The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-06-02

In your name, my Comrades, / lay these s.
memorial flowers upon this grave which repre-E
.ents the graves of MI who died in the sacred
.ause Of our country. Our floral tribute shall
Let the tender fraternal feeling for
Shici. it stands endure until the touch of death
hall chill the warm pulse beats Of our hearts.
The graves were then decorated by the Post,
many Of their friends also joining in the simple
put impressive ceremony. Alter 4 brief interval
If silence the band played 4 hymn.
Mrs. W. J. Hopper then assembled the rostrum,
Ind delivered in an eloquent and impressive
manner that beautiful poem, 8 The Blue and the
The Rev. J. A. Cruzan, then delivered the fol
owing Grafton in his usual able manner:
Minister Resident, Comrades Of Geo. de Long
Post, americans, Ladies and Gentlemen;
Memorial Day gives US pause in our teverish life
race. 1t bids US remember. Standing among the
graves of the dead, surrounded BY these livings
and that greater host OF : invisible WIT
nesses." the Grand Army of our Patriot Dead, we
q glance backward. 1t is 1861. The little clouds
which Webster, the keen sighted saw, has oyer-E
spread the whole heavens. It's fierce ziSzag light-E
nings strike terror 10 the heart Of every patriot. b
At Sumter it begins to drop its bloody rain. lief
South madly springs TO arms. =
Then We stand, - for \ little moment, amazed s
THE sad spectators OF = suicide while r
They break the Links Of union They light B
The ire of hell 10 WELD anew the chain &
ON that red anvil where each blow was pain s
shudder as We see the dread reality Of Webster'sE
vision The sun in the heaven shining ON the
broken fragments of z once glorious Union ON n
land lrcnched with fraternal blood =
But, not till unholy hands have torn down theS
old dag which oar fathers and theirs gave us, IndS
trailed it in rhe dust amid jeerS and ridicule, doeSk
own chosen one. the patient, long-sufferingf
Lincoln, turn his face north0ard and ash for help. 3
if by magic, companies. brigades, armies springf
into life in a moment. Citizens, who never hneWE
.homes they love 50 well al the call of the Nauons
which they love more than all else. The hills andS
valleys OF New England. the mountains of Penn
svlvania, and the prairies of the Mississippi Valley
:fhe hsgs of war, like storm birds, Nv 10 the front.
For four years wars fnrnace-blast beats hotlya
lover the weary march hunger and thirst torturs!
them exposure, disease, shot and shell, andj
|hellish prison pen, do their terrible work. Them
come AppomattoN, and peace, and a restoredl
Union. But, alas at what price A grand army!
;of 800, 900 patriot dead lay rotting in their graves 4
From one end Of the land To the other We seei
broken hearted women, bowling over their orphans,
land hear Rachaels weeping or-their children, and.
sDayids lamenting for their Absaloms.
But We ses the old flag once more in lis hcnored,
place the Union restored the sin and the shape,
o. slavery are gone ISteSsf1 * p1.>s : great. butt
s@e sreconIenT. We have gained that which Isl
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Decoration Day bids Americans everywhere
pause and remember these things. 1t is q dayS
4 aid Nv { liuEs y NAllLth vi -
the Great Republic. 1t is a day beautiful andE
in it's impressiveness it is q day the Keep =
ing of which has been entrusted to an organization. s
the Grand Army Of the ltepublic, which has for ltsE
foundation and support none of the ordinary
resources resorted to to keep alive the spirit andE
vigor of such bodies an organization which hask
no political affiliations, schemes and purposes y
which has no mystic and imposing rites and insig-E
MIA no captivating legends that link il with chi (
yalry and romance no trappings of parade noS
banners with q strange device - no days dig
no chain of a secret order connecting il
with the weird and inscrutable records of the past, b
or reaching, by the transmission of blood, or byE
any other form of transfer at once into the general
tons of the past, and of the future. On the con
trary the existence of the Grand Army Of the Req
hence il will cease to be. With the end of the pre-E
century the Grand Army of the Republic Wills
be q relic of the past; it will consist of only 4 fewS
aged veterans white with the winter SHOWS of threeE
score years, who will hand down to their children'sz
the traditions of the caHp-ires and battle-H
fields of the war. Not only is the existence OF theE
Grand Army of the Republic limited in the past, s
and in the future, but its members, men now in
middle life, preserving none of the embellishments
Of military training, in plain attire, and fresh fromS
the ordinary and homely routine OF their occupa-
tions, make no pretense to tinsel and show whichE
the fancy and awake thr ardor of num-
bers. And yet the Grand Army of the Republics
grasps the heart of its members and the greatA
heart ofsAmerica, as no other organization. Why iE
it is based upon, and emb0dies, grandE
ideas, or principles. E
/. And the first of these is fraternity. One Of
UOHuS o u union, NE spring Ol our chtilHli5uI, l.
is the love which the true citiZen-soldier bears for
his cOmrade, dead or alive. SOfprofound is thisk
feeling that it is wrought into the very life of every
veteran. He counts every true soldier of theE
Great I|;epublic yOnder, his brother. Fraternity Isl
sacred word il binds the hearts OF veterans to-f
gether and weaYes 4 mystic thread from everya
grave, and deSolated home, TO sachE
heart. And is this feeling which sendss
us forth each succeeding year, with ever 4 warmerN
and tenderer enthusiasm, to ia. our places III the
and with hearts hushed Witn tears, andR
hands filled with flowers, make our sacred pilgrim
age to tile graves of our dead compatriots. &
.. And our love for these dead and living comb
is practical as well as sentin. -ntal. TheE
and diseased comrades, who, from wounds, S
Of limbs, or shattered constitutions, and un-k
able to care and provide for themselves theE
and orphans of our dead soldisrs-theseE
are a sacred trust these shall never know hunger 6
want, distress or pain that can be relieved. The*
Grand Army of the Republic is an organized, lV-s
loving charity, feeling it 4 privilege to serveE
and minister to those of our brothers who need +
to shield, provide and protect those whom deathN
so ruthlessly deprived of a protector,
}. There is one more bond of our association &
loyalty TO America and American Institutions. OurE
service did not end when We furled our flags tornx
with bayOnet thrust, and riddled with shot norH
we laid aside the dust covered uniform, and Z
hung the worn and battered musket, or sword,
over the chimney-piece. That which We won byH
war, must be preserved, consolidated and perpetu-
ated. Our service is one which never ends. Amer
lea and American institutions rest secure only B
buttressed by, and incarnated in loving loyalE
hearts. We stand pledged TO be true to America
IN peace as we'll as IN War-tO be faithful IN our B
service and loyalty to that government 70 of theA
people, by the people, and for the people, IN
which each American has an equal share, TO which g
each American owes an equal duty, and for which
each American is under an equal responsibility, 4
and which can only succeed and endure so lOngE
as every American feels that it is his own govern
own to defend, sustain and perfect. 4
and his own to enjoy and transmit to has children. 4
These, then are the objects OF our order IOE
cement the friendships, and Keep green the memo
of a common service, which has united our
hearts by the strongest ties that exist among men I
10 preserve the names, and honor the graves, OIL
.f those who died that America might live To-
help, 10 suceor our less fortunate comrades in
arms to guard and support the bereaved depend-<
snt-the suffering families. the aged parents, the
the orphans-Of our comrades dead tos
all whom they loved to honor the nag thatH
they honored, and 10 defend the national unity
which they Won, These and these only. are the
objects and purposes. and the final cause OF the
charitable order which we call the GrandE
Of the itepublic. &
These principles of our order shall never perish.
The eternal cycles of time How steadily onward.
The generations viii pass away. Soon the last s
[ MON soldier will be mustered ont. This organI-k
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