The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-07-03

veterans pEOtttleu TO NllN ANtAti'ilttA NNtiAN
terry. The veterans fell in behind the car
riages and marched in four grand divis
ions. There were @. 500 Grand Army men
in the coluran The green knoll at the
crest of the us0nument was crowded with
people when the head of the line arrived.
The space In front of the speakers stand
was reserved for the veterans. The me
mortal flags Of honor carried by the vet
erans were placed in the first line Back of
them where each regiment stood were the
bullet riddled regimental flags that were
IN the fight at Gettysburg. The space sur
rounding the monument was completely
filed with people, fully 10000 being pres
ent General Sickels opened the proceed,
ings by waving his hat for order as his
voice could not reach the outer ranks of
the audience lie said:
General Butterfeld having marched
his army from New York, has now turned
over the command TO me- We will first
have the Star Spangled Banner"
The Kennicot quartet then sang the ma
tional anthem. Then they sang Nearer
Ny God to Thee" Rev. w b. Derrick,
the colored veteran preacher, then offered
prayer.
General Sickles then, as president Of the
board Of the Gettysburg monument com
missioners Of New York state, delivered
the Introductory address. General Sickles
paid eloquent tribute to the unknown
New York heroes whose memories the
monument now dedicatedis to perpetuate,
and concluded as follows:
"A1ore than 10000 men fell in the con-
fiict. These graves, before you, are filed
with thousands of the fallen, buried with
no other shroud than their blood-stained
uniforms. If the sacrifice made on this
field were greater than in any other COM
bat Of the war the results were compensa-
tory The men who fell here, standing
alongside of their fallen comrades on
thousand battleflelds, gathered together
today in the spirit land can say, we
fought the good fight They unite with
Lincoln, the martyr, in rejoicing over a
Union saved and "A nation perpetuated, on
whose soil the footprint of a slave shall
never again be seen.
Bishop Potter was then introduced and
delivered the dedicating address, few
extracts from which followsi
"Thirty years ago today these peaceful
scenes were echoing with the roar and din
of what a calm and unimpassioned his
torian, writing of it long years afterward,
described as the greatest battlefield of the
New World Not for one day, nor for two,
| but for three ragged the awful conflict,
while the republic gave its best life to re-
deem its honor, and the stain Of all pre-
vious laundering and falterng was washed
white forever with the blood of its patriots
/ and martyrs.
"And we are here to tell the world today
! that we have not forgotten them. 1t seems
a tardy honor that we come to pay them, but
| through all the years that have come and
| gone we have not forgotten them. No sin
| gle anniversary of their great achievement
has returned that they who count it chief
/ est honor that they may call these men
| brothers have not come here to do their
memories homage and to recite the splen-
! did story of their splendid deeds. Nay,
more, in far off towns and hamlets north
and east and west, in every home from
which they came, no year has passed that
! grateful voices have not sung their valOr
and iron pens traced upon i1nperishable
pages the story of their sacrifices.
81 may not rehearse the story of those
! deeds this afternoon. Already they have
| become part of our common heritage
and have passed by a process Of spiritual
assimilation into the very fibre of the ma
tion's life. There is no school boy now
who has not read the peerless and incom-
| parable story-read it and flushed and
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sionate patriotism while he read it.
at is well that, as the years go by, the
rancors that once divided children of the
game republic should be forgiven and for
gotten. But there are other things that
may not be forgotten, and it is at our peril
that we forget them. We may never for
get that the struggle of which these graves
are the witness was a struggle for eternal
! righteousness. We may never forget that
the cause which was substantially decided
here was the cause of freedom and justice
and the everlasting equities.
"They were of ourselves who lifted the
flag of revolt and disowned the authority
of the government, and it may be-alasl
only lately we have been reminded how
easily-that those in high places shall even
be the apologsts of the red flag Of an.
archy and of the red hands of its ensan-
guined followers.
owe come here to lay the tribute of our
love and gratitude upon these graves. May
no alien or vandal hand ever profane their
grand repose who slumber here. And when
the sons of freedom now unb orn, through
generations yet to come, shall gather here
to sing again the praises of these unknown
martyrs for the flag, may they kneel down
beside those graves and swear anew ale
glance to their God, their country and the
right"
Governor Pattison was obliged to leave
by an afternoon train, He was introduced
before Governor Flower. He welcomed
the veterans to Pennsylvania in a few well
chosen words. General Sckels then in
troduced New Yorks Flower as daisy. "
Governor Flower spoke for an hour, aud
his many references to the honored dead
were interrupted by frequent thunders of
applause