St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-07-13
THE DEDICATION.
Further Details of Chamberlin POSTS
Exercises on the Fourth.

dedication OF the Grand Army
monument at the cemetery, bret
Nv referred to last week, consisted
OF short address by Commander
Head, readings from scripture by
S. V. Commander Moore, ] Y. Com
mander Carpenter and Officer-of-the-
Day Wilcomb, Chaplain E. c. Potter
making the dedicatory prayer
Following this the commander ded-
icated the monument to the purpose
for which it is intended.
THE MONUMENT.
In the summer of 1887 the trustees
of Mt. Pleasant cemetery presented
Chamberlin Post with a large and
slightly lot in those beautiful
grounds, conditioned that the Post
should erect a suitable monument
thereon, and the lot was accepted
on those terms. The Post then
went to work to secure funds for
that special purpose. The nucleus
of the fund was gift from the
Womans Relief Corps and earned by
them; then followed concerts and
entertainment furnished gratuitous-
ly by local talent until the spring Of
1893, when a contract was made
with the Carrick Bros. Granite Co.,
to erect such monument as would
be satisfactory to the cemetery oth-
GERS and to Chamberin Post. The
contract was fulfilled and the mon
ument duly dedicated July 4, thirty
years after Gettysburg and Vicks-
burg.
The monument consists Of a base
ofrough granite five feet square and
eighteen inches thick, a second base
three and one-half feet square and
two feet thick, and plinth two
feet square and two and one-half feet
high, surmounted by six foot
statue of an infantryman standing
at rest, the left hand grasping his
musket near the muzzle, and the
right hand thrust within his coat at
the breast. One face of the plinth is
polished and has this inscription,
directed by ChamberIin Post, No.
l." The entire height of the monu-
ment is twelve feet, and it is a beau
tifuI addition to the statuary which
adorns the grounds of Mt Pleasant
cemetery.
COMMANDER HEADS ADDRESS.
The remarks Of Commander
Head at the cemetery were as fol-
lows:
Comrades We have met here today
for the purpose of defeating this mon
ument to the memory of our comrades
who have answered the call from the
Great Commander, and as an emblem of
our love for the living, and our loyalty
to the cause which has made it possible
and necessary that these memorials
should be placed in every valley and on
every hillside throughout our nation
where our dead are sleeping in their eter-
nal rest.
We meet to honor our dead and deep
EN- our reverence for their worth to re-
new and strengthen among ourselves the
bond Of affection and fraternity which is
common to us all, and as we gather
around this passionless semblance of the
soldier at rest, let us renew our pledges
of loyalty to the memory of those who
have gone before, and of an undying
reverence and love for our united country
and for the flag of freedom and unity
under whose folds we and our families
live and are protected.
Ny comrades, this monument stands
here as the representative of all those
who have died, and of those still living
who bore their part in upholding the
national supremacy of our government
and our flag. Its very silence is i'm
pressive, without speech it is in itsel
eloquent. 1t needs no words. 1t is il
itself an GRAFTON OF fidelity, LOYALTY anC
patriotism. 1t assures us that our dea(
are held in remembrance, those VIII,
gave their lives for the security of tn
citizen and the union of the states, TO
the uplifting OF the down-trodden an,
for the freedom and liberty of all
May they rest until the Almighty in hi
own good time shall reward them.
This statue is significant of brave an
loyal obedience to the command of TIL
nation, always and everywhere, sine
the obligations of citizenship are not r,
stricted to time or place or to the COZ
flict OF arms. 1t gives encouragement
for the future since the recognition an
approval it gives of patriotic fdelt
and herosm will be an incentive for tt
display of public valor and virtue in a
coming time.
There can be no doubt that the hone
we pay to the patriotic dead, and {
their memorable deeds, will serve n,
only to make American citizenship mo
reputable, more honorable and mo
glorious, but also to maintain and ps
petuate, through our generation and
future generations, the union and a
thority of the United States of Americ
In the name of the Grand Army of t
Republic now dedicate this memoir
statue. dedicate it to the memory
those who in the navy guarded our
land seas and ocean coasts, and fell
defense of the flag. | dedicate it to t
memory of those who in the arr
fought for our hllsides and valleys a
plains, and fell in defence of the flag
dedicate it to the memory of all tn,