The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-07-05
GETTYSBURG.
The Celebration Yesterday on
the Great Battle Field.
General Towards Tribute to-
the Veterans.
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Miles O'Reilly's Poem of the
Day and Place.
The Ceremonies Of Laying the Corner Stone OF
the Gettysburg Monument,
&c., &C., 10.

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Ono hundred guns fred daylight by the batteries
In Damp out the battle field aud the town woke up
early with almost much vivacty It were return
OF the Fourth Of two years ago. There was great
throng Of strangers che and some OF these were
already and uproarous, "when daylight did APP
pear" having been able to Gnd sleeping quarters all
night
AT THE NATIONAL CEMETERY
the corner Of the Soldiers Monument was laid with
imposing ceremonies in the presence Of large
ofpersons great majority strangers and
very many the relatives OF the soldiers buried there
The day excessively hot and the immense crowd in
the open space exposed to the melting rays of the sum-
suffered greatly with the There several
of persons Frustrated In tbs way.
An elevated stand, well protected with awnings,
provided for the distinguished visitors from tho various
States.
THE PROCESSION,
formed by military civic societies. citizens, &C., and
headed by Major General Gcary, of the heroes Of
che battle moved from the main street Of the at
ten NJ and reached the Cemetery few minutes be-
fore eleven. Generals Ncadc, Howard Mott, Sykes,
Lorenzo Thomas doubleday Crawford Geary and Rob n
son. and Colonel Halpne and Governor Curtin, of Penn
eylvsnia, the stand.
n THE EXERCISES
were opened with discol aud prayer by DR. Tying,
OF New York, after which Judge Cooling, Marshal Of
the District Of Columbia read letter from President
johnson. The President regretted that illness deprived
him Of the pleasure Of cccbr my that twice conse
Grated spot the peace aud Of greeting there
the heroes of the coming home with light
hearts and heavy laden with honors. No anniversary
Of tho adoption o. the Declaration OF Independence,
he said, important significant than the
present which celebrated four years OF struggle for
national existence closed with success armed treason
swept from the land and the only barrier to our ma
tionAl progress human slavery for at an end He
believed God had founded this nation in perpetuity
end sustained by that fact in his duties and the
new dangers of the nation. He hoped that the assem-
blage would forget the thousands of whites we'll
blacks whom the had emancpaed, and expressed
his opinion that this Fourth would be celebrated in the
Southern States with fervor h therto unknown.
THE CEREMONY
or laying the corner gone through with in
due and ancient Masonic form.
GENERAL HOWARD THE ORATOR OF THE DAY
followed IN an Grafton and sacrifices Of p
tate soldiers theme in which he gave full expression
% his generous appreciation Of the subject The
following Is q full report of the Grafton =
As stand here to day before a peaceful audience,
composed as Of beautiful ladies' joyous children and
happy citizens and think OF my last visit TO this place
two years ago. and Of the terrible in which was
my lot TO bear part cannot help exclaming, "How
. C0augO0
broad and beautiful covered with every variety Of
url objects to please the eye The same wooded ridges
and cultivated fields; the little town cnging
TO the hlside the broad Of approach
Same ravnes and crceks-but thank God! the awful
magniHcence Of hosts arrayed against each
other in deadly strife is wanting. Yonder
heights are no longer crowned with hostile
cannon; the valleys do not reverberate with their
fearful roar the groves houses do give back
tho ndescrbable peal of the inusketry fire. And obi
how like q dream to-day that sad spectacle oil
broken ombstones prostrae fences, and the ground
strewn with our wounded and dead companions
Then follows after battle the mngng Of friends and
enemiss with suffering depicted all poss bic modes Of
portraiture The surgeons with resolutc hearts and
bloody hands, the pale faces Of relatives searching
for dear ones; the busy Sanitary and Christian
workers--all pass before my mind in group aitcI
9roup. NV friends my companions, my countrymcn
suffer mo TO congratulate you anew today, this Fourth
day OF July 1885, that this sad work II c0mp tey done
and that sweet peace has really dawncd upon On
tho 10Th of November 1853 this National Cemetery,
pous tribute 70 manness and virtue, consecrated
mo Hon Edward Everett delivered an address in his
rch clear elegant style, which, having been pub
lsfsd, has long ago become historical and affords us
complete and graphic account of the campaign and
battle Of Gettysburg am deeply grateful to this noble
psos for his interchangeable industry securing facts
of this battle, in which every living loyal SCI
der who fought here IL now proud TO have borne
Joining patriotic band OF those Tint
honored by his cloquencc has gone to his rewards and
Let his memory ever he led with those here, upon
whose graves no earnestly invoked your benedciion
Mr. Everett followed by the few remarkable words
OF President Lincoln. While Mr. Lncolns name 10 so
and dear 10 US, and the memory Of bis work and
sacrifice fresh, deem not inappropriate 10 repeat
his words:-"Four score and seven years ago our
fathers brought forth upon this continent a new
nation, conceived In liberty, and dedicated TO the
Now wo are engaged in q great civil war,
testing whether that nation, any nation so conceived
and an Adj afQdr lOpp ppsiu N met or
great battle field OF that We met to dedicate
portion OF u as the final place Of those who here
gave their lives that that nation might i've II Is alto
gether fitting and proper that should do this But IN
larger cannot ded ate, cannot consecrate
We cannot hallow this ground The brave men, living
and dead who struggled here have consecrated II far
above our power 70 add detac The world Will little
never forget what they did here 1t is for u.s. the living
rather TO be dcd Gated here TO the unfinished work that
they have thus far noby carried at Is rather fol
TO DO here ~ the great task remain ng before
us-tha from these honorcd dead take increased de
voon 10 the for which they here gave the last full
measure OF Devotion thai here highly resolve that
the dead shall have ed in vain, that the nation
shall under God, have birth Of freedom, and that
neoS. sba NOT psrsb from ,Ds earP The cs wal
Is ended; the test was comp cc. He Abraham Lincoln
forgot his dedication till the work was finished
He did display even Increased devotion IL were pos
sible The dead did not die In vain, and the nator
has experienced already the new birth Of FIRE dom
OF which he spoke Oh thai Ia the last throes OF darkness
and crime God had good to have spared us tina
great heart out Of which proceeded such welcome wo-d
OF truth and encOura encn How very mucn OF grateIu
recollection clusters around the name Of Abraham Lin
con, pronounce u here among the dead who ha,'
died that our nation might not perish from the earth
Those grounds have already been consecrated, and mr.
,doubly sacred from the memory Il our broth
ron who lie here, and from the assoca
zion with those remarkable men, Mr. Everett ant
Mr. Lincoln who gave 10 the exercises OF consccra
tion two years ago, whose bodies resting
beneath the sod but whose spirit Is still living and
mstakably snmatng every true American heart thi
day wehave been called to lay the corner ston
of q monument This monument y not mere family
record not the simple memorial Of individual fame moi
the silent tribute TO genus 1t Is raised TO the soldier
II Is memorial OF his life and hrs noble death
II embraces O patriotic brotherhood OF heroes
in It's inscriptions, and Is unceasng herald OF labor
suffering union, liberty and sacrifice Let Us then,
proper on such aston az this, give ew thought
20 the American soldier We have now embraced ind
this generic name Of soldier the dutiful officer, tn
volunteer soldier, the regular the cooIed sna 'he con
scrIpt: but in my remarks will pr sent you the private
volunteer the representative American soldier