Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-06-09
For the Journal
LETTER FROM MONTGOMERY TWP.

PRAIRIE DEPoT, June 2, 1871.
Without any preconcerted programme our cit.
izens were out in promi.cuous and struggling
groups with wreathes and boquets for the sol
diers graves. After visiting the graves, COM
pany Of some fifty persons gathered near the
steps of the Lutheran Church, and called for a
speech. A member of the group then came for
ward and said: Friends, am CAD to meet you
here by the graves Of our soldiers. We hold
them in grateful remembrance, for their work.
They gave their lives to perpetuate govern
ment for which our fathers fought. We, who,
a mid the quiet retreat and safety Of our homes,
feel the majesty Of American law, enforced BY
brave men, cannot soon forget those who died
for us. Most Of them were young. The world
seemed bright. They loved to live. This is but
n BETTING service our annual revisit to this
ground, hallowed by their dust. or all the dear
ones who lie here, it is meet that we should
search out tie young soldiers graves and place
upon them the memorials Of our affection. la
coming years as our national institutions are
more fully untolded, we shall more highly prize
the service Of those who fought in the great re-
bellion. Partisan feeling and sectional prejn-
dices may lead some to- lose sight of the benefits
which those men conferred upon us who Tough
at Bulls Run, at Gettysburg and the Wilderness
and whose lives were tortured out By the unpar
alleled horrors of Libby and Andersonville. But
in these better and brighter days Of the Repub
lie, all the people, with one accord and with
hearts overaowing with gratitude, will place the
names ofthese men with those who fought under
WAsHINGToS, the father of his country, at Lex
ington, at Bunker Hill and Yorktown. As we,
year by year, come to make these graves bloom
with the flowers of May, we will teach our chill
dren to prize the blessings of freedom and 70
cherish more fondly than life those sacred prn-
ciples by which these blessings are secured.
Ours shall be eYermore nation offreemen. All
persons born on this soil, and all who come
to these shores from foreign lands, shall annual
" revisit their graves with Is and learn what
precious treasures it costs to establish and also
to maintain fr5e government. Friends, again
repeat am very glad to meet you at the graves O.
,hese men who have blest us. Their names and
their memory shall be blessed forevermore."
CROP PROSPECT.
Spring season has been very dry. Within a
week or two we have had refreshing showers.
Wheat, some fields very good heads rather short
good prospects ofcorn, more than usual planted
rulatvvs aiv Iureutened Ny Iue colorado bug
| more planted than usual. Oats growing foely
Meadnws Short. Apples scarce, the measure
worm has stripped great many trees Of theiI
leaves. Peaches promise fair.
RAILROAD.
Messrs. MILLER & CAsKEY commenced plow.
ing and scraping on the Railroad last Friday
! Thus il will be seen that Montgomery bids fail
to come within speaking distance Of tie wide
wide world. The line terminates with East To
edo on the North, and connects with the Chest
p9ak9 & Ohio Rail road ON the South. at the Ohio
River. Itis, therefore, properly called the At
lantic g. Lake Erie Railroad. There is not mucl
doubt Of its success, as the people along the lin'
have pledged enough to grade it and put on the
ties, and those heavy dealers in coal and iron
who own the extensive beds of coal and iron ore
on the line Of the road, have pledged the iron.