Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1878-06-08

o'clock, Shepherdstown was alive with
such a vast crowd Of people as she has
not witnessed for many day. At 9
o'clock, Capt Faulkner's Light Infan-
try, and Col. Nadenbousch's Artillery,
appeared in dress parade in front Of
Shepherd College, and were witnessed
with delight by the many who had gath
cred on the streets to see them. AT
1912 O'Clock, the hour appointed for
the moving of the procession, Col. W.
A. Morgan, Chief Marshal, assisted by
Mai. Henry Hagan, Capts. Lee II. Mo-
Ter. Ii. F. Barnhart, g. II. Knott, 7. T.
Marshall and A. Randall, as aids, form
ed the procession in front of CollegeHall
in the following order:
The Martinsburg Light Infantry,
Capt Faulkner, headed by the Infantry
Drum Corps; Duffields Band; President
aud Orators of the Day; Committees;
Mayor of the city and Common Coun'
Gil; Clergy; Martinsburg Light Artil-
lery, Col. J. @. A. Nadenbousch; Shep-
herdstown Band; Elk. Confederates, Ex-
Federals, citizens, visitors, horses and
carriages. The procession marched up
German Street and out Duke Street to
the Cemetery; arriving at the Cemetery.
Col. Morgan, Chief Marshal, introduced
Hon. A. Il. Boteler, President of the
Day, who gave ont the order of exer-
cises as follows:-D:rge by the Shep-
herdstown Band; Music by the Luther
an Choir; Prayer by the Rev. }. l..
Shipley, of the NJ. E. Church South.
After prayer Col. Boteler came forward
and said, as President of the Day he re-
GREETED to inform the audience that the
invited speakers, Gen. Gordon, Ran
dolh Tucker, Proctor Knott and Major
Douglas, who we expected to have with
us to-day, were unable by business en-
gagemehts to be present on this occa-
sion, and the committee had made it de-
vole upon him to address the audience
assembled around him. Whether any
OF those expected to be present and
speak, could have attracted the atten-
zion of the people more or not, we do
not know, but will venture to say that
a more appropriate speech could not
have been made than the following one
of Hon. A. Il. Boteler, which we are
glad to be able to publish at the re-
quest of many persons who heard it,
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS OF COL. A. X.
BoTELER, PRESIDENT OF THE DAY.
We have assembled here, to-day, in
accordance with our annual custom in
each returning spring, and in conformi-
ty with that universal sentiment of hu-
manity-that natural feeling of the
whole human family, savage as well as
civilized, which will not allow us to for
get the loved CUES we have lost.
We have come to this hallowed
ground of graves, with tender sympa-
thies in our hearts and fragrant offer
iugs in our hands, to pay the usual
and appropriate tribute of affectionate
respect to the memory of our heroic
dead.
The pious, peaceful and patriotic pur-
pose which has prompted your attend
ance here is no less commendable in
itself and creditable to you than it is
honorable to those whose mortuary
we have come TO decorate.
And thus coming, for such apurpose.
to this consecrated place of sacred asso-
citation. on day dedicated to ''reverent
and gentle memories" of our departed
friends, | feel that | do not misinterpret
the sentiment of the vast crowd l see
around me when say-and say with
an emphasis which alone belongs to
sincere conviction of the truth-that,
having no faith whatever in the wicked
dogma of eternal hate nor any unmanly
wish for mean revenges, we are here,
harboring in our hearts none of that
bitterness born of sectional prejudice in
a maddened and misguided epoch which
was nurtured to such unnatural proper
tons amid the hydra-headed horrors of
a sangulnary civil war-that while in
no wise abating our respect, our admira-
ton and our love for the cherished
members of our Confederate dead-es
pecialy for those of Our former com
rades who, while defending our homes,
fell on these historic fields around us,
which they crimsoned with their blood
and made immortal. by their bravery,
and who now lie there before us, side
by side together-resting, rank and file,
beneath those simple, sodded mounds,
awaiting the reveille of the resurrection
to answer the summons of their roll call
in the skies, we, at the same time, as
law-abiding, liberty loving American cit
liens, recognizing the supreme obliga-
lions of Peace as readily and as fully as
we responded to the stern requirements
of War, nave long since put off the pan
oply Of the soldier for the habiliments
of the citizen, beaten our swords into
plough-shares, our spears into pruning
hooks, and banished every hostile feel
ing from our breasts.
But, although more than thirteen
years have now elapsed since the sur
render at Appomattox-since the last
shot was fired-since our swords were
sheathed and the conquered banner of
the South was turled away forever; and,
although in the interval that has elapsed
since then, we have, from the first,
frankly accepted the legitimate conse-
quences of the war, have faithfully full
filled every duty of citizenship and fully
answered every obligation Of patriot
ism," there are prominent politicians in
some portions OF the country whose fol-
lowers, for the most part, are men of
s.f;arca aytremes" whom If seems i'm