The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-06-07
MEMORIAL DAY.
Our Dead Heroes Remembered with
Flowers and Tears and 0ratory.

The weather was 80 inclement on
Memorial Day that the plans for its OBJ.
servance were changed to some extent.
The decorating committees visited the
various cemeteries aud performed their
allotted duties. But, the exercises were
held in the X. OF P. hall, instead of at
the cemetery.
After march in which the Military
Band, Scott Dragons and G. A. R. took
part the indoor program began.
Chaplain Sandoe offered an earnest
prayer in behalf of the Nation and its
surviving defenders.
America was sung with the low, sweet
accompaniment of the band.
Comrade E. M. De Bruin was intro
duced and held the attention of lis aud.
fence riveted while he spoke with earn.
est and touching eloquence. He spoke
of the honor accorded the dead, by all
ages and nations, and emphasized the
thought that those who died in a cause
so noble were especially worthy of hon
or. All partisan and sectional feeling
should be forgotten in this work of pat
riotism.
Our love for the departed as we'll as
our appreciation OF their patriotism,
impelled us to honor their memory. We
could not, we would not have it other.
wise. The bitter hatreds of war were
dying out. In many sections the blue
and the gray united in observing this
occasion.
Like the Chaldeans, we gather thus
annually to rekindle the sacred fires
upon the altar of our hearts at the
graves of those we held so dear.
Greater than all the historic monu.
ments of war was the monument of a
Nations love-the soul felt gratitude to
those who brought victory out of peri
lous strife, and enthroned liberty for.
ever.
Yet We cherished no bitterness toward
those who were our gallant, but mis-
taken enemies.
The universal American sentiment
today is for one country and one flag.
Capt. DeBruin closed his remarks with
vivid and we'll read poetic quotation.
After patriotic air by the band com.
P. E. DeMill was presented. By way of
introduction he read most appropriate
poem descriptive of the war. He then
gave brief but clear retrospect of the
history of the great conflict. He drew
from the lesson of patriotism the con.
clusion OF the fitness and propriety of
Memorial Day, with all its significance.
In forceiul, unanswerable arraign.
ment, he spoke Of the niggaldly and
unpatriotic pension policy now dominant
He paid glowing tribute to the lower
and wealth of the reunited country. He
Rad with deep fervor the poem "When
the Armies of the Living meet the Arm
les of the dead"
After another contribution by the
band, Mrs. Boulware read Will Carleton's
magnificent poem, "Cover Them Over
with Beautiful Flowers" So touching
and tender We're the words and tones
that unbidden tears trickled down. mauy
a manly check.
Little Miss Grace Morgan, daughter
OF w. J. Morgan, recited lengthy po I'm
entitled, "The Drummer Boy of Mission
Ridge" She exhibited wonderful powers
of memory, never hesitating once in all
the rendition. She spoke with rena,k.
able force and elocutionary effect. For
child of ten or eleven summers, she
showed wonderful oratorical ability.
Chaplain Sandoe spoke with the fer.
vor and earnestness of an old soldier
He said he had been especially impress.
ed with the flight of time, as he looked
at the Scott Dragons, noble lads, prompt
and quick and skilled in their military
movements. Just such boys were the
comrades of thirty years ago, full OF vim,
vigor and courage. What changes had
come over them in thirty years-what a
difference from their youthful strength
when they marched to battle, shoulder
to shoulder and elbow to elbow, giving
their best years to the cause of their
country.
One of the great results of our struggle
has been the establishment of the prin.
ciple of the universal fatherhood OF God
and brotherhood of man."
From the impetus then received, the
cause of freedom would spread and
flourish until not a vestige of monarch
ical oppression shall exist on earth.
He hoped the old soldiers who had
fought so nobly against the enemies of
the best government on earth, would be
equally courageous, vigilant and faith
tul in opposing the enemy of their souls
The Scott Dragoous, Military Band,
w. R. G. and other organizations de
serve much credit for the manner in
which fhav oidad tho r. p IN tho