Evening journal., 1893-05-30
CHIEF JUSTICE LORE'S ADDRESS.
The Able and Popular Jurist Makes q
Strong asd Patriotic Speech in the city,
Beautiful Park.

The Able and Popular Jurist Makes
Strong asd Patriotic Speech in the City's
Beautiful Park.
The feature of the exercis es in Eighth
street park was the address of Chief
Justice Lore He said
Soldiers of the Grand Army of the
Republic, your general order No. 4,
styles this Memorial Day as the day of
flowers and sadness, of memory and
hope.
Impartial In the Distribution of Flowers.
Flowers you have already strewn
upon the graves of the veteran dead. If
in the spirit world they can look down
upon you to day, what thiill Of Joy and
gladness must be theirs, at this act of
homage rendered by the fast-fading
remnant of the old guard, and by low
ing people, to the memory of those who
fell in battle, or were swept away by
wars scourges, wounds and disease.
Tenderly you have trodden over their
graves; lovingly you have laid upon
those graves bouquets, wreaths and chap
/ let's of flowers plucked from mother earth
in this her springtime Flowers which
are natures spring promises of autumn s
| fruit and abundance. and which are the
earthly expression of Divine perfection.
Most wonderful of all in the page of
human history you have strewn those
flowers impartially upon the grave of
Union and of Confederate dead. Those
who wore the blue and the gray alike
have been the recipients of your bounty.
In the city of the dead you have banished
the memory of all faults and cherished
only virtues.
ut has also been day of sadness. The
flowers, the wreathes, the chaplets, all
these tokens of your love have been laio
upon graves; laid over the dust OF the
dead In burial places where the dwell
ers have lost the powers Of speech anC
are silent in death. They represent
many desolate home, many a widow
many an orphan. many home in which
the light went out and the strong arm
of support and protection was broken
when the dead warrior was laid in hi
now decorated grave. 1t is sad to re
member that a strong man has fallen
that broken hearts and darkened homes
and long years of struggle and agon,
cluster about each little mound in tn
graveyard It is a day of sadness, bu
we remember that they were brave ant
true and that they now live in th'
memory of the people.
The Day of Memory.
"We remember it is also a day o
Memory. This day carries us bacl
! twenty eight years, (nearly a generation
= | to the ninth day of April 1865; wher
/ at Appomattox Court House, the mos
gigantic war of modern times ende
in the surrender of General Lee to Gen
eral Grant. At daybreak on that mem
orable day, pressed by the cavalry Q
Sheridan in front, by the infantry q
General Grant in the rear, surrounde
t by the Union army, the thirty-thousan
v half.starved Confederates, who ha
!. | eaten little or nothing since the mornin
Of April first, saw General Lee ride out q
y the Confederate camp in his best uniform
q begirt with his sword, to ask for mere,
g at the hands of Conqu0ring Grant. A
10 he came back again from the .intervie
d with terms Of surrender, an eve witnes
lt says:
sf'fWhole lines Of battle rushed up
their beloved old chief, and choking wit
emotion. broke ranks and struggled wit
each other to wiring him once more
'r the hand, Men who fought through q
war. and knew what the agony and b
initiation of that moment must be toihiI
m strove with refinement of unselhshne
It and tenderness, which he alone cou
n fully appreciate, to tighten his burd
and to mitigate his pain. With tea
pouring down his cheeks, General Lee
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