Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-06-04
rHn PnRrEruAr1os OF OUR RIGHTS ~ WILL

COST.
Let us not deceive ourselves with the
impression that the days of peril to the
Liberties Of our country are over. They
never will be, as long as the hearts of bac
men are full of the lust of gain and
power. Every age brings its peculiar
Trials. Our sons may not have to meet
the foe upon the field of battle, but enc
mics to the public coed they will ever
ind, and their discontinue will require
the exercise of the same virtues that
should characterize the true soldier.
Young people, this which you behold
to-day is no empty pageant. 1t CONNIE.
morates the heroism and self sacrifice OF
the brave men who died in battle for
our country before you were born, died
that you might inherit united, free and
prosperous land. May the spirit that
stirred their hearts to brave deeds, kindle
in your breasts the fires of a true patrio-
tiSm.
Comrades, we are now about to place
the mementoes of our affection upon the
graves OF our dead, strangers, many of
them may have been to us, but ours in
virtue of their service in the common
cause. Let us lay these tributes there
tenderly, for it may be that when the
leaves OF the woods are again stirred by
the breath of spring, and the songs of
birds again fill the air, others may kind
" drop the tear, and place the fragrant
wreath upon the turf that covers our
silent forms.
Fellow citizens, these sleeping soldiers
are not dead, even though their bodies
are Wondering back to dust; they live in
the work they have done, in the unity of
our vast territorial limits, in the freedom of
all classes of our citizens, in our unequal
led national prestige and prosperity.
They will live in the memory of men as
long as great deeds and heroic lives are
admired.
I could but think as I saw on those
memorable days of the grand review at
Washington, in May 1865, the armies of
the union marching past the chief Execu-
tive and Legislative departments of the
nation, with thinned ranks and battered
battle flags, Of the time, 4 years before,
when with full ranks, surging from curb
stone to curbstone, they marched through
the streets OF enr northern states for the
front
Again, in Imagination, the ranks were
full as of old. the boys in blue, from the
swamps of Chickahominy, the hills of
Fredericksburg, the fields of Antietam,
and the sleeps of Getteyburg, were again
in line, invisible to mortal eyes, but keep
ing step to martial music and marching
on. That larger army, unseen and silent,
still stands sentinel over the safety of the
land they loved 50 well, and died to save;
live in those deeds that will ever stimu-
late their sons to holy emulation"
America was then sung, afterwhich Nc
1ntyre Post No. 66, detailed detachment
of comrades to decorate the graves of
soldiers buried in lakewood cemetery.
The following are the names of the
soldiers dead, as far as known Vincent
Hawkins, Ed Martin, O. Kerr, Harry
Newhall, 1. Ingmundson, J. Spafford, D,
Mcneil, I. Pace, Col. Davis, r. I. Smith,
P. G. Miles, Ira Padden. Ira A. Wood,
L. A. Sherwood, P. T. Mcintyre, NJ
Murphy, H. Marshall, D. Bacon, G. Van.
House and DR.. Thornhill.
At the same time detail, consisting
of A. E. Christie, G. n Beisecker and Sey.
mour Johnson, was sent down to the
Catholic cemetery to decorate the soldiers
graves there.
After the decoration was over the pro.
cession returned to Armory hall, and was
dismissed, and supper served by the ladies
at o'clock.
The old flag of Company X, 18th Regt.,
was carried in Mcintyre Post, by George
Baird, Captain of the Company.
An interesting feature of the process.
sion was the presence of the two little
daughters Of Adjutant E. G. Kassen, OF
James George Post, who marched on
either side of their father in the preces