The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1898-06-01
DECORATION DAY.

usual interest
At 9o'clock, the Grand Army Post,
No 90 moved down Union street,
headed by the Liberty Band. and fol-
lowed by a large number of school
girls dressed in white and wearing
sashes of the national eolors, proceed
ed to Mt. Hope and St. Johns Gene
teries, where the graves of soldiers
were decorated
The line was then reformed and Il
parade made through our streets, arriv-
ing at the First Baptist Church, Mt IL
o'clock where the formal exercises
took place, rs follows
Selection by Liberty Band
Prayer by Rev. W. W. Mohett, u.
y.
Singing by Children, My Country.
lis of thee
Reading of Lincoln's Gettysburg
address, by DIR. j. L. Scott.
Address by Rev IL \. Cerdo. H.
u.
Singing OF the Star Spangled Ban
ner. solo by Miss Helen Barkley,
aud chorus by children.
While this was being sung very
pretty tableaux was enacted by Miss
Mary Finger emerging from side
room and waving the American flag.
R,Y..I,,4f,p Ia. Pc. w., Whit,
The address by Rev. Dir. Cordo
was OF high order, eloquent and
finished in style. We have only
room fer the following imperfect cpl
tome
The general theme OF the address was: Me
mortal Day, its Significance, Lessons, and In
spiratons Attention WAS called Ia the uni
versatility saerelness and Importance OF this
National observance Decoration Day is con
secratcd 10 the hottest memories Of most val
lent service patriotic devotion and heroic
death, . From camp to the stars, i" was said in
ancient times Of the heroes who Tell in battle
To comrades living, in behalf Of comrades
dead, speak TO-DAY. Among those who sur
we are some who have gone unframed thro
tue I'll itAt ~ a NNhit' ~ i4'A iitl INV
fact of their good fortune diminish their
country gratitude AmonRt the survivors are
men with empty sleeves let hundred hands
be eatstretehed 10 help them. There are men
poised upon erutches-let millionaires stand
up that theN may sit down There are men
With MANNED and SCARED yisages = let the
world uncover i'll their presence for their
sears are badges of the true legion of honor
There are man with pale faces and broken CON
sttntions lei the nation make them not the
objects Of mtifnl charity, but the subjects of
simple usice and hountiful generosity
All honor and praise Is due To the great lead
ers Of the armies Fame fills his trump with
their names The historian records their
deeds The poet sings their praises The ar
tist paints their forms aud features The
sculptor mnuds them in colossal proportion
III bronze and marble But let us not forget
the men who won the aurels which their lead
ers Warc=the untitled, unselish, unequaled
private soldiers Inspired by deepest love of
country, without commissions and without the
expectation of commissions, they left the
farm shop. counting room, school room, and
entered INTO the hardships and hazards of the
war Fhey surrendered the corporations of
peaceful industry for the naItry pay OF the
soldier, the beauties and JOYS Of life FOR the
unloveliness and darkness of death
oh sacred deYotien to duty Oh marvellous
aud peerless patriotlsm Let the world know
that the American Republic IL founded upon
the affection of the people
The struggle for national life in the civil
war was the grandost that ilmmines the page
of history The suhimity of its moral fen
lures, the grandeur of its possible results To
our land and to the world, are almost beyond
the possibility of Just conception What wa,
the grand inspiration of this great conflict
Behind the soldiers of the army there was
mighty, impeding principle II WIS me prin
ciple Of a true, sell-sacriicng patriotism Tn,
men whe fought the battles of the Unioi
knew why and for what they were lighting Ii
was to maintain the Union Of the States, Lei
us guard faithfully what they died for Let
Us preserve unsulled the victory they won
the nation they redeemed Let us put down
all political knaycry, abolish all strife of fac.
tons Keep corruption from the halls OF
legislation, purify the ballot and be forever
true 10 the great principles of national life
enunciated and maintained by the war The
victory won by moral IDEAS must be held by
moral forces The people must repudiate all
leaders who wonld be false to liberty by be-
ing false 10 virtue We have satisfied the YER
diet Of the war by incorporating into the con
sttutiou the doctrines Of unity, equality,
justice, which the war established, as alike the
will of providence aud the people Let us not
rest in the constitution ms a form, but keep it
in action as Il living power
Love of country, pure exalted patriotism
brought the American Soldiers on the field,
al. a., A..
dnre the conflict and to win the final victory
20 honorable and glorious in all its grand
issues What patriotism secured, and main
tanned, let patriotism still maintain At any
cost
Let rs be >igilant that no custom, institution
or organism that will not harmonize fully with
the spirit and aims Of constitutional liberty
be suffered to fasten itself upon the political
organism of the Nation We have not driver
sectiunalism from the halls Of legislation and
vanquished II upon the field that seetariauisn
may now tamper with legislation till it shall
compel anotherappeal to arms. BE this the
creed Of every American, engraved on hi'
very sonl Ne property in man, no priesthood
nor ehurchly interference in the State, NJ
corruption at the polls, M caste no Sect, NJ
vampire in the grand temple Of liberty, who's,
foundations were laid in the faith and heroisn
Of our fathers, and within whose walls We have
now enshrned three hundred thousand mar
tyrs Here AT their tombs, let rs swear anew
our LOYALTY 10 truth, to virtue, to freedom, I,
Justice, to humanity, to country, to God A
we place flowers on their graves let ms draw
fresh inspiration for the cause for which ihel
died
The flowers draw sustenanee and beaut,
from life beneath the sod, 50 the life of ia,
nation shall henceforth b. fed from that man
ly, heroic tide Of life which seemed 10 disap
pear from view, but which flows on in deep
er channel, pure, consecrated perennial
The First Baptist Church was elab
orately decorated for the Memorial
Day Exercises Flags and bunting
were tastefully arranged on the plat
form, the sides of the church, tn.
front of the choir gallery, and tn,
organ The national colors were hung
in festoons and other beautiful form,
wherever opportunity offered. On the
platform on one side Of the desk were
the pictures Of the four war presidents