The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-05-02
LINCOLN AND LOGAN
THEIR FRECEPTs TO BE INCUL-
GATED BY MEsIoRIAL DAY
DEv0TIONS.
GENERAL ORDERS ISSUED
FOR THE OBSERVANCE OF sATUR-
DAY, NAY 20, OVER THE
GRAVES.
By Commander Wood to Look After
Matters at the Soldiers Home
and Elsewhere.

Department Commander r.. Is. WOOD,
IF the Minnesota department of the
Grand Army, has issued general ord, RS
No. 3 relating to the observance &c
Saturday, May 30, as Memorial day He
says:
First-The S0th day of May falling this
year on Sunday, 'iemcrial day will be OBJ
served in this department according to rules
and regulations on the preceding day, Satur-
day, May %.
Second-This is a hallowed day. 1t is con-
secrated to the memory OF the heroes VINO
died that the principles which underl1e this
government, and all governments which are
organized as ours is, might be firmly estab-
EShed; and that the bonGmen might be free,
to the end that our children and our chill
dren's children and all mankind may enjoy
forever the government and the freedom our
sacred dead helped to purchase by their sacri-
fees. Let us conduct our beautiful Me-
mortal services that all men may learn there
by lessons of love and loyalty to constitu-
tional liberty, and in consequence be the
better prepared TO sacrifice themselves, II
necessary, for the government our fallen
comrades loved well.
Third-All flags should be displayed at half
mast on Memorial day.
Fourth-Posts are requested, if practicable,
to attend divine services on the Sunday pre-
ceding Memorial day.
Fifth-We should cordially invite the Wo-
mems Relief Corps, the Ladies OF the Grand
Army. of the Republic the Sons of Veterans,
churches, and all patriotic orders and civic
societies to assist us in these services; the
children, especially, should be requested TO
Join u.s. with flowers and songs, that they
may be inspired with love and reverence for
those who died for the good of others.
Sixth-The last regular session before, Me-
mortal day in our public schools is now ue-
voted to patriotic exercises. Our state super
intendent of public instruction, w. w. rem
dergast. has kindly consented to issue, upon
the suggestion of the department commander
of this department, circular letteI 10 t tte
county superintendent of schools OF the state
requesting them to issue a circular letter TO
the teachers of the public schools on the
various counties, requesting such teachers TO
hold patriotic exercises in the schools at the
last regular session before Memorial DAY. 10
these exercises comrades are welcomed, ana
it is hoped that as many as can Will attenu'
going in uniform, and joining in the exercises
if practicable Post commanders should con-
fer with school teachers in order tnat the
best results may be obtained.
Seventh-Post chaplains Will promptly 10Y
ward to the department chaplain, Rev. c. e.
Salter at Duluth, a full report OF all the
exercises engaged in by their posts in con-
pection with Memorial day. A blank report
is herewith mailed for that purpose.
Eighth-"By resolution, the THIRTEEN ma
tional encampment recommended, that the
reading of Lincoln's Gettysburg aaoIess De
made a special feature of Memorial Gay eA,
ercises held under the auspices OF the ufaAu
Army of the Republic.
The address is appended hereto-ana those
In charge of the exercises on Memorial udy
will cause the same to be read at sucn tiuie
dnr;ng the exercises as may be most fitting.
..Four score and seven years ago our latn-
ars brought forth upon this continent new
nation conceived in liberty and dedicated 10
the proposition that all men we're ~creatsS
ennal Now we are engaged in a great civil
war testing whether that nation, OF any ma
ton so, conceived and so dedicated, can long
endure We are met on great Dattlenelo
of the war, We are met to dedicate por-
tion of it as the final resting place CT those
who have given their lives that that natlon
might live
should do this; but, in larger sense, we
cannot dedicate we cannot consecrate, we
Cannot halIow this ground. The brave men,
living and dead, who struggled here have
copsecrated Il far above our power to add or
detract., The world will very little note, nor
long remember, what we say .here but 1t can
sever forget what they did here.
1T is for us, the living. rather. to be dedl-
Gated here to the unfinished work that they
have thus far so nobly carried on. IT s
rather for us to be here dedicated to the great
task remaining before us; that from these
honored dead we take increased devotion TO
that cause for which they mere gave the lase
full measure of devotion; that we here hlgh.
Iy resolve that these dead shall not nave dleo
in vain-that the nation shall, under Coo
have new birth of freedom, and that gov
ernment of the people. by the S>opie, ana LOT
the people, shall not perish from the EARTH.
General Orders No. 6, by Commander-in-
Chief Clarkson embody much the same sug-
gestion. He says:
The nations Sabbath day-that day upon
which patriotic people gather together every
where to do honor to their sacred dead-is
again upon us. Let us, as is most fitting,
unite in making the solemn services Of Me-
mortal day as impressive as possible by ap-
propriate exercises, and by strewing beauti-
full flowers upon the graves Of our comrades,
ard so show to the world that as citizens we
appreciate their great sacrifices for their
country, and as comrades we revere their
memories; and to the rising generation that
he WHO dies for his country dies nobly.
In the words of the lamented Logan: "If
other eyes grow dull, and other hands slack,
and other hearts cold In the solemn trust,
ours shall keep 1t as long IS the light and
warmth of life remain to u.s.
Let us invite to our assistance In this pat
riotic work that noble band of workers, the
Woman's Relief Corps, who have done so
much toward the success of our great organ
ization. and also the Sons of Veterans, who
must soon take up the work which the raw
ages of time shall compel US to lay down.
In the interest of patriotic instruction to
the children it is earnestly hoped that the
laudable work of talking to the children of
the public schools on the subjects and les
sons of Memorial day by veteran, now so
general throughout the order, will be OBJ
served this year, and hereafter, in every pub
lie school.
In general orders No. 2 the department COM
mander announces the appointment of the fol-
lowing committees:
Committee on Soldiers. Home
D. NJ. Gilmore, chairman. Post 126, Minneapolis