The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-06-10

We take the following from the pro-
cecdings at Milwaukee on Decoration Day, |
as given by the Wisconsin. After march
ing to the Rink in o rain in earnest, and
after prayer, speech in German, and TIVE
songs in German, the Wisconsin says: capt.
j. H. Dodge was then introduced, and readl
the address of President Lincoln, delivered
at Gettysburg:
PRESIDENT LINCOLN AT GETTYSBURG.
"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers
brought forward upon this continent new
nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated
to the proposition that all men are created
equal. Now we are engaged in great civil
war, testing whether that nation, or any ma
ton so conceived and so dedicated can long
endure. We are met on o great battlefield
of that war. We are met to dedicate q por-
ton of 1t as the final resting place of those
who here gave their lives that that nation
might live. Il is altogether fitting and pro-
per that we should do this. But in larger
sense we cannot dedicate. we cannot conse-
crate, we cannot hallow, this ground. The
brave men, living and dead, who struggled
here have consecrated it far above our power
to add or detract. The world will little note,
nor long remember, what we say here, but 1t
cannot forget what they did here. It is for
us, the living; rather to be dedicated here to
the unfinished work they have so nobly car
ried on. It is rather for us to be here dedi-
Gated to the great task remaining before US,
that from these honorcd dead we take In
creased devotion to the cause for which they
gave their last full measure OF devotion, that
we here highly resolve that the dead shall
not hsye died in vain, that the nation shall,
under God, have new birth Of freedom, and
that the government of the people, by the
people, and for she people, shall not perish
from the earth. 80
| After fine piece Of music by Bach's band.
Capt. Dodge read the following poem, writ.
ten for the occasion by Mrs. M. A. Moore
the well-known correspondent Of the Wss
Ecenssn, "Mignonette:"
IN MEMoRIAM.
| Beneath the azure skies of June
We come to thee eur lips call "dead,"
And reverently beside your tombs
We lift the heart aud bow the head.
Oh, silenced lives TWAS once we came
With cheer and clamor and God speed. y
| When light Of foot you marched away
To aid our country in her need.
And silken banners Seated high.
The jubilant cannon roared their joys,
And flowers were flung by woman's hands
All, proud were we OF our brave boys!
And now again we hail their ranks
The broken ranks-whose members lie
Wide scattered in Esrth's faithful fold,
Beneath the same all-faithful sky.
Yet not with clamOr, or with guns,
Or pushing crowd, or roaring cheer;
For sweet, and sad and tender, is
The service that we render here.
Flowers for their graves! The glad May
smiles
And shakes the roses from her crown;
She plucks the lilies from her breast
And scatters all her gsrlands down.
The Earth has pleaded to the Heavens:
"Qh, let each mount and meadow bloom
As they have never blsomed before''--
TheNblossom for the soldiers tomb
And they are here-the sweetest things T.
Earth's mute love-language to her God |
In tender memory Of the brave,
We lay them on the heaving sod.
And not alone beside the graves
Where careful hands have reared the
stone
And twined some green undying vine,
May this memorial deed be done.
Oh, spirits of the opulent air!
In Southern fens and Southern dells.
Search out the unknown soldiers grave,
And scatter there sweet immortelles!
Lay violets upon the mound
Some mothers love has failed to find;
And let its rude unlettered cross
By loving myrtle wreathes be twined.
All-blcssed be the humblest gift
We bring from field and wood to-dayi
The daisy blossoms consecrate,
When on such graves its bloom we lay.
And not from crumbling dust beneath,
But from the watching ones above, 81
Shall come the voiceless thanks. to meet
This deed Of memory and Of love.
A Paris letter-writer says: "On the
morning of his quitting the Grand Hotel
for London, the Nabob of Bengal paid
for three coats of Russian sable made for