Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-15
AROUND THE CAMPFIRE.
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AROUND The CRMFf lHE.
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yours In peculiar sense. Augusta is
the Capital city, and the stately build
ing which crowns yonder hill belongs
not alone to Augusta; II belongs IN
stead to ali the people of this good
old State: and 1t IS lifting that your
organizations so closely linking the
present with the great past should
come here You veterans recruited
here for your army service and as
boys, giving your all, hallowed the
ground on which we walk. You slept
in tents almost in the shadow of the
old State House dome or en- the large
field upon the western heights of the
city. From here you departed for
the front. 1t was here you said your
farewells; here many of you return
ed; here loyal governors and patri-
otto law makers sat during those long
years from 81 -65; and here the bat
tie flags were returned.
May the heavy skies lift, and the
yellow sunshine flood our hills and
homes that you may see the beauty
in which this Capital city is set. And
that you may go to the hilltops to
get view ut the city sloping east
and west to the kennebec. We want
you veterans to stand again on the
ground where as boys you recruited
| so years ago. We point you to our
monument dedicat "a to the memory or
our patriotic dead, and TO our hill
side cemeteries where sleep purchance
your comrades. Visit the National
| Home at Togus and be reminded
anew that a nation does not forget
| Behold The Stars and stripes f1ung to
| the breeze from business houses. pub
| lie buildings and homes. Go to the
| capitol and stand before the picture
| of the immortal Lincoln, then with
| uncovered heads you Will look once
| again upon the tattered and torn bat
| tie hags, striking reminder to this
| generation of the great undertaking.
| the sacrifice and the achievement of
the Union soldier
May you have cause to remember
| this visit with pleasure, and III some
| other nearby year. when June dyes
| the earth green, when flowers bloom
| and all nature speaks of immortality,
1 may YOU come again.
| Alderman E. c. Carl followed,
| speaking in behalf of the Board of
Trade of which he is president.
| Mr.. President, and members of the
Grand Army of the Republic, Sons of
Veterans, and other patriotic organiza-
lions here assembled:
For the Augusta Board of Trade 1
desire to briefly second your welcome.
No more agreeable service falls to
any one in Augusta than to welcome
the citizens OF Maine to their own
lcapital city. To welcome you on this
| occasion is especially agreeable.
| 1t is fitting that you veterans should
have your Eneampment here.
| 1t was in Augusta that many of you,
in full companies and with young
strength and valor, We're mustered in.
| Here, on your Muster field, many of
your depleted ranks of seasoned vete-
rams were mustered out. to take up
the pursuits of peace.
| In no state until its last expiring
CLEAN sinks in the bosom of the broad
| Pacific do the perpetual fires of pa
triotism shed a clearer CLEAN than in
| this State. whose proud motto is Diri-
| go.
And Maine is proud of her patriots;
l
| burn. Fessenden, Chamberlain, How
ard, and many others.
OF later date we think of sDingley
and Reed and our own great Blaine,
followed in more recent days by FRYE.
Hale and our long time honored Bur-
| leigh
And when 1t happens that out of
the constant change of human affairs,
m to ha
est heart in Maine yet thrills with
patriotic pride that our State adds to
her list Of great names men like
Charles f. Johnson, and the man of
patriotic ancestry. patriotic personals
ty and intense patriotic endeavor to
devote the best there is in him to the
duties of his great office, GOV. Fred
erick w. Plaisted
For centuries. great artists painted
the race OF the Saviour. Each old
Master of Art strove to make the
ldeai picture of his face That effort
| mas ceased and it may be said that
the picture is fully painted
for half century by tongue and
| pen We have been paintine the n,c-
| tare OF the Civil War. During that
Time at encampments. reglmental and
| N'AiPaHN, ieuHloHS, Memorial day
platforms, from country schoolhouse
| To Congressional hall. what ire
| mendous volume of eloquence has gone
| forth!
1t were bold man. indeed, who
| "ouiu nope To present one new
thought or elothe any old thought in
| better language
| Would you look to some genius of
a
the subject, acceptable as the MASTER
piece OF the century give him for
nus inspiration mighty auditorium,
| seating ali the armies of the blua
| and the gray
Imagine for 1T, If you can more
IMAM earthly architecture, its dim
balconies seating the paIes shades of
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