The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-01

march to the tomb was as follows:
Battalion of Veteran Police from Brooklyn, Marsha
Staff of Gen. Isaac S. Castlin, Grand Marshal of
Kings County.
Battalion of United States Marines frym North At
lantc Squadron.
Company B, State Fencibles, with Band
u. S. Grant Post, No. 1927, of Brooklyn.
George G. Meade Post n No. / Of Philadelphia
u s. Grant Post, No. g. of Philadelphia.
u. s. Grant Post No. A, of Merose, Mass.
mont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey
mac, Tennessee, California, Mary
land Minnesota and
Missouri
Officers Of Regular Army and Navy in Full Uniform.
Becond Division National Guard, State of New York.
Third Brigade N. G. s., New York.
Fourth Brigade, N. G. S., New York.
Field, Staff and Line Officers Of Thirteenth and TWEEN
second Division, Signal Corps and Uniformed Vet
Gran Association of the Thirteenth Regiment N G.
The Military Order of the Loyal Legion.
Guests Foot.
lafayette Post, No 40 of New York as Special
Escort to Lieut.. Gen. Philip II. Sheridan and Staff.
coaches Containing Generals Sheridan and Logan,
Past Commander in chief of the G. A. r.,
and Orator of the Day.
Bishop W. l.. Harris and Governor Pattson, of Penn
sylvania.
Lieut. Governor Edward +. Jones, of New York.
Eenor Romero, Mexican Minister, and Number of
Adjutant generals of State Militia.
During the march to the tombthe North At
lantic squadron fired minute guns. AT the tomb
the battalion of marines and the State Fencibles
formed line to the left, while the Grand Army
posts advanced to the place reserved for them in
front of the grand stand. The Edwin D. Nor
gan Post, No $751; of New York, acted as ushers
The ceremonies began by the playing of
Chopin's funeral march by Arbuckle's Military
B4nd. This was followed by the Grand Army
ritual. read by Commander j. P. Howatt After
She Amphion Musical Society had sung the hymn
ssNearer, my God. to Thee,n the Rev DR.. r. s.
Ssorrs of Brooklyn. offered prayer. When he
had finished there followed responsive service
from the Grand Army ritual in which Chaplain
r B. Gwillin and Commander G. Fl. Howatt,
took part. The Am phion Society then sung
other selection, and then General Logan de-
hvered the address of the day. He said:
Comrades Ladies and Gentlemen-A great poet and
marvellous delineator of human character and inn
pulses. dramatist to whom posterity has conceded
the first rank has placed in the mouth of of his
characters the words:
BLOW, blow. thou winter wind,
Thou art not SO unknd
As mans ingratitude"
For three hundred this verdict of the Bard of
Avon has been silently accepted by the readers of his
enchanting works until the structure it represents
come to be considered in the light of truism. The
sentiment it expresses has found frequent and varied
repetition by pessimistic writer's weeping decaimers
superficial observers and trgd orators bewaing the
tmperfections of human nature.
Standing at the commencing end of three hundred
years, Shakespeare has passed sentiment down the
lime of the centuries which has been amplifed by a
borrowing mentor of our time into the broad
Iiecaration that republics ungrateful" And
thus upon the one hand, we are confronted by the
allegation OF the inspired poet and upon the other
met by its corolary the full proposition being
reduced to the statement, and republics alike
Assembled countrymen A quarter of century
has fallen into the abyss of eternity since the verna
rir of an April morning rang out the announcement
nat war, horrid war; full upon people.
ZEN and women now before me in the full growth
d estate of maturity who have upon the
of life and action since that appalling event
BUT they know as well as the actors in it. the sad
DRY of that blghting conflict whom men of the
Ationaity met in opposing ranks upon the field of
Dattle. Their hearts swell with the Same pride of
country. and palpitate with the beat Of graft
tude do those of the and women who lived
Through the crucial test whereby the strength of the
Republic tried in the fire of steel. Two million.
three hundred and thirty five Thousand. nine hundred
and ftyone patriots voluntarily left their homes,
their families and their peaceful pursuits to defend
upon battleplan and over the swelling wave the
principle then submitted to decision under the dread
Arbitrament of OF this vast number. as
learn from report of the Adjutant general three
hundred an& sixty thousand graves in the national
cemeteries mark the number of those killed in battle,
end dying in hospitals upon roadsides in prisons as
The result of wounds of disease. of hardships of
posure, or of maltreatment
We not here to talk of causes that demanded
the sacrifices represented by these figures nor yet to
narrate thrilling incidents of battle with fascinating
stories OF gallant patriotism. But nay friends nearly
Dne-haf million young, brave useful lives have suf
Tered untmey extnguishment through the cruel Cir
cumstances of and within the close circle of that
excrucang fact is to be found the moving causes of
the remarkable this day enacted in country
The speaker then traced the origin and his
tory Of offerings to the patriotic dead, and con-
tinued:
Men and women of america, we have come with
beautiful flowers and evergreens culled by the eager
bands of our brothers. and into speaking forms
by the fair fingers of sisters render the homage
due to patriots who have died for their country
for oil mankind Let it not be considered an extrav-
bgapt expression. The now silent soldiers whose life
work Is finished. championed a principle toward
which the warriors and armies of the world have been
constantly drifting from the earliest recorded strug
giles on the plain of Shina-.
This princple-the rights of and the liberty of
lhe individual-which planted with the first blood
over shed in behalf of government, has, like the
Hover, boomed upon the morning air of all the ages.
II has been the task of royalty to cut it down as
weed encumbering the grain Waited by the wind of
hestiny its seed found lodgment upon the fertile soil
Df America, where 1t has grown and filed the world
with its sweetness. Our brothers, whose memory we
honor to-day gave their lives perpetuate its growth
ana progress to the end of time. They comprehended
that dissolution of the American Union meant
killing frost 10 the flower of liberty and whitening
OF the cherished hope of the Did these revered
yaEsiors hesitate in duty through considerations of
elf MOI They sprung to the defense and from out
10 nette danger they plucked the flower safety for
aeir country and posterity.
The world will not soon forget the coupet Of
monides In commemoration of the men that fell at
hermopyl@.
Stranger, the tdings to the Spartans tell.
That here obeying their commands. we fell"
Il not unjust to the American soldiers, fellow.
citizens, whose memory wo honor TO compare them
with the band of rude men who, twenty -four hundred
pears ago accepted DEATH not in behalf of great prin-
simple obedience TO the Spartan law commanding the
soldiers to be victorious to die upon the Geld.
Ieonidas with his three hundred men, saw that
death for them was unalterable conclusion. They
nnst die In the contest or in flying from their posi-
on accept the death penalty from the hands OF the
violated law. They selected death by the Persian
pear but la dying they sent back the reprcach that
hey had been sacrificed by command Of their country.