Show 1 BOST APU s L BY FRiENDS t I HUNDREDS TION ON CITY HALL SQUARE Senior Vice of Grand Army is Felicitated b by Citizens The Th reception tendered to SenIor Vice Commander In Chief W T iL Boa Bos Bostaph of the Grand Arm Army of tIme the Re Republic RepublIc public by the O Ogden Chamber or of Corn Com CornI Comi i merce and the p plc of this cil was wasI wasa a decided s success In every r respect I and It seemed as though the population of Ogden turned to I greet the distinguished man Tile The City Hall FlaIl square was I and the city mB hall was decorated in the national colors Hyrum Bel Belnap Belnap nap vice ice president of the Chamber er of Commerce was master or of and he anti Dr A S Condon George Ceorge C Round anti aoel Hon W Wll WM M ll Bostaph were the Th The State Industrial School band under the direction of Prof E W V rendered the music for the Ule The meeting was called to order by Mi lh Belnap after the band had ron ren rendered dered a number of selections He made st 11 few remarks touching the na nature nature ture of the tho gathering and then Intro Introduced introduced Hon George C Round of Ma Manassas Il Va who was a delegate to the national encampment Mr Round spoke at the Invitation of the tho Chamber of Commerce His address was highly During the war var ho was wasI wasa I a sl nl and was givon his I commission by br President Abraham AbrahamI I Lincoln lie He spoke as follows Comrade Round Speaks I Gentlemen of the Chamber of Comm Citizens of Ogden and the Commonwealth of Utah Ten hours ago ngo I had bal no more Idea of on this occasion than 1 i had of flying ing to the moon I came caine to lo your cil city for tor tile first tune time this morn morning ing on my wa way from that lint wonderland of the tho world time the Yellows Yellowstone lone park pari Some Somo or of your citizens thought It proper that as I was ft a member of time the national encampment t which elected your ur fellow citizen and arni my comrade M l Bostaph as senior vice commander In chief chice of time the Grand Army Armr that r I should at this meeting give voice to time the views of those who elected him bun himIn In Ill ol order cr that YOU un understand time the honor conferred on one of your citizens h liy tho voto of national encampment perhaps It Is 1 to speak of the organization which elected him whose lo he Is Was Wms Variously ly Named The war of hILs been known b by various arlous names accordIng to lo the views and attItude c of those using time the terms have hao called It The Tar or of the Rebellion some The Vm no Be the States Slates anti lUl OUI others IS The rhe Civil War Tar The Roosevelt luw coined a now and Ie name Tho Great War ar The Tho w r was great greut In it the lie numbers engaged In trIO time occupied and In the vast a area oD where hore It was carrIed on It ns I great In the th Issues Involved The Tho Grand Arm of the R Republic Is thado mado I I up UI of the HIl who taught fought that great groat war to lo a successful 1 the who under die leadership or of Lincoln and Grant Giant anti and under linier the providence of God determined that time u lOn of states slates was to he be ono one and I Inow now hOW and forever There was one great Issue veLl veLlIn In which you ou here in Utah Ulah h ve n a special Interest tot for had bad Army Armr of the lie Republic failed In their efforts all of those great groat common commonwealths between the valley alley of the Mississippi and the Pacific ocean might have lost lie star s1 banner anti and nil all that It has hns stood for forIn forin In the lie past and nut will stand for in the future futuro Compared to Mountain In laa traveling cling through your st le and nd adjoining states I have noticed lint a great greal moun mountain lain does doos not so great greal when you stand In Its shadow I It Is i when you travel awu away that lint time the little mOe hills pass out of 01 sight and the great mountains rise up in their maj majesty esty So It Is 18 with time the Great Wat am As we pass awa away from It Us is issues issues sues loom and we so It was fought not only for the north but for tho south for Cor the tho east and for the westIn fact for Cor all humanIty und and for all time I I I I I I I I I I I I So with the Grand Arm Array of the thc Re Republic Republic public As Its drop out of Its ranks anti and Its roll roil becomes smaller tIme tile work It accomplished sl out In Us Its gIgantIc an and title proportions I Comrade Comrado on the honor so bestowed on him and your our beautiful tI city for Ing a worthy such nn an honor And Auth I 1 thank the th gentlemen of yew Chamber of Commerce for time tho of hooking into Inlo the oyes ees of such suchun un lemice For Ogden G A R RI Dr A S Condon was tho next Dr Condon represented ted the tho Granil Army If the Republic of Ogden Ogdon and touched upon tho he history of the organization and amid Us its ment and object After Afler a brief sketch kotch kotchI anti a speech to Mi h ho lb the tho Ico com coin I mandel DI said In iii hart lart hartI I ro No shall the lie wal ti err cry Nor lor the lie winding river he be rod Tho banish our angot 11 go I forever when tho thie laurel the graves of omit dead Under the tho sl and lie Sull ud the he Judgment tiny dur durI Under lie tho willows lie blue the laurels the Gray Grav Two weeks ago ngo was In Suit Lake City Cily tho fast of u a once vust sast army fir mon mOlt engaged two score anti amid a t half yours ago In limo tho or of saving their count country They Out ed cd oven every stab lii In the thc union 5 stile il by br side sub with them lem ml bo hall with willI Oie and of r an jattie fields But tile the scene how changed Now their arIas anus ale aru stacked tho mouths or of the cannon are aro grown cold rind Ind time rebel 11 has haH to hosan hosanI hosannas nas for tue Hag nu and t union the dealt dead were there here impalpable diaphanous tile spirits of Leo anti Grant Graut und Sherman Early lUd 1111 SherIdan Picket mid hanCock and the lie of Immortals from the hi blood field of above ahoo the tho elou clouds s from the tho swamps or of Virginia the nest of Gettys hillS imlig lIl llod away tin dot cler ho awful blows or of I i I I were all there participatIng In Iii the great love feast of theIr former corn com rades anti and rl g When had come the closing of of th their lr meeting the hiving representatIves ot that en enc c honored I self In what It ditl dd I 1 have Introducing to 0 you OU Major William M lI national comm commander of the G A R it Cheers For Mi n sl l lt 1 Co respond but could not eL for some time because of llie of thio crowd Jie said 1 tr ti I Pres and C critic m n Fellow CItizens I I am not so vain aln as to Imagine that lint this great demonstration Is In Intended tended for me personally pers But I taw take I It to lo ho bo a token df C your our appreciation of that great organization the tho Grand Army Aimy of the RepublIc yet number numberIng numbering Ing nearly n a quarter of a million or of veterans or of the he War who a few days dars ago were the lie guests of Utah antI and honored her by electing one of oC oCher her citizens to one ODO of the tho highest of ff flees In Its gift In Its name I thank yell for this magnificent testimony of oC our appreciation and A brIef sketch h or of the he events irn im imI I mediately preceding and the causes which led up UI to the formation of this organIzation and tie the reasons for Cor Its may not he uninteresting an and will give gie a view ot of some somo or of th the groat gmal events of time time From the organization under lh the lip up to 1860 the tho govern meat ment of the Sl was to lo a verr cry largo large extent b by the ing states slates Several Seera clashes s shael had hael occurred between the slave and free elements and n various arlous compro compromises fuses proposed all of which to postpone rather baa thap settle I the controversy between the an anI tree free states r I Up to this time strange as it Il may now appear lie declaration of lode Inde Independence on which the government was founded and which stated that hint all men were created equal and endowed with certain Inalienable rights among which are liro liberty and lie pursuit Or of hind had been b by a large alc patt of our people construed to 10 mean white men only and amid the lie famous decision of ho suo su pl prenie me court of lie United States In InI inthe I the Dred Scott case wherein It was wasI I held In that a negro had I no rIghts that lie he was n a chat chattel tel oh to Lo bo be or of at tho ho will of his master seemed to favor this construe I lion of the declaration of once This ii so shocked the moral of the great mass massof massof of the or of the Northern stales slates as to lead to time tIle common that if that Is the Jaw a W of oC this isis country it must bo be changed Uncle Toms CabIn Aboul the lie same limo appeared that famous hook Toms Cabin which set omit ut In audi mch vivid terms the tue of the or of human sin sla v verr err cry and n added dod to the rising tide of op opp opposition p position to the slave system so tha t tit it to lo the tho minds ol 01 I ve could not long lonE exist In this tl ls Tha rho election in 1260 of the lament lamented ed ed Lincoln on the slave holders that the p period of their nation W was 8 nearing Its end And they read the signs the times limes aright and to separate themselves from time tho of the tho United States and JI a nl In h human was to lo ue ne the lie chief cornerstone and cloven states d o se secession appropriated United States property within their territory anti defied the govern goorn l ard ad laws of tho ho United States I I organized to resist the enforce mont ment of these laws and the Issue or of md and dl disunIon was squarely I joined I iThe United d States government called for volunteers to enforce its laws armIes organized tho ho war opened nn and ninny many battles oro fought vc results for two years cars the Issue liming In the balance However on the third day or of Jul July 1563 the great greal battle of Gettysburg was won by the Union armies and on onlie I lie ho same day the secession General Pemberton was to lo surrender Vicksburg and his hie army of mon monto monto to the United States Stales forces Those two great victories for tho Union the lie tide that lint finally resulted In two years later laler und and the total destruction of organized resist to the authority of tue tho United States Widow and Orphans The rho close of time war found scat nil all over the he Northern states 01 a 11 thousands of widows and or 01 ha s whose husbands and aud fathers had given their heIr lives that time tho Union might live and time the Grand Gran Army Armr or ol orth thi th Republic came Into existence to ci care for Cor thorn item an and help time tho comrades who rimo were vere from disease anu woun wounds s and LImo tho founders or of this or organization organization have made malic this the lie Inculcation of love lovo of country anti nag flag the lie chief CO or of the Grand AmI of the tho Republic as it has hau stood and today No meeting or of a Grand Arm post Is ever eer held without Inquiry being made or of the welfare of lleo corn com and amid the wIdows anti and orphans of the deceased soldiers and assistance at once where needed mimi at meeting our are re ie that tho hope or of tills thIs republic r rests on ono one country and one Olle nag fing No omit malt hns over oer tHe ho of the tho Grand Army Armr of lh lie Republic who has borne borno arms agaInst the government of the United states And Anel no man has or over can caim ho be ted to lo the tho Grand Army of oC the I lie who did not In the war o of 61 T regularly enlist and cerve In the ar armies mies of lie tho United States and anel all allIn allin In his p to lo crush secession re restore restore store the Union of the he UnIted States and strike the shackles from three men and women then them held In and restore to nom their God l t o me life a and d i a ti now I s n the gl tim I Sit Silt tild ai lor liberty and n o krevor and absolute b h tie the ia to nil men black as white 1 b man sean e n a position so as c ad admit into the Grano Arm Army of the Republic without these I qualifications and none Done is so that poss possessing thom item can or will be excluded Not in Politics With the varIous of II tI social or or economic loris Ions this organization has haG nothing to tomb mb and lie tho or of these ques lIms Is excluded from froni it meetings but loyalty to Lo the tue government of time the United States without qualification I Is with love of fla and countr country Is al ala a 5 Inculcated Those who ho form the membership o of the GIn d Army ot of the Republic have had the proud privilege or of reo re to our country the flag lIag or of a glorious nation spot and dt Il ii to LO you ou as the of equal rights Its folds are aro unfurled lint but In doing so admonIsh vigilance Is the price C f iud yOu t i vigilance once relaxed will soon Ild t If liberty is 9 a 1 I Thie rho time Is rapidly approaching and it will be but a few fes years ears when lie tho work or for fot lh the Grand A Army or of the he Republic was organized will willbe be closed forever All of Its members are far down on the tho western slope ot at life fe and their snort sot sol al alII II we hear the wa waves es breaking on onI onlie I the lie sholes of that Great Beyond one I by one our ur comrades are arc passing he be heI I hind the that separates time from fromI eternity hut we look forward whIm confidence into the and see I this great nation still greater anti the spirit or of liberty and love ovo of country I strengthened by tue lne sacrifices made to toI I maintain Its integrity spread aroun around 1 this world of ours and when time heat hoat or of passion onsen ored jn in that hint groat bront struggle of 61 shall have n awn wa thou thell and aud not nol till Ull lion thon lot lol time tho epitaph o of lie tho Grand Army of lie tho Re He public be written anti and we o feel as lint it will lie he a just one The hand then lien pla Played cd a few fow I I lions and after boy had lone done part O 0 J A Kennedy chairman or of the lie I on resolutions of the cham chamber ber of commerce moc moved the following resolution which was seconded by Mr Resolved That th of Og mien lien note noLe with pride and UtE he high honor that has hns boon beon bestowed upon Oll follow townsman Major W WM V M jl In his election to the ther r Important office of senior of the Grand Army Armr ot of the Republic I Resolved That we hereby horeb con hl l lila of ofa ofa a lifelong to the he patriotic principles ot cit his order and amid Resolved That wo we hereby extend oi 01 I to him and to lo all other e of the lie Army of the lie whose ma made 1103 Iio sible the holding Of the lie annual en nL In Utah and lint we e also ulso congratulate time tile citizens or o Salt Lalu City upon the success of their thell efforts effort at entertaining which provided an opportunity for lor time tho People or of Utah of witnessing magnificent I or of the nations lesson In patriotism lint will be forgot forgotten ten h by those Who ho witnessed sed It Mi Belnap then proposed hat a vote yote or of thanks he be glen given the Industrial I School band banet this was seconded with three rousing cheers b by the he crowd Time The boys wore then lien treated I to Ice cream and cake |