St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-01

city council, numerous ladies, visitors, the
band and the various commanders of the
q. a. r. posts The posts and military
companies were drawn up in line i'll front
of the stand, while the artillery had taken
its stand at the right The stand was in
slight depression, and the surrounding hills
were black with spectators, while hundreds
of carriages formed a solid background.
The services were opened by Washington
Pierce of the Morgan post, who read an
address to the military organizations. He
then introduced Rev. Nj. Shutter, who
made the invocation
Gov. Pierce Of Dakota, the orator of the
day, was then introduced. and after few
preliminary remarks made an eloquent
speech, which waSwell received and listened
to with profound attention.
The speaker called upon the vast audience
to ponder we'll on the number of men, 800, 000
who had laid down their lives during the war,
and said that tho song that they used TO sing,
I'VE are coming Father Abraham, Three
Hundred Thousand More in the dark days
OF the rebellion, now seemed almost pro-
phetic- He referred to the "lost cause" and
compared those who still harp upon the sub
Ject TO an insane person, whose faculties are
worn out, and whose body is
FIT FOR THE GRAVE.
The danger from civil war is now over and
will, in all probability, never return again,
but the system of edu cation as practiced in
our public schools is peculiar, if not a dam
gerouS one. 1t teaches to a certain extent,
that labor is degrading, and so long as society
tolerateS the idea that labor is something
to be avoided, and that ladies and gentlemen
can only be found where idlenesS reigns, so
long will we be troubled with complaints and
with that unhealthy craving Tor riches which
is the baue of our national life. The gov
ernor said that in connection with the labor
troubles he could state that the workmen of
to-day receive more for their labor and pay
less for the necessaries of life than ever be-
fore. He read figures to prove his state
ments.
He said that in his opinion the men who
volunteered in 1851 did not do so because it
was more pleasure to go to the front, but be-
cause they were ashamed to stay away when
their country needed men to defend it.
Following the address Will Carleton'S
beautiful poem. Cover Them Over" was
read by Miss Liela Page, and there was
many moist eye in the vast assemblage
when it was finished. After music the pro-
ceSSion again formed and
MARCHED TO THE CEMETERY,
entering under the broad arch ON the west
side, upon which was the sentence. worked
in evergreen, "A nights lodging on the
way to the city of New Jerusalem" The
various military posts then went from
grave to grave decorating the grave of each
buried hero with handsome flowers pre-
pared by loving hands. E
After all the scattered graves had been
decorated and parting tear dropped upon
the mounds under Which rested the bones
of men who fell in defense of their country,
the militia, Sons of Veterans and Ladies'
Relief corps assembled in square around
the G. A. r. lot, where fifteen soldiers lie
buried. Here handsome wreaths in men,
DRY of soldiers buried elsewhere were placed
on the decorated cross, the Inscriptions at
tached thereto being read by the chief mar
shall at the same time. At the conclusion
of the decorating of graves and the services
at the G. A. r. lot, volley was fired over
the seventeen graves by detachment of
Morgan post, at the conclusion of which
the United States military fired parting
salute to the memory of the hundreds Of
brave men gone before, The benedlctiOn
by the chaplain closed the services.