Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-05-30
LOCAL kNEWS.
Town za5 COUNTY
Here and There.
In HONOR OF THE BLUE AND GREY.
How Annapolis Celebrated the Day.
ITONORING rmE DEAD

AT p. m. the procession formed
on State Circle en-route for the line
of decoration. The procession was
headed by the city police, mounted.
The line of march proceeded first to
National Cemetery where the follow
ing programme was carried out: Dirge
by band on entering cemetery or
ders of the day, by s. Jickling, adit;
opening services, by L. B. Smith,
post commander; prayer, by chaplain,
Rev. q. V. Leech; singing by select
choir I; poem-"The Blue and the
Grey" by Miss Baker.
HON. A. G. WARNER,
the orator of the day, was then intro
duced, who spoke as follows:
1t is in accord with a memorable
custom practised in all ages among
all people to honor their dead who
were slain in defence of their country.
The oldest monuments that have
come down to US are monuments to
commemorate the deeds of heroes
slain in war The Greeks set apart q
special place in which they might
honor the dead who died for their
country. The earliest songs chant the
praisespof heroes slain in battle. The
custom is not confined to any people
or any period Of history; but seems
to be sentiment spontaneously
bursting forth wherever great deeds
have been done. Our friends have
fallen on both sides,
All countries have had their civil
strifes. England had her civil war
that lasted through three reigns; and
at the end of which, two centuries ago
Cavalier and Roundhead came togeth-
er in her parliament and now not a
man in all the British isles could be
found who is not as ready to defend the
honor OF Roundhead as he is the Cav
alier, or the Cavalier as he is the
Roundhead. In decorating the graves
of the fallen, let US remember that
grief and sorrow came alike to those
who lost friends, father, brother and
sons In battle on one side as on the
other, and | rejoice that no true sol
dier has ever found it in his heart to
wish one pang added to the sorrows
of either side.
Whilst believe no war was ever
waged in any country or any age, more
important than the war for the main
tenance of our Union, still the time
will come, aye, now is, when every
part of the Union will be found to
take pride in the valor and heroism
displayed by the soldiers on both
sides of our unfortunate conflict:
and will not only be pround of Grant,
Sherman, Sheridan, Meade, Hooker.
and other illustrious generals: but
also of the fame of Lee, jackson.
johnson and others equally illustrious
on that side.
believe the results of the war
will be eventually, if they are not
already, acknowledged to be as valua-
bic to those who fought and lost as
those who fought and won.
Surely if free government. free in.
stltutlons, are to be priced, and /
trust they ever will be, surely it must
come some day to be believed byallth
those who fought to save the Union
were fighting for the good of all; for
l hold, as lever held, that free COVER
mentwas possible only through the
maintenance of the union of all the
States; for with separation, standing
armies would be necessary on both
sides, and with standing armies would
come strong governments, and the
disappearance of government by the
people would follow. Then would
we have repeated on this cont'Aent
the history of Europe since its history
begun.
Then followed o dirge by the band
singing national hymn America
by choir and children strewing Of
flowers after which the procession
reformed and concluded the memorial