The Red Cloud chief., 1884-06-06
A Chaplet Of flowers is meet for the Brave.
And such was the crown to the victOrs
we gave.

Another memorial service day has
come and gone, and with it "a very
pleasant day, and quite Il large attend
ance of people as witnesses of the sue
cessful ceremonies held in honor of
the event. The Grand Army of the
Republic, according to previous ar
rangements, formed promptly at one
O'Clock OH the walk in front of their
headquarters and marched to the pub
lie school grounds where they halted,
and Mr.. David Lutz, an old soldier,
made the following speech:
Ladies'. comrades, and children:
You are assembled to celebrate one of
your country's most sacred and hal
lowed days, Il day whose return and
memory is cherished by every Ameri-
can patriot with an ardor, zeal and de-
votion superior To that which they en-
terrain for any other day a day set
apart by the nation, to the nation, for
the exercise of thoughts and deeds,
commemorative of the services and
sacrifices
''Of our sires. sons. and brothers.
NuT SlSltES. usllStlifI~ anu ttlI bIbliiftS,
All who uobiy dared and did, In our coun-
try'S cause.
To foil her enemies and vindicate her laws"
1t has seemed to me this day was provI-
d~entially designed to be emphatically
an envolver of the purest, and fullest,
affectional feeling that it Is possible for.
one being to entertain for another,
hvving been fixed at Il time when all
~ 30 ,-o ol
the very climax of fresh and beautiful
new life, and in this it seems appropri-
ately symbolic of the beautiful fresh
ness and magnitied grandure of the
revivified human entity in the spirit
world. to which our beloved and de-
parted comrades have only preceded
us.
All, yes! my faiths keen sight be-
holds them now upon the slopes, far
up the heights, beyond the mystic riv-
er's turbid tide. Have We not faith to see
them. comrades, as they pass in grand
review before the Chief Commander of
the universe? See. see, a! They wear
NJ more their faded coats of blue"
They've changed them all for robes of
Spotless white. And bark We! Can We
not hear that rapturOus music, peal on
real? That is from the consolidated
heavenly choristers. And list We to
the thrilling theme they chant. Hail.
all hail the martyrd throng, who gave
their lives a sacrifice, to atone a na-
tons crime" The enslavement of Il
race.
q. honorcd comrades over in that spirit land.
Almost we wish that in your columns we might
stand.
For sure, the glories, Your patriot deeds have
Woe.
tile sun.
Yet not our wills. Almighty Chief, but Thine be
Let all the race which Thou hast set by us De
fully run.
Then I've it ours to join our comrades OF the
spirit shore.
Camp ever on Thy holy mount, and "mur:cr out
no more
Gladly w",ld w linger Oh such enchanted
ground.
Nor tire of viewing the glory our comrades all
surround.
Blu, they are spirits now, We mortals OH this
sphere,
They've ceased from mundane marches, Wen
soon have finished ours here.
How superlatively impressive then should be
our service to-day.
n tllutit N i'te 'ii'c 81 yCdl IA Nt..
As W. gather the beautiful flowers.
From garden, culScryl tory. aud plain,
And pluck from all of carth's evergreen bowers.
Branches TO strcw DER the graves of oar slain.
How should our minds rctraycrSc the south.
Aud ponder DER fields, where oar comrades lay
dead,
Tie c!anking of sabres, shells from cannon's
mU!in.
And the blood covered ground. of a brothers
death bed,
But faircr 10 view. is the victory wOn,'
Our la:rl of the brave. oar home Of the free.
Richest and brightest. lovlie>t under the sun.
Oh! Glory To God!th!t this nom, is for me-,
After which the procession nearly
one half mile long was formed in the fol-
OWING order: Garfield Post, school
children, Ladies' Relief Corps, buggies,
wagons, etc. and proceeded to the
cemetery. On arriving there the
Grand Army boys and school children
decorated the soldiers graves with
beautiful flowers. This done the i'm
posing ceremonies of the Grand Army
of the Republic followed. a: the close
of which Mr.. Joseph CARRIER, made the
following very appropriate remarks:
Comrades and citizens: We have
paused ut this memorial spot, conse-
Grated by the flag. to do Il hallowed
service.
We could not find all the graves, for
in the restless waters are some slum-
boring beneath its surface: the bluffs
of the still and quiet rivers cover some;
the high mountains look down on their
slopes and bases up III the graves of
the noble and quiet dead. Let thoughts
of peace and heavenly rest pass from
the living tn Our dead comrades whose
graves we could not find.
Comrades we are by the nations re-
quest called upon to pay II solemn tri-
butte To those who have fallen into that
dreamlcss sleep in which everlasting
peace shuts down their eyelids still, and
they fell on the line between the ag-
gressive feet of freedom and n crazed
rebellion. Let us not forget those
whose march and tread did not reach
the end of that great struggle, but died
bv the camp fires; died in the smoke
cloud of battle; died in the murderOus
prison pens. We are the living, they
are the dead, yet with us they shared
all the hardships IN camp, the weary
tread in the march, and all the dang
ers in battle. Long years after they
have fallen the child is taught to dec
crate and c~onsecrate their graves. So
it will be long after its generation shall
have passed away. Other children will