Year: 1879

no matter how difficult perlous of execution-you
threw off me- aud it is not in TO throw off
you. Appause.l am not here TO talk. came to
how you observe Decoration Day the day of days to
you and to came here for the purpose of seeing you
/ was here few years ago. but the home nothing
then to what it snow To judge of it as see it to-day
would know that ever saw it before | simply
say because must be brief that there only word
in the English language to express it." prodigous"


prodigious' thank my country for having furnished
you with the home she has Unlike this member of Con
gress here, do throw off on my antagonist You
never learned that from me After nv ANTAGONIST sur
renders to take him by the hand, and want to do
all can for him, and you learned any different
feeling from but you did from some outsider, prob
ably some member of Congress. will tell you
doe In the war between England and France, in the
time of Napoleon cavalry officer sailed out from his
troops having disceed English officer separated from
up him he he had lost an arm and he said cit is
true your country and my country at but the
fortunate belong TO no country After an enemy sur
rendered he enemy of mine. He friend of mine,
and particularly when he has honored every field he has
fought upon Then he is worthy to be yours and my an
agonst will respect that long live and if
he wants anything will open my pockets to him just as


would to you, but am being betrayed into good deal
longer talk than expected to be- [Cries of Go on u
Go on ~ No, am not going to- God bless every one
of YOU" Cries of " Go sc Go on p g Go on ~ and
tremendous cheering


Chicago not behind her sister cities in showing
honor and respect to the gallant dead All the stores
closed and grand civil and military procession took place


In the evening Farwell Hall well filed by aud i
hear words and songs commemorative of the
heroes to whose memory that day dedicated.


Patriotic speeches made and odes recited by prom
citizens At Joliet H., the Governor of the state,
(AIr Caum) the Wetake following fine pas
sages therefrom:


"Then the whose graves have to-day decorated
with flowers themselves away from home and friends
They laid down the implements of industry and took into
their hands the weapons of They Joined their
rades hundred thousand strong who from the
valleys and down from the hills away from the green pas
and from besides the still waters from the cities,
from everywhere in the North nerved with determination
in eye and STEP shouting the battle cry OF freedom They
encouraged byfather mothers Children and
ones STILL and dearer ones who crowded along the high
ways and byways TO them pass to the big That
make ambition glorious" They fought like brave men,
long and wel they conquered and out of the war; tri
umphant and glorious came the doctrine of the Decara


on of Independence, that all created equal and
consequently free 1t received by the people with
CARNATIONS and found It's home the Constitutions 1.-The
stone which the builders rejected has become the head of


the corner The ballot put into the hands of the late
slave with act the pledge given that he should
be protected in the privilege of using it in safety and in
accordance with the dictates of his The


doctrine of secession was DESTROYED and out of the war
the Union emerged universally recognized nation gov
ernment possessed of the power to compel respect from
either foreign domestic foes with power TO enforce it's
will upon ALTO protect the citizen in the exercise of his
political rights, with to moest him make him
afraid, wherever the flag floats above him. 1t in the
high enterprise of saving country from destructon
that the whose memories honor to-day laid down
their lives; and cannot withhold the expression that the
work that they accomplished must not be destroyed The
doctrine of the States sovergniy understood by the
secessonists must not be permitted TO obtain vta ty
and the fact should be overlooked that there is
thing like it i'll the features of the doctrine asserted
by the who formerly advocated secessonthat the
General Government has right to protect the ballot in
the States from the corruptons of rasca the inmda
tons of when such corruptions rnd in
Limitations either encouraged overlooked by the
| State government. -


The people of ST. Louis honored themselves by paying
defenders of the Union Business generally
suspended banners in all parts of the city, and
professions took place to the different cemeteri
At of these glorious address was made, by Judge
Forbush, from which refrain from making few
quotations. Said he


" And then to feel the Joy and prdes of finding
ones SELF for the first time, IA soldier; the satisfac-
tion with which the first uniform tried on,
and found to fit the Joy with which the first bright
received and handled the pride with which the young
volunteer fastened his shoulder those bright plates of
brass which paterna government had given every pr
vat perhaps support the weight of his knapsack per-
haps prevent imaginary sabres from eavng him in twain
but which in his young imagination embryonic epau
lettes investing him with the brevet rank of captain or