The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-02-02
AAMLIN POST MEMORIAL.
Exercises Held in Memory o
the HOnOred Dead.

Interesting Exercises Held in Memory of
the HOnOred Dead.
IL IAMLIN POST, g. A. r. held its
n annual memorial service one
III week ago tonight, in memory of
the two departed comrades. Ed
ward Hackett, ST.. of the 103rd Ohio Vol
unteer Infantry, and Norvil Whitney
of the 196th Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
The meeting was addressed by Com.
rades ]. T. Haskell, M. w. Lang, d. M.
Hall and g, Sage, Supt. Kinnison
made some brief but appropriate re-
marks. Papers were read by Mrs. ]. 7.
Gardner and E. NJ. Linder. Below will
be found the address of Hon. j. 7.
Haskell in part:
Comrades and Ladies': = 1 am
pleased to address you on all occasions
when we do homage to the memory of
departed comrades. This by the neces-
tiles of the case must in part, at least,
be an occasion of sadness, but not al
together such. 1t is not necessarily
the man who has lived the greatest
number of days and years that has
lived the longest life. remember
hearing our departed comrade, Capt.
@. w. Horr say on one occasion, speak
ing at Decoration day service of a
fellow townsman and soldier, who lost
his life in the service of his country
when scarce twenty years of age, Ed
win Sprague, dying though he did be-
fore he was twenty years of age lived a
longer life than many man who has
passed his three score years and ten or
even four score years, for he lived and
died for noble purpose and his mem
ory will endure not alone because his
name is carved on yon granite monu-
ment, but because his name is written
in the hearts of his countrymen, the
name of one who gave his life
that his country might live And
so say of Comrades Whitney and
Hackett, their names are enrolled
among the numbers of those who died
that their country might live.
"In these two comrades, we have the
type of the two classes of our citizens
of which the Union army was COM
posed. Comade Whitney was true
native born American citizen, one OF
the immense number of farmers boys,
who went to the front in defence of the
flag. Well has the writer portrayed
such lad in that history true to life
of the Union soldier, Corporal 81
Klegg.
"Comrade Hackett was true type OF
that other class of our citizens of which
our army was composed. No less true,
no less loyal, no less brave than the
others. In him we see the foreign
born American citizen. He left his
home IN the Emerald Isle that he
might make for himself home in thi.
land of Liberty, this Land of the Free
and the Home of the Brave So with
the earnest and true Irish sons of Lib
erty, when the flag of his adopted coun,
try was dragged by traitors hands il
the dust, there was no place for Com.
rade Hackett but in the ranks of the
defenders of that beloved flag. No ties
of wife and home could stay him SO
long as that beloved flag was in danger
"What is left for us, fellow COM
rades, is with true manliness and cour.
age to meet every question of human
life, and do what we believe to be hon.
estly right, and let the end come when
1t will, our lives will not be short, but
long because of noble achievement"
During the program a quartet
Messrs. Mohr, Watts, Wadsworth and
Wight rendered some good music, first
''Tenting Tonight" and REST, Com.
rades, Rest" The latter was especially
praiseworthy, in view of the heroic
way the gentleman battled with it and
finally won, amid applause.