The San Francisco call., 1897-06-01

D. F. McGraw was grand marshal Com
panv B. National Guard of California, pre-
ceded by the Fifth Regiment Band,
headed the procession. Then came the
Knights Of Pythias, followed by the city
and county officials. The second division
consisted OF 100 children from the city
schools. The following societies followed
Phil Sheridan Post, G. a. r., John A. D x
Post, Daughters OF Veterans, Phil Sheri-
dan Relief Corps, John A. Dix Relief
Corps, Ladies of the q. A. R., A. o. U. W.,
Ancient Or6er of Hibernians, Volunteers
of America, Salvation ARMY
The parade disbanded in ST. James PARK,
where a memorial monument was decor
ated with flowers. The following pro-
gramme was then carried out: DirCe,
Marine Band; G. A. r. >itual service, in
Guiding reading of Lincoln's Grafton at
Getty sburg; dirge, Fifth Infantry Band /;
Grafton, George I. DUNLAP p of GIlroy; bene-
dictioD, Rev. e. ID. Clark.
Mr.. Dunlap's Grafton was an eloquent
rlbute to the heroes OF the war, living and
dead. He said:
Ladies and gentlemen, soldiers and ueterans
The most sacred thing in all this world is lib
erty-liberty OF life, liberty OF thought, liberty
of action. When the i'm mortal patriots O. this
Nation, the ar chitects of the most splendid
political structure ever conceived by the
document ever penned those deathless words,
"life, liberty and the pursuit of happines -
they gave inspiration to d sentiment and es-
ia ablished a truth, the force and poWer OF
which a once wrung the scepter from King
and became the fundamental principle of the
greatest Nation OF freemen the world has ever
seen. This loyal love OF liberty, the holy
patrImony OF our fathers, is the moving power
which brings us to-day around the graves OF
all our martyred dead, where we may pledge
ourselves anew 10 guard and keep this gener-
n xVh ioh hasr u
blood so dearly bought.
To-day picture OF the past comes before us
like dream. Again we stand upon the
threshold of In ighty conflicts; we see many
assemblages of citizens and statesmen: We,
hear The impassioned words OF orators appeal l.
ing to the patriotism and courage OF thou
sands OF braye men, whose dust now slum bers
beneath the soil on which they fought to
make forever free; we hear again the bugles'
wild and warlike cry; we watch them all
when they part from those they IoYe-we hear
the .piteous cries of mingled anguish and joy
wrung from the breasts OF mothers sister
sweethearts; we hear the cannons' thunder
roar; we see a thousand baYonets glistenfng
above contending columns. The clouds OF
war have settled once again on Bunker Hill!
and ell the air is pregnant with the awful
sound of battle. The vision widens, and we see
farther down the panorama OF our country's
battlefelds the wave-washed walls of Sum-
ter, rocked and rent with shot and she'll In
the shadow OF the Nations capitol stood the
Nations greatest patriot. We are with him
once more in all the ferceness of that fright
full struggle; we see his bowed form bending
beneath the mighty loau. Sympathy sorrow
and duty are alike the burden of his stormy
life.
Again the cannon peals; we hear the stately
tread of marshsled men in blue and gray-
the union of the greatest nation that time has
ever known now trem bles In the balance
Again we stand amid the hungry whirIwind
OF a long and bloody strife. History, old or
new, has 10 record such AS this wild and fes r.
some war has painted. Human speech has mo
language TO portray the depth of suffering or
the breadth of sorrow which the furies of this
fearful conflict wrought
Again the vision wldens and we see amid
all the storm and cloud of war one deter
mined, silent man, bronzed and battle.
Scared. but resolute as destiny itself. He is
the hero above them all, whose genius.
resistless as the rolling tide, brought victory
out of chaos. With the last long peal of mnS
kerry the shackles fall from millions of human
FORMS Tue white-winged messenger of free
dom touches the auction b! !oek, the cruel lash
drops withered TO the earth, and slavery lives
no more save only on the tear-stained pa ges
of the Nations history.
The earth may tremble beneath the shocks g
OF other wars-the burrows Of the hillsideS
flow deep and red with the blood of other SOL
dier slain-these valiant dead are peacefnllv
at rest. Over the mounds which mark the