Show ayi 15 addresses ills of the V t and spells with a very large CLEVELAND aug 25 general gar fields regiment held a reunion today at speeches by gen garfield and others a recolus lion was adopted proudly commending the first colonel of the forty second ohio as a mau and a soldier who deserves the votes of all men gen garfield said this is a family gathering a military familar for in a regiment is to the army what a family is to the whole civilized corn here a portion of THE PLATFORM FELL A military reunion without some excitement cit ement and some accident would be altogether too monotonous end tame to be interesting and in this good natured audience we can have a good many accidents like that and keep quiet and be happy I said this was n family reunion the assembly of theold forty family it is well for us to meet here nineteen years ngo I met a crowd of earnest citizens in that court room above clairs your bell in the town your people came out the leathen of your school was among them the boys of the school were impre and after we had talked to nettier A little while about iry and its imperiled flag the teacher of the school OFFERED HIMSELF TO BIS anil twenty of his boys with him never went back in the again but in the dark adya dya of 1861 they and enough aerland bouny boys to make went down with me to columbu to join another that had gone before them from angland of your children flood tu the centre lary family and bore these old banners see tattered before you to day one of them was given W our family by the ladies of ash wal and company C from ashland and carried it well it was riddled by bullets and torn by underbrush and fl by winds of the rebellion it came back tattered as you see but with never a stain on its folds and SEVER A TOUCH OF DISHONOR ubon it anywhere and the other ol 01 ahse banners was given us by the pi cial friends of company A in my old town of hiram the student company from the heart of the western reserve und it also shared like ita fellow the same fate and cane home covered with the glory of the convict ive were a family I say again nd we did not lei partisan feelings disturb u then and wo do not jet partisanship enter our circles here to day we did not work we agreed to be brethren for the union under the flag against all iu enemies everywhere and brothers to all men who stood with us under the flag TO FOR THE UNION whatever their color of skin what ever their previous politics whatever their religion in that spirit we went out in that spirit we returned there never was a serious quarrel inside the regiment there was never a serious disagreement between its officers the worst thing I have heard said against it was that all its three field officers came home alive and they are all here on this stand today to day it was perhaps a little against us that nd one of us had the honor to get killed or seriously crippled but we hold that it is not altogether our fault and we trust that some day or other you will have forgiven w if you lave hot to day for being alive and all here together I want to say another thing about this soldiers work J know of nothing in all the circle of human duty that BO unite as do the common sufferings and danger and struggle that war brings upon regiment you cannot know a man BO thoroughly and so soon as by THE tremendous TESTS to which the war subjects liim The semen knew each other by sight long before they knew each heart but before they got back home ahey knew each other as you sometimes fay you know a song by heair lor they had been tested by fire they had been tested by starvation they had been tested by the crim presence of death and each fenew that those who rema inel were union men men that in all the hard chloee chances of life had the stun in them that enabled them to stand up m the extremes peril ready to die these men vent out without one single touch of revenge in their hearan they went out to maintain this union und to make it immortal and to make it possible that the peo ale of Alila cd should mako the monogram of the unitta stales as you teo it there a wreath of union inside of a vet y large N A CAPITAL tf that stands for nation a nation so large it includes USA all the people of the republic and we will include it for ever boore that i what wo meant then and ia what we mean now and nov fellow catl zeng and soldiers of the forty second regiment today to day with calif faction and bid you a cordial goodbye good bye general iQ arfield returned to cleveland lanig hf go to in |