Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1888-08-31

First Division.
Platoon Of Police.
George Van Horn Post No. 80, g. A. R., Milford.
Stanley Post No ii, New Britain:
Buckingham Post No. 12, Norwalk.
james E. Moore Post No. 81 is, Danbnry .'
Kellogg Post No. 26, Birmingham.
Parmelse Post No. 4s, Guiiford
Douglass Post No e, South NorwaIk.
Mansfield Post No. s., Middlctown.
II. McDonough Pest No. So, Westport
Redshaw Post No. rs, Ansonia,
General Won Steinwake Post No. IS, New Haven
Samuel B. Horn, Department Commander;
W. d. Perpont, Senior Vice Department Com
George W, Keller, junior vice Department Com
Rev. Joseph Twitchen, department chaplain
Department commanders staff.
Department officers Woman's Relief corps
SECOND DIVISION.
Second Company Governors Foot Guard New Ha-
Governor Lounsbury and staff.
Company ID, Second regiment, g. N. g., Captain A.
oomp.uv G Fd1 E%1sr SsT HfyeG o.nt.tD
F. Daniels, Stratford,
sa nyIt af E gqess in stamsor
Nathan Hale camp No: 1, Sons Of Veterans New
VIM. B. Wooster camp No: IS, Sons of Veterans,
Sons OF Veterans, Birmingham.
Arctic IRE engine company, Milford
Storm hose company, Birmingham.
Citizens in carriages.
LINE OF MARCH.
Formed park, right resting on High street,
the procession moved at 11:15 O'Clock, down
BrPS o5s street to River " to R1T0ad % High
West RIVER. to North, to Governors avenue. 10
Lafayette avenue, to Broad, Conference.-The
around the public park, then massed in front OF
the grand stand the monument
Governor Lounsbury was enthusiastically
cheered all along the route. His carriage was
4 f. C.
bury reviewed the parade near the depot on
Railroad avenue, as he was Obliged to leave
on the noon train. When the procession
faced the reviewing stand, which was erected
at the east end of the park, it was reviewed
by q large number of guests. Among them
were Hon. N. ID. Sperry, General E. S. Gree
ley and General S. e. Merwin of New Haven
Judge A. B. Beers, George w. Keller, Junior
vice commander, of Bridgeport, Judge A. Il.
Fem of Winsted, Secretary of State Hubbard
of Wallingford, Judge Fl. Stoddard, w. H.
Pierpont, senior vice commander, of New
Haven, Judge D. B. Lockwood of Bridgeport,
Charles A. Tomlinson and the Governors
staff
After the line of march was dismissed, an
audience of several Thousand gathered about
the speakers stand. After prayer was offered
by Rev. George Fl. Griffin, Mrs. Bachelor,
president of the Woman's Relief corps, Miss
Lucy Warburton and Mrs. Brown of Milford
q large flag. Commander George w. Coy of
Van Horn post then accepted the monument
in q short and appropriate address Charles
A. TomHnson, president of the day, then in
troduced Hon. Judge Augustus 81. Fem of
Winsted, the orator of the day.
GRAFTON OF JUDGE A. q. TENN.
Comrades and Fellow Citizens: With graf
itude and joy hail each day on which the
citizens in any section of our beloved State
dedicate and set apart portion of its soil for
memorials, that at the same time
the memory of the heroes of the
past, and shall incite to emulation OF their
deeds and so make heroes for our country in
the generations which are to come. 1 am
proud of my native State; of its virtue, in
teIligence and thrift; its enterprise and
wealth. But I am proudest of all of that
which, side by side, in the good old town of
You commemorate; its loyalty to the
cause of freedom in the revolution and its de-
votion to freedom and to union in the war of
the rebellion. / am thankful for its manu-
its busy marts of trade and com4
merce, its valleys humming with machinery
and teeming with industries. But above all,
and more than all, I am thankful for its quiet |
hillsides and grassy plains from which arise
The white shafts that tell the story of its pat
riotism and loyalty, that speak of devotion and |
Of death; for proud as I am of those who live
10 make it rich am prouder of those who |
died to make and keep it free. Call this l
sentiment If you will. Be it so. cannot. |
I say that though it is well enough for Con-
necticut to raise crops for maintenance, and |
10 lead in manufactures for revenue, it is i
better for her that she has also raised men /
Tor protection. Though she needs bread, |
nen shall not live by bread alone. Though |
sood il necessary to sustain life, yet that life
which is only sustained and nourished and /
ed with bodily food is not worth living. |
rhou0h existenoe be possible, without senti- l
nent, it is only endurable with it. Though /
he busy cities and towns of our State tell us
he has present and future, you must 60 L
% the monuments to learn the why and
wherefore of that present and that future in
aer glorious past, by which that present was
attained and that future is assured. The
larvests are waving in the fields, but here
ihe seed from which these harvest sprung,
Without which they would have been impos--
Iible, that seed which was not quickened till
died, was sown. The precious seeds of
lunan lite, culled from our hillsides and val |
eyg, and strewn and sown in blood upon the
,attlefelds of the South, have brought forth
ruit thirty, sixty and a hundred fold. r
The value of such memorials as this, stand-
nd commanding the attention of all, is to
aY mind, of infinite and priceless worth. The
reat historic figures of the war have nearly
II passed away. One, the most beloved, the
lost brilliant, has this very month been
arried across the soil of our State to his
ternal resting place. We are fast coming to
4 ACE which has no actual recollection OF
ls mighty conflict; no real knowledge OF
hat It meant, what it cost, not alone to
Is actors in It, to those who fought, but to
g father and mothers and children, to 8
ives and sisters. Not alone to those who {
ant forth, but to those who could not go, :
hose hearts followed. ThEee-fourths OF our I