1905. reed. of sec. S.76
Bal. in Treas. $13702
N. H. FOSSETT, Treas.
AT the opening of the morning ses-
sion President Geo. A. Russell adj
dressed the gathering as follows:
Comrades. ladies and friends: Ger
tainly, we may congratulate ourselves
this morning upon the favorable con-
ditiOn of weather, CD the number
present. the generosity of the city and
the hospitality of Seth Williams Post
in providing suitable and comfortable
quarters for this reunion. and l feel
that il must be a satisfaction to every
cOmrade to meet again in this beauti-
full city, where we first touched elbows
and realized. in part, the serious bust
ness in which we had engaged; and
while we have grown gray and little
short gated in the years which have
elapsed the city has seemed to renew
its youth end to have become more at
tractive and beautiful.
Time has made many changes in us,
but man has wrought greater changes
and wrested from natures storehouse
marvellous results. so that during tn,
| half century or more in which we have
lived, the forces of nature have been
called upon and harnessed for our con-
venience. our comfort and our use; :
and more ease and luxury have been
brought to every home than in all the
rears of preceding history.
We have. lived in the best days of
| The past and the greatest era the world
has ever known: and while it seems
short since we we're THE boys in
Blue" vet we have lived long and well
as compared to our ancestors.
And now, rejoicing with you that in
the providence of God we are again
permitted this privilege and pleasure
the renewal of old associations and ac-
quaintances. the opportunity for REM
inisce'ces and social intercourse and
the broadening of our acquaintance
and touch with the comrades of the
regiment. l greet you today and take
this first opportunity to acknowledge
my gratitude and satisfacti for the
honor you have conferred upon me as
your presiding officer, than which
none OF the honCrs which have hereto
fore come into nay life, have been more
loo >t,,h1 l~1 III
priced.
To have had part in welding the
links of this broken Union and of riv-
citing together its disjointed parts into
a solid. homogeneous and loyal whole,
it to have a part in its growth and its
progress within. it's influence for good
with the nations of the earth and the
commanding position which it holds.
as the refuge Of the oppressed and the
arbiter of peace for the world.
Our high place in the sisterhood Of
iations was primarily secured by the
loyal devotion of TIE Union soldiers Of
'61 to IS. who, returning to the peace
ful pursuits Of civil life. have by their
example. by their influence. by their
industry and by their votes. further
contributed to a contamination which
has made us world power and d ma
ton without 4 peer.
The fear of those who expe cted a
mob to be loosed when the army dis |
banded. was not realized.
We had learned the lesson of obedi- |
ence as soldiers and were law abiding
aud Intensely loyal citizens in Cur sew
eral communities.
Many have responded to the Taps" |
of time since we were mustered aut |
and constantly increasing ratio will |
be called from our ranks, to the finish; |
but in the mainline let each perform
the duties of citizenship Conscientious
ly and faithfully to the end. bequeath- |
ing and assuring to posterity the ines |
timable blessings of Life. liberty and |
the pursuit of happiness" with peace |
by arbitration and without dishOnOr.
Today I assume that every citizen |
of this great republic. without regard |
to race sect or politics. is proud that |
he is an American end owes allesianc, |
to a nation whose influence through |
its Chief Executive, has secured peace |
between the warning nations Of the
far East. saved millions of treasures |
and unreasonable suffering and |
Drought TeJolciHS anu pleHty 10 MONIES
unnumbered.
I regard it as the greatest achieve |
ment in American history and I be-
lieve that peace in the whole world |
was never so well assured as since |
this champion of arbitration entered |
the arena.
Every citizen of these United States |
must feel that he has some part in
this great cause for the welfare and |
happiness of humanity: but to the |
veteran soldier of the Civil War. be-