Through the great campaign : with Hastings and his spellbinders . ^ in the landcotild do the same. I thank 3oti again for youreloquent and patriotic utterance. That was the way one of Colonel Thomas utterances touched the heart of one has touched thotisands in just that same are times when his eloquence lifts itselfalmost to the sublime, and then with that swift 90. General Thomas J. Stewart,Adjutant General. transition that is so marked in the emotions ofthose of the Irish race, he turns the tears ofsympathy- into dewdrops of laughter. For yearspast no Grand Army g
Through the great campaign : with Hastings and his spellbinders . ^ in the landcotild do the same. I thank 3oti again for youreloquent and patriotic utterance. That was the way one of Colonel Thomas utterances touched the heart of one has touched thotisands in just that same are times when his eloquence lifts itselfalmost to the sublime, and then with that swift 90. General Thomas J. Stewart,Adjutant General. transition that is so marked in the emotions ofthose of the Irish race, he turns the tears ofsympathy- into dewdrops of laughter. For yearspast no Grand Army gathering of any conse-quence, State or national, has been felt completewithout the presence of Tom Stewart, as heis familiarly called by the old boys. His com-mand of a rich, genteel brogue in the tellingof an Irish yarn, or the inimicable mimicry of hisGerman dialect is something beyond description ;it is the foil to his superb eloquence and descrip-tive powers. He was a lad just out of knickerbockers whenhe went to the war. He was born near Belfast,Ireland, September ii, 1848, and was broughtby his parents to Norristown the following received his education in the public schools,and after his discharge from the army he attendedthe Quaker City Business College. Then hedrifted into the glass business in which he wasengaged up to the time he entered public life as aState official
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