Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1885-05-29
tn I'd EDITION
OUR -OuN HK Y.

We publish the following address to
oblige Eli Crozisr
1t was for the preservation Of our
institutions and Lot only the dead who
rest here, but all who lie in village
cemeteries and on the hillsides OF the
Republic, gave up all that men hold
most dear, home, wife and child the
hesrt'4 foudest affections, and life
best ambitions, and accepted hardships
captivity and death, that their country
might live We may forget the long
march, the dreary night, the weary
siege. and all the horror and hell Of the
battle field We may forget those who,
torn ir limb or maneled in body, found
death by bush, hog, or along the lonely
waysihe, but Just God will never for
GET them
ThsAe things are - clear to the I'M
dimmed VISION to-day, Is when the
wild fires of war lighted up the South
arn sly in terror Call this empty SEN
timeus, OF idle elloGys Then AJAX the
nsft surviving soldier you meet hob
bling on s&pss OF clutches. and drag
pins q diseased and NJ Initiated body on
10 chs grave, If be calls il empty senti-
msnt Ask him, As be sees those who
saSrtfi tsaE Dothipg, and those
wos st-nck the fercess and deadliess
nlcwx AGAINST the cause for which he
fought remembered and rewarded !;
while he feels himself deserted and for
gotten ask him If these memories have
any meaning for him. Empty sent-
ment, indeed .
Walk through all the cemeteries
throughout the land, where the un.
known dead sleep, and remember that
each one Of these was some mothers
boy, sent TO the field with mothers
blessing, struggling between 3 mothers
pride and mothers love, but from
whom, when the clash of arms was
silent, and the roar of conflict was dead,
there came back no word. forever.
Ask her at the annual return of decora.
ton day, when others strew flowers
upon the grave of their loved ones,
ttheit ceremonies have no meaning for
her. o, God! shall this country, whose
morning and whose evening song is
that institutions are based on justice,
ever forget the sacrifices of these dead
or the claims of those living? Look
at these orphan boys before you.
Perhaps the father of each one of them
once snatched kiss from his darling
child, and, with swelling heart, march
ed out to death. Now you lead the boy
to his fathers grave, and tell him Of
the nobility of his life and the heroism
of his death, and then you meanly
Withhold some pittapce OF pay or pension
and ID doing this you DO but mock tn,
dead and taunt the living Soldiers o
the Republic, sleep on:
On fame's eternal camping ground,
I heir silent tents are spread,
And glory guards with solemn round
The bivouac of the dead.
Now let us look into good, old patri
otto Pennsylvania. The soldiers or.
phans and wards of that State hav,
been supported and educated at a cos
of 81 ,R52, 69547, while Delaware, patri
otto Delaware, has not devoted twenty
five cents to like comnendable pur
pose. My friends, the contrast is to
great At the German Volksfest, the,
received twelve hundred dollars for III
young Germans to spell out Wilhelm
Bismarck and General Molaski il
German. When had the adopted bo
of tho Fourth Delaware Regiment t
learn to spell G. Washington, Ma
Anthony Wayne, or Colonel Haz,ett,
received two half dollars, and one O
them from q confederate officer.
Gentlemen, there is more money speH
FOR Saturday night lunch than woul
buy d lot and put the memorial hous
thereon. There are over II 600 me
here who never gave dollar toward
paying for the Soldiers Monument c
toward Bar quets gotten up for the So
diers Widows and Orphans, or fire.
excursions down the bay. Look at til
dude, and the nice young man VII
parts his hair in the middle, and til
young gentlemen in tight pantaloons;d
you ever expect them to have quartz
dollar for the Widows and Orphansp
takes all their money for suntlower
and 10 60 aud see Jumbo and the II yiu
horses. The failure of the Union caus
would have set the world back a cent
~. The soldiers gave you all you hay
on earth; had it not been for those bra,
men, JEFF Davis empire of slave,
would have been establshe
throughout the Z nion, with the i" nj
gers head for the corner stone
Delaware's brave men who we
down TO death at Petersburg and Il
wilderness, Antietan and Gettyshur.
they loved home ard its surrounding
as we'll as you or l, but loved the
country more than life, and their o
phans should be properly cared 70
While there are as patriotic men an
women on the Brandywin az in An
part OF our country, feel that those
other sections have not done their dut,
My work. however. is alb lut com plete,
and I leave to others the care of II
rpaan boy
The Suicide Mania.
Maurice HueRy, a mem Der of TIE d