The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-05-31
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ranks of the Grand Army of the Republic
grow thinner until at some night as the
roll is called you and l. comrades will
answer to our names and the reports will
say all present, and the order will go
forth to prepare to pass in the review
and the command will be given by the
regimental commander. Form column
by division. First division right in front
March and the annual review of the
Grand Army of the Republic will take
place and the march will go on until the
day comes when all will return to their
graves to be called again in another year.
And from the graves in the great ceme-
teries and the battlefields and from those
in every city and village of the land the
Grand Army of the Republic will speak
of patriotism, of love of country and the
duty to do battle in her defense"
Tell me the dead do not speak. Go to
that hall in Philadelphia where the Dec
laration of Independence that made this
land a nation was signed and adopted.
and do you not hear the dead signers
speak in the tremor that fills your frame
1t is the dead speaking to the soul that is
in you. Look up to the tower where
hangs the bell that was cast to proclaim
liberty throughout the land. DO you not
hear the ringing of that great note that
burst the bell that made it. 1t is not
made to the ear. you hear II in your heart
anu soul. II speaks 10 lfnfnOf-
tally.
Tell me the dead do not speak. When
from the Green mountain of Vermont the
boy answered to the call of President
Lincoln Journeyed to Burlington, passing
by the little cemetery on the hill, he
heard the voice of Ethan Allen that had
once Numbered through the walls of
Ticonderago that it's gates be opened in
the name of the Great Jehovah and the
continental congress, saying 10 him for
ward in your courage boy, 1t is the same
cause that l fought for" and those who
pass by Bennington heard that the fight
would be won or Mollie Stark would be a
widow" From Plattsburg came the
sound of the guns of the McDonough's
fleet. New York heard the cheer of mad
Anthony Wayne leading the assault on
Stony Point. Massachusetts was aroused
by the clatter of the hoofs OF the horse Of
Paul REVERE on his new ride to Lexing-
ton. New Jersey was awakened by the
gun served by Irish Mollie Pitcher at
Monmouth. Pennsylvania heard the 81
lent tread of the sentries on the SHOWS of
Valley Forge Ohio was startled by the
guns of Perry and so from state to state
the dead and the dead things spoke and
the Grand the Army of the Republic was
formed.
Their work is done and to-day we revel
in the liberties they saved and glory in
the power, wealth and strength of the ma
ton they upheld. Soon they will pass
away; soon when Memorial day comes the
decoration of the dead will be decoration
of the graves of all who answered to the
call of duty to the nation.
You see these telegraph wires out there
on the street: it is dead metal you say.
but buried in graves of liquid is other
metal and a touch is given and these
wires speak in every city and village in
the land. So are and will be the dead OF
the union armies buried in the great
cemeteries and in every city. village and
hamlet and touch against our national
integrity, our national unity, our coun-
try's liberty and from every grave there
will be spoken out words of FIRE rousing
the people TO arms and in death as in the
past time of danger will the Grand Army
be the watchguards and defenders Of the
country.