Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-05-30
HGNIX, AND RECORD AND FARMER, FRIDAY. MAY 30 1884,

ulbCflmlnble penhlunluE OF luem. however,
the time Is not distant when every man who
rendered any substantial service m the late
war will be placed on the pension rolls. Con.
gross spends half It's time IN attempts 10 re-
duco its revenues, and 10 finding ways TO eX-
pend the surplus income, which could not be
devoted 10 a wOrthier object than IN aid Of
those whose service saved the Government
from destruction.
la the year 1868 the Legislature of this
state passed an Act enabling towns to oxpund
money in the erection OF sOldiers monuments
and in the publication of soldiers records
This town has done neither of these things
Mr.. Henry s. Knight, a former townsman,
but now dead, who was employed during the
war in Adjutant General Washburns office
here, wrote out as a labor of love, a careful
record of Brattleboro soldiers which our OK
cellent Town Clerk has faithfully preserved
by this record II appears that the town fur
nished 3Sj soldiers, though it was accredited
with 1872. OF this number ten we're killed in
battle, ten died Of disease, six Of wounds and
five died in prison. Colonel Haskns per
formed like valuable service by prepar-
ing q record for Mr.. Burnham's history of
the town. which slightly varies the above
figures. A monument should be erected to
the memory Of these men, the record Of whose
service and death 10 q precious part OF our
towns history. II should be done at thapubnc
expense. II that cannot be, let us do ii by pri.
yRte enterprise The names of these soldiers
should be carved in enduring granite and pre.
served to be honored by all coming genera.
tons
BY custom Of the Egyptians, when citi-
zen died, public aoouser appeared against
him, and he was openly tried for the acts of
his life, and none but the virtuous and brave
were admitted 10 burial or remembered with
honor Did this custom exist in our country.
1t would be sufficient to produce, as the record
OF any man, that he had been a soldier in the
army Of the republic, and his name would be
held in everlasting honor.
Friends, on this occasion the best senti-
ments of our hearts are moved Our gratitude
Is renewed to the intrepid men who fell in the
great cause OF defending the nations life ard
/ honor, and who lie buried here aud in almost
every cemetery in the land and on account
OF their sacrifice we are inspired with deep
er love of country than We have felt before.
1t is an onnobling act for the people TO turn
aside from their usual pursuits and honor
| their heroic dead. Those who rest here came
from other states, and were unknown to US
except that they were Union soldiers In the
national cemetery at Arlington. which con
/ tains twenty thousand graves are buried in
one sepulchre the unrecognz.d bodie. OF
| twenty one hundred soldiers, gathered from
/ the various batte-felds Of the country. The
nation has erected massive monument in
/ granite TO their memory
Aud glory guards with solemn round
This biyOuAc Of the dead"
/ To-day we remember with the deepest sad-
/ ness the thousands who died aud were buried
/ IN rebel prison-pens and those who fell aud
were buried on the field. with no kind hand
/ to mark their restiDg-place
Their names no tongue may tell
Buried there where they fell
/ The brayest Of our braves
All, but the life they gave
Is not shut IN the grave;
The yal1rous spirits freed
Live in the vital decd"
/ Happily, the deeds of men die not with
/ them, aud are not inferred with their bones.
/ No good deed, no noble life, is ever lost. It
/ Is not in the constitution Of the mind Of man
orot God that they should be lost The lives
OF these brave men, given for the cause of
free government and humanity, will live on
while the years in endless procession roll over
their graves
"Hsh were their deeds DER whom our hearts are
weepiuU'
SAFE bidef their fame in all meme love and praisei
Haliowed the mold in which their dust II slscrlpr
Aud sweet the memory that has crowned their days
flle thick the anaranth auG myrtle DER them
Ior whom our hurelod banners fash aud flow
/ Roses that love, aud panHies that deplore them.
Aud lilies, weeping from their hearts Of snow
Breathe lo". 90 murmurug pines ye whispering
ie devs of summer night fall softly here,
% snrTo" slRl 10 every breeze that passes
Ana every raiudrup be- a mOurneTs tear!
"And oh, ye stars, " holy lights that cuub,r
Ihe deep Of heaven, pour benedictions down.
sued your sweet incense on this Eacrtd slumber-
bFlgnt Is our love and pure as their renOwn,"