Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-30

Gettysburg address. The st. Elizabeth
choir then rendered Tread Lightly Ger
Their Graves" the ST. Elizabeth Band play
ing the accompaniment. An address by Mr..
Selden NJ. Ely. LIN. principal of the Van
Buren, school and Annex building, Anacos-
tia, followed.
The civil war is long since over" said
Mr.. Ely. 1T now remains for the older
generation. who fought, and the younger
generation, their descendants. to heal the
wounds still open to cultivate fraternity,
to recognize honest motives, to disseminate
broader knowledge. to explain the cost and
worth Of liberal and progressive institutions,
but, above ALL 10 create such a nobility of
manhood and citizenship that there will be
guaranty of honesty at the polls and in
tegrity in office. My country may have sec
tons, but by whom Or by what can they
now be bounded? There Is no constitution
al mountain high enough nor river of pop
ular feeling sufficiently broad TO separate
them. There is the Forth, the south, the
east the west; yet they are necessary to
each other as the four quadrants to a
complete circle
National Strength.
The speaker asked what constitutes ma
tional strength, and said 1T does not consist
in the size of an army or its outward equip
ment. He said all our wars have taught
that 1t is a conviction of right upheld by
the discipline of intelligence that wins
The reason for the remarkable success
Of the American over the Spanish arms in
the recent conflict lies in the superior in
telliSence of the American officer and pri-
vate," said Mr. Ely. He said the questions
to be considered are how this training was
obtained and how it may be continued and
improved. Continuing. he said:
Were | to answer them | would say that
the training has resulted from the school
house and the church. which abound ev-
eryWhere and are open to all. 1t can be
continued by fostering such institutions and
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places of profit and honor are open to those
who arc the best prepared
Rev. MiIier's Address.
THE Star Spangled Banner was next
played by the band, followed by Sleep
Comrade. Sleep" by the choir, the band ac-
companying The Grafton of the day was
then delivered by Rev. Nelson H. Miller
DID, late of Newark, Del, now of Anacos-
tia. He said in part:
We know today as not before that those
who sleep beneath this sod battIed and died
that the nation might live The blessings
OF civil liberty are enjoyed from sea to sea
and the government for which they fought
mas not only been saved from overthrow,
out ITS foundations are made deeper and
broader. We are no longer a free country
in name, but in very truth. From the lakes
to the gulf all men are free and equal be-
fore the law. Our national emblem floats
over land and sea, affording equal protec-
ton to all men, of whatever race or color.
Hence our dead have monument more en-
during than brass and more precious than
Parian marble. Their eptaph is written
upon the heart of free, united and happy
people, and the shackles of four millions of
slaves have been piled up, upon them in
scribed in imperishable letters: Sacred to
the memory of those who died in the cause
of human freedom
The Decoration day ceremonies of this
year. he said, mean more than ever
before. We can now take the wreaths
from the graves of confederate soldiers and
the wreaths from the federal soldiers
graves and link them together, and with
this bright. beautiful chain bind this whole
land together in peace and unity. All sec
tions of our country, with the sense of
common obligations, have Joined hands
and hearts under our common flag, and to-
day, instead of singing Marching Through
Georgia. We sing Marching With Geor-
gia, as we move against common foe"
He then dwelt upon the war with Spain at
addressing himself to the members of the
Grand Army present, speaking to them as
an ex-soldier OF the war for the Union.
Choir and Band.
DIR. Miller's address was followed by the
singing of the Battle Hymn of the Re-
public by all present, after which taps
were sounded and the gathering dispersed
The st. Elizabeth Band was under the
leadership of Mr.. Jerome Anderson, and
the choir was directed by Mr.. 8. c. Young
The choir was composed as follows for the
occasion: Sopranos, Mrs. Oxford French
and Misses Nellie Robey, Ida Edelin, Lala
Mattingly and M. T. Quaid; altos, Misses
Emma Dodge. Alice Green, Olive Simpson
and Minnie Carr: tenors, Messrs. e. T.
Davis, Robert Malcolm and Evander
French; basses Messrs. s. G. Young. Rob-
ert Green and H. M. Conrad. The commit
tee on the decoration of the graves APP
pointed from the hospital consisted of the