The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-06-03

tatlgulng march.
The carriage containing Gov. Ireland, |
Hon. John Hancock and Prof. J. j. An |
derson, the latter two being the orators des |
ignated for the state and city cemeteries, |
respectively, may be said to have closed |
the organized procession proper. Pri- |
vate vehicles containing state, county and !
city officials, and citizens gener ally, |
stretched out in the rear of the process
sion for a distance of three blocks, the |
united whole forming a continuous line |
from the head of Congress avenue to Pc
can street, and constituting one of
THE GRANDEsT PAGEANTs
Austin has ever seen. Add to this the far
larger number who went out to the ceme-
teries on the street car lines, and the hun
dreds who went out singly to
ayoid the dust, and some con-
ception of the vast concourse may
be found. The line of march, after filing
to the east from Congress avenue, was
along Pecan street to point opposite the
state cemetery, where the procession turn
ed to the left and north, and through its
opened gates passed into the quiet city of
the dead, which the honoring care of the
state has set apart Cor
ITS INDUSTRIOUS sLEEPERs.
A more appropriate spot could not have
been selected The prospect from its
summit looks down upon and dominates
the capital city, as did the men who are
buried here rule and guide the councils of
the state, in peace and in war, in their
lives. Living, they lowered above their
countrymen; dead and buried, the sym
bolism is carried out in their place of
sepulture. Many, in fact the larger num-
Der, of the states illustrious sons have
been buried elsewhere, Will not the time
come when their bones shall be piousIy
gathered up and deposited here? And
shall not these roods of earth become to
Austin and to Texas, what Westminster
Abbey is to London and to England?
The ceremonies at the state
cemetery were opened by we'll
considered and happily rendered
MEMORIAL ADDRESS BY HON. JOHN
HANCOCK.
Its sentiments were such as might have
been exp cted from the distinguished
speaker-those which breathed nothing
but peace and good will for all sections,
from ocean to ocean, and from the
lakes to the Mexican gulf.
Here. as elsewhere
THE AUSTIN MENNORCHOR SOCIETY,
an association of the city's finest vocalists,
rendered valuable and valued assistance i'll
their>songs and chOruses. These ceremO-
MES ended, the military fired a salute of
three volleys and then the regular
WORK OF DECORATION
began, much decorating being done by
friends and admirers of the dead while
the preliminary exercises were still In
progress. No grave was without its gar
land no warrior was without his wreath.
Many of the floral designs were unique
and beautiful. AS far as flowers could dc
the Office of human tongues, every dead
: hero had his panegyric. The graves
, CT General Albert Sidney John
: son, William R. Scurry, A. Z
Buchell and Tom Green, Col. Ashbel Smith
and several officers of lower grade, to-
gether with that of Gov Edmund j. Davis
and others, were covered with these mute
testimonials offered by the living to the
dead. Nor was the crumbling monument
which marks the resting place of Gen
Burleson, of Texas revolutionary fame
neglected. Among strangers, of whom
there were many in the cemetery, great
interest centered in the column which rises
above the dust of Albert Sidney John
ston,
THE MAN OF SHILOH,
the man who was always greater than hi
opportunities, and but for whose untimel.
death the history of the war in the wes
might have been written to differen
, strain. Immortelles of regret half hid thu
mound above his ashes.
Gen. Ben McCulloch was not forgotten
Gray haired men who had known him as
i Texas ranger, scattered fragrant flower
I over his grave, and conversed in knots o
e the brave days of old, when on
blast of his bugle inspired
7 defenseless settlements with a feeling
of immunity from Indian depredations.
The last rites performed here, the pro
a cession was reformed and the line o
o march taken up to
y THE CITY CEMETARY,
where the Mennerchor opened the exei
s cises by singing "Under these bough
q there is rest" The orator designed fo
d this place was Prof. j. j. Anderson, of tn
p Mower post, whose heartily proclaime
Re sentiments of a fraternity not bounde
by sectional lines, were as heartily me
: by applauding listeners who wore tn
gray" 1t is honoring to the citizenshi
" OF Austin, to be able to say that the crow
l. here assembled was larger than at an
other point on the entire line traverse
~ by the procession. People seemed to d
vine that there would be no lack of car
e. for the graves of the renowned and tn
10 great, and to have husbanded their offe
ings for the graves of the unknow
.. dead who
=. SLEPT IN GODS ACRES.
IS AS at the state cemetery, the firing
ID the salute was the signal for the dlspe
sion of the crowd to the tender duty
Is decorating the graves of these unknoW
lie heroes. The tide of war did not ebb an
flow around this portion of the state, an
T. consequently the rows of hillocks al
lie fewer and shorter. This soldiers Gem
terry is not vast metropolis, like Getty
l. burg, Vicksburg, Petersburg, Richmor
ans other places upon which the storm
)" war broke in fury, but there are ST
,e enough of sad memories deposited in
,e bosom to serve as perpetual reminder
Ig A FRATRIoIDAL WAR,
s, and the cost of restored union.
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