Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1865-04-27
RUTLAND HERALD.
THURSDAY APRIL 20, 1865.

the loyal people of this nation mourned
as they never mourned before. The last
sad obsequies We're performed at the
national capital over the remains of our
late beloved President, and as in Wash
ington, so in every city, every village,
every hamlet throughout the loyal land
were seen only the tokens Of grief, were
heard only the voices OF mourning. The
busy nation stood still and then with
bowed head and fearful eye for its own
great bereavement and with stern
thoughts for the authors gifts calamity,
II followed to the tomb the remains Of
him it regarded and loved as a wise and
tender iather-its late Chief Magistrate.
In Rutland there never before occur
red such a demonstration. The people
all came out as with one accord, anX-
ious TO give expression to their grief and
pay their tribute TO the memory of the
great and good man the nation mourns,
Public and private houses were careful
ly and tastefully draped in mourning,
and at II o'clock, noon, the church bells
commenced TO toll and minute guns were
fired, A long procession was formed on
the depot grounds, under the direction
of the committee of arrangements
headed by Col. Geo. A. Merrill, and of
the marshal OF the occasion, Col. W. G.
Veazey, assisted by Capt. DuntOn and
Messrs b. X Chase and Perley Downer.
Seven companies of the 9th regiment of
militia We're present, one from Brandon,
Capt. Cronan; one from Clarendon,
Capt Webb one from Pittsford, Capt.
Hitchcock one from Poultney, Capt.
Ram, and three from Rutland, Capts.
Burnham, Staley and Gllmore,-all UNI
der command of Col. Levi G. Kingsley.
The fire department of the village also
took part in the procession under the
direction of Assistant Chief Engineer
L. L. Roys.
The procession formed in the follow
ing order; LIST, the Militia ID Com
mittee OF Arrangements, Clergy, U. S.
officers, State and County officers, Judg
es Of the Courts and members of the
bar, members of the Press, and Town
and Village Officers, in carriages; Sd
Fire Department; 4th, Citizens. The
colors of the militia and fire companies
were draped in mourning, as were also
the carriages in the procession. Head
ed by martial music, the bells meanwhile !
tolling and guns firing, the procession
moved through Merchants Row and
Grove Street to Williams Street. up Will |
hams to Cottage down Cottage to West, |
up West to Main, down Main to Wash
ton, down Washington to Court, and
through Court to the Congregational
Church, where the religious services
were TO Oe holden. ..-.a..
The interior of the church, desk |
galleries and organ,-had been most ap-
propriately, tastefully and elegantly
draped in mourning by the committee of
ladies and gentlemen appointed for that
purpose Long before the hour appoint
ed for the services, the galleries which
had been reserved for ladies, were
crowded full; the procession speedily
filled up the body Of the church and
crowded the aisles, and after all the
available space was occupied more peo-
Pile were outside unable to gain an en-
trance than We're in the large church.
Following the voluntary on the organ
by Mr.. Lucius Morse was singing by
the Rutland Mendelssohn Chorus Club
which furnished very acceptably the
music FLOR the occasion. Appropriate
selections from the Scriptures were read |
by Rev. r. S. Howard and fervent pray !
er was offered by Rev. Or, AIKEN, Fol-
lowing this was the singing of hymn,
"God save the State" Rev. Norman |
Seaver who had been invited to deliver
the funeral grafton, then pronounced a
discourse, which for deep thought, great |
earnestness and impressiveness, and high
and fervid eloquence is seldom equaled
in any pulpit. AS Mr.. Seaver will be
asked for a copy of it for publication,
we refrain from attempting any report
of its substance now. We will only add
that the occasion was great one and
the sermon was equal to it.
After the singing of funeral anthem
by the Club a series of resolutions was
read by c. G. Dewey, Esq, chairman of
the committee ON resolutions, as fol-
lows -
The citizens of Rutland, in common
with the loyal people of the land, in
mass meeting assembled, at the solemn
hour when a nation in tears is following
the remains of its patriot President in
their bloody winding sheet to the final
resting place Of the great and hOnored
dead for the purpose of testifying, by
appropriate obsequies their love for him
and veneratisn for his memory their
detestation of the unparalleled crime
perpetrated in the taking of his life by
the hand of an assassin, and Of the red
handed treason which inspired the deed;
pledging anew their undying allegiance