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THEIR FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY 
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been taught respect and reverence for 
the soldier. For nearly 40 years ‘she 
had been trying to take care of a 
G. A. R. man and to what degree she 
had succeeded those present could judge. 
Asst. Adj. Gen. Wetherbee respond- 
ed to the toast “‘Our Flag.’? The 
speaker paid tribute to the W. R. C. 
and complimented the post on the local 
corps. He said, pointing to the flag, 
that it was the services rendered by the 
veterans in 1861-5 that gave us this fag 
for which he was asked to speak. “* For 
four long years you followed that em- 
blem’’, he said. “‘It is indeed the 
“Flag of the free’. It never knew and 
never will know defeat. ‘Today it is the 
flag of the whole nation, made so by the 
services you rendered. The Southerner 
is just as willing to offer his life to defend 
it as you are. In 1898 it was shown to 
the world what America was and what 
it could be, and since that time no in- 
ternational question had arisen but what 
the other countries looked tothe U. S. 
to see what action we would take. 
“* Today all the president of the U. S. 
has to say is ‘ Our country is in danger; 
we need men,’ and he would soon have 
ten millions of men ready for service.”’ 
Mr. Wetherbee told a few stories and 
anecdotes. “The old soldier may be grey, 
he said, but he is young in heart and _ it 
does them great deal of good to get to- 
gether occasionally and whoop her up. 
““;Let us show the coming generations 
that as you fought in war as _ good 
soldiers, you are today good citizens. 
There is no better example to place be- 
fore the children than the G. A. R. 
Tiy to have them grow up to respect 
and reverence ‘ Old Glory.’ ”’ 
The singing of “‘Rally Round the 
Flag, Boys’’ came in very appropriately 
here. 
The next toast was 
Chaplain’, and Rev. Fr. Wm: F. 
Powers responded to this. He _ paid 
tribute to Fr. Scully of Cambridge, chap- 
lain of the Mass. Department, G. A. R., 
telling a story about one of his “‘kind 
acts’’ in war times, his story being sup- 
plimented by another by Com. Roe. 
Continuing, Fr. Powers’ remarks, 
were more along the line of why he_ be- 
lieved in the G. A. R. 
“*In the ordinary human life,’’ he 
said, ‘“40 years stands for all the joys, 
all the sorrows and I might say all the 
experiences. ‘his post has had its joys 
and its sorrows, and its experiences, and 
whatever might have been its joys 
and its sorrows, the experience has been 
a rich one, not only for the post but’ for 
the community. Every society is to be 
judged by the end toward which it is 
working. Of all human societies the 
G. A. R., I think, stands first in all our 
“The Army 
broad land,---it does more to perpetuate 
the spirit of fraternity and love. It 
teaches grand lessons to the younger gen- 
erations.’’ 
The speaker referred to the liberal 
spirit shown as regards religious liberty, 
—the absence of sectarianism. Religious 
differences made no impression on the 
great cause. While it is true that the 
great majority of veterans have been non- 
Catholics the G. A. R. has not been 
loathe to honor our Catholic friends. 
As examples he referred to Fr. Scully; 
Arch-Bishop Ireland, Chaplain in Chief 
of the G. A. R.; John E. Gilman, past 
dept. Commander and former Adj. 
Gen. in Chief of the U. S. A., and _ his 
wife, Mrs. Gilman, recently honored by 
being chosen head of the W. R. C.; 
“Johnnie ’’ Linehan of N. H., head of 
the Dept. of N. H., and Past Com. 
in Chief Kountz of Ohio. He believed 
the G. A. R. had done and was doing 
a great deal toward doing away with re- 
ligious bigotry and bringing about a com- 
mon level of citizenship. 
' Francis M. Stanwood, of the Smith’s 
Point summer colony, for so many years 
connected with the old Boston Journal, 
was called upon to speak representing 
the press. He spoke of his remem- 
brance of the stirring times connected 
with the outbreak of the war and of his 
vivid recollection of the 12th. Mass. 
Regiment so well remembered in con- 
nection with Manchester, how when a 
member of the Boston Latin School he 
with other members were invited to see 
the drill at Fort Warren and how the 
school took down a small emblem to 
present to Co. D. 
He paid tribute to the memory of 
General Grant whom he characterized 
as one of the great soldiers of all times 
and spurned the efforts of critics of war 
times to show that Robert E. Lee was 
the great soldier. It is most arrant non- 
sense to place Lee on the same plane 
with Grant, he said. 
Col. B. F. Cook of Post 45, Glouces- 7 
ter; made a few remarks and the closing 
song ‘‘ Marching Thro’ Georgia’ 
brought everybody to their feet. Three 
cheers for the flag by all, and three 
cheers for Allen Post brought the cele- 
bration to a close. 
The oldest person present was Jeffrey 
T. Stanley, a member of the post, who 
is over 80 years, and the youngest was 
the little one-year old daughter of Adj. 
Rivers. 
B. S. Bullock was the caterer. 
At the anniversary of Allen Post at 
Tuck’s Point, Tuesday Comrade D. 
O’ Sullivan and one of his old shipmates, 
Mr. Hickman of Post 45, Gloucester, 
met for the first time in 48 years. Mr. 
Sullivan in telling of the affair says “‘ We 
hadn’t seen each other since the night 
we were together in Pensacola Harbor, 
We went in the first launch at the 
cutting out of the Privateer Juda; two 
men were killed in the same boat and 
three were wounded. We shed tears of 
joy when we met Tuesday, as neither 
one of us had seen each other since that 
time, until the anniversary.’’ 
Among those who attended the anni- 
versary of Allen Post ‘Tuesday were 
Mrs. D. O’ Sullivan and her neice, Miss 
Mabel Moses. Miss Moses who is on 
from the West for a visit, was greatly 
impressed by the gathering ‘Tuesday and 
the expressions of joy that lighted up the 
faces of the old soldiers as they met, in 
some cases after an interval of many 
years, especially in her uncle’s case, who 
met an old shipmate whom he _ hadn’t 
seen in forty-eight years. 
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