Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1897-06-03
to it's progre s and advancement.
Band. PryOr's Address.

Comrades, Ladies and Gentle |
men:-Me aIe gathered here tOAday !
10 pay tribute to the Nations
honored dead and, trust that we
have also come to learn a lesson of
patriotism from the example of the /
buttie-scarrtd veteran Of the late
war, to learn how to devote our
lives to the service Of our people
For the service Of the people is the
service Of the Country.
Memorial Day is national. PEG,
pie have gathered in every State in
til, Union for the same purpose
that we are here to day. ! Three
hundred thousand memlers of the
Grand Army Of the Republic are
to day garidnding the graves of
their dead comrades. BY the side
of the lettering veteran is the san
who has pitdg d hims II to care for
t c old soldier in time of need.
Comra, es, let us give our aid in
maxi & the last days OF thes, heroes
bright-like the ca IN. ceIr suns
set after day Of storms.
They should have our sympathy.
Their lives have been iuil Of hard
ships, Our fathers gave the best of
Their lives that we might have one
country and one flag. They left
home and friends, broke all the
tender ties that are 50 dear to home
lie. can in my Imagination STE
the young volunteer leaving home
I to do battle tor his country. lie
leaves all with Il sOrrOwiul heart,
for he does not khow bat that this
lnay be the last time he will ever
See the faces of the ones that are
/ dear,r than life 70 him. But his
! pulse is quickened by the call OF
his country. lie excaims; My
home | love, put my Country
love best. | must defend the land
bought with the blood Of my faith
ters."
Every country has its dead he
roes. Some great military genius
that succrssiu y led its armed tor.
CTS against the enemy of e coun.
try, or some daring spirit that
fought that his people might have
lib rty. Greece had leOnidas
Rome her Caesar, England her v
lingtOn, America haS hel Sheridan
Sherman, Grant, Washington, and
Lincoln. Are these ALP No, NJ
the iunumerable hosts that sleel
! in unmarked graves Oh a thousand
bloody battle fields are our heroes
as dear to us as the mighteS of oul
generals. We love the soldier tina
carried the musktt and barred biz
breast to all the dangers of war.
For what do We remember thes,
meu? They were the comrades 0
these old soldiers who are here he
lore me. Why do we call then
hero :? Because we owe to then
, and their comradts this uniteC
country of ours, with lis seventy
millions Of happy prosperous PEG
pie.
Through the victories won b,
the soldiers of the Union, this ia
, tiOn has forged its way to til,
weathiest commercial nation il
the world They opened the wa,
to the development Of the inestlm
able natural resources of this sun
, ny Southland. They gave us
) reunited people, who rrj.'i, c TO da
that we are not "a Northern or
! Southern people, but American
all thank GOd-there is no Nortl
q no South.
They destroyed the last vestiG
> of the Dark Ages in this liant
Slavery died, pierced to the heal
8 by the hand of the Union sOldio
Slavery was a curse, all acknow
Q edge. Slavery had to die that thi
/ country might live, aud that til
8 South might develop into a sectio
no ed Tor its diversity Of enterpri,