Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-05-30

sible to shut US in between the two seas
and between Canada and Mexico, and say:
mus FAR. but no further" No such 'pent-
up Utica can contract our powers Amer
lea for AmericanS'-not in a narrow parti-
san sense-is our manifest destiny From
where the ice king holds his court in our
northern hemisphere to where Cape Horn
Juts out into the seas, and westward from
where the Atlantic washes our eastern
coast. to where the waters of the Pacific
roll, Old Glory shall one day be the only
flag recognized supreme.
American Citizenshfp.
And not the least among the results
brought about by the war in which you
fought has been the decoration of Ameri-
can citizenship with new and sublime
meaning. 1t was the boast Of the ancient
Roman that his civil immunities were of
Incompatible worth. The appeal to Caesar,
in his case meant appeal to an invincible
and world-embracing state. His freedom
his citizenship. was guaranteed to him
wherever he might be.
There was a time when our own citizen
snip did not mean SO much as that. But
when the event of Appomattox Court House
occurred, civil liberty took On new aspect
and was baptized with new life. The fla z
of the stars and stripes came to stand for
more than 1t had ever before, and now
wherever it floats over our lard or else
where 1t represents a power that confers
NPoAA
In the constitution of human nature and
society purposed man should have and ex-
ercise.
There is to me pathos in this scene
and IN this memorial service which cannot
be expressed in words. There must come
a time; not very far away, when the chief
actors in the work of decorating our SOL
diers' graves will not be soldiers who them
selves fought for our country's life, but
their children and their surviving country
men: for death will have claimed the last
member of the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie. A million men were sent back to the
walks of private, civilian life when the re-
bellion closed. But thirty years of times
moving has cut down the human wheat
then standing in the field until the sheaves
yet TO be gathered are comparatively few
indeed. You cannot but feel tinge of
sadness in your hearts today as You re-
member how your ranks have been thinned
since you came from the field, and how
soon, at the farthest, 1t will be when YOU.
too, shall join your comrades in the land
Of peace.
Let me assure you, for your country,
behalf shall be held in everlasting ren,an,1
FRANCE. You may transmit to your fami
lies when you go hence very little Of
material store; but your part as a Union
i IN the great rebellion will be a
legacy to them of untold value, aud your
children's children to the latest generation
will count themselves honored in HAVING
come from the stock in which such heroes
were found"
Some Good Music.
The quartet, composed Of Mrs Kelser.
Miss Muir, Mr.. Jones and Mr.. Skerrett
sang Thou Art the King immortal,
After another selection by the band the
quartet rendered that beautiful HYMN.
Lead, Kindly Light" A soprano solo
Flee as Bird" was given by Mrs. KEEL
ser, after which benediction was pronounce
ed by Rev. Mr.. Queen of New Jersey.
With the assistance of the ladies of the
post the graves Of all the soldier dead in
the cemetery were decorated. In all. there
are $50 graves in the cemetery which con-
tain the bones Of those who served in the
late war. the majority Of whom in life
were commissioned officers. The grave of
John Howard Payne, the author of Home.
Sweet Home" was not forgotten, and NOT
only the Grand Army people, but almost