Morning journal and courier., 1882-06-19
The Soldier Dead.

The Memorial Day Exercises in North Haven--Rev. Dr. VnyIand's Oratton. Mir. J. Elton Smith was president of the at the Congregational church. Mir. F. H. Stiles, organist at St. Johns church, had charge of the music, which was by triple quartette, Misses Gilbert and Bassett and Messrs Newell and Campbell leading the sey- eral parts. This part of the programme in- cluded at the church the anthem, Send Out Thy Light" the memorial hymn, "We Deck Their Graves Alike To day" and "America, E and at the cemetery Comrades We Come Once More," by Messrs. Campbell, Mansfield, Newell and Stiles. The floral display was for this season very handsome and was under the arrangement of Miss Bertha Goodyear and Mrs E. L. Linsley.
 The orator of the day was Rev. H. L. Way land, of Philadelphia ex chaplain of the Sev- enth Regiment c. ", and brother of Hon. Francis Wayland, of New Haven. While honoring the memory of the men who died that the nation might live, by decorating the graves of those near at hand the orator would have us also remember those whose graves are unknown, or who slumber beneath the ocean, and, indeed, the grave of Lincoln upon the Illinois prairie, and that of Garfield beside Lake Erie This service we should perform, not to keep alive the memory of strife, or of our victory over foes, but in honor of the bravery of our he roes, who sacrificed home, friends and all tbat was dear to them, because they fought for liberty and order. We can hardly realize today that but for them we should not be c1o Io+ C4o of part of what was once the nation. They fought for a principle which was involved You may say that there were two sides, but we are not in the position of the father who having lost two sons, one in each army, placed over their graves the inscription, God knows which was right" for we know that they who wore the blue were fighting for the right Since began the preparati on of these remarks I have seen in print the statement of a Confederate soldier that he would fight for two things, religious freedom and the liberty of the negro. If it is brave for him to say so now, was 1t not brave to say to say so when our heroes did at a time when it cost something to say it :? The graves of men who died in so sublime cause are not so plentiful that we can afford to let them go unmarked, and we should build to them lasting monument in our nation. As they died to make the land free, let their monument be land of perfect freedom. As citizens of a free country we have responsibility and if we fail to act upon our best understanding we sleel upon our posts They died for the Union. Let us build them monument by making America united people We have a union of law-we want a union of hearts throughout the land. I hear much of the rich mines of the West and it's abundant harvests of the South and it's chivalry, but when men are wanted to speak word for the ofo oIlr Iafo +l,al To 1;,- a million for the education of the freedmen as MT. Slater of Norwich has done, the whole nation looks to the tin-peddling Yankees of New England, of whom I am proud to be one.
 We should bring about a union of all races and an obliteration of cast, for the Union will not be complete till the white man can point to the graves at Andersonville and say to his black brother, ''They died for our freedom, our country, our liberty" Our mission IS to make America free country with the Atlantic Ocean for it's foreign policy. Let us make 1t country to which all men can come and live, enjoy the blessings which we owe to the men whose graves we to day deck with flowers. When they paid this great price it was that their children's chil- dren might be free and this country last to all time
 If some future day shall call for greater sacrifices and from these graves shall come pleading voices saying, Our arms are dust, our swords are rust, go ye to the battle." If from their eases our tattered battle flags shall cry, carry us once more to the front, shall we not reply to them, ''Sleep on amid the tempest of your freedom, we will see to it that it is evermore maintained" Shall not mothers then again say good bye to their sons and wives to their husbands, and shall not the streets be filled again with men rush ing to defend the monument they have erect ed?
 Let us make this nation where all men shall have equal privileges. Such a nation shall be monument from which the light shall be reflected over the whole world.
 And at last may all hear the great com mander's voice say "Well done, good and faithful servant" and may we be able to say; 1T have fought the good fight, have finished the course, have kept the faith ] henceforth there is laid up for me crown of life in heaven"
 After the flowers had been laid upon the graves the veterans gathered around the sol diers' mound in the cemetery, where Will | Carlton's ''Converse with the Slain" deliv- cred by him at Arlington on Memorial day, 1877, was recited by Lieut.. r. J. Hart, First ! Conn. Heavy artillery, and the services closed | with prayer and benediction.