Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-05-08
Governor to
Old Comrades
HIS ExcELLENcy ADDRESSES
THE NEW HAVEN eRAYs.
WAS ONE OF coRPoRALs

aOverHOF wore boupie NnefronS
When Company Started for Front
5oth Anniversary at New Haven.
New Haven, May THE fiftieth an
niverSary of the departure for the
front to take part in the civil war by
the New Haven Grays. Company +,
Second regiment, Connecticut Nation
al guard. was celebrated in the Church
of the Redeemer with a memorial SER
ven May 10, 1861, as Company A,
Twenty seventh Connecticut Volun-
teers, under the command of Capt.
Frank d. Sloat, now General Sloat, of
the treasury department of the Unit
ed States.
Speeches by Gen. sIoat and Governor.
Among the speakers We're General
Sloat and Governor Baldwin. who went
with the company as corporal and Sec
retary. In his speech Governor Bald
win said in part:
The Governors Address.
The church and the military power
Of the state in time of stress have al
ways stood close together. 1t was for
cathedral worship that the stately
march of the Te Deum was composed,
for those gathering to thank God for
t1CLOAkCS VI dIIuS. 1t 10 III Cuul CLtS,
in hours of national peril, when ar
mics are contending. that prayer has
gone up for national preservation.
Pulpit Appeals to Patriotism.
In. the early churches of New Eng
land men brought their guns to church
on Sundays and each sat at the head
of his pew. armed and prepared to
of hostile Indians. It was from the
pulpits that came nany of the most
glowing appeals to patriotism and mil
itary duty, in the days when the Am
erican revolution was impending and
again when the civil war broke OUT.
Nations Salvation Depended Upon
Citizen SoIdiery.
There is. then. fitness in our as
sembling thus on Sunday in a. house
of God, after this half century has
rolled by. to comm emorate the vaIor
and the sacrifices which lit up the
story of that story with a sad but
NOBLE splendor and to recall the glo-
rious triumph for civil liberty, with
which, under the favor of Almighty
its final close. The salvation of the
nation, at the outset, depended upon
its citizen Soldiery.
Military Establishment Merely skel-
eton.
1t was. -thear asst is -How,<tIse-4its--
tinctive feature of our nation, as COM
pared with every other Of the great
powers, that its military establishment
is the mere skeleton of one. It can
be soon expanded, in case of need into
a, great body of men. and trained Off
GERS are ready to guide their move
ments; but its normal condition is in
effective except to preserve civil or
der, and as a nucleus of something
greater.
Fifty Years Ago Yesterday.
Fifty years ago this day. COM
Grays, was ready for the three months
service and when that expired, an
| other, under like auspices, was or
ganized for longer term. The com
| mander of that. Capt. Frank p. Sloat
| now of Washington, we are proud to
welcome here tonight.
The town of New Haven sent more
| than one company, more than one bril-
| liant commander. into the field. She
! has forgotten none.
"Here Fought Her Sons"
Here fought her sons. a hundred
years ago
| Their hearthstones to defend from
British foe,
| And hence they marched to show, at
Lincoln's call, !
| Ours was land of liberty for all,
And none need fear lest che unnindful
| ha
/; OF those brave deeds. when they look
up and see
High over all the column raised to
1 crown
Her fallen heroes by the mother town.
We Feel Proud Of Our Citizenship.
On an occasion like this, we of New
England feel the pride of citizenship
in each Of three political communi-
| ties; in our town; in our state; in
1 ota,~ iorr atxri
| threaten the existence of town or state
| but town and state were from the first
identified with the cause of the nation.
| What We Owe to Soldiers of Civil
| War
| To soldiers of the civil war we owe
| the place which the United States now
| occupy in world affairs. or rather We
owe to them the possibility Of our
| countTy's assuming such a place. /
| am not sure that. in all respects, it
| has been wise for nation to concern
itself SO intimately with world poll
| tics, and in so many ways. but, in
one way We may, in this sacred place,
| especially fe1icitate ourselves that the
| United States have led the nations
that is. towards arbitration and courts
as substitute for war.
| The Hague Tribunal.
Fifty years ago he would have been
lAiOA6Ait q III SeailSI WHO pIculCtRu Tile
| erection, by the close of the nineteenth
| century. of an International tribunal
OF Justice, such as has now for dozen
years existed at The Hague. 1t sits
| in a splendid courthouse. which was
| the gift of an American. It is an Am
erican president who has proposed to
/ the greatest Of maritime powers the
negotiation of a treaty for leaving ev-
cry controversy that may arise be-
tween the United States and her. te
the decision of arbitrators. or courts
Entering on a HaIy Century of Peace
Let us thank God and take cour-
age, as. entering now on a new half
century, we have such reason to think
that it's close will be marked by cele-
| brations not of days of military prov
ess but of days of national and inter-
national peace.