Daily Republican., 1881-05-30
FIFTH EDITION.
H0N0RING DEAD HEROES.
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rated with flags and flowers from ro
to base and in front of the middle wi
dow of the club room was tablet bo
dered with evergreen and bearing IL
following.
IN MEMORY OF OUR FALLEN HERoSE
The club as usual did itself gre;
credit, and much complimentary con
ment was INDUCED in.
The following are the ladies who a
sorted the flowers and made no ri
wreaths and garlands at tine City Hall
Misses Florence N. Hirst, Mamie Had
dock, Lizzie Marvel, Ellen Nostrant
Laura Arland, Cora BlockSom, JoSi
Pickles, and Mrs. Harry and daughter
Mrs. Robert Liddell, Mrs. Charles Stou
and daughter.
At the room of the DUPONT Post tn
following ladies were similarly employ
ed: Mrs. Wheeler and two daughters
Mrs, &. w. Greene, Mrs. Truax, Mrs
Robinson, Mrs. Boothe, Mrs. Wilhelm
Miss Wilhelm and Mrs. Wrightington.
THE LINE FORMS.
The Watson Post and Camp No. .
Sons Of Veterans Of New Castle cam,
over to this city ON special train n
noon, after the ceremonies in that Mac,
had been completed; as stated in the frs
edition, the exercises in New Castle
We're unusual. In addition to oratou
from MessrS McNair and BriStor, Rev
MeSSrs Roach and Stahl delivered ad
dresses. In the parade was band o
little girls, one representing each Stat,
i'll the Union.
The line was formed ut 1.30 O'Clock
at Fourth and French streets, and tn,
parade moved with brisk promptnes,
and in good order under command OF
Chief Marshall Swiggeett and aides lie
camp keables, PoStlcS, Smith and
Stewart
1t was in the following order
Chief Marshal and Aids.
Platoon of Police
First Regiment Band, j. Hickman, leader.
First Battalion, First Regiment Delaware
state Militia. Col. : A. Macallstsr.
commanding
department Officers, g. AR
W. ;: McNair, Department commander.
Thomas A. Smyth Post No. |.
Oliver Bliss. commander
DUPONT Guards Drum Corps.
AdmiralS. +. DUPONT Post. No. =, Guard.
capt. VIM. OCOnnOr, commanding
Admiral 5. +. DUPONT Post. No. =.
+. II. Gregg, commander.
Charles SumNer Post. No, L.
Lawrence F. Fisher. commander.
Capt. Evan ). Watson Post, Nos
James A. Price, commander.
Capt. Thomas NJ. Reynolds Post, No. ..
H. q, buckingham, commander.
Floral car.
Sons of Veterans and Cadet Drum Corp.
Sons of Veterans,
John ii. Harkins commander.
Cadets of Thomas A. Smith Post.
The ceremonies of decoration were
gone through with at the Wilmington
and Brandy wine cemetery, and after
every thing had been done according to
programme, including firing Sautes
over General Smyth's grave, the process
sion returned to the Opera House.
Here, after singing, prayer by Rev.
A. n. kigwin, an address by Rev. G.
W. Miller, and poem by DIR. r.. A.
keeOles, Levi &. Bird, Esq, delivered
a fine Grafton as follows:
MIR. BIRDS GRAFTON.
10 DO we weep for the heroes who died for us.
VINO living were true and tried for us
ana dying sleep side by side for us
The martyr band
That hallOwed our land
Wlth the blood they shed in a tide for US?
HOW many glorious name for us.
bow many story Of fame for us
they LEFT but would it not be It blame for us
II their memories part
From our land and heart.
and wrong to them, and shame for US?
No, no, no, they were brave for us.
AND bright were the lives they gave for lis,
The land they struggled to save for us
Will not forget
Its warrior, yet,
Who slept in SO many graves for us.
Listen. 'TiS the salute over the SOL
liers' graves. See with what tender care
ne loving hands have placed the wreathS
)f floWers Tears of sorrow flow up from
he SOUL $ depths, as the mother, on this
decoration day, recalls her lost boy,
whose face, shining in hers long wears
lgo bade asweet, tender goodbye, good
oye, I'll soon be back.
The fife and drum beat away. and.
with marching men down the long
street, mid the hpZzaS OF the minplinTi
'rowd, the ringing Of bells, and tiying
u flags, he was off to the war-otf from
from that mother who from
MS Dlrth, had watched and prayed by
ms side with a devotion of love. only
by that unspoken love; Off
WIN the comrade who shared his fate
N the tented field as well as in the bat
,le > 1ront-aye, off, never to return
lsalh. 10 her, this day brings its sor-
'ow and its sadness. To him, we pay
ne honor due the brave, young hero,
VINO, before life had yet full bossomed,
all his hopes. Who will
not stop in the busy struggle of life, for
me short day, to honor thus, the dead ?
" no Will not stand with uncovered
Ieah as over the graves of those WHO
lied in their co .ntry's cause we ask
prayer of gratitude and praise.
Call the long roll of the dead. In
crlbe their names in letters of gold
'pon the altar of fame Write in the
'lue sky the heroic deeds of the gallant
'and, who marched away quicker, and
quicker to the nations call. Warriors
rave and true, there may your names
yer remain, growing brighter and
'righter as the hand of time moves
long. The golden memories of now
lnost score Of years, cluster as bright
his dec grafton day as at any period
ince the soldiered dead were laid away.
documents of marble, and shafts of
rIanite you may build, reaching as
lgh toward heaven as you can make
hem, wreaths and garlands you may
Irew till the air is dense with their
weetest perfume, and the earth itself
bed of gathered lilies the tread of
marching men, and the choruses of
Minstrel music may swell through the
and from end to end, till hill and low.
and listens in breathless silence till the
cho dies away; but of all the shafts the
and Of man can make, of all the gar I
lnds you may bestrew, of all the march /
nd music the world can give, the last |
ug monument, and the undying wreath t
hat will live on forever, streaming its |
1ay fuller and brighter, is the thankful {
of a grateful nation of its {
dead. ,
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