Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-05-31

"Thn martyr band hdf hdtored our ANA uith
he biood that uey shed IN a tide for u.s."
East side:
"Bm their ,nlmoric, epcr shau remain Jor us.
and Geir names bought nan<s ui;hout stain for
| Us, the qiorg they IRON shaH not udnc for Vs."
North side:
an lege,,d and lay orr heroes IN gray shall for
ever Ire oreT Ggdfn Jor u.s."
West side:
Eve ne.p Jor tie L,roes that died for vs. who
liring ,oers tired for ~, and dying sleep 'ide oy
! side J0r u.s.
MILITARY.
While the crowd was gathering in Holly
| wood the military were forming in tho city.
! seventh and Broad streets was the place OF
rendezvous, and about O'Clock there stood
al this point the procession ready TO start.
The column was headed by General John Il.
Cooke. chief marshal, and LicuIcnant-Colonel
J. V. Bidgood and Msior Norman V. Ran
dolph. all mounted, and behind them came
the stuart Horse Guards, the Richmond
Light Infantry Blues, Companies c, ID. r,
Of the First r. giment. under the command OF
Msjor A. H. Philips; Phil. Kearny Post,
Grand Army Of the Republic, under Com
mander \. J. smith; Lee Camp, Confede-
rate Veterans; Richmond Howitzers.
mounted with guns. The Blues Band, and
the Lee Camp Drum Corps were also In
line.
LINE or MARCH.
Starting from Seventh the column pro-
| ccedcd up Broad street 10 Sixth, and went
thence to Grace, up to Fifth, down TO Frank
I'm, up 10 second, where the LADIES' Memo
rial Association, in carriages, fell into linein
the rear. The march up Franklin street was
then resumed as far as Laurel, by which
FLOYD was reached and occupied 10 Cherry,
which carried the troops to the cemetery.
1t was about g O'Clock when they entered
BY the north gate, and formed IN circular line
around the decorated stand on Gettysburg
Hill. The stand was occupied by Rev. DR..
If. NJ. Jackson, OF the Episcopal Church /;
Rev. DR.. Moses u. IoRe, OF the Presbyte-
rian Church; Senator James L. Gordon, OF
Albemare county; Chaplain Bowles, OF Lee
Camp; Acting Chaplain Corey, OF Phil.
Kearnv Post; Colonel Thomas II. Bean, OF
Penusylvania, and Colonel II. Il. DeClay, Of
the Grand Army Republic Post Of Newport
News.
BEGINNING TIE EXERCISES.
The exercises Of the evening were begun
with PRAYER BY Or. Jackson, after which he
introduced the speaker OF the day. Senator
Gordon. In Introducing him he referred to
the Young Senator as one whose hOnors out
number his years.
SENATOR GORDON.
A hush fell on the vast multitude as the
Senator came forward and began his address.
He said:
Ladies and Gentemen,-In gathering at
this mecca OF the memory, in placing above
the lasf earthly homes OF these our deathless
dead the fragrant immortclles which speak
the language Of God through the hearts OF
His people, I'm voicing anew our yeneration
for the men who lie here IN serried rank
upon rank clothed with the green instead OF
the grav, we are performing a duty which
love makes pleasure-a a pleasure which ad-
miration for noble deeds and heroic sacrifice
must make a duty not only for us, but Tor tue
descendants OF the southern generation "1ar
on i'm summers that we shall not see"
The nineteenth century, which was born
amid the lurId light Of battle such as the
world never witnessed before, whilst man
kind listened appalled, to the thunder OF
clashing armies and the crash OF falling
thrones, is fading into the changcless past
amid an universal peace. The "cO0-
web woven across the cannon's throat y
at Appomattox has shaken ITS threaded
fears in the winds OF three-and-
twenty vernal springs. These free,
sovereign, and independcnt Common
wealths, linked by the law OF the COnstttu-
ton and the law Of love into the mightiest
republic on this planet, 90 hand IN hand up
the bright pathway OF progress. domed by
the star-gemmed heaven OF freedom, en-
grid ed by the summer seas OF peace.
Manassas GPttVSburg, seven Pines, The
Wilderness, Malvern Ilill-felds where the
blood OF the best and brayest OF tue south
ern land ebbed away like waters to the sea
are become stories OF the dim and dimmin2
past. The long aud weary marches, the
midnight call to arms, the fever aud the
famine. the hunger and the thirst, the
watching and waiting, the prayers and tears
Of sad.eved wOmen-all the terrible eX-
perlences which made life seem a phantas-
magOria OF troubled dreams through those
four fatefu years-wbst are they now but
vague, pathetic memoriesy
WAITING FOR TIE TINE.
Year after year the men whose graves we
are met TO decorate this day have lain wait
inc here for the time when an answer shall
be youchsafed to the question OF the
troubled patriarch Of old, II man die,
shall lie live again
Year after year, 4" life's fliul fever" " done,
rs passionate story ended foreyeImore, they
have lain,
awhile oier them range
Winter blight and summer change,
And a hundred happy whtsperings OF 1owers
Year after year the ROD hum OF the busy
city has fallen as gently here as though II
were an organ. chanted psalm. 1ear after
year the music of the Sabbath bells goes
over them, and the mocking-b bird wakens
above their sleep his tenderest melodies
amid the roses and the thOrns. Year after
wear. beneath the sacred hill which holds
their dear aud cOnSeCrated dust, the remem-
herring river sings our dead a never. ending
threnOdy.
"NO more for them in summer twiliGhts glim-
shall distant music smlte the chords Of pain
No more a. evening shades grow slowly DINNER
Shall wandering fragrance pierce the tortured
brain
1--WE falter on, nov hoping, now despairing,
And hour by hour drags out life little span
They passed in one tremendous deed OF daring
They lived Tor honor and they died Tor man.
The world, my friends, is prone to quick
iorgeiiuncss. As the poet has written, oul
verv birth is but a sleep and a forgetting
And thanks be to God that it is true; thai
the healing hand OF time at last can bring q
balm to soace even LIES most grievou:
wounds. The suficrings, the agony. the pri-
yations through which these men went down
into the valley OF the shadow Of death and
ploufed il folevermore with the beauty OF
? faith and courage are things which in these
latter years sre hard for us TO appreciate and
understand.
Whether in that undiscovered country to
, which they have passed the tents are struck,
, the toll and tumult done, we do not know.
Whether beyond tie borders of the sh2dowY
land our men OF war have won the "peacC
which passeth understanding we cannot
, say. But If it he permitted the finite imael'
| nation to look beyond this present time unto
that day when we are told that the quick
and the dead Of all lands and ages shall an
swer the trump OF the resurrection morn,
; pi~ture amid the unimaglnabie splendor that
will gloIiiy the judgment bar OF God 4
crav-clad form with white face worn from
: suffering snd famine, with raiment soilec
| from the dust OF long iourneyings, but with
ewes that reflect az unclouded fiith IN the
cause for which they closed on earth, and in
the ultimate justice and mercy OF their
Maker
TATTERED PRIVATE CONFEDERATE SOLDIER.
Tell me, q muse Of history, IL from all th'
hosts Of all the ages that shall gather there
tbv voice can summon forth grander, mOIt
/ berotc or vet more pathetic figure than thl