Connecticut western news., 1876-06-02
Decoration Day.

| wave over the land of the free and the home of the brave. Last Tuesday forenoon
 the soldiers visited the graves of the fallen
 on Town Hill and Mt. Riga, and at one o'clock met at Lakeville Hall and formed
 into procession, with MT. A. Bates ss mar
 shal or captain, headed by drum corps
 with flies, and the stars and stripes. (six
 miniature flags borne by six little boys and
 two large colors by the regularly appointed
 ensigns of the company they marched to the Congregational church in this village.
 arriving at about 2 o'clock. Something
 like forty-three men formed the company | of soldiers as it reached Salisbury from
 Lakeville. At a quarter past two o'clock,
 the services in the church were opened by prayer by the Rev. Wm. A. Johnson of the
 Episcopal church in this village, which was
 followed by the impressive piece ''They
 Died for You and Me-" by the quartette
 selected for the occasion. consisting of Miss
 Katie Glens of this village and Miss Tur-
 ner, MT. Robert Knight and MT. Turner of
 Lakeville, with Prof. Stillman as organist.
 Dr. Thompson, with few very appro-
 priate remarks introduced MT. T. L. Nor
 ton, who addressed the meeting at consid-
 erable length, beginning by commenting
 the patriotic efforts of the three classes, as
 he styled them, which contributed to the
 suppression of the Rebellion ; viz, the sol
 diers; those who stayed at home and assist
 ed by their influence, their counsel and
 their purses, and the women, "God bless
 them," he said, "Who gave their husbands,
 their sons and brothers, and with perhaps
 a smile on their countenance, but with
 breaking heart The speaker then alluded
 briefly to the part taken in the war by the various regiments in which Salisbury sol
 diers were enlisted, ard said that altogether
 three hundred and twenty five soldiers had
 enlisted from this town, of which sixty sf never returned alive. But what has the sff town done to perpetuate the memory of these sixty dead men, whose blood was the ysEprice of our liberty2 Not, as Mir. Norton said, so much as to record on the town 2 books their names not the slightest any i thing has been done that has received the 8 sanction of the town, since they marched l from their homes. never to return. This is l sad truth, and one the town. had it moi f made it manifest by tolerating such g g town hall for SO many years, that it pos sessed no shame whatever, ought at least to 5 realize is ungrateful. MT. Norton thanked a God the record of the sixty slain is not in our present town hall; that would be a des e ecraticn of their memory that couldn't be endured, and addressing his remarks per e sonally to any members of the town hal 0 committee who might be present, appealed e to them to do something about this matter ,. Let new and good hall be built, and f suitable tablets permanently erected in it a on which inscribe in indelble type the i names of the fallen heroes, that no - only our children, but our chidren'l Q children shall read it. Mir. Morton 5 closed his very interesting address by n alluding to the foes now threatening oul , country; the crime and corruption in tho Il high places, intemperance, etc., etc., ant Q enjoined upon all to never cease the war
 fare against these evils, till the demon, sir h Tn it's various forms, shall be driven ou D. from among us, and urged especially tn |. young, to be strong for the right, and tru is to their God, their country and all that i 7. noble and good.
 MT. Norton was followed by Dr. Knight $ who prefaced the reading of the list of de 7, ceased soldiers by remarks very appropri h ate for the occasion. He too plead for te monument or tablets for the names of tn z, soldiers dead, and we hope he will no at cease to plead, till somet7s5pg is provided b r. the town.
 es After prayer by the Rev. MT Oakle t. of Lakeville, and singing by the choir th ,n solo and chorus "Our Soldiers Graves, ,e the procession of soldiers reformed, an .i- proceeded to the cemetery, each with on r. or more boquets in his hand, followed by le long retinue of teams and citizens on foo es The graves of the soldiers in the cemt IT tery were designated by miniature flag th placed on them, and the first the compan sn reached, was that of Whiting Ayers. Th nd first four soldiers advanced as the halt ws ,ir made, and deposited their boquets on th ,le grave, after which the march was resumed he and the next reached was that of Harmo at J. Coons, when the next four of the com be pany placed reverently their floral tribu n- on the mound of their deceased brothe C. The third decorated was that of John ds Dorsey the fourth, Egbert Rowe; lift an Elias D. Niver; sixth, Lieut.. Oren
 niuhf xuJb0 foip af Nn Or ais regt.. Conn. Volunteer Artillery; sevent ce. Andrew P. Ball eighth, Oscar Olmsteat re- ninth, H. Pitt Bosworth, on the rever ast side of whose monument we observed the IL words:
 hat Reader, your liberty has been boug no with blood!"
 And the town of Salisbury has do
 nothing, absolutely nothing, not so much
 to enter the name of such as these, W sil, have bought our liberty at the price of tn
 I blood, on it's town books.
 rg- The tenth grave visited and decorai !, of was that of Henry V. Knickerbocker; for eleventh, Chester A. Johnson, and will twelfth, Walter Patterson, who was s , of isbury boy, and went into Massachuse can and enlisted, but was brought home and b my jed here with the rest of our soldiers. on At the completion of this ceremony,
 no procession returned to the Hall in this ' ork age and dsbanded, thus closing one of ugh most imposing observances of Memo ,an day ever witnessed in this town.
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