love and affection.

protector and comforter.

In adversity Thou art ever our In prosperity Thou art ever our abiding hope and trust. Deign make us ever worthy of Thy protecting and fostering care.

As with the individual, so with the nation dost Thou deal most mercifully. With the breath of Thy love Thou hast called it into existence. Thou didst bless it with wise and prudent founders. Thou hast implanted in the breasts of its citizens a sense of right, a love of justice. Thou hast watched over its beginnings. Thou hast brought it, in a brief space of time, to a height of unparalleled prosperity. Thou hast, when its existence was endangered, either by attacks from without or by dissensions within, filled the hearts of its faithful children with love and devotion, and Thou hast raised from among them valiant men to defend its interests. Thou hast led them to victory, and when Thou didst make them victorious, Thou didst, too, inspire them with mercy and compassion for the vanquished. For all this, Oh Heavenly Father, we return loving thanks. Deign grant that encouraged by their example, we may ever walk in their footsteps in the footsteps of him whose memory we meet here to celebrate on this solemn occasion. May the lessons taught by their example sink deeply into our souls. May they nerve us and all who will come after us to make and brave

every sacrifice for the welfare of fatherland. Deign mercifully hear the prayers of thy servants, that, the evil designs of our enemies being defeated, we may praise Thee with unceasing gratitude.

Oh God, the protector of all that hope in Thee, without Whom nothing is strong, nothing holy, multiply

upon us Thy mercy, that Thou being our ruler and guide, we may so pass through temporal things that we may not lose those which are eternal, through Jesus Christ, our Lord. ΑΜΕΝ.

General WAGER SWAYNE then delivered the following Memorial Address:

There's one we love to call our own,

Renowned by sword and pen,

His plume alone, where'er it shone,
Was worth ten thousand men;

"Twas he snatched victory from defeat,

Our hearts' commander still;

Whene'er we meet, his name we'll greet,

Our matchless Little Phil.

[Col. Archie Hopkins.

The breaking out of the Rebellion found SHERIDAN a First Lieutenant of Infantry, stationed at Yamhill, Oregon-then distant two months journey from the field of war.

Of his situation there he says:

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'We received our mail at Yamhill once a week; on the day that our courier or messenger was expected, * * * I would go out early in the morning to a commanding point and there I would watch with anxiety for his coming, longing for good news; for, isolated as I had been through years spent in the wilderness, my patriotism was untainted by politics, nor had it been disturbed by any discussions of the questions out of which the war grew, and I hoped for the success of the government before all other considerations. * * Out of a sincere desire to contribute as much as I could to the preservation of the Union, I earnestly wished to be

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at the seat of war. * * I was young, healthy and insensible to fatigue, and desired opportunity, but high rank was so distant in our service that not a dream of its attainment had flitted through my brain."

His first assignment to command of troops was May 25, 1862, when he was appointed Colonel of the Second Michigan Cavalry, then stationed at Corinth, Mississippi. His earlier service, since he was brought East the September previous, had been as Commissary and as Quartermaster. was at Corinth at the time of his appointment, having been with Halleck's army in its movement to that place from Pittsburg Landing, a movement which had occupied the previous six weeks.

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The army which made this advance comprised nearly 100,000 men. The place in it assigned to SHERIDAN was as Staff Quartermaster-to remove the headquarters when directed-and as Staff Commissary, to provide the escort with rations and the officers with supplies.

The idea of SHERIDAN there, assigned to no duty but the care of General Halleck's headquarters, is suggestive of strange contrast. It was this same SHERIDAN - desiring opportunity, but not dreaming of high command-to whom Mr. Lincoln wrote, within the next three years:

"For the personal gallantry, military skill, and just confidence in the courage and patriotism of your troops,

displayed by you on the nineteenth day of October, at Cedar Run, whereby, under the blessing of Providence, your routed army was reorganized, a great national disaster averted, and a brilliant victory achieved over the rebels, for the third time within thirty days, PHILIP H. SHERIDAN is appointed a Major-General in the regular army."

He was again in the far West and crossing the plains with an escort, when a courier brought him word that the President had nominated him to be Lieutenant-General. He read the dispatch, and turning to his staff officers said: "Boys, you will have to address me as Lieutenant-General now!" Their hats all went up at once.

He lay on his death-bed: when word came to him that the Congress of the United Statesreviving in his honor the discontinued grade of General of the Army-had crowned him with the last reserve of military rank.

After deducting for all happy accident, the fact remains that of 2,000,000 of men, culled from a people who abounded in every quality of excellence, called into the field from the North, three men, Grant, Sherman, Sherman, SHERIDAN, beyond all others, made themselves admired and dear to the armies and the people of the nation. Comparison between these is not simply inappropriate; it is not merely impracticable; it is arrested on the

threshold by the common ties and strong affection of the three which come in to remind us that invidious preferences between them are precisely what he who survives of them would most dislike, and that in this he shares the feeling, as he does the glory, of the dead. The voice of the people is, Grant, Sherman, SHERIDAN. It is the voice of

the people, and it is enough.

The youngest of these three, latest in prominent command, so met and dealt with the emergencies of war that neither mistake nor quarrel or defeat ever wasted the forces of his country or impeded the zeal of their employment. Nature had given him the qualities essential to a selfish excellence. He added to them such as to win affection and command respect. The personal ascendancy resulting made his whole command only himself enlarged, and where he willed it went with all his will, and did what in their place he would have done. This made his personality, of course, as great as the command at any time intrusted to him, and made his military service a distinct and priceless contribution to the welfare of the country.

It is the lesson of this life that we are here to learn. He was born here in Albany, March 6, 1831. Because of this fact, and because of the high estimate in which his services are held, and