The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-31
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have been reared to mark their final resting

WHICH HTdltlul Country pays ~ ueT ue
voted sons. The natural instincts Of man
kind haye always prompted them to honOl
the memory of the departed hero. TIL,
silent city Of the heroic dead has every
where been held sacred art has adorned
them with the most beautiful monuments
and over them genius has uttered those
sublime sentiments of universal gratitude
and generation, which men have evei
cherished for those whose ashes they con.
tain.
The speaker proceeded 10 review OF
the honors paid to the brave dead in past
ages, but our brave boys died not to per.
petuaie kings and dynasties, but to pre-.
serve the choicest boon of heaven to men,
and transmit the freest, happiest and best
government ever instituted on earth.
The great principles which had
been marching aud counter marching and
diminishing all along their journey down
the centuries, had summoned all their
forces for the last final combat. Breath.
less and in silence the nations viewed the
scene the liberties of mankind were at
stake, and the great questions whether
hereafter the government should be ona
where political and religious freedom aud
the equal rights of all men before the law
should govern and control, or where caste
and oppression and tyranny should forever
grind down and crush miserable and de-
graded people, were to be finally and for
eyer settled. In our terrific struggle the
prayers Of despots and tyrants mingled
with the prayers of serfs and slaves as up
ward they went TO the throne of the God
of battles, invoking aid, comfort and sup
port.
Colonel Joyce then narrated the causes
of the rebellion briefly, and proceeded to
an eloquent narration of The events of the
war of the rebellion, and the consequent
appropriateness of the remembrance of the
dead with the solemn services of the day.
The part taken by Vermont and Vermont
soldiers In the grand struggle was passed
in rapid review, with comment and nara
ton of gallant deeds of comrades both liv-
ing and dead, enforcing with earnest en-
phasls the duty of tho people toward the
living soldier.
In view of these causes and events it is
well, said the speaker, that
The mother comes to-day bringing the
little garlands she has so tenderly watched,
day by day, in the garden at her door,
where her dear boy was accustomed to
play, and lay it among the rest-brave
grave.
The Jdther comes bringing his aged
heart, wondering at his weakness, and
wondering still more what now will bring
the vigor of youth to the years of his de-
cline.
Fatherless children come bringing their
sweet flowers from the pleasant fields,
where the fathers hand had led them in
4 ha frx-A nd u H..
She comes, in weeds of widowhood, from
her lonely house to this less lonely spot,
where under ons sweet flower-robed mound
he lies whose Bosom locks the secret of
her happiest days.
The maiden comes with still unwonder-
ing-heart, and here gives token of lore
for the dead
The stranger, passing along, stops and
blesses their memory, and pays those ten
der thanks which God has appointed as the
reward of public virtue.
And hither you come, brave comrades of
the dead, with depth and quality of love
that only q soldiers heart can feel, and
only soldiers lips express, and even you,
with hearts overrunning their urns, with
tenderest histories and memories, are
powerless to shape in words your great
y
Col. Joyce closed his admirable and elo-
quent Grafton with comments on the pres
ent condition as follows:
"The years never dropped their sands on
questions more vast and grand than
ours to-day" The battle of blood is over,
but the battle for honesty and purity in
politics and government is now beginning.
We cannot, we dare not not mis-
take. Already the bugle sounds TO the
charge. To falter now is to suffer an
overwhelming and crushing defeat. To
advance will be victory, peace, and the
perpetuaty of our free institutions.
Come, then, veterans and soldiers, let us
reform the lines, close up the ranks, and
then under the magnetic influence of
shoulder touching shoulder, let us enter
this mortal combat, and then do our work
as bravely-as thoroughly as did those
fearless men upon the fields their valor
has made immortal.
Let us then here resolve, that this ma
ton, with its bright record of the past, and
its gathering hopes of the future, shall not
be swallowed in the whirlpool of political
corruption and infeliciiy.
The question before us now is not one of
party, but of duties not one of politics,
but of principle not who shall win in the
disgusting scramble for office and place,
but how we shall cleanse the departments
of our government and restore the whole
fabric to its pristine beauty.
Corruption sits in high places, the spirit
of avarice and speculation has taken a
strong hold upon our people, and unless
we practice ourselves and teach our chill
dren more of old-fashioncd honesty, the
day will surely come when the destroyer
will write upon the ruins of our boosted
republic, Z" she was, but is not"
In vain the struggle of the past ir vain
the tears, the treasure, and the blood that
has flowed like water, in defense of these
great principles which now make our coun-
try honored at home and respected abroad,
it we in our weakness or neglect fail to
preserve in peace what our brave men
saved in war.
Let us not forget, on this sad and solemn
day, that to us of this generation IS in
trusted the future glory and renown of
this republic, and that we are now actual
ly engaged in moulding the rising
eras and ages of this great continent; that
as we resolve and act, 30 shall the future
be.
we sow the golden grain to-day,
The harvest comes tomorrow"
Then let us see to it, in remembrance of
the fallen heroes, whose memories we this
day honor, that no STAN of treason or cloud
of oppression be left to faint the land they
died to save; and that where the stars and
stripes shall float, there humanity shall
have an advocate, purity defender, learn
ing champion, and religion bright and
shining altar. -
Yes, let US one and all, in the presence
of these clustering memories, beside these
honored graves, with bowed heads and in
reverential awe, resolve that this nation,
under God, shall have a new birth of
union, freedom and purity. and that this
government of the eople by the pc ople
shall not perish from the earth