New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-05-31
y1OoUEyuB AT THE OPERA HOUSE.
THE EVENING MEMORIAL CEREMONIES.

LARGE AUDIENCE HEARS COLONEL INaxRsoLIs
oRArrox-cHAuScEY NJ DEPEw PaEsrpEs
In the evening tho Metropolitan Opera House was
,r.oked with people to witness tho memorial excr
e,.es On the platform or in tho boxes were Chaun
,av pcpcw who presided General Daniel f.
ss.,.s General n. NJ Curtis, General Joseph c.
y.csson General n. W. Day. Colonel Elliott f. Shop
"a Colonel William II. Van Wyck, c. C. Shayne,
trooncl william Seward, tr., Colonel d. b. Phclan,
iColonel f. K Hahn, jackson S. Schultz, Justice Abra
ham r. Lawrence, Richard NJ. Walters, Judge Ehr-
,,ch Judge Brown. Corporation Counsel Henry II.
lpae,m.n Alderman McMurray, and numerous
..rsbas aids and commanders Of the Grand Army
of the Republic In uniform
The Rev. Robert Collyer made brief invocation,
:, which the prolongation OF the life Of General
Sheridan was gratefully remembered. Conrade
yahn c. umScck introduced Mr.. Depow, who was
received With prolonged applause, ana mace prief
address He said;
Ladies' and Gentemen MY duties as presiding officer
,p,sh, deprive me Of the privilege OF heightened ad
dress shall not inerpose prolonged speech to keep
vou from the oratory and song that is prepared
for you refrain from expressing my high
,ene Of honor Of being selected your presiding
omoer W. here guests o. the Grand Army, who
an every DAY every night or the should bs the
\rests of/the Nation. (Applausc.)
VT Dcpew said that all that constituted the chief
Glory OF the United States due the heroes who
had suffered and died for the country. Tho Nation
which owed so much to the who fought for II,
should preserve at tho public banquet board plato
for each OF them, not as charity guests but as honored
guests Of the Nation. He said he had never had
placed before him more vivid contrast than that of
the present occasion and the first memorial services
after the
II fell 10 his lot at that time to deliver the memorial
address in the chuchyard of his native village. All
about him were the new-made graves Of the youth
who had then recently fallen. The cemetery was full
of emblcms of mourning But now this was changed,
and the pangs OF grief assuaged by the Iecolec
the country. At this time nothing was remembered
that could vindic, encss CT sectional passion;
dissolve The uAlon. (Great applause)
An entertainment IN which sgnola Eva Tetrazzini,
took part ntorvened before Colonel Robert g. In
gersoil was introduced IS the orator OF the evening"
He spoke Of the causes and results OF the war and
closed by saying:
Tho past rises before and four millions OF
beings governed by the LASH We see them bound
hand and foot We hear OF cruel whips We
sec hounds tracking women through tangled swamps
We babes sold from the breasts of mothers Cruelty
unspeaksbc Outrage infinite The past rises before
us we and shrek Of the bursting she'll
The broken letters fall. These heroes died We look
Instead of slaves and women and children !
The wand Of progress touches auction block, the
slave PEN whipping post, and homes and fire.
schoolhouses and books and where all was want
and and cruelty aud fear We the faces OF the
free.
These heroes are dead They died for liberty-they
died for US They at rest They sleep In the land
tey made free under the flag they rendered stainless
under the solemn pines the sad homlocks the fearful
willows the embracing vines. They sleep beneath
shadows cOud careless alike OF sunshine or
storm each in the windowless Palace Of Rest. Earth
may red with other wars-they at peace. In the
midst Of battle, In the OF conflict they found the
serenity Of death have sentiment for soldiers
living dead Cheers for the living tears for the dead
vision OF the future rises see our country hled
with happy homes with resdes Of content,he foremost
land Of all the Garth / world where thrones have
erumbed and where kings dust The aristocracy
OF idlenes has persisted from the earth see world
without slave. Man lest Is free. Natures forces
have by science been enslayed. Lightning aud light,
wind and wave and fame and ali The secret subtle
powers and air the treless toers for tho
human
1 world peace. adorned with every form OF ART
myriad voices thrilled while lips are rich WIN
words OF love and truth world In which 10 exile signs,
20 prisoner world in which the gbbers shadow
does not fall world where labor reaps its full reward;
where work and worth go hand in hand where the poor
girl tying bread with the nccdlethe necdle that
has been called the breast OF the pooi-s not
desperate choice Of erno or DEATH OF sue"e
or shame.
eco a world without the beggors outstretched palm
the msers heartless stony stare, the pitcous wall OF
want the yid lips Of lies the cruel OF seorn see
race without disease Of flesh bran-shapey and fall
the married harmony Of form and functonand as look
life lenghens Joy deepens love canopies the earth ana
over all IN the great DOME shines the eternal star OF