New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-06-05
ON SACRED GROUND.
Veterans Rally at Their Comrades
Graves With the Mute Flo
t4uence of Flowers.

FA1RBAuLT,- Special, May 3O-Memorial
day services Were begun at sunrise by q
salute by the Shattuck battery, and
at o'clock a national salute
of thirty-eight guns, continuing while
the soldiers graves were being deco
rated by committees from Michael Cook
post. At 2 p. M. procession under the
command of Lieut. A T. Abbott, q. s. A
formed on Main street The procession
marched to Central Park, where the
following programme was carried out:
Music by the band; opening by
the commander Of Michael Cook post; vocal
music; prayer by Rev. 81. E. Norton; music:
address by Rev. P. Danehy; decoration of
the cross; music by the band; benedicUion
Sunset guns will be fired by Shattuck bat
terry. The address of Rev Mr. Danehy was
:as follows:
We are assembled here to-day at the call of
love and gratitude-loNe of country and graf
itude to the men who preserved it. The child of
all the ages, our country was born o. love for
liberty. and nurtured in,struggle and adversely.
vet she had passed the age OF three score and
ten when her severest struggle came upon her,
She had met and battled successfully with the
most powerful nations of the earth. and it might
seem that she had entered on her way to glory
untramnleled, Barry an9 Decatur and Perry
had borne in triumph over all the seas that flag
which Washington and Madison and Jackson
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splendor. Wisdom in her councils and valor on
the battle field second to noneof which history
Keeps the record, had made her name the terror
of tyrants and the hope of the oppressed In
word, she was America Yet America was a re-
public and republics were but things of day.
ending in calamity and failure So the prophets
OF the old world assured us, and When our civil
war of 81 broke out they wisely repeated, Il
told you So"
For what. then, did our citizens take up arms
in 1861? Was the war war for the emancipa-
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states rights2 Was it war of determination
waged by ore section of our country upon au-
other? Not all, nor any of these; it was war
IN defense OF the unity OF country: it was a
war which fixed forever the meaning of our con-
stltution in its most essential poiut; it was
war to prove to the world that our governmen
war to prove that our real constitution is in the
constitution OF the people. older than Jefferson,
or Washington, and greater than they, and was
generated, not written: it was a war to estab-
lish before the nations Of the earth the truth
that the political people is the soy ereign of
America, and a sovereign. too. that may be
make of wrong right, nor prove that true
which before was false. But it may prevent
wrong-doers from assailing the right, and error
from usurping the throne of truth And the
war of 1861 did this more sgnally than almost
any other known to history. 1t was long
costly and sangulnary war But out of it has
respective of color, blood or creed, q purer
America America henceforth was synonymous
with the truth. All men are, as God made them
to be, equal before the law
All honor, then, to the men who quarter of
century ago leaped to her rescue at their
country's call. Men never drew the sword in a
more righteous cause. and whether they still
survive to strew with flowers to-day the graves
of their fallen comrades, rest beneath the soil
which they made holy with their blood, stood
they high in command or fought in the trenches,
their unfaltering devotion to their countrys
veal entities them to her undying gratitude;
and yet who shall say that among them all some
have not special place in our affection? Shall
not the names of Grant, and Sherman, and
Sheridan, and the great American Lincoln, touch
the deepest chord in our heart? So long as our
starry flag shall float above free people, let
their names be in benediction throughout all
the land. And let us, to prove US worthy of the
heritage which they have bequeathed to us, hold
our country dearer than our lives. our fortunes.
or our sacred honor"