Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1883-06-02
DE1OR.fTTON DII.
The scrriccs y, ,hpreh ond ceme,ery.


Sunday evening, are an earnest ofthe increasing
| interest in this most pathetic Of holidays. In
the United States this day, beginning As the
| mos, sectional Of occasions, has become
second only to Fourth Of July in the affection
and interest Of the people. And its ce'ebra-
| ton is not alone a work Of patriotism and
| fratemal kindness. The love.labor OF GENE.
/ terry decoration in honor Of soldiers and sailoys
has become an eloquent example to all ranks
and all conditions. There are few among the
Gods-acTes in free America where does not
sleep at least one American brother, stricken
| in the cruelest Of fratricidal wars And where
even a single grave in a cemetery is decorated
| by the formal union Of many loving hands, the
good example is contagious and the happiest
results almost always follow. Here in Homo
lulu, the example is a needed one and seems
| likely to be needed.
An Overlooking congregation assembled in
! Fort street Church last Sunday evening to
listen to a memorial discourse by Pastor
Cuzan. The church was beautifully, appro-
priately and lavishly decorated with flags and
flowers and greenery. The memorial Sermon
printed in cxtenso by the Gazette, was
manly and opposite to the occasion il foreran.
In conclusion the speaker addressed his com
rades Of George DE Long Post as follows
"These memorial days to you are doubly
lover Of libery-the annual strewng Of flow.
ers is only fitting tribute Of a grateful nation
to her dead heroes. II is that TO you. But ii
is more. To you it is also a love.offcring, wet
with holy tears, laid on the graves OF friends
and brothers. With Memorial Day, to you
comes also the past, and those who fought
with you. Once more they march at your
side You feel the touch Of the shoulder of
some Jonathan whom you loved as tenderly as
David loved his. Dead, more than two de
cades, but you love him still. Your eyes fill
with tears when you think Of that dreadful day
when he fell at your side. The battle swept
on. You could not stay even to bury him.
| I" He sleeps unknown
| No tear was shed upon his lonely grave,
| No funral dirge in honor Of the brave;
By hurried soldier hands his covering thrown,
| Then quickly on the slab was carved "unknowns"
| And still the battle ragged
lie sleeps, unknown
| "Dead, lying in nameless, unknown, un-
decorated graves, but not forgotten. Each
year, in heart, you cover the graves Of your
dead with immortelles
"And they do not forget us. Chamel
house and gate of glory open their lips, and
louder than our much speaking comes the
eloquence of the buried and the translated.
And this is their message We died for
America and for freedom. Will you live for
country and for freedom ? We call upon you
who scatter flowers upon our graves, to take
up the work where death snatched it from our
hands in every land be true to the sacred
cause for which we died-the cause of right,
of liberty, and equality. BE manly, brave,
true, courageous Serve God, humanity and
the right /
On Decoration Day the lady friends Of the
post, and Of the occasion, busted themselves
TO such good purpose that the rooms Of the
post, next to the library, were fairly burdened
with bloom.
Mrs DIR. Hagan and Miss limerick worked
in the post rooms more than half the day
making wreaths and garlands and boquets and
lovely floral devices. Many citizens wen
early to the cemetery and assisted to put il
order family plots or the individual graves o
loved ones. Many a grave that had lair
neglected, il not forgotten, under the insight,
growth of years, was brought by the shame o
loving but thoughtless kindred toythe wei
ordered semblance of continuous care. On
many mound,
"where oft the plying wild flower lonely bloomed,
fair garands lay
In mute demand Of tears"
The George w. belong Post, G.. A. X.
Department OF California, met ut their head
quarters, on Fort street, at 3 P. NJ. Their
were also present the following officers from
the Hartford Lieutenant Commander Mar
thon, Chief Engineer Moore, Pay Inspecto
Denniston, Surgeon Marsteller, Lieutenant O
, Marines l.. c. Webster and Cadet Midship
, men Payer, Doyle, Fletcher and Grambs
together with His Excellency Governor Dom
! inis, Hon. K. NJ. Daggett, United State
| Minister Resident Mr.. ID. A. Mckinley
United States Consul. The procession tool
up its march for the Nuuanu cemetery at
p. NJ. The gentlemen above mentioned &C
companied the post who numbered the follow
; ing comrades Commander X. w. Lame
Senior Vice Commander Mott, Junior Vice
, Commander Eldridge, Adjutant c. N. Arnold
Quartermaster X. ]. Greene, Chaplain F. L
Clarke, Surgeon NJ. Hagan; ]. d. Arnold
Sergeant Major; w. McCandless, Quarter
D masters Sergeant Comrades ]. Simonson
jr., ]. A, Cruzan, N. b. Emerson, T. Carey
$ l.. Allen, ]. S. McGrew, S. McKeague, T. +
a Goodwin, ]. IL. Daley, w. +. Williams, ]
| n. Wright, G. w. Smith, and the folowin,
D veteran visitors: E. F. Adams, T. II. Boo
hme, J, T. Copeland, T. A. Goodwin, (son G
veteran), f. l.. Harvey, F. j. Higgins
Edward Lycan, Daniel Lyons, J. H. Loveoy
Frank May, A. Murphey, ~. 5. 6. Hartford)
I !. b. Silloway, c. 5. Woodruffee and X. G
Wigwall.
MIR. Dodd had generously sprinkled tn
+ street along the line of march. The Roya
Hawaiian Band, the post comrades and tn
$ guests of the day were on foot, and wer
followed by an express wagon laden wit
n flowers and by many carriages.
al When the procession reached the cemetery
A it filed.into the northern portion, in which
rostrum, festooned with flags, had bee
placed, near the grave Of Major Bates Dickson
Minister Daggett and Pastor Crxan, presider
. and orator of the day, took seats in tn
y rostrum. Post Commander Lame then mad
d a brief introductory address, Acting Chaplai
e Clarke read the customary prayer, and Mrs
o J. w. Hopper read The Blue and the Ora,
e The graves Of comrades were then decorate
by the members of the post and the " salute I
r. the dead rendered. The Grafton was the
delivered by the orator Of the day, Rev. ], A
Cruzan II was as follows
i THE GRAFTON.
d Mr. Minister ReHdenf, Couyades o., Gee q
. Long Posi-, Ame,roans, LaiieS and Gentltme,,
q Memorial Day gives us pause in our feveris
Il ife.race. 1t bids us remember. Standin
among the graves Of the dead, surrounded /
these living witnesses, and that greater host
N " invisible witnesses" the Grand Army ,
d our Patriot Dead, we cast glance backward
d 1t is 1861. The little cloud which Webste
7. the keen-sghted, saw, has overspread II
ID whole heavens. Its fierce zigzag lightnin,
I. strike terror to the heart Of every patriot. 4
ID Sumter it begins to drop its bloody rain. II
ID South madly springs TO arms.
d Then We stand, "for little moment
amazed,
"1he sad spectators OF suicide while
They break the links Of union They light
The fires Of hell TO weld the chain
in On that red anvil where each blow pain"
A. We shrdder as We see the dread reality
II Websters vision ''The sun in the heav,
At shining on the broken fragments Of on,
a. glorious Union on a land drenched wi
IN fIaternal blood"