Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-06-03
MEMORIAL EXERCISES.
Program Arranged for Thursday
Carried Out Yesterday Afternoon
Address of Judge Morrison.

The ritual service of the Grand Army
of the Republic was performed at the Ma
tional cemetery yesterday afternoon.
Martial music was furnished by Drum
mer slim" Bentley, and Fifer "Jim" Har-
ris, and the vocal music by Colonel
George W. Knaebel, Rev. F. T. Bennett,
Mr.. Gulliford, Miss Morrison, Miss Guilt
ford and Mrs. Day.
Judge Francis Downs, post command
er, Bishop j. Mills Kendrick, acting as
chaplain, and Edward Krumpegel, officer
of the day, gave the G. A. R., service in a
very impressive manner.
Go. B, LIST New Mexico militia, under
command of Captain William Strover are
entitled to credit for their marching and
soldierly appearance; while their salute
to the dead, three volleys fred over the
graves, could not be excelled by any
company in the regular army.
Robert H. Offlsy Garrison No. 60, Army
and Navy Union, was represented by
George Detzel, W. F. Dobbin and Max
Bernstein.
JUDGE MORRI6ONS ADDRESS.
Judge A. L. Morrison delivered the ad-
dress of the dav. 1t was comparatively
brief, but it was FULL of patriotic feeling
and rich in thought and sentiment in
spired by the occasion. -
After mentioning that the men who
served the union we're "the grandest, the
truest, the bravest men who ever faced
the storm of death on the battle field"
the speaker dwelt with particular en-
phasis upon the marvellous manner that
1000, 900 men, after spending three or
four years in military life, laid down
their arms and returned to the ways of
peace without causing disorder. This he
pronounced miracle without parallel
in the histories of the wars of the world,
an achievement more astonishing to Eu-
rope than any of our achievements on
the field Ut battle. These remarks, he
said, applied to the Confederate as we'll
as to the Federal soldiers.
Proceeding he said: eve have small
remnant of the men who wrought this
miracle of the ages here with US to-day,
and how do we know them from their
other fellow citizens? In part by the
measured martial step which, even, in
their declining years, clings to them, but
peculiarly by the simple star or badge
which every veteran wears over his heart.
But to US even the brilliant Star of the
Legion pales its Intellectual fires in
the presence of the more brilliant, more
glorious American star of the Grand
Army of the Republic. Hail! All hail!
beloved star, taken from the centre of our
own peerless constellation and worn on
half million manly breasts to-day.
Hail! All hail! meteor of freedom, em-
blem of victory, beacon light of honor
and glory; may God bless here and here
after every veteran who carries thee in
life and DEATH"
Then followed an apostfophe to the
stars and stripes, "bedewed with the holy
tears of widows and orphans and Grim
soned with the blood of the brave and
the true" that touched the hearts of all.
Most fittingly he closed by saying "We
will leave this scored as we came with
charity for all malice to none,'" following
out this noble sentiment with three or four
stanzas of that sweetest of all the poems
growing out of the war, "The Blue and
the Gray"
The address was beautifully worded
and adorned with several rare and slngu-
larly suitable poetical quotations. 1t
was listened to with absorbing interest
by all within reach of the speakers fine
voice.