National Republican., 1883-05-31

Hark it's bugle's blast and blare,
Sharp, shrill, and echoed from afarl
Hark on the shocked and uuiYering air,
The distant drum beat tells OF warl
Stern the command; scant mercy they
Who summon to the battle. fray.
March IT'S not fear that dims his eyo;
VI, HIS pulse knows not coward beat,
When loves last kisses, loves last sigh
Unnerve and half-arrest his feet
Press to the battle front, o bravel
Valor prevails when duty cas
Honor will live beyond the grave,
For him who FOL. his country iallsl
Steady Close up battalons, menl
Sternly the charging column forml
Advance the flag On 10 the ightl
Forward Strike home God help the right
He faces death an instant, then
Sinks, crushed beneath that iron storm,
shuddering sorrow seems to fall
Upon the home beloved ones all;
4 cry seems quiyering through the vale.
. Godl is that his dying wail2
Yelled is that sky Of home serene;
The silent streamlet darkly flows;
Gray clouds are gathering DER the scene;
The picture faint aud fainter grows
Tho lines dissolve-they disappear;-
The lost unknown is slumberlng here!
And .n now the 81 heaven seems one vast hall,
And pictured ON that azure wall,
In mute appeal their tales they tell.
on woke the echoes of his glen,
His apron DER the anvil throws,
And Joins the ranks Of marching men
The farmer lad--a patriot now
The battle thunder hears afar
And half. furrow leaves his plow,
To tread the crimsoned field of war,
The clanking loom forsaken stands,
With tangled warp and broken wet,
Or unto rude. unskillful hands,
The may patterned web is left.
Behold! widow arms her only son,
Her blue-eyed boy - that Christian mother
And bids him go where loyal deeds are DONE
With loves warm kiss still dewy on his cheek,
His age. his soldier record would you trace /?
Read the fair lines that mark that manly face.
His name? He died and left no other sign
Than this he came of brave and loyal line
His face, his form dissolve in ambient air.
read the name beloyed Mother" therel
The scenes can number that invite my gaze;
With SAD reminders Of the battle days.
No more; may not linger o ye deadl
Ye picture memory, but ye plead In vain;
Suffice that fancy weave, for every head,
A spirit wreath, o, shadows Of the slainl
Alden poor shadesl Rest ye henceIorth in peace;
Time viii ayenge, your sorrows all will cease;
For, aye sometime around this vasty grave
One hope, one prayershall plead the lives ye gave
When bounteous peace shall crown all happy
lands, 49,.
And brethren Join, in love, fraternal hands,
When Freedom knows, in every Cline her own,
Then, then avenged will be our dead unknowni
The octette, composed Of George D. Lille
bridge and l.. j. Meyers, first tenors w. d.
Mcfarland and Joseph Jony, second tenors ;
w. E. Abbott and f. II. Barbaren first bass
and G. w. Hancock and r. NJ Mckee, second
bass, sang song "Sleep Soldier Sleep,"
written by Maj. Fred NJ. Clarke and set to
music by Prof. S. II. Jecko. This song had
been previously sung that morning at the old
soldiers homo:
SLEEP, SOLDIER, sLEEPl
The only funeral hmm Of ths Grand Army fhe Re-
public, Words BY Maj +. H. Clarke Of Iopa.
Music by S. II. Jecko.
Sung at Arlington and Soldiers Home.
Sleep. soldier slSspL The battle is ended;
Are hushed now forever. Thy courage has con-
The sl recall " has sounded. Thy warfare is DER.
eep, soldier, sleepl No more shall the bugle
Awake thee to arms Sleep peacefully on;
hy fame growing brighter thy name growing
Secure in the glorios thy valor has won.
Sleep, soldier. sleepi The flowers we scatter
The benisons whispered by Summers soft
breath.
Their perfumes shall minglo with grateful tears
To haiiow thy sleep in the bivouac of death.
Sleep. soldier sleepl Thy ,slumbers are guarded
A proud nations glory illumnes thy laurels,
Aud Freedoms fair temple is built DER thy
grave.
Comrade William H. Lambert, of post No.
Q, Philadelphia, was then introduced as the
orator of the day:
CoMRADE LAMBERT's GRAFTON.
To commemorate the great delverance which
the Lord wrought for His chosen people, He or
Aaft nj IN ha nhgar oil I,afn
generations forever.
Lest the memorial should deteriorate into a
meaningless form he gdn the father to
that which the Lord did unto me when l came
forth out Of Egypt"
We are to- day assembled to commemorate our
nations dead and though neither antiquity nor
divine command hallows our ceremonial, surely
when our sons ask, " What mean ye by this ser
hand OF the Lord wrought for our people mighty
deliyeTaneo.
far exceeded the purposes and the hopes which
we cherished at its outbreak that in these later
years we are disposed TO consider its results the
The remote causes OF the war were doubtless
beyond the control Of the generation which wit.
messed tho strife. Whatever these remote causes
may have been whether the diverse climatic In.
huences prevalent in the north and south, or tho
opposing characteristics OF the early settlers of
tive to the rights of the states, or more directly
the conflicting SYSTEMS OF free and slave labor,
the occasion OF tne war was the election OF Abra-
ham Lincoln 70 the presidency, and the imme-
diate cause was the determination Of our people
irrespective OF party, TO maintain
THE UNION OF THE STATES
The election of president by party whose
main principle was opposition to tho encroaoh-
ments of slavery, and whose success indicated the
lessening of the ovgt- mastering influence, which
had hitherto been exerted by the slayeholding
states was rendered possible by the increasing
antugonsm 10 slavery itself But while that
party was united In that all itH members were OPP
posed TO slavery and were agreed In resistance TO
the extension OF that institution into new terri
tory, they differed widely In their opinions con-
CeTning other methods of preventing Its growth.
There were those In the republican party who
favored warning upon slavery, regardless OF con.
stitutonal restriction, but the vast majority Of Its
members, while believing slavery TO be n great
evil, whose suppression was emlnently desirable.
recognized the provisions which forbade any In
terierence with II within the limits Of states al
ready existent, and hoped for nothing more than
the prevention of its spread into states yet to be
believing freedom to be NATIONAL and slavery
sectional, the republican party had Yet neither
desire nor intention 70 violate, IN the slightest de-
gree, the rights Of the BlaVeholdfng states.
Innocent Of all purpose TO Infringe the rights,
whether Inherent OF constitutional, OF any Of the
states, the people Of the north were loath TO be,
nsye that a DeliHeal victory won in strict accord