Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-06-02
A Well Planned Program Of
the Local Post
Marred by a Lecturer Who Per.
sisted in Re-enaGtins the
War.

Vi, tne program oeeu uiS'oStOie' ~
many who travelled miles under a
burning sun and were. -cooped up two
hours In a suffocating Rink-com-
PEELED to listen to what they did not
desire.
But withal, the observance of this
great national holiday was far more
marked than probably ever before.
Most of the business houses were
closed, our merchants recognizing
the day in its grandeur of patriotism;
and in no locality does any more
intensity of patriotism exist; no locali-
ty is freer from the taint of copper
head, rebel sympathizer and gorilla,
than this. Farmers fiocked to town in
holiday attire, laborers stopped work
and merchants suspended business-all
eager to confer rightful honor on our
soldier dead who dared brave the dogs
of war; who stood before the enemy as
a human target; who jeopardized, aye,
lost life, and forever destroyed the
domestic happiness of those in the far
away home. 10 this dead whose
bravery and denial of self is indelibly
stamped on the very air we inhale, is
all honor due; of this dead too many
eulogies cannot be written and their
memory cannot be kept too green for
indefinite succeeding ages.
And so think the good citizens of
Henry County to unit, regardless of
her 1900 democratic majority!
The Civil War is deplorable chap
ter in our Nations History. 1t is
viewed with regret by both Blue and
Gray, and succeeding years have been
devoted by the great majority of both
factions in blotting out the innumer-
able stains upon our hitherto fair es-
cutcheon--blots of four years bitter
and bloody strife of brother against
brother.
Particularly is this the aim of our
southren brethren, who show will
ingness, even eagerness, to let by
cones be such, and are striving, and
have been laboring since the dark COS
to forever erase Mason & nixon's
Line-to henceforth let the latch
Istring hang on the outside to North
ern bret4Een.
The procession formed at 2 O'Clock
under the command of Capt. r. B.
Heller, Marshal of the day. The
organizations that participated were
Company F, 18th Regt. band, Choate
Post, Women'sd Relief Corps and
citizens,op foot and in carriages. After
parading the principal streets the line
of march lead to the Opera House
where survives were held in charge o.
Choate Post. Commander Kobe In
troduced the orator of the day, Rev
Driver who delivered his lecture or
the civil war.
The lecturers remarks in the maiI
were statistical showing the eDormity
of the late war, and refutation O
statements which he claimed had beer
made In his presence that the civil wa
was only little thing after all. AS
sertions of this kind even having beer
made, was news to US up in this sec
tion where an attempt to under-rat'
|, the magnitude of the war would b
considered reductio ad absurdum will
its utterance; hence refutation was
not necessary.
From statistics the lecturer, who
; also minister, submitted hight
| colored picture of the war and ii
T re-enactlnent from before the firin
uponat Fl. Sumter to the surrender
: Appomattox; and still another picture
i. finished in the same bright coloring,
t all events touching on the war dow
to date. In fact, the Reverend gentle
: !; man forgot for the time his conne'
/ ton with the pulpit, and, taking unit
himself the role Of republican STUN
;, speaker in the midst of a heate
!, campaign, drew from Its musty hidin
place and smoothing out its age
}. wrinkles, flaunted the bloody shi
e over his hearers for fully an hour.
The Reverend had spoken here tt
= week previous and Napoleon, as on
e was very much impressed with b
II discourses, and that this high opinio
y should have been SO ruthlessly draggt
:. from it exalted position to where
IF now rests, is condition for commo
!, regret. That the htterances in th
i part of his talk were exceeding
distasteful to two-thirds of his hearer
v there is no reason to doubt even in IL
+ mind of the speaker himself when Il
chilly quietude with which intendt
n, "hits" were received is noted.
II Memorial day is one of sorrow al
Q regret, one Of peace and good will
d not one for the revival of passion al
Is opening of old sores that should
Of healed, and the orator who fails
u keep these objects in view is a failt
r. in attempting to advance what I
to people want.
ct GROVER seems to have captured