The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-06-04
MEMORIAL DAY.
The Memorial Holiday Appr0
priately Observed i'm Sc.
dalia.
Interesting Exercises i'm Memory
of the Nations Dead.

Notwithstanding the disagreeable
weather of the past few days and the
unpromising appearance of to day,
Memorial Day was observed in keep
ing with the occasion by the G. A.
r. Post and citizens of Sedalla. At
many houses flags were foated at half
mast and decorations indicative of the
day were displayed. At 2 O'Clock
the old soldiers assembled at q. A. r.
hall, where they formed in line and
marched to the court house, where ex-
ercises were held in the GRIM
inal court rooms. The @. A.
r. ritualistic programme interpreted
with vocal music by large choir of
singers representing all of the church
choirs in the city, followed.
THE MEMORIAL ADDRESS
The following address was delivered by
Rev. John Heron, pastor OF the Broadway
Presbyt erian church.
"This is the day in the calendar OF the
Republic ordained to be a memorial If the
soldiers and sailors who now rest in their
graves having served in the cause of des-
troying the confederacy presided over
by Jefferson Davis.
The conflict of political ideas across tn
Mason and Dixon's line, the battle OF
argument between the Statesmen of Mass
chusetts and of North Carolina, the oppo-
site arrayal of Virginia and Pennsylvania
in their common senate house, of Louisiana
and Ohio, Mississippi and Michigan, Miss
ouri and Kansas; the appeal 10 the highest
bench Of the wise zen, learned i'm the law
pulpit, press and lecture platform; the
public convention: the conversation
of the freside, the talk at the cross roads.
the disputes at the village grocery had
ripened into fiery, seething furnace, from
whence the hot breath of war could not be
restrainsG. The murderous rattle of mus
kerry, the hateful cleaning of sabers, the
fash and roar Of angry cannons, hurrying
masses of armed men seeking to carry
death to other troops of armed men-broth-
ers in common ties, traditions of church,
state and family-ihese were the conse-
guence OF the conditions existing among us
in 1861, that could have no more been es-
capped than two thunderclouds, big with
electricity, oppositely charged and foated
near together, could re frain from thrusting
toward each other the blazing scimeter of
lightning.
The years between Fort Sumter and APP
pomatox, almost quarter of century re-
moved, in the deserted past the battle
iod, now haye been purged of
their crimson stains by the gracious rains
of the many subsequent seasons of peace;
Al al l. IL IL a
sheltered themselver, annually blossoms
with the peach and the cherry and well
comes the hungry beast with their pasture.
The maimei survivor of the civil war finds
himself an object of interest and sympathy
10 younger generation already actively
potential in public concerns, who have on
Iy an historical knowledge of Shiloh and
Yicksburg. of Manassas and Gettysburg
and the Wilderness, and Sherman's march
to the sea, of Grant and StonewalI Jackson,
Albert Sidney johnson, Sheridan and Lee.
To commemorate our dead and their
chiyalric endeavor, who bore their part in
the attempt to prevent the blotting out of
any star in the constellation of our flag,
we, the victors in the struggle, would pay
the departed the highest praise for courage,
patience, self denial, long sustained enthu-
siasm in struggling for the maintenance
of principles they valued and regarded as
just.
Without sufficient commissa
rat, subsisting on the country,
often without paymaster, during months,
receiving no compensation, scantily fed,
scantily clothed, scantily shod, scantily
supplied with munitions of war and numer-
ically inferior, they undoubtedly taxed to
the utmost the military genius of the vast
material resources of Grant, Sherman, Nc
Phsrson, Mcclellan, Mead, Hooker, Sheri-
dan, Logan and Hancock.
In the sons of the Southland we North
errors found foemen worthy of our steel.