Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-05-31


band, and was composed of the
following societies, in all numbering near
ly or quite one thousand persons, followed
by line of carriages extending fully a
mile in length:
Emmett Light Artil, ery, First Lieutenant David
O'Keefe in command.
Bohemian Band.
knights of st. Paul, VIM. Dowlan Command
Knights of st. George.
Ex-Soldiers
st. Peters Benevolent Society.
st. Clements Society.
LUnion Franchise
Polish Society.
Polish Band.
Ancient Order of Hibernians
Clergy and Citizens in Carriages.
Arriving at the stand, occupying COM
handing position near the center of the
cemetery, the societies formed in circle
around it, and the ceremonies of the day,
by choir from the several Catholic
churches of the city, rendering in a
most impressive manner the "Veni
Creator" Father Stanley followed with
the Catholic service for the dead, the
societies and spectators kneeling, at the
conclusion of which Bishop Ireland, ex-
chaplain of the old Fifth Minnesota regi-
ment, was introduced in few appropriate
remarks by Marshal Mccarthy, as the
orator of the day. Occupying the stand
with the bishop and the marshal were
Fathers Stanley, Neallis and Danehy, and
number of prominent citizens.
ADDRESS oFssB1sHop IRELAND,
which was most impressively delivered.
and listened, with wrapt attention, was as
follows:
That you may understand the full signi-
fcance of the present occasion and receive
from it your own guidance in life all the
precious lessons with which it is pregnant,
let me bid your fancy wing you backward
over the road of time score of years and
conjure up before you the dark scenes
which mark that period of the history of
America. They were days when the saw
age cry of war re-echoed through the land;
1t was war in its direst form-civil, fratri-
cidal war. Men sought directly the life of
the republic. Hands were uplifted to tear
asunder her flag, to parcel out her territory
into rival and contending jurisdictions.
Dark signs of dissolution thickened over
the constellation of the west, whose light
had so long diffused hope over earth's orb;
its glory rested in the oneness of life and
motion which permeated the whole cluster
of stars, and the cluster was now threatened
with fatal disruption. How much there
was at stake! Our unrivaled material
prosperity springs to a great measure
from the vastness of the territory which
our government controls and the variety
of resources this vastness affords. Our
national pride should sink to the ground
as the death-knell of the Union sounded,
The respect of foreign nations ceases ;
they fear and envy the great republic of
America; petty and independent common
wealths scattered over the area of this
continent they would disdain to notice.
Yet, how much there was at stake! Hearts
of millions throbbed in agony throughout
the entire world, as the electric flash sped
the news that the republic was in danger
the hearts of the millions in other lands
who saw in the free institutions of America
the beau ideal of human government. The
republican form of governmental which
the people speak and bylaws of their own
making secure their rights-was before
the eyes of the world on trial IN America.
The existence of our republic inspired fear
to absolutists and their minions, fond
hope to the friends of liberty. Her disso-
ted the hopes of the latter, and strength
ened the pride and arrogance of the for
mer. Our republic no longer existing, the
pealings of Moscow's bells announcing to
all the Russias that Alexandar is the ar
bitter of life and death, world have passed
over the world without single great civil
government being encountered to proclaim
that the people are, after God, the first de-
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sovereign. The cannon-ball, as it cleft the
air across Charleston bay in its murderous
race for Fort Sumpter, was laden with
death to the civil liberties of the world.
It was yet possible to avert the dire evil;
heroes could yet save the republic if le-
gions of them would at once spring forth,
buckle on the armor of battle, suffer and
die for their country. Yes, legions of them
were needed. At first the call went out for
$4,000, then for 100000, then for 100000
and so on, until over one million stood up
| on the battle field. For the opposing forces
we're numerous and brave. Much as we
deplore the aims and ambitious of the men
Of the South we confess that their courage
and their perseverance were worthy of
America and no less than the courage and
| the perseverance of the Federals proved
that republics do not nourish towards.
Legions of heroes! Well may call them
heroes. 1t is scarcely possible, as you
gather this afternoon under soft May
sun over the grassy plot of this cemetery,
within view OF your homes amid a great
city teeming with life and righteousness
it is scarcely possible, say, for you to
form an adequate idea of the sacrifices
which our soldiers made for country's sake.
Those only among you who have made the
sacrifices, who stand before me with the
tattered flags of their regiments in hand,
can realize the heroism demanded and
practiced. You, honored veterans, know
how heartsicouvulsed!wit grief, as the last
| farewell was spoken to father, to mother,
to wife, to child, whom only mere chance
| would ever again permit to be seen; you
can tell of the weary marches over wild
morass and through dense forests, of the
painful and lonely meditation around the
midnight campfire, of the agonies of the
bed of sickness in the tented hospital;
you remember the terrors of the battle
field, as men fell around you into the en-
brace of death as numerous as the blades
of grass yielding to the sickle. The sacri-
fees that test the highest courage of mems
souls, their highest powers of moral and
physical endurance, and they are heroes
IN all truth who accent those sacrificas