Morning journal and courier., 1888-06-15

monies at Brooklyn to-day. The village was
 in gala dress. Almost everywhere ia the
 town flags were displayed and other patriotic
 displays. The principal decoration was at
 Hon. T. & Marler's and was very conspicu- ous for it's profusion and beauty. Other resi- dsnces trimmed finely were Daniel B. Hatch;s (of the Wall street brokerage firm of Hatch & Foote), Mr. H. S. Marlor's, MT. H. F. Rob- inson's and MT. William H. Putnam's, who is lineal descendant of "Old Putn Caterer Case of Hartford fed the multituaes present. | The tables were set for four thousand. The exercises were opened shortly after | o'clock with prayer by the Rev. Dr. Timothy Dwight, president of Yale college, following which the band and chorus rendered "Hail Columbia"
 The day opened fair. About 10 o'clock rain ! fell in torrents. . By Il o'clock it was clear again, with the dust well laid. Governor Lounsbury and staff arrived last night. Thi s morning came Governor Taft and staff from Providence by way of Aoosup. Goyefnor Hill of New York and Governor Ames of Massachusetts sent regrets.
 The only lineal descendants of old Putnam present are William Fl. Putnam of Brooklyn, grandson in his seventy eighth year, and his son, John D. Putnam of Wisconsin, who accomplished the upyeilin9. Captain Geo. D. Putnam of Boston, g seventh cousin in descent from o1e of the younger Putnam i'm mig rants to Salem, wss also present. The Ohio branch was not represented. Inc Put nam Phalanx, Major Warner, of Hartford, arrived here this morning in their old Conti- Meatal uniforms with 8 drum and fife COT ps. The First company Governors Foot Guard, Major Kinney, of Hartford came also, repre- senting the other side of the controversy of 1776, attired as British grenadiers. They had Colts band. The Third regiment, c. N. G., Colonel Ravens, marched over from here, distance of four miles, teking the ragged route step. The following veteran corps came from New York this morning ear ly with Tubb's band of Norwich: Seventh, Lieutenant Colonel E. @. Arthur; Ninth, Colonel John B. Prior; Thirteenth, General Theodore B. Gates; Twenty-second, Colonel s. Ellis Briggs; Twenty-third, Captain A.. Calhoun; Seventy first, Colonel D. W. O. Ward. They paraded as a battalion. From Boston came the Montgomery Light Guard, Colonel Doherty, and Roxbury artillery; from Providence, the Providence Light In fant,y, and the Bristol artillery; 8 delegation from the Nathan Hale post, G.
 A. R., of Coventry were present with the Nathan Hale drum corps. Several completed the attractions. Visitors to the ploughed field, the old inn site, the wolf's den, the original grove and the house in which Putnam died were numerous.
 At 12:30 the parade was formed under Colonel H. A. Tyler, chief marshal. As Governors Lounsbury and Taft were escorted to the stand governors salute was fired from the spot where Putnam left his plough. At the instant of the unveiling another wss fired in Putuams honor as major general and the church bells rang out wild seals. MT. SeYmour's Address.
 Commissioner Seymour's address was
 brief, but very fitting: "A neglected grave,
 battered and broken tombstone, and under
 heath the bones of hero-this the picture
 which inspired the good people of this town
 with the desire to erect & more fitting memo- rial to one of their most distinguished fellow townsmen." He spoke of the appointment
 by Connecticut's legislature of the commis-
 sion and it's appropriation of money for the
 erection of the monument to one of her
 noblest sons. He then in behalf of the com
 mission turned over the monument to the
 State through Governor Lounsbury, the
 States official head. tiChiseled by the hand
 of cunning artists in bronze and granite
 stands the statue of one who in life was sim
 pie as child, tender as woman, brave as a
 lion, and underneath that statue rest the re-
 mains of Major General Israel Putnam"
 At the close of Mir. Seymour's address the
 statue was unveiled amid the booming of cannon. Governor LOunsbHry's Address. Governor Lounsbury then accepted the monument in behalf of the State. He briefly eulogiZed Old Put, of grand and patriotic memory.
 We all know that we can dc nothing here to day to perpetuate the memol of the illustrious dead He whose command directed and whose presence
 inspired a the heroic struggle on & Bunker Hill crowns
 erected there The genius of neither orator nor ar tist can gild the fame of Israel Putnam.
 You place this monument not much as duty which you owe to the dead ss q duty which you
 token of yoar love and gratitude It is not te mark
 the mortal dust Of the mu ortai soldier, but it is to the teachings which he chiseled on the moru' ments of nations history.
 Israel Putnam was a great man in his en- ergy, great in his courage, great in his patriotism, but he was greatest of all in his intense personality. It was a rugged person. ality, but it so stamped it's influence upon
 the men of his time and upon the time it. sell. that, next to Washington, no soldier of
 the Revolution left behind him a grander work or one more sharply defined as his own. His tirsless activity and his match less courage were not simply the results of splendid physical gifts, but they were rather parts themselves of mighty soul so intense in its unborn energy that it knew no weari- ness, so consecrated to its work that it knew no fear.
 Putnam was a patriot of the patriots, but to one of his profound individuality patriot ism meant something more than it's simple
 
 nam's patriotism was this generous passion intensified and directed by his obedience to the two great laws of his nature. His man. hood, asserting the right to it's own develop ment as the supreme end of it's existence and demanding civil liberty as the sacred means
 to this sacred end, was the first great law. And it was supplemented by 8 second, writ ten in the surpassing generosity of his nature. The right which thou claimest for thyself and which thou shalt not basely yield is thy brothers also, and in thy equal love for him thou shalt struggle for thy brothers right as thou strugglest for thine own. Governor Lounsbury then enforced the
 thought that unsel6sh patriotism and loving work for humanity truly ennoblss and im-
 mortalizes, and that we of to day profit by the nobility, self-sacrifcing spirit and high
 moral ideals of our Puritan fathers. Con-
 cluding this line of thought and the ad-
 dress he said: Fill the soul with just con-
 captions of it's own immortal destiny. edu-
 cate the mind until it clearly sees the need
 of civil liberty to mans development and the
 need of the State to the preservation of that
 liberty, and the people will protect the gov
 ernment as they protect themselves. Do
 this, and you found the State upon rock so
 firm that it will stand while Gods truth
 upon the earth endures.
 The "Star Spangled Banner" was then sung by the chorus, accompanied by the
 band, after which Professor Charles F. John son of Trinity college read an original poem. The memorial address was then delivered by Hon. Henry 0. Robinson, of Hartford.
 Grafton of the Day.
 The oration of the day by Hon. Henry o. Robinson, of Hartford, followed, and it was worthy his reputation for eloquence and inspiring thought and sentiments. He said:
 Ninety-eight years ago the wasted form of an old soldier, scared by tomahawk and bullet, was laid to rest in wonder graveyard The sacred acres were filed with mourners. He was consigned to sleep in the echoes of artillery and of musketry, and under the glories of the flag the Gbres of whose folds his own brave hands had SO eonspicuously helped to weave. His spitaph was written by the foremost scholar of our State. The fret of time, the frost of winter and the sell fish hand of the relic-hunter wasted the stone slab on which it was written. And here, above a handful of ashes, all that re- mains of that stalwart frame, which, in life, was the inspiration of cslonists, the hate of the fear of Englishmen and the awe of Indians, to-day, late, but not too late, . grateful State has built g seemly and en- during pedestal, has placed upon 1t his war horse and called again to his saddle, with bis 1 bronzed features saluting the morning, the Connecticut hero of the revolution.
 Blessed is State which has history. Its fn ho nafT1r 1u&i 1f f