Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-09-06

Lock Bayen Daily LNFIGss, Aug. 3Ith.
The 13sh ANNA! meeting aud picnic
OF the Clinton County Veterans a.
sociation was held at Agars park, ne; +
this city, to day and there was a good
attendance of vaterln aud others. A
session of the association WAS held at
1890 a. m and it WIS called to order
by w. F, Meyer, the president The
Loganton band was in attendance aud
played several sele ctionS.
The weaths. was Ie,ig' fal and after
the dihner hour thu trol!ey cars began
to take people t, tn plrk t, fraterniz,
with the Old sJl1iers an hear the
speeches. The chief sp9aker was Hon
B,W. G 'esn, the president judge of the
Twenty-fitth Judicial district. Judge
| Green was stranger to many of the
veterans, but all wAre favorabIy i'm
pressed with his kindly and unassum
ing manners, and a!so with his splend-
id patriotic address. We present this
address in full, az follows:
Mr.. Chairman Mem bers of the Veteran
Association, Ladies and Gentlemen:
am under many obligations to the
committee of the Veteran Association
of fClinton county for this opportunity
to be present and join in the ceremonies
| of this event. | can assure you that it
is with hestitancy that | under
take to-day t. fill the place allotted to
me, as am aware that on former occas-
ions of this character it has been your
privilege to listen to some of the best
orators this state affords. Yet if a hearty
end rsement If the patriotic object
of this meeting and sympathy with the
noble cause you represent will solicit
your approval, | wi i have your atten-
tion from the beginning
Well do | recall as a boy the stirring
events OF the sfring OF 1861, where in a
nelghborIng county we heard the
music of the fife and drum, and the
brave men and boys from the farms,
work shop and homes from every part
of Pennsylvania were putting down
their names with a determined hand
upon the enlistment roll; and you hold
the proud distinction to be among
the number. You were formed into
ranks, drilled for day on the village
green, then these valiant sons of Clin.
ton county took their places in the
companies of the valley of the West
Branch, the regiments of the Keystone
state, and the armies of the great loyal
north. Days and weeks of intense
anxiety would follow waiting for news
from the front, then would come It'd
ings that a great battle had been fought,
q victory won or defeat suffered.
Then would the effect be brough hit closer
4 hnn1a with tan fan nt hat hn
loved one from your immediate Vicin
ity had fallen, oNe more fireside in sor.
row at the altar of their country. A
dear relative, friend or acquaintance
and to you companion in arms had
been sacrificed to pay the debt oi
lib erty.
was in the city of Charleston few
months ago, and as l passed along the
sea wall in full view of Fort Sumpter-
now battered ruin-I could not help
recalling some of the great events ano
changes that have occurred in oul
country's history in the As years that
had just passed since the firing from
that point upon the Stars and Stripes
and Notifications of the United States
on Friday, April l2, 1851. The SOUND
Of cannon had not died away in thai
harbor on that unfortunate Friday be
fore their echoes were heard from thest
mountain tops, and the fire of true
: patriotism was lighted as if by magic
upon every hill and within every dale
north of the Mason and Dixon line.
was the beginning on that brigh
spring day of the harvest of death ant
desolation that was To continue for fou
long years.
, Not more than two squares from tht
water's edge where those first sounds
of war were heard, / saw monument
erected in honor of ii comoany of artil
erymen, which the Inscription inform
ed me were recruited In that CITY anl