The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1886-06-02
DECORATION DAY.
Solemn Ceremonies ut Our
Cemetery and I'm Sur
rounding Towns.
The Decoration Address Deliv-
cred by Albert Douglass,
IT,, of ChillicOthc.


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The floral display was especially fine and
iar,s crowd assembled ~ nav HOMAGE to
those who fought nobly amid the stormy
scenes of twenty years ago. The weather
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Hooded streets, muddy marching and gen.
eral dampness OF the previous Decoration
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DIy' q. i.ao IN. proce,,,on took nm II. line o,
march, our well.trained drum corps leading,
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ceded the John M. Barrere Post, and citizens
In co orrIoges ond m loot comn,e,a,, n Inn.
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the grave of Edward Fenner, where the Ger.
e,non,e. NJ Decora,,on ,vsrs norsormed nv
commsnasr % i DsBrain In "i. IN. MANNER manner pre-. re-
scribed by the @. A. r. ritual, prayer being z
of,srsI, no cho ,iain Y v.,n,,. m
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Douglass, IT,, OF Chiilicothe, was highly
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spoken OF ana Is herewith puoNsnea. MT
teriv effort was duly appreciated.
SPEECH OF Mr.. DOUGLASS.
lar name MANY ties Of kindred and Of
youthful association bind me to this D ieas.
9fo tss
Post Of the Grand Army to participate with
them, and you, in the celebration Of this
Al first. was at q loss to understand to
what owed the compliment, until Captain
DeBruin, who brought me the Invitation,
remarked that II was not soldier myself,
we had Indeed a good soldier in the family
ana then he spoke words In kindly praise al
his old commander, which 1 easily beiiev ed
70 Ss hs
No! was not a soldier and can hardly
sorry that the war found and left me too
youthful for active service. When Sit, as /
love to do. and listen to some veteran OF the
81
Snd S hs soT %sssy Sa.ysy w01 ne Soos for
s y..s 81 anS ss aoaa shs sys wSHd b sHy
who the Of Rds
When s recall % = the S awful Ia hszaPd OF vsr I:
when I think Of the privations, the suffer-
ipus and the perils; when I recall that vast
nSss wh9 ShS IL death IN Hh6 snat far South
here to. day, / feel thankful indeed that mn
courage and patriotism . 9 were not 50 tried: 4
was then.
But while II is true that the generation to
which I belong was toe young fer any active
say that the war to me is far more than sim
my Is 1SshE 10 sbs ssos
sne
at !, home; !. som.,n,n. 10 n.v. t.u ~. v.v. :,
angry DEMONSTRATION that swent over the
iand when the dag OF Sumpter was 10 vered
the reca fsose 81 avs than nd hGw
Run and Manassas. What dark days tbey
werei Why! was almost AFRAID to spesk
and half Sssi 70
went out to play. And then came the news
ks fhs ssp 1nSsnd thTScTsh
be- able To- recall the great cry Of ioy thai
burst from every loyal heart when, after
long days Of waiting and suspense, came
VicksburS; VIZ victories that proved death. attn
wounds to the Rebellion, and which conse:
een oSsr MorSans RsS" indesd ei We eo ali
| remember the "Horoan Raid . over In Chi.
iicothe. When Captain Peabody burnt thu
oniy forty Tts miles aWay Un % Almost any Gd bods
came pretty near being a soldier myself
Ss SiS n az tor NE
often wondered since whether my drum
didn't help to make that squad 80 awkward
| And how well do recall the awful shadow
Lincoln, our tower OF strength, had fallen
Like Moses, the prophet Of Israel, he hat
led his people through the deep waters, anl
through the WILDERNESS. Like him, he had
streng gthened the falling courage Of his peO
/ pie, and sustained their doubling faith II
the Union. And like him, when he hat
brought his nation to within sight OF thI
| prom ised land of peace. ha himself was no
But he, too, left us Joshua 10 lead tn,
Grant. And at last Grant gave us RichmonG
al oap ATs How xhss
blazedl For at last the war was over, ant
peace had come. Peace and the Unioi
| saved.
yss !. ssssa Hous not Ss
i while only to have lived through such stir
ring times.
And then "when the boys came home''
stood among the cheering crowds as the ion
trains rolled mp to the station filled witt
the"boys in blue. " The blue had faded some
youthful imasiuation, ssoioinon In in ali ii ii ii
SIOry Was MOI arrayed like one Of theso.n
But our thoughts and words and tears to
day are due to those who came not bacl
earth, the sweets Of victory who heard NO
the songs OF triumph who saw no more th
ionged for home nor felt again for ever
.Ss e slspsns y r. sis.o.
vived and came again .sto the home Of thei
were many eompsnsations TOR their toll an
Ss and aanss os o psd
J | 10 friends and home and Kind rad the ooIn
pensation OF the plaudits and rewards Of