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onthewasAr the conclusion of the exerciser* in lie University, the regiment was iu-ited by President Ed wards to visit le different departments connected nth the institution, including the mseura and school rooms.After some further tirae spent in eneral conversation, the veterans re jrned to the city, arriving at the A )h-»y House ab^ut half past four 'clock.THE BANQUET.As soon 88 the shades of evening fitue, the parlors and dining halls of be Ashley House were beautifully ghted, making the place cheerful nd inviting for the soldiers and their •fends, who assembled early in the vonlng to have a good social time be-re the hour for the banquet.Kadel’s string band played several ne pieces of music,among them being tie “Overture to the Cailiph de Bag-ad” and the “Farewell Polonaise.”Mr. Stroud then called the hou«e to rder, and announced that Capt E. J. lewis, of the Paningraph 4would read short but interesting history of the »giment. 'At the conclusion of Capt. Lewis* ddress, the large company formed in wo ranks, aud marched to the strains f sweet music by Kadel’s string and, into the dining had, where the nbles were neatly arranged iu a hoi-)w square, iu the center of which the and was seated. The table-* were pread with the substantial*, deliea-ies and fancy dishes of he season. At the south side f the room were hung he walls the old battle dags of eglment. Over the digs tung a beautiful siield, prepared y Mrs. J. H. Burnham. The upper art was covered with a blue ground n which were thirteen gilt star*; with he figures 33 in dazzling white, and his portion was surrounded with bril iaut scarlet flowers. The lower part f the shield was trimmed in evergreens, in whioh 4,Our Fallen Com-ades” appeared in white letters, and he whole of this portiou, was covered vith white flowers. This shield was nnch admired by the members of the 13rd, ami we have no doubt they ivili remember the fair donor. Ou he north side of the hall was hung ;he old regimental blue banner, svith “E Pluribus Unurn” inscribed ipon It in gilt. From chandelier to chandelier were hung evergreens, and the room was otherwise decorated with flags, which made the room look very pleasant and attractive. One hundred And twenty-eight ladies aud gentle-men were seated at the table. Dr. Edwards asked the divine blessing, and Captain Burnham delivered the following address of welcome in behalf of the citizens:Comrades and Ladies: It hasfalleu to my lotto give you a few words of honest, hearty, sincere welcome. ft is perhaps peculiarly appropriate that I nhoulii be Called upon forthis, for I loved the old Thirty third with a love more Intense than f ever felt l b«r \ When I left you at Mill!-ken’s Rend. April Nt, 1863, it was ttie hardest patting I ever had in my life. For weeks alter, while you were making tho-e lerrilde mar. hew and fighting those dreadful httiih* he Tore Vicksburg, aud we could g*t no news fromyou, I would have walked all night in any direction to meet the feast important tnan in the regiment, provided he could have given me news of your sit*nation.In behalf of our citizens, I can say they feel hurt that they have not been called upon to participate in this welcome, but I can assure you it is not for want of iuterest; on the contrary, bad they been allowed they would haveoverwhelmed us with numbers, andthis house would not have held them. In behalf of our comrades who have assisted in these preparations, I canthe whole work, from to end, has been a love and constant I am reminded of what the wife said to her husband f “John,” said she, “do you love me?” “Of course I do,” says he, “don’t I provide for you and take care of you? What need is there of talking about my love for you?” “Oh,” says she,1! know all that, but I like to hear you say so.” In like manner, you are very well aware that you are welcome, but you like to hear us say so.The speech was cheered, and all hands pitched into the victuals, and the victuals were pitched into them with a will, all seeming to relish whatever was set b fore them, aud well they might, for the dishes were all prepared by that superior caterer and steward, Mr. P. H. Butler.After the party had been served, and the appetites were fully satisfied,Col. Elliott, of Princeton, arose and spoke of the peculiarities of a certain member of the regiment, who could make a speech and was always willing to omke one whenever calledUpon. He then called upon Col. Roe to respond to the tosst, “The Anniversary of the Rattle of Fredericks-towo.” The Colonel said: How can a man make a speech on an occasion like this? I cannot make a speech and I never was good on telling a joke. I know a good many thing*, but will not tell them, as we all here are of one mind. This is a one sided subject. Jf I had somebody to argue with, I could pay something, but ail of you here £re of my way of thinking. When this regiment was organized, the question was asked, “What’s the number of the regiment?” Col. Hovey, the President of the Normal University just previous to this time, telegraphed to Springfield 10 find out the uumber of the regiment, and received the answer ”33;” Coiouei Hovey said that is a significant number, and we will do honor to it. Thirty-three is the highest degree in Masonry, and is considered the strongest bond of brotherhood. The Coiouei then related a number of incideuts connected with the memorable battle of Frederickstown, and paid a glowing tribute to the regiment for its bravery.Coi. Elliott then stated that he wanted to introduce another gentleman, whe could never make a speech, unless he I ad two or Ahree weeks to prepare in, and Mr. Elliott introduced Gtueral Lippincott, the Auditor of Btate at Bpriugtield, to respond to the toast, “The Thirty-third.” The General said he wished to prefer charges against Col. Elliott for mistakiug things. I have had no notice that I w as to make aspie ;h. I can make no speech because I have nothing to say. It is enough for any of us to remember the incidents at the begiuing of the war, when our army was defeated at Bull Run. It was then thought ours was the last cause, aud that treason had triumphed- There was nothing that could keep tL,e brave m§# of this regiment from goiug to ti^e war till that disgrace was removed, V^hen the ngl-rnent was organized there wasn’ta solitary soul in it that knewmy life are clustered around the 33rd.VNhile I was Lieut. Col. I tried to domy lt;uty. I look back aud see the biiu ders and fault* that I committed, and have tried to rectify those mistakes to different individuals. There never was a time while I was in command of the regiment that I failed to put the 33rd In front, when I had the opportunity, and the opportunity occurred, as you are aware, more than once.Captain W. W. H. Lawton, of Springfield, responded to the toa«-f “Our Fallen Comrades ”Our fallen comrades. How shall we speak of them. We, the survivors, assemble here tonight in our reunion. From long distances have we come.don II. Read Recording Secretary or the Woman’s Temperance Union of the State of Illinois, at its recent sea Mon at Galesburg. fcHome have departed, but they ouwings of light fly, and as we the survivors meet h?re to renew our friendships, they hover over iih till methinks the air above us is thick with the spirits of our departed brothers. Noble Pope lies beneath the s lt;1 of Louisiana, put there by an assassin’s hand. The generous Graysay that beginning labor ofpleasure.sleeps in the quiet graveyard of his father’s, and Kellogg, at Vicksburg,and Bryant, w hose bones lie bleaching beneath the wa\es of the gulf, which sing their requium over the ashes ofFifer, who lies beneath the sands atPort E«*peranza, ami Adams, Claywall and Fife, and two hundred brave enlisted men, whose hones mark anew our march from the lake to the 9ea. Our soil is enriched by their blood. St. Louis, Cairo, Memphis, Young Point are thick with our dead, and oil Vicksburg’s Heights they lie, making It consecrated ground. Let us so live that we can ever remember them withpride, and never blush to think that they are with us. ' ^The toast—“Sunshine and Shadows of a Soldier’s Life”—was responded to by Hon. A. O. Marshall, of Joliet. He spoke of the many pleasant remembrances of camp life, and also refurred to some of the sad scenes. He congratulated eacli for his home surroundings, and said that the Thirty Third regiment, although many were lost in the war, numbers more now than it did then, If we take into consideration the number of lit lie Tbirty-thirders that have been added to Its roll. *“The Non-Commissioned Staff.”Response by a Mr. WiDou.“The Colored Troops Fought Bravely.” Response by Captain E. Burrows. This is a Yankee toast, aud answers itself. 1 he colored troops didfight bravely. frP I“Our Absent Comrades ; the Living and the Dead.” Response by J. VV. Fifer It a fiords me great pleasure to look over ray past life a* a soldier. Af ter Fort Sumpter had been fired upon there was a call for 75,000 men. Thiugs looked dark. Out best men turned pale, and doubted the success of our cause. I remember the day when, in company with several others, I rode six miles in an old lumber wagon to enlist as a soldier. Myself and five others came to Bloomington and found Col. E. R. Roe, who was enlisting men for the 8Jd. We made the number on his list, thirty-five. Of that six, three are living and three are dead. There are more of our absent comradts who are sleeping In their graves than are present tonight. Borne fell In Missouri, some at Vicksburg, some at Es-peranza, and still otheis at Mobile, and in all the battlefields the regiment was in. There are many more of our living comrades than are here at this hai quet. They are scattered all over mis country. There are many that, we will probably never meet. Though they are absent, they are with us in spirit, ami the absent oofs are not forgotten.Letters were received from John L. Routt, Denver; John M. Follett, of Cambridge, Illinois ; Capt Moses I.Morgan, of Brecksville, Ohio; Hon. Nenlon G. Gill, of Holly Bprings; Charles I). Morris, of Stuart, Iowa; M. H. Harris, of Hale, Illinois; T. F. Willis, of Red Oik Junction, Iowa; Rev. H. J. Eddy, of Brooklyn ; Capt. Geo. E. BmUh, ofBt. Louis; Charles Bovee, of Chicago; Thomas I). Howard, of Bpripgfield; Charles Moore, of Lena; ChailesE. Wadleigh. of Green Ridge, Missouri; Jay Taylor, of Macomb, Michigan ; John 8. Moore, of Watseka, ill.; Lucius Rew, of New York, Iowa; C. Dubois, of Palenville, New York, and William Abbott, of Chicago. Ail of the above exprts*ed |regret that they couldn’t be present at thereunion.Letters were, also, received from Aaron Gove, of Denver, aud Ira Moore, of Ban Diago, California.James T. Fields, of Boston, the lec urer, was then introduced by Col* A el Elliott. Mr. Fields said: What can a son of Massachusetts say, hut God bless you soldiers. How we love you. I say God blees the daughters of Illinois. A woman knit a pair of fine socks aud sent them to General Grant. Bhe said, He took my fi,ve sons to the army, aud returned not one of them, but he gave me back my country. God bless him.“The Flag of tlie Normal” was responded to in a short speech by Col.| (Theatrical.—1Our theater g erswill rejoice at the opportunity of again seeing the “Two Orphans” by the talented company who appeared in our city a few weeks since. New scenery f new wardrobes and new properties hive been secured in place of those destroyed by fire at Lincoln. This play has received the plaudits of press aud people from the first, and Is pronounced the most beautiful and exciting play ever 9een In America. Every preparation is made to give the piece in the best possible manner. In looking over the caste the names of many old favorites are to be seen. It is to be hoped a full house will greet this talented company tonight. Tomorrow afternoon, at 2 o’clock, a matinee will be given for the ladies and children.widTbestat 4 A2§cTloc%L bou for A frln A at 2%100EFrom Ocean to Ocean on Horseback:.—Capt. Willard Glosler, the soldier author, w ho is already a popu-lar^ man in the author’s field, it now making preparations to go ou a Journey across the continent, riding all the way on horseback. He intends to start the first of next May, from Boston, Mass. He is to lecture in the principal cities along the route. The subject of his lecture to be something applicable to the Centennial year. This Is only one of a thousand and onenovel things that will bo done during the graud memorial year that is sonear at hand. * J E. 8.Editor Leader:—As lam a subscriber of your paper, I claim the right to defend my frieuds and myself whenever they or I are attacked in its columns. Iu your issue of yesterday, yoip.repeat the stereotyped charge that the Democrats of the North were in sympathy with the cause of the Bouth-ern Confederacy. I wish to say now that during all those dark hours, I was acquainted with no intelligent man in this country who endorsed secession, or who had any sympathy with their cause. Upon the contrary those with whom I associated, heartily advocated the cau*e of the Union in all lawful efforts to suppress what we all regarded as an uu|ustifiable and suicidal attempt to dissolve the American Union without any just provocation. Democrats entered the ranks of our army as readily as Republicans, and many of them co-operated with the Democratic party at the end ot the war. It is true that Democrats were jealous of the guaranties of the Constitution, which they believed, then and now, to be made for “the ruler” as well as well as for the ruled, and which was our magna charta “in war as well asin peace.” '^5^,Aud, while they did not hesitate fully to endorse the cause of the Union, they did require the administration to see that the sacred provision© of the Constitution should be respected and preserved, towards ail who were not in rebellien against its authority. It Is also true that they opposed some of the measures which were proposed to aid the government in conquering the rebellion, which they afterwards endorsed, and which were eminently efficient instrumentalities in weakening the cause of the Bouth, such as the Emancipation Proclamation, Ac.But, if these questions rendered the Democratic party disloyal, what is to be said ot those who declared lathe presence of Mr. Lincoln, when his brain and heart were burdened with the dreadful load of responsibility thatbore so heavily upon him—that they wou’d oppose the furnishing of any more men or money to cary on the war, nnU8't he would do to Hot he said he had no disposition to do, nor any constitutional right to do. Did the Democratic party assume a more insolent attitude than Ibis during all thetrying and bloody years of that fratricidal strife? If Republicans could pledge their support to the cause of the union upon any sort of conditions, without inourring liability to the charge of disloyalty. Why couldn’t the Democrats do the same thing? Sir: I had the pleasure tobe present when the rebel regiments from Bouth Carolina and from Maryland entered the city of Boston, on the day before the Centennial, the 16ih day of June last, and I saw for myself that the people of that city,loyal as they always had been, had laid down the hatchet in faith and welcomed those brave men who had Imperiled their lives in a bad cause, to a celebration with them of the great battle of Bunker Hill, which, thouerh a failure, fired the heart of the Puritans and made them swear to throw off the yoke of British domination and to establish a Government founded on equal justice to all.to catch the true spirit T. F. Worrell.H6CFTajohe4o t A5,6cheine8Jotwh6RuIB.ietitheCoi80botwoEaaojgocBill•fi85,hali9,1SOECtheboiles1miWatdu yaIch]babetbcurithe3869fo2540ulnlt;kaiblt;aig(danwLet us go East of patriotism!Elliott, of Priucetop. |Je spoke about the members of the Thirty-third loving that fiag above nearly everything eUe, aud how they curried it throughthe war. Let me ask you in our march through life to keep an eye onthe old ilag“'J'bs Ladies ” Response byHIen. Lipplnooti.Three cheers were here given to the ladies.“Soldiers’ Farewell ” Responded to by Gen. Ira J. Bloomfield.‘.‘The Privates of the Late War.” Responded to by Mr. Bummers,Beveral other impromptu speeches were made and anecdotes to}d by Ed. Pike, of Chenoa, and others, after which a vote of thanks was extended to the railroads for favors shown -them. ,rThe happy company of fair women and brave men then adjourned to the reception parlors, where a vote of thauks was extended to the ladies who decorated the hall, to the Bloomington comrades who did the work of getting up this the first reunion, and three limes three rousing cheers were then given for the Ashley House for the sumptuous manner iu which they had been eutertaiued.After this some adjourned to their homes as the hour was late, but the majority of them remained, and wereamused for two hours by the anec-C ire mi Court Proceedings, to ;NoonToday.Norris A Howard vp pllen Nemire. Buit dismissed b;’ plaintiff*.Hampel B. Smith vs. City of Bloomington. Verdict, defendant not guilty.Gapen Ewing vs. G., C, 8. R. R Co. Buit dismissed by pUluiiflYWin. H. Heaton et al. vs. Luke Murphy et al. Bill dismissed by complainantsJ. P. Card A Co. vs. Bloomington Iron Works. Judgment by confession for $200.98.Beotia Iron Works vs. Bloomington Jron Works. Judgment by confession for sisrmPeople vs. Moseby A Brown. Plea of guilty by both. Each sentenced to the penitentiary for one year.People vs, Augusta Myers. Trial by jury.Judge Tipton announced this morning that jurors summoned for November 1, 1875, will not be expected to appear until Wednesday of next week, in order that they may attend the election on Tuesday.icl01O!wO'g01liUiIITHE1HKBlllllEN BOOK.8VeFOR «a.oovOriginally published at Twenty Dollar*.Only a few Hundred Copies Insold.dotes of camp life as told by the gen1#ial and whole-souled Capt. Lawton, General Lippincott, Senator Marshall, Ed. Pike aud others, after which the veterans adjourned, many of them taking the trains for their homes in different parts of the State. Thus ended the first reuuion of theThirty-third.THE FORBIDDEN ZOOK will be delivered Pte, secretly sealed, to any address on receipt of Two hollars. 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Bloomington Daily Leader
Bloomington, Illinois, US
Fri, Oct 22, 1875
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