Show TELEGRAPHIC Oft tOItY 1MTRIOT1SJI AND POETRY The calm in Which co1field Boarcd oil Wednesday Aiuht Washington 1C Gneral Garfi Id J was serenaded by the National Veteran Association tonight Attorney General Devens introduced him referring to the humble origin aud grand achiovommts of Garfield his spotless integrity and Christian character General Garfield saidFell Fd1wcitiens nlne I hare biked ujxm this groat array 1 believe I have gotten a new idea of the inajfty of the American people when I reflect that when ever you find the tovereign power every reverent bout on earth bows before it end when I remember re-member that here for a hundred years we itro denied the soverignty of any man and in piece of i we i ave asserted the soverignty of oil in place o on J see before me to vast a corcoime that it to easy for me to imagine tint the eat of the American people arc gntb red here tonight and it they were all here everyman every-man would ftind uncovered and in un candled feet in tin presence of the majesty of the only sovereign power in till I government under almighty God cheer nd therefore to this great udicnce I pay the respectful homage 1 that in put belongs to the sovereign of thepie I thank you for this great and glorious demrnstration I am not fl or one ujoxpnt miled in believing that it refrn to W poor j a thing as ary one of our r umber 1 know i means your reverence to your government your reverence for its laws your reverence for its institutions and your complimert to ono who is placed for the moment in rein I lions to you peculiar importance For all these rename I thank you I cannot it this time utter a word on the subject of general politics 1 would not mar the cordiaity of this wecomo to which to some extent all are gathered by any rt frtrrn < e except to the prosent moment and its significance but 1 wish to say that a large portion of this asserablsge tonighl are my tnrcdes in the late war for the Union For them I cnn speak with entire en-tire propriety nnd can say that these very streets heard lisa measured tread of your disciplined feet years ago when the imperilled republic needed your hands and your hearts to favn it and you came back with your numbers decimated deci-mated but those you left behind were immortal and glorified heroes forever and limes you brought bsck came cary ing tinder Uttered banters and in brorzed hand tho ark of covenant of your Republic in safety out of the bloody baptism of war cheers and you brougtt it in taety to bo saved for ever by your valor and the wisdom of your brethren who were at home and by thu you were again added to the civil army of the Republic I greet you comrades fbi fellow soldiers aad the grot body of distirguished citizens who are gathered here tonight who irs tho strong stay and support of the business of the pr sperity of the peacp of till civil ardor and glory of the Itepublic and 1 thank you for your welcome tonight It was said in a welcome to one who cmno to England to be par of her glory and nil the nation spoke when it was said Noimaos and Saxons ansi Danes we but all of us Danes in our welcome wel-come ofthw1 and wo say tonight of all the natiou of all the people soldiers srd civilians there is cna nellie that welds uj all into one it is tho name of AmerLan citizens under the Union and under the glory of the flag that led us to victory and to peace Applause For this magnificent welcome I thank you with all there is in my heart Loud clears were then given for Gen Garfied as he retired from the platform and his place was taken l > y other speakers speak-ers ijerator Logan came in for a large > lara of applause when ho announced that fis Isfct and all thn timo ha hnd been for thy cornlscc or tne republican pally |