That was the kind of men that composed the volunteer Army of the Union who saved the Republic. Some of them are here tonight. They compose your Grand Army post here in Mendota. Honor them while yet you may, for, in only a few years more, the last one of that Grand Army will have gone beyond the dark river. But the young men of today are as patriotic as the young men of 1861, and if the time ever comes when the Republic is in danger they will spring to arms and repeat the heroic deeds of their fathers, and the Republic will last "until the sun grows cold, and the stars are old, and the leaves of the judgment book unfold." [Illustration] * * * * * +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Typographical errors corrected in text: | | | | Page 6: "ad hit the bull's" replaced with | | "and hit the bull's" | | | +-----------------------------------------------------------+ * * * * *