Shotts acted as reviewing officers, and so to Music Hall, where the literary exercises of the day took place, Hon. Noah Davis acting as President, with the following Vice-Presidents : Isaac M. Requa, Major R. E. Hopkins, J.
D. Archbold, F. W. Giteau, Hon. D. O. Bradley, Andrew C. Fields, Alfred B. Hall, Rev. Amos C. Requa, Geo. B. Newton, John I). Rockefeller, Franklin Couch, Joseph B. See, Gideon W. Davenport, Dykman Odell, John T. Terry, Robert Sewell, Edwin Gould, Hon. Arthur S. Tompkins, Hon. Win. Ryan, J. B. Tompkins, Hon. J. O. Dykman, Leonard F. Requa, John I. Storm, Glode Requa, Wm. N. Crane, John J. Odell, Wm. Dutcher, Hon. J as. Irving Burns, Daniel Van Tassel, John C. Shotts, Rev. Dr. Cole, J. C. L. Hamilton, Rufus King, B. F. Tompkins, Hon. Geo. W. Robertson, Isaac Odell, William Rockefeller, Dr. R. B. Coutant, Professor Bashford Dean, Col. Wm. Cary Sanger, Hon. F. S. Tallmadge, Benson Ferris, Samuel Requa, Major J. B. Ketehum, Dr. G. W. Murdock, Rev. Dr. J. A. Todd, Rev. Dr. J. K. Allen, Rev. J. S. Spencer, Rev. N. J. Wheeler, Rev. Wm. F. Compton, Rev. C. FI. McAnney, Isaac B. Loovett, J. H. Vail, Gen. A. J. McKay, Major M. II.
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JUDGE MILLS DELIVERING ORATION IN MUSIC HA' L
Address by Judge Noah Da\ is.
On taking- the chair, Hon. Noah Davis delivered the following introductory address :
" Fellow Citizens : For this great honor, 1 give you my cordial thanks. It is a good thing in the midst of our party strifes to turn back for a while to the struggles, sufferings and triumphs of the Revolution, out of which our liberties, our principles, and our government: sprung.