The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-06-03
Decoration Day.

Decoration Day.
On last Saturday afternoon, Major @.
A. Angel Post, Co. G. the relatives and
friends of our dead soldier. heroes, and our
citizens generally, assembled to do honor
to the illustrious dead, who had sacrificed
their lives upon the field of battle for the
benefit of the present and future genera
tions. The programme as arranged for
could not be carried out, on account of
the rain. After leaving the headquarters
of the Grand Army, the line of march
was taken to Lyceum Hall, where after
prayer by the Rev. P. A. Studdiford, ID.
D., Pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church Of this city, Capt. Vansciver,
chairman, introduced Rev. c. II. Wool
ston, of the Baptist Church of this city,
who delivered an excellent and patriotic
address. The following is synopsis:
To-day is Americas serious day; in
honor of Americas heroic dead, do we
act and think. Tears and flowers, Grape
and dirges, are the order of the day.
Our government holds as precious pro-
perty 315. 500 graves of its soldier dead
172, 400 are unidentified and unmarked by
obelisk or stake, and will be remembered
and crowned to day in the hearts Of its
loyal citizens. England loves its West
minister Abbey. In it, its Kings were
crowned, and there sleep to-day its
dust. But America pauses to-day before
its Westminster Abbey and the sleeping
place of its dead, and crowns its mighty
dust. But our duty to-day is to the
memory of the soldier, father and son,
who died upon the battlefield and in the
prison pen. To-day we gather up the
legions, and think of the achievements Of
our beloved Union Army.
The first lesson is, that we are debtors
to the dead. Those who gave us this
nation and these glorious institutions are
now numbered with the dead. The names
of Washington and Lincoln, are names
which inspire us to consider our debt to
the dead.
The second lesson, the glory of military
rank. Anciently the soldier was at the
same time statesman. The Continental
clergyman descended from his Altar, cast
aside his vestments and appeared in the
uniform of the Colony soldier The past
and the present bear testimony to the
dignity of military rank. No Roman
Army ever march by the Forum, crowned
with as much glory as when our boys in
blue came marching home with the stars
and stripes floating from the Capitol at
Washington.
The third lesson is one of loyalty. The
floating ofour banner, the swinging of our
flag, all tell US to. day that our heroes of
the North were loyal to the Union. We
do honor to our loyal dead, when we
strive to perpetuate the institutions for
which they left home, and loved ones, to
suffer and die, and to be buried in the
trenches of the southern battle. field. Let
us to-day in scattering flowers over the
graves of our nations dead, pray that
their mantle of loyalty and fidelity may
fall upon the rising generation of our
land, and that Gods care may be over the
widow, and the fatherless children who
to day remember their soldier-father.
At the conclusion of the exercises at
the Hall, the Grand Army and Co. G,
proceeded to the cemeteries and decora-
ted the graves of the soldiers there buried.
The day was generally observed by our
citizens.
Summer Excursion Routes.
The Pennsylvania r. r. Co. has just is
sued beautiful Summer Excursion
Route Book, containing information re-
spectiDg some three hundred different ex-
cursion routes to the various points of in
terest in the United States and British
Provinces. 1t is illustrated with numer-
GUS artistic engravings, and contains three
very valuable maps-the first showing the