The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-12
AT THE PARK.
The Exercises at the Confederate
Monum ent-The Salute.


The Exercises at the Confederate
Monument-The Salute.
The Confederate Veterans Association
marched inside the monument enclosure
and formed in four ranks on the north side
OF the monument. The mayor and alder
men, the clergy and the judges of the courts
were given positions near the base of the
mound. Gen. A. r. Lawton, chair
man of the committee of arrange
ments, Gen. Henry f. jackson and Rev
&. II. Strong occupied position at the top
OF the steps on the northern side of the
| monument, and facing north. The artillery
marched TO their guns parked to the south
Of the monument, and the Hussars formed
in line on the east. TIE First regiment and
| the Guards took positions to the north of the
| monument, forming in closed columns bv
companies. Chief Marshal Dillon and his
aids were inside the enclosure. w. II. Roscoe
and +. w. Gerber, the buglers, stood TO the
west to await the signal for the impressive
duty which had been assigned them at the
close OF the exercises.
There were no floral offerings at the
monument, but heavy drapery of black
encircled its entire base AT 2:20 o'clock
the first minute gun was fred by the CHAT
ham Artillery, and the firing was continued
at intervals until eighty-one guns were
fired about the monument
A sea of upturned faces fronted Gen.
Lawton as he called the vast meeting to
order. Gen. Lawton said:
FELLOW CITIzENs-I respectfully ask your
silent attention At this solemn hour and in
the shadow of this monument-the burial
hour of our beloved Confederate Chief, and the
monument erected to the Confederate dead
our thoughts my friends and comrades are
instinctvely turned TO prayer-the subject and
the scene are to us so touching that nothing can
so soIace as the voice of prayer.
THE PRAYER AT THE MONUMENT.
Gen. Lswton then introduced Rev. Mr.
Strong, and deeper silence fell upon the
vast audience, broken only by the minute
guns, as the minister invoked the divine
blessing. His invocation was as follows:
Almighty God, the God Of nations and the
father OF human spirits, we come into thy pres
ence this morning under deep sense of the
sacredness of this hour and place. The hushed
silence OF great emotion fills our hearts, as we
realize that the remains Of our dead hero are
being committed to the earth, and his soul to
tod VINO gave it. But the grave cannot hold
his spirit. May the power of his life, and of
all the brave ones who lived and counseled with
MN, become the sacred legacy of us
the shadow of this monument, which TODAY
receives new glory, let us here and now re-
solve, by thy grace, to revere their memory, to
live with faith in the sacredness of the caI1se
Tor which they died, to emulate their example.
90 initiate that fidelity to duty which marks
them out among the great ones of the earth.
let us further, o father, vow an allegiance to
illus our reunited land, and by all that within
lus lies seek to keep our country in unity and
b1 otberly love. Above all may we live for that
he avenly country, which is the final home of ali
trt le men.
I'm the sight of the unwise they seemed 70
dis and their departure is taken for misery and
tilshr going from us to be utter destruction:
bla1 they are in peace, and the souls of the
the nd bar
shan no torment touch them" Hear these our
IN Vocauons and grant us an answer of peace
FOL. the sake of Jesus Christ, our blessed Lord
and Savior. Amen.
THE RESOLUTIONS.
After the close Of the prayer, Gen. Henry
II. jackson was presented and offered a
ser1ss Of resolutions conforming closely to