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the Dubuque & Sioux City Eailroad; Spencer Day, of 

 Marshalltown, for the Chicago & North-western Eailroad; 

 0. H. P. Buchanan, of Mt. Pleasant, for the Burlington & 

 Missouri Eiver Eailroad ; J. D. Whitman, of Des Moihes, 

 as agent for the State at large, and also for the Chicago, 

 Eock Island & Pacific Eailroad. 



SPEECH OF WORTHY MASTER A. B. SMEDLEY. 



At the festivities at Epworth, Iowa, on the seventeenth 

 of September, 1873, Col. A. B. Smedley, one of the master 

 spirits in this great Order, in an eloquent address, enun 

 ciated sentiments which can not fail to find an echo in. the 

 heart of every delver of the soil. The following extracts 

 will show the tenor of his address : 



The darkness, bigotry, and intolerance of feudal Europe drove to 

 the bleak shores of New England a few souls, in whose hearts re 

 sponded the divine element of freedom. What seemed to them 

 darkness, privation, and trial was the birth of a new nation, which 

 should be the home of the oppressed of all lands. Human slavery, 

 relic of the dark ages, cursed our nation. The time came when 

 slavery and freedom could not exist together; through trial, through 



&quot;Through Trial, Toil, and. Blood.&quot; 



toil and blood and anguish, slavery went down into the realms of the 

 past, and freedom was triumphant. T is true that in a thousand 

 homes are empty seats ; t is true that in a multitude of hearts there 



