New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-23
DIX GREETS VETERANS
More than $4,000 Register at
G. A. R. EnCampment.
PRESIDENT THERE TO-DAY
Parade Will Be Feature Of Zig
gest Day at Rochester Meet
ing-Campfire To night.

Pochester. Aug with more than
twenty five thousand veterans registered
before the close OF the second day. the
forty-ffth annual national encampmeht %
tho Grand Army Of the Republic IL under
full Roadway and veterans VINO nave at
tended national encampments TOT twenty
years and more say the indications are
mat some recent attendance RECORDS VIII
no broken. Train after train entering inc
city is filled to its capacity, ana IL u
thoupbt that tho same will be true OF TO-
,,orrov's trains. especially those or the
,,orninp Many of the nearby posts oio
NOT plan to come as body until to-norIo"
uornine. although individual members ol
these are already here.
There WAS no lack Of doings Tor the NeF
Grams and allied organizations to-day DC
sides the meetings. there was the aliN''
If Governor Dix. who received welcome
&c ~ he had been a son Of Shoot flii-on-
the-Spot" Dix. The Governor was escorteo
IN the Hotel Seneca by a detail or nauoh-
nj euardsmen and naval militia. Tine vet
Grams were delighted to see their successors
as they accompanied the Governor, anu
at various points the police had dirlcuity
keeping the old soldiers from running iH'o
ii
Convention Hall was too small to seat oil
who desired to attend the semi-orhciai
sion of the Grand Army OF the Republic IN
Convention Hall tonight "hen po'eih0l
Dix smoke. Others who made addresses
were Mayor Edgerton, Commander 'oHi'
F.. Gilman and State Commander George
y Toud The address by Governor Dix
follows, in part:
We Of to-day. with responsibilities, rev
rent-appreciaion, say 10 YOU, .ht ~ s,i ,ou
ors of the saviors OF our nation, tndt you
did the heroic thing-unmatched IN the pdot
and TO our finite vision, Impossible OF eA
cellence in the future; Let US L9t iUr e s.
that upon this same altar OF sacrince were
placed the hopes OF many hresides-tne
aching hearts of loyal women VINO gave 70
a sacred cause their all To them ana tnei.
love of country as well az to those upon
the field we owe the priceless heritage OF
union and peace -. ,,or
Sacrifice YOU Of our generation OF Amer
leans have ennoblef, ana IN your iIoti I'M ~.
pressive manner that graduating lesson VI
sacrifice which must pc the DEACON n6ut
forever Of advancing civiIiZatlQn-the IeS ~,
of magnanimity. No man can ne great uII n
less he is magnanimous. ana no men IN a.
history were greater in their magnanlmlIS
than were Lincoln and Grant. so. ,.ou
| know that il is difficult even for YOU
men OF the splendid Union army 10 NlsGdi-
lie events and individuals OF that lerIlple
four years OF half-century ago anu
how much more difficult must IL ne lot 10
whose only guide Is the rreside tradi!lon
or the printed page, properly TO appreciate
the character and the spirit OF that time.
Yet we do recall that when sherman
all-devourng march TO the sea" had en-
thraled the imagination of the North de-
mands arose Tor the substitution or Sner
man for Grant. whom alleged prutsHty
and recent disasters had placed under a
popular ban. Knowing his chief, General
sherman, following his most lovable and
Characteristic quaity-loyalty-reiu FUSED the
suppression, and the stoical Grant wrote
with his own hands these words: mo one
would be more pleased az your advance
ment than l. | would make the same eN-
ertions to support you that you have done
To support me. and / would do all in my
power to make our cause win
That's the spirit of America-the spirit
which made possible the reunion of our
shattered states, which will illumine the
progress or the future.
4 few months passed, and Grant had
entered Richmond and was the national
idol. Sherman, I'm the South, had offered
terms Of surrender TO General Joseph john
ston that were countermanded with bitter
criticism by -Lincon'5 Secretary Of War,
and Grant, I'm turn. was sent to relieve
act of Confederate submission Grant
obeyed orders. but his mission was known
only TO few. and Sherman. without i'm
pairment OF dignity received Johnston's
sword under the terms of surrender. modi-
fed from Washington, and Grant departed
without Sherman knowing at all for the
time Of the intentions to temporarily de-
grade him.
When Grant and Lincoln met on that
fatal last day of Lincolns life there came
together in the persons OF the patient, i'm
aginative Lincoln and the practical, silent
Grant the representatives at that time and
for all time OF American prestige and pos
sibilities. Different i'm physique. in per-
sonalitY and I'm mental process. both were
yet alike in eXhaustless faith and quench-
less maGnanimity.
AS the thinning ranks OF your immortal
legions pass with the valor Of old down
the years to come I would leave with you
the thought that the American idea sheds
lustre throughout civilization for irresisti-
BILE prowess in war and unparalleled mag
nanimity in peace.
And for this heritage millions yet unborn
will bless you.
Tomorrow will he the day OF the en-