The National tribune., 1883-06-07
AT BOSTON,.
The Work of Observation-Disclosures Paimer's Eloquent
Address.

The Work of DeccrHion-MaYor Pa,mer's Eloquent
Address.
Of the Memorial Day work in Boston each
Post had its share to perform. To EdwaEd w.
kinsley Post No. 113, the duty of decorating
the soldiers monument on the common was
assigned. Eight detachments from the Post IN
the morning also decorated all graves and tab
lets of deceased soldiers in the city proper and
the graves of all deceased members of the Pest
in the various cemeteries At the monument
Commander Richards, Chaplain Sawyer, and
Comrades Miliar and Walker made short ad-
dresses. At the conclusion of the ceremonies
at the monument the entire body marched di-
rect to the Second church, where the usual
memorial SCI vices, including an GRAFTON by
Comrade Rev. E. A. Horton, were held. Charles
Russell Lowell Post, No. Z, A. Z. Perkins, Com
nander, escorted by the Sens Of Veterans,
marched to Turn Hail, where Post 21, Theo-
dore Leutz, Commander, was received, and the
entire body marched to the Boston and Provi-
dence railroad station and embarked for Mount
Hope cemetery. At the cemetery both COM
mands decorated the graves Of 415 soldiers and
sailors. Mount Auburn cemetery was visited
by John A. Andrew Post, No. Il, 1t9 stroug,
Commander Dennis Linuehan. The graves of
345 brave men were decorated with silk fiags,
flowers being for the first time dispensed with.
Thomas G. Stevenson Post, No. 26 placed 2S5
wreaths and 2S5 crosses on the graves of com
memorial services were held and an address
delivered by Rev. Albert H. Plumb About
100 sons of deceased and living members ac-
companied the Post. At WoodlaYn cemetery
Joseph Hooker Post, No %, of East Boston,
Commander JOS H. Dalton, decorated the
graves OF S8 departed comrades with flags,
wreaths and crosses. Rev. Justin K Richard
son, Department Chaplain of Vermont, de
livered the oration, after which the Post
marched TO the Fourth Section cemetery and
there decorated So graves. Francis Washburn
Post, No 90, of the Brighton district decorated
the soldiers monument and "a graves in Ever
green cemetery. Remarks were made by Com
mander b. +. Sanborn, and the Post Chaplain
was assisted by Rev. William Brunton. Early
in the morning Robert A. Bell Post, No. 134.
Z. III. Younge. Commander took a steamer for
Rainsford Island, where the graves were dec
Grated and an address delivered by j. c. Chap
pelIe. The Bunker Hill district fell to the lot
of Abraham Lincoln Post, No II, and Major
George l.. Stearns Post, No. 149, Commander
William Fl. Seymour, decorated 90 graves in
the Holy Cross cemetery, Maiden, and the sol
diers' monument in Chariestown.
The Suffolk County Association of the G.. A.
r. in the afternoon marched In procession, es-
corting Mayor Palmer, the orator of the day,
and others to Faneuil Hall. After preliminary
exercises, his Honor was introduced by Com
mander Joslin, and delivered an eloquent adj
The praises of patriotism have been said and sung
by the saGes and the bards OF every cline and time.
There is not = land where the memorial shaft Of
brass marble docs not tower slsyward To remind
the successive generations, they pass of the he
who fought and died for their country in some
foreign field. France looks up 10 her column of
July, surmounted by the figure of Napoleon Ger
many to the colossal statue OF Frederick the Great
Russia to her images OF Peter Britain to the stern
face of her iron duke and to the bronze eountereits
OF Nelson. In every it is man who stands st
the top OF the column, colossus OF conquest raised
to the clouds from pe3estals Mt whose haSe lie
myriGds of common soldiers, who fell 'unwept
unonored and unsung.m Ik has been appropri-
ately reserved for the great Republic to initiate
new order of martial eonnemoratiou and nothing
in her broad domain affords truer earnest OF the
freer, uster and more equal civilization of which
she the cradle and Is still the chief custodian
than the simpler monuments which dot her COM
mons and public squares, surmounted with the
figures of the common soldier and sailor, and in
| scrihed simply but strongly: In memory OF the
soldiers and sailors of this town. who fell in the
war for the Union" The old world builds its
monuments to individual greatness; the world
holds in suprelnest gratitude the common sacrifices
| OF the PLAIN people. We axe Aot wisiOat rsiii