The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-28
THE FEDERAL MEMORIAL DAY.
WILL BE OBSERVED WITH USUAL
EXERCISES IN SAVANNAH.

Hancock Post. &. A. r., VIII Meet Mt
Laurel Grove Cemetery Tuesday
Afternoon to Pay Due Tribute TO
the Memory of Their COmrndes-
Vice Commander johnson, in His
General order for the Observance
of the Day, AIIudes TO the Events
of the Year just Ending-President
LincOIn's Gettysburg Address to he
Read as a Part of the Observance
of the Day.
Tuesday, May 80, is the Federal Memo
rial day. and will be observed as such 10y
all the Grand Army posts throughout the
country. The observance of the day by
Hancock Post, G.. A, r., viii, as usual,
be simple and transformations. The men,
bers of the post will meet at Laurel Grove
cemetery at o'clock in the afternoon,
where the usual services viii be conducted
and the graves of the comrades buried
there decorated. As there is scarcity
of flowers this year, IL may be necessary
to conine the decorations to wreaths OF
laurel.
An order recently issued to all the
Grand Army posts by the senior vice CON-
mander. commanding. w. c. Johnson,
calls The at ention of the posts to the ap-
preaching Memorial day. The order in
cludes the following paragraph:
THE year closing with the next Memo
rial day has added new strength and pow
er to the nation and new glory to the flag.
The worth and the fame of the American
soldier and sailor has been glorously ad-
vanced. The achievements of the days
of the sixties" still remain, and have rem
| dered possible the glorious victories won
| in the interests of liberty and humanity.
| Let us, then, on Memorial day, StreW
springs choicest flowers in tenderness and
| love upon the grave of every defender OF
! the republic, and In song, story and fitting
| ceremony recall the services and unmatch-
| ed sacrifice of those who. sleeping in the
| gardens of the sea or In the bosom of the
| nation, their place of sepulchre unmarked
| and unknown, gave not only their lives,
| but their very name, for their country"
AT the last national encampment it was
| provided that the reading of President Lin
coins address al Gettysburg be made a
| special feature in all memorial day exer-
c.ses conducted under the auspices of the
] Grand Army of the Republic. This order
! will be observed here and the address wall
be read al the cemetery tuesday afternoon
! by the adjutant of the post, Mr.. S. f. b.
| Gillespie.
President Lincoln's address, delivered al
/ -
one, and one which can now be read with
approval In all sections of the union. The
portion of the address which will be read
! is as follows
-Four score and seven years ago our
fathers brought forth on this continent, a
new nation, conceived in liberty and ded-
icated to the proposition that all men are
! created equal Now we are engaged in
a great civil war; testing whether that ma
| ton, or any nation 80 conceived, and so
| dedicated, can long endure We are met on
a great battlefield of that war. We have
| come to dedicate a portion of that field,
as a final resting place for those who here
! gave their lives that that nation might
! live. 1t is altogether fitting and proper
| that we should do this.
but, in a larger sense. we cannot ded-
| icate-we cannot conservative cannot
! halow-this ground. The brave men,
| living and dead, who struggled here, have
| consecreated il, far above our poor power
to add or detract. The world viii little
note, nor long remember what we say
here, but it can never forget what they
| did here. II is for us the living, rather, to
! be dedicated here to the unfinished work
| which they who fought here have thus far
| so nobly advanced. 1t is rather for us TO
be here dedicated to the great task re-
naming before us-that from these hon
ored dead we take increased devotion to
that cause for which they gave the last
full measure of deVoton--that we here
highly resolve that these dead shall not
have died in vainr-that this nation, under
God, shall have new birth of freedom
and that government of the people, by The
people, for the people, shall not perish
from the earth"