The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-06-09

ton OF nay family, ana L can pofIoW y
gun and load it in time, and aim 1t
straight enough will shoot him. There
ia no room on this continent for any other
nation, except Canada-a better Eeighbor
no one ever had; if you don't think 80,
20 to Montreal and Toronto and see how
we'll they will treat you. Other than
that there is absolutely no room for any
other nation. l have been across the
continent again and again, and know
that we have not half an inch OF ground
for the gouty foot of foreign despotism to
stand on. But l am not so eure that
some of the arrogant nations of Europe
NAV not some day challenge us. do
not know that those forts around New
YORK Bay are to sleep all through the
next century. l do not know that Barn
epat lighthouse will not yet look off upon
the hostile navy. l do not know but
thar haf dozen nations, envious of our
prosperity, may want to give us wres'
tie. During the civil war there were two
or three nations that could hardly keep
their hands off of us. 1t is very easy to
pick national quarrels, and if our Dation
escapes much longer it will be the excep.
ton If foreigl foe should come we
want men like those of 1872, and those
of 1862, to meet them. We want them
all ND and down the Coaet, Pulaski and
Fort Sumter in the same chorus of thun
der as Fort Lafayette and Fort Hamilton.
Men who. will not only know how to
fight, but how 10 die. When such time
comes, if it ever does come, the genera
tions on the stage of action will say,
"Mv country will care for my family as
it did in the Soldiers Asylums for the
orphans in the civil war; and my country
will honor nv dust as it has honored
those who have preceded me in patriotic
sacrifice; and o Ce year, at any rate, on
Decoration Day, l shall be resurrected
into the remembrance of those for whom
l died. Here l 90 for God and my coun-
try! Hurrah" Ifforeign foe should come
her old sectional animosites would have
no power. Here go our regiments into
the tle.feld-Fifteenth N. Y. Vol
unteers. Tenth Alabama Cavalry, Four
teenth Pennsylvania Ritlemen; Tenth
Massachusetts Artillery, Seventeenth
South Carolina sharp'shooters. And
such strange COZ junction of officers
Blaine and Conkling and Garfield and
Grant and Malone and Cornell and
Sherman and all the Stalwarts and Half
Breeds. [ do not know but it may re-
ouire the attack of some foreign foe to
make us forget our absurd sectional
wranglings, | haze no faith in the cry,
mo North, no South, no East, no West"
LET all four sections keep their peculiar
tiles and their preferences, each doing
its own work and not interfering with
each other, each of the four carrying its
part in the g, eat har0 ony, the bass, the
alto, the tenor, the soprano, in the grand
march of Union.
Once more, this great NationaI cere'
mony means the beautihcatlon OF the
tom6s. whether of those who fell in bat
tie or accident, or who have expired IN
their beds or in our aims or on our laps.
[ suppose you have noticed that many |
of the families take this season as the
time for the adornment OF 'heir family |
plots. This National observance has So
cured the arboriculture and tlorlCulture
of the cemeteries, the strengthening up |
of MANY slab planted thirty or forty |
wears ago, and has swung the 5cytne
through tn long grass, and has brought
the stone cutter to call out the halt'oDllt'
Grated epitaph. This day is the benedlc'
ton of the resting place of father, mother,
son, daughter, brother, sister 1t ,s all
that we can do for them now' Make
their resting place attractive, moi absurd
with costly outlay, but in quiet rcmem-
brance. You know how. If you can
afford only one flower that will do. 1t
shows what you would do if you could
One blossom from you may mean more
than the Duke of Wellington's catatal-
que. Oh, we csn not afford to forget
them! They were so lovely to us. We
miss them so much. We will never get
over it. Blessed Lord Jesus, comfort our
broken Iearts From every bank OF
Aowe breathe promise of resurrection.
In oldcn times the Hebrews, returning
from their burial place, used to pluck the
grass from the field three OF four times,
then throw it over their heads, sugges-
tive of the resurrection. We pick not the
grass, but the flowers; and instead OF
throwing them over our heads we place
them before our eyes, right down over
the sileni heart that once beat with
warmest love toward us, or over the still
feet tn t ran to service, or over the lips
from which we took the kiss at the an
guish of the last parting. Oh, my glori,
fed father! Oh, my sainted mother
Oh, my beloved brothers and sisters
Oh, my bog my boy ! my boy Ifyou
pass tomorrow near the new entrance
of Greenwood you who knew him will
find his new made grave. lfyou go that
wa drop a flower on that mound. Your
grief is mine, and my grief is yours, But
stop! We are not infdels. Our bodies
will sool join the bodies of our departed
in the tomb, and our spirits shall join
their spirits in the land of the rising
sun. We can not long be separated. In
stead of crying with Jacob for Joseph
II will 60 down into the grave with my
son, mourning" let us cry with David:
Il shall 90 to him" On one Of the gates
Of Green wood is the quaint inscription:
"A nights lodging on the way to the
City of the New Jerusalem" Comfort
one another with these words. May the
hand of Him who shall wipe away all
tears from all eyes wipe your cheek with
ts softest tenderness. The Christ of
Mary and Martha and Lazarus will en-
fold you in His arms. The white.robed
angels who sat at the tomb of Jesus will
yet roll the stone from the door of your
dead in radiant resurrection. The Lord
Himself shall descend from Heaven