Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-05-31

uease nt1s. toe9f green tents
are pitcaed oxsS them the uixht bird
sinRsa requiem. the jsaaaEaine Sings h.
tra5sfAet bio ssoms and the myrIls gen.
tiy tzInas. sSme rest ia gravss uu.
naarkeo, uucassd for sud anknnzu. aud
others are tended By loving hands =
some went fortA to God 10 ths rnsh ot
cnafgin9 sq1adsonz. amid the ring OF
rotIlnR enesrs Others 10 the hozpttai OF
PRISON bat the mantle of Goi eogers
them all ALIKE. and in oar hsarts sysry
name ID cherished.
Tear after wear Wiii we stres their
resting psaoes With the choicest bloom
OF spring. Year after year, when we ere
Rone, viii our descend ants strsv the
sAfne sweet tokens 0a thsir graves and
onrA and a. long a. tue nation sxtst.
viii their Msmory be a. bright aaa a.
fresh a. the flowers We bring.
AS l9ek aroand ms aad uotios the
threads sf SILVER on our comrades
brows. As ] notice year after year the
places made vasast by the death reaper.
realize thas the Grand Army of toe
livln0 - passing away sIozly bat surely.
~ has, aDd can have no s1ocessor. The
time ts not far distant when some white
haired eomrade. with batting step and
trembling hand, will east the last bios
sen on hIs fellow soldiers grave, and
then ueught wtil be left bat its memory
and tts nsme."
After mn-ic by the band, Miss Clara
Wilson, the young lady WHO for Ave
years attended she public schools Ia Sc
attie vIfnoot missing q day or bsing
tsriv, gas introduced as the poetess Of
the day. and recitsd most admirably a
long poem entitled Memorial D4y,"
the last few stanzas Of which Yua a.
follows:
Bend soft, o skies. above the graves our
fallen heroes fill
In far Potomac marshes, ou the nights
of Georgia bill,
where the blae Virginia mountains in
thsif lonely Rrandsnr frown,
wsere the tide Of Chickamauga q vs.
by fort invested town!
Blow soft. q winds, around them With
your ffeighted sweets and balm,
And the rythm OF your n1mbsrs into
song and psalm,
Say the Northern heart IL keeping in its
deeps aRloW
All the sscred recollections treas ured in
the lonQ ago.
5mile soft, o flowers, bending log, like
friends With saddened eyes.
Moist with the dear reenembrancee of
sanity sacnfioei
Rise, gracions lilyl Multiply, o rose,
IN regal pride.
fis amblems Of tue Ioyal ones Who
lived, and loved and died.
And shoa, D dag OF Freedom, fan their
slumbers whore they lie
At msrning toss and fiutter, and az
midnight float and fy.
Keep gu ard DER all thy children as upon
the walls they stood,
for the future all thy folds in
crimson blood
Floa, on shove TIE living. fioat ON shove
the dead
While q hope awaits frniti0u, while
prayer remains unsaid
This motto ON thy bosom bear 10 earth's
renotest parts;
God keep the Union! Give to all the
people loyal hearts
JuDaE THOMAS BURKE,
Orator OF she Day. was mex. introduced,
and spoke as fsllows:
Il is q beautiful expression Of nation-
Il Rratitads, this setting apart one day
Ia the year a. sacred 90 the memory of
oar fellow heroes. In this busy, active,
headiona life Of ours we stand
Ia need Of aids 10 our mem ories. Graf
itnds is too often fsnnd TO be shoet
lived plans. and even ths greatest bene-
factions af9 All too soon forgotten. Bat
neither their cOantrymen DOR ths world
will ever forget " the debt Immense Of
endiess gratitude. stiii paying, still 10
ewe,s which Ia dne 70 the brave and no
bls spirits via psgished Ia the struQRle
Tor toe preservation Of natisnal anity
and Of national life. And how can /
better spend she half hour allotted 30
ule than 10 briefly pointing out 90 the
yonnQ. aad recalling 10 tho memory OF
the old the stnpendoas interests at
stake In that terrible struggle There
Il such thing as bsina TOO near an OBJ
jacs 90 get good view Of IL. LIST Us,
ibsn, step back q few pacss. say eighty
or ninety years. 10 the opening Of the
present century, and hastily note the
political condition OF mankind through
out the wOfld.
The RapGbiie OF the unitad States
had bean established for upwards OF
aftesn years. IL vas establisned on che
principle Of government Of the people
By the pcopie and fof tho people
such q goyefnrlant had never been
knowa on the earth before. Sixty-hve
years axo--within the memory of men
asill laying- Euf0pe was an agRfeRate
OF deapetie powars disposing at their
usn pieAsurs Of the lives and property
Of thsfr sabisets, aud maintaining by
systematic neglect the convenient igno-
sancs which renders miagovernmeat
3Asy and safe" Tue mass Of the Rus
.lAns we're serfs. There we're nine mil
lion slaves In Hungary. Tue peAsantry
az Auatria and Prussia vere nearly all
dawes. EiRhty-six years AGo slavery
existed In Scotland. The culliefs and
saiters we're siaves, bauad 20 their ser-
viss for life. bonGht and snld With the
works al which they laboFed.s
Women and caiidren worked ia the
coal pita. psriorming the work OF mules
and eaitis. Children OF stx we're habi-
tnaliy esnploycd from thifteen 10 afteen
hours day; and when the poor ehtl-
dren fell asieep at their work. the over
sears east them severely 10 keep shsm
awake. Ia every eoantry excspt the
United States. she people wefs I'm,
naerssd In ignorance. Such. IN brief,
wss the oeudition a civIlixsd man la
E,araps eniy lutte noFe than two
ago. Tue uaisea stasss
aAs nee wsii started on career q
peaceful indnstxy; aud her prUspsr,ty
har the next sixty years wAs xithoat .
fhe experiment II seif 7R0v-
eminent. - deeoly interesting 10 ha-
uianiiy, had apparently snceeedsd. The
y0ang Repablic haa become the guide
and laxuivcr of nafionA Fired hy her
s9smpls and instfacted by her success,
sysrywhexe In Earupe had the mAssee
ot tha people begun 10 demand and 20
racsive q larger measure OF hoefty.
Jaxt az this stage. in the very highf Of
her prssperity ,tne Rspahlic vas paaneed
fhso the horrors OF eivii var. IL wAs N
vain the wise. the humane men OF the
esuutrs sought ~ avert the most sense-
lass ana uiskea cOn1ies svsT foaRht
among nasn. Every enort in the inter
sist of peace. Of liberty and Of hamAn-
iiy vaa aaept awAy before the torrent
al hans and malignant passions shai
r,asad shs honr. The life of tue kspae
lie VAS assailsd and hamaatty received
: shaalk. And vhAt vas this fort To
ssssahlish the tnfxm0us doctrine that
slAa "a mi ai4as ehanld own the iAn0Fef.