Litchfield enquirer., 1848-06-08
The Faneral OhSeauieS :

While we VINE, lie merry Sound Oh the
fife and drum, the rich swell of full brass
bands, the heavy rollof wheels. the tramp OF
h,rses, and the sound of countless hurrying
feet, fill our scantum with Glamour. Our
streets are thr0nged with thousands, whose
gay dresses and smiling faces speak excite
me nj moi unpicasurable. Women and chil>
dren are hurrying gaily 10 the spectacle
Meu have dropped their business-Mar>
shals with rich sashes, on prancing barbs,
are displaying their figures to advantage.
And il is glorious day. il the sun would
only shine but nature appears inclined to
weep at the pageant, and breathcs on it with
a chilly breath. The cause Of all this din
aud clatter is a handful of bones, which
once did the bidding of Commodore Barney,
and which, thirty years ago, were laid down
tor last long res. amid their kindred dust.
These, instead Of being permitted to rest in
their graves until the resurrection, aye drag
ed DC again 10 mingle in the turmoil, strife
and clamor OF the world which they had SO
long left. and give a holiday to the children.
Talk about heathcndom, will you what
DOM is this? Ii is a great thing 10 have
bones! Al least il is very well that soldiers
are not .hesh,' or the wolves would ca, their
immc rtality. Various and sundry are the
uses to which those homes are put: for in
sic nee. those If Commodre Barney, Lieu
tenant Parker, and s. d Sewell are TO day
affording grand gala day to the good cili>
Gems of Pittsburgh, and have given fine
opportunity for display of fine dresses,
fine horses, fine carriages, fine forms orato>
~, eIoquence, public spirit and generosity ;
while thousands more bones made fine pick.
ing for wolves and hyenas, on the plains and
n.Olntain sides Of Mexico. When our good
people were sending for these bones, would
il have cost mich more to have brought up
a ship load? Have not ALL our dead SOL
diers thus crowned themselves with immor>
tai. imuerishable, nnalterabie, and infinite
glory? But this glory displays itself in so
MANY different ways. To some IL comes
in long process oEs, pomp and parade-io
some in the voice OF the mountain storm
which howls over their foreign graves. or
in the beams of the torrid sun which bleach
rs their unburied bones, that will perhaps
be raked up in after years, brought home,
ground up, and grown into tnrnips, as those
Of Waterloo have been. Soldiers bones are
Of various uses, and it is very wei! they
have bones. Then the Goals, vests hats,
swords, &C.. which they are hauling Q around
on The hearscs, win they bury them tho, as
the Indians do their relics. with the dead,
cr is some more riviiized disposition 10 be
made of them The Reverend Clergy
have their places assigned them In this
friehtfuI mockery OF death God save the
clergy and religion from their hands May
He save the world f ON the present carica-
lure of Christianity which is cursins il
from the Christianity which sanctions hu-
man buicLery, and snch empty gew-gaw
shows goi up 10 make murder honorable
to deafen the ear of humanity least IL
should hear the groans of the dying, the
walls of the widow and orphan--aboyc the
noise of martial music. Save The clergy,
good Lord, and If thou hast, IN the peitcr
land. any use for those who aid in such
work, in mercy take them there soon, for
they are . fearful curse here! Amen
Pntsb1gh SGt. VisiteT.