The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-06-02

original poem pertaining to the pri.
vate soldier. The q. A. r.
RITUAL WAS READ
by Comrades Campbell, Truxel,
Nichols, Fast and Black.
The band played another selection
and then Comrade Bronson intro
duced the orator of the day, the Rev.
Cyrus T. Brady, rector Of Calvary
Episcopal church.
After a few preliminary remarks
of q personal nature, Mr.. Brady said
that be was glad to be in such dis
tinguished company. A man is
knOwn by the company he keeps, and
when I see q man keeping company
with q little bronze button, or a
woman with q little bronze cross,
my hat goes up to him or her.
Some Of you, said he, rallied
around the gallant Lyon, who red
denei the soil of Missouri with his
hearts blood in the very beginning Of
the war. Some Of you cheered
FOR "LIrrLE MAC"
in the peninsula campaign. Som. of
you helped to stsnd of Beauregard
and Albert Sidney Johnston a. Shiloh.
Some of you lay in the trenches be-
fore Vicksburg. Some Of you
charged up Marye's awful heights
at Fredericksburg. Some of you raj
lied around Old Pap Thomas when he
told the boys to give the
cold steel at Chicamauga.
Some; of you stood on Cemetery
Ridge that July day when Pickett's
men came up that slope of death and
despair. Some Of you perhaps saw.
one summer morning. down q little
road win ling through the hills in
the Shenandoah Valley coming at a
mad. terrific gallop the gallant Sher.
idau, shouting Is he came, ''Face the
other way, boys, face the other way"
Some Of you have galloped after
Philip Sheridan. Some of you havs
tramped after Thomas. Some Of you
have fought it out on Grants line.
Some Of you we're with Farragut
when he woke the grand shores Of
the Mississippi with the thunder Of
his guns or hung under the cross
trees Of
THE HARTFORD AT MOBILE,
but ali! here oh the soil
Of Missouri t,-day, I shall name to
you one Of sacred memory-one who
is the peer Of all.
New York has her Grant. Lincoln
sleeps on the grand prairies Of illinois.
But here in the sacred soil lies one
who but recently answered the inal
roll cali, whose genius shone al
Shiloh, at Lookout Mountain,
around Atlanta and at Altoona Pass.
Who cut the Confederacy in two BY
his famous march to the sea and gav'
the inspiration for that grand old
|hymn-which Brother Black here
would call q grand old Methods
lhymn-"Hold the Fort, for l Al
Coming" by his dispatch to Corse
when Cors. signalled back that he hal
lost one eye and an arm, but he woul'
hold the fort until
hotter place than that froze over.
Shall l name him to you? His mel
allied him Uncle Billie-the worlt
knows him as William Tecumseh Shel
man.
Where be lies shall the sun shine Is brigh
- his name,
, And the grass where be sleeps be as gree
Il - BIS fame,
For the gold Of the pen and ths steel o
Write his deeds in his blood in the lam
? he adored.
> IT Is POOR BUSINESS,
, however, said Mr.. Brady, measurin
ramparts, counting silent guns, marx
ling deserted battlefelds and deccrat
ling grassy graves unless we can lear
, some nobler lesson than to destroy.
, He then made q ples for peac'
q love and fraternity, saying that,
in the cemetery there was the grave (
q "Johnny," to spread flowers upo
y lit, at least in remembrance Of III
, grand courage, devotion and drawer
}. of the men who fought so tsnaciousl
!. and bravely, though in a mistake
: cause.
81 The speaker closed his brief, b.
able and eloquent address by q pl'
70 for the American people to stand FIR
d for liberty Liberty for one and Ii
erty for sll-liberty now and forev
-l-liberty as opposed to revolutlo
y anarchy, mobOcracy and slavery.
At the conclusion of the address