The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1869-06-02
Memorial OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES OF
,hotCraves of Union Heroes.


fallen braves of the Republic, whose bones
lie inferred in the National Ccmetery,by dec
Grating the headstones with flags and strcw-
ing their graves with flowers. The pubic
offices and most of the places of business on
Fayetteville street was closed. The stars
and stripes was displayed from the Capitol
and at various other points.
At half past three P. NJ, the procession
moved from Nash Square in the following
order: 's5a ftc45
Grand Marshal, W. Fl. Martin.
Raleigh Brass Band
Sedgwick Post, Grand Army
of the Republic of Raleigh, hearing the
United States colors.
Detachment
of the 9Th United States Infantry.
Orator, Poet and Chaplain of the day in
Carriages. ,r gsf
State officers, and officers of the city OF
Raleigh, in Carriages.
Ladies and gentlemen in carriages.
Public Schools of Raleigh.
Citizens on foot. m
The procession moved up Mcdowell to
Hllsboro' street, up Hillsboro to Salisbury
street, down Salisbury to Morgan street, up
Morgan to Wilmington street, up Whining
ton to New Bernc street, through New
Berne street to Camp Russell, and
thence to the National Cemetery. The pro-
cession presented a very imposing appear
ance as 1t passed through the streets, ex-
tending through two squares from the head
to the rear of the column. While it was
moving a national salute was fired at the
Cemetery by section of u S. Artillery.
Arriving at the ground, the band played
"Thc Red, White and Blue" while the sew
eral organizations were taking their places
upon and around the stand.
The exercises were opened with very
touching and eloquent prayer by the Rev.
Henry Upper, Chaplain Sedgwick Post, G.
AR.
The band played the Star spangled Ban
ner.
Capt. T. f. Lee, Chairman Committee of
Arrangements, in few appropriate remarks,
introduced the Orator OF the Day, Gen. M. S.
Littleficld, WHO spoke as follows:
ADDRESS OF GENERAL. LITNEFIEID.
COMRADES AND FELLOW CITIZENS: An
other year has came and gone since we
assembled upon this sacred spot to COM
memorate the glorious deeds of our de-
parted comrades. Again do we gather
around these graves, with hearts filed
with grief, and eyes suiilsed with tears,
to testify to the undying love of CRATE
ful people, for the memory of those who
died that the nation might live. This is
the second public observance OF the occa-
sion, which, it is hoped, will occur yearly,
while there remains a heart loyal to the
cause in which our brothers fell. We come,
inspired by the spirits of our nations de-
fer ders, to keep fresh and green the memory
Of those with whom we shared the priva-
tions, and endured the hardships of the
camp, the march, and upon the battle field;
with whom we have watched upon the
picket cline, and skrmishcd the battles
front; by whose side we stood when sur
rounded by danger and death, where musket-
~ answered back to musketry, and where
shot and shell replied to shot and shell;
with whom we have shared defeat, and with
whom we have mingled and commingled,
where the hills and valleys were made vocal
it'll the shout of " victory at last BOYS. VIC
tory at last" These mounds, so carefully
tended, so beautifully decorated, above
Which waves, day by day, the banner of the
Re public, mark the resting place of men
VIII died not as mortals ordinarily die, but
as acriti upon the altar of Liberty-that
libert which is as free and impartial as the
love Of God. These sleepers were patriot
citizens. They were not men who thirsted
for strife. and blood; not Adventures who,
from restlessness and curiosity, challenged
peril anol death; not marauders, whose mo-
tive was lust, whose object was plumber;
not Ii irelings, who sold themselves as IN
strumt mts of ambition; hut patriots, who,
in the hour of our country's trial, volun-
teered for the defence of American Union
and American Liberty. They regarded the
National Federal Government as the ark OF
Freedol q, within whose sacred enclosure,
deposit, I'd by the Divine hand, rested the
charter of human liberty for the preserva-
ton of hat ark, as IN ancient times, when
the ark CT God was in danger the lsraelites
went up las one man to battle and death, so
these nat riots, when the ark of American
human liberty was assaulted, rallied for its
defense. They died, but they left price
less inheritance to all the inhabitants of the
land.
The issue was made, based upon events
which fe,y men had been forty years in
forming. 1'he great mass of the people had
not been consulted, nor had their voices
been heard in the public and private coun-
sells, when the seeds of discord and disunion
were first p Nanted, and from which grew
secession and rebellion. The tree grew, not
by the peoples care, as they had no
knowledge of its existence; it was nourished
without the I1eople's protection, as it was
hidden from heir view, by artful, designing
and unscrupu Gus politicians. 1t is a COM
mon and popu lar saying, that the war was
but the result f circumstances, formed and
combined during the short period OF few
brief mouths. Never was greater mistake
made You WHO question it, have but to
ask those leaders, of men, whose heads were
silvered over by the SHOWS OF many winters
when Sumter's s,uns uttered the CRY of war
in the early dayse of sixty-one, and they will
tell you, ifthey Hvill but speak the words of
truth and sobernless, that they have grown
grey In disunion'ls cause. There is no fact
more patent III d;onnection with the war,
than that he peo, pie were deceived, as to
the true cause of lhe war. 1t was conceived
In deception, borre and vitalized by mis-
representation and falsehood. A cause was
given, but there wi as no cause in fact. An
issue was made up,l when there was no point
| at issue between tlhe two sections of the
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