The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-06-03
Decoration Day.

curry with appropriate and interesting
ceremonies.
AT the time appointed the procession
was formed in front of the post Office by
Col. A. 8. Tracy, marshal,in the following
order Warner Post, No. l6, g. A. r.
carrying the national colors Middlebury
Cornet Band in Uniform; Company M"
N. G., in uniform, Capt. Fl. D. Maynard
Odd Fellows, with regalis, James NJ,
slade. N. G.. Washington Engine Com.
pany, No, /, in uniform, j. O'Connor,
foreman; citizens on foot, and citizens n
carriages. These we're Joined when oppo.
site the school house by the village
schools, under the care of the teachers !;
each scholar having bouquet The pro.
cession marched to the west cemetery,
and formed in portion of the grounds
where there were quite a number of
soldiers graves.
After impressive ceremonies from the
ritual of the Grand Army, the names of
those buried within the grounds who had
served in the war of the revolution, the
war Of 1912 and the war OF the rebellion
we're read and the formal decoration WAS
made
The following are the names oil those
whose graves we're marked for decoration:
War of the Revolution Ebeneger W.
Judd, Jabez Rogers, Lebbeus Harris, ST.,
Eleazer Barrovs. Hon. Gamaliel Painter,
Capt. Timothy Mathews, William Ling
um, Henry Keller
War Of 1S12-Nathan Myrick, Leb-
beus Harris. Jr., Justus Cobb, Sr., Simon
Powers. Capt. Moses Leonard Joseph
Dorrance, Hon. Samuel s, Phelps, iona.
than M Huntington, Capt. Chauncey W.
Fuller, Capt. Justus Foote. Joseph
Adams. Capt Jonathan NJ. Young, vii.
liam H. Judd. Harvey Pritchard, Eli
Matthews.
War Of the Rebellion-Dr ". P.
Russell. John B. Jondroe, Epapbro II
Seymour. Peter A. Lucia. Frederick
Swift, Henry NJ. Potter, Ebridge NJ.
Hosmer, Edward b. Parker, Camelia
Peshia, Moses w. Rice, Joseph Law.
renee, Edgar Phinney, Charles Ford,
Isaac n. Collins, Edward Roach, Charles
Rich, Joel Morrison, Horace Taylor,
VIM. H. Button. Thomas Dutton. iona.
than Selleck, Chris Jondroc.
Appropriate music was rendered by
members OF the Choral Society, and Capt.
Maynard, who presided, Introduced as the
orator Of the occasion President Hubert,
who addressed the assembly as follows
Soldiers Of The Grand Army. Ladies
and Gentlemen -
Every public gathering, miscellaneous
or select, occurring at regular or irreg.
ular intervals, is characterized by spirit
oil its own. 1t has life which informs it,
and gives it its pecuiarities of structure
aud aim. This is true whether the con.
vocation is for religious worship in the
sanctuary, or for debate 10 the public
hall whether it is political assem- lage
to discuss questions Of national interest,
to inaugurate some politica reform, to
celebrate the launching OF ship or the
completion Of public enterprise. Every
occasion which assemblies community
has reason for it which constitutes its
constructive idea 4; just as every tree that
grows has reason for it in the germ that
produces it. 1t hes O jorma Informant,
centre thought that warps through and
pervades the assembly, giving it structure
and determnate end.
This is true of this occasion. Though
we are a miscellaneous assembly, gathered
indeed by no surprise, and yet in no very
orderly method,-oonvoked spontaneous.
y from here and there, still we are
gathering characterized by remarkable
general unity Of sentiment If honey
bees are a unity on the branch of the tree
where they have swarmed, Sc are wo
unity 10 the capitalization of our thoughts
spon the leading idea Of this occasion
This idea pervades aud envelopes US. and
gives to this convooation lite selfconsist.
encs and justification. have called the
occasion that convokes US an idea, and it
10; but it is an expansive idea, aud null.
titudinous. 1t takes in our country
entire, in oil its numbers and persons,
and moods and lenses it takes in con.
stitutional liberty the world over--espe.
cially the American theory of man as
pittsd against the divine right of the
slave master to reduce bis fellow to q
chattel and tool it takes in an affirm.
alton of the right of the nation to sustain
q constitutional majority of votes and to
suppress q shareholders rebellion; more,
the idea Of this occasion comprehends a
sense of tho cost Of free institutions, for
1t includes tender memories of the dead
In the tributes of respect which we bring
in this service of affection to lay upon
these hcnored graves. And observe that
the graves which receive to-day our fra.
grant offerings are those which contain
not only the remains Of heroes who died
in the defence Of our liberties. but also
the relics Of the early fathers Of our
country who sacrificed their lives 10 their
prolonged struggle to secure and establish
them. 1t Is we'll that the parenthesis Of
the heart should thus expand. and that
our wreaths Of flowers be required to
encircle all the monuments around us
that rise to mark the resting places Of the
honored dead who fell In either of cur
great national struggles, for their work
was one.
1t is fitting that our honors bestowed
to-day be thus comprehensive, for we are
assembled in the midst Of q year devoted
to centennial memories. While in this
service we are required to lift up our
eyes aud take 10 at glance our whole
country, and strew our flowers in sympa.