Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-05-31
STAND BY THE FLAG
Mayor Pingrss Delivers
Grand Address
ON THE DEAD HEROES OF WAR



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here to-day. IL IL . great honor, and
one that appreciate.
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call foxsh me best ef3ofts OF public
sposksr. ] can Only say that nothing
bus the suiTit Of such celebration -
thss could have given me the courage
10 appear before 90 splendid an
audience IL. then, there should D
lacking those graces Of orstory which
you expect IN . public speaker, let
good Will and sinceriry Offset them ~
far a. is can AL over the land our
people are assembled today - on
nanensl HOLIDAY. We meet TO pro-
s<sve TIE memory Of one Of the most
ssupendous struggles recorded IN bis
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Iei. "A ho $40 .snA. s.,,S ..x-s
sino' 'ney s'o ou' ss'AS"
men,
sr'ee Asa.ss,s's~
insy are now sausned tnas ns r.
suite OF the war nave oeen 20 shen ~.
vantage, and they accept u e nssins
oeen sne means OK estaotisninS iSesuon
among them, - having set snem on
new course OF prosperity imposslose I'M
DER TIE oid TORN OF Things ana OF meS
ing them part OF this great nsuon:
nsvermore TO Dc separated. DeIuoeo
~ pao coonseis, swsyeo oy pteluoicc,
- n&hung under nonese oonvlcuon' or
sesuAtsd, as some no douos we're, %
ambitious. seinsn or cfoel mou'ss, VIC
forgive them tnef errors ana uexs
Their ooeervsnce OF the dAy - uersl OF
ferings 70 the blessed sPlrit OF peace
ana protnssnoed. We VINO fevefe sne
nssmory % our comrades can nsve no
ieeinK sgainss the men OF sne soutn
tnss they revere ana rcspect sne mem
CRY OF the comrsaes VINO $1,000 oss'de
them- Inc blue ana the gray nave
buried their snimoslties, ana no nestts
are more oouno up IN eecn osnct snsn
snose OF the SOLDIERS WOO ssooa upon
opposite soss IN our great war. 1nle !
kuow ron personal msefco!ue Vim
many OF tnem. AZ y suolecs over
wnNn we M'kn. III ICJoe :u0. ~
L - - sv... rn-s;g,s -
- bra.d lsnd loving frisnds. kinrmsn
snd nafriots- II aecms 10 me nroner
that xe shouId recall on tb;a dav aorne-
thing ~ - outlinea of tha1 ereat
struccle in when MANY Of VOC have
saksn mart and of vh,ch manv snore Of
Won knov nothing ave A ii rpnds IN
h,seovv 0eueretion haa counn into
s~sive nn,sn,t AZ life aimee tia oloae Of
the var. and MANY Of the FORMATION
thst minded in the fierce co1flict have
$1,000 avsv.
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First. let us recall. - showing onme-
thing Of the terrible sacrifce IN Auman
lives, IN account OF the soldiers order
ed into the nsid BY President Lincoln.
] hnd that his first call was made On
the 18th Of April. 1861, for 1900 men