Cañon City record., 1901-06-06
PATRIOTIC OBSERVANCE.
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held in Gods Acre. You have all had
share in that observance of wonder
full meaning. You have come from
the push and hurry and hustle Of our
busy life to scatter flowers with sigh
and tear upon the graves Of the
blue. and tear and sigh upon the
graves of the gray. You have sought
by slch an action to express in some
manner your wealth of devotion to
the sayiors Of your country. Not
here in Canon City alone, but over all
our great and glorious country are
TIE people gathering to do homage
to their noble dead. Upon
this day at least our nation does not
forget TO remember those who made
possible our present blessings; who
Insured our future happiness; who
purchased for us our union at the cost
of terrible sacrifice. They arose at
the call of the nations leader, brave
men and true. II once was feared
that the observance Of this day would
keep alive the red embers Of feud
and strife beneath the cold ashes Of
apparent peace. But such fears have
never been realized-nor could they
be. A beautiful observance, began
while yet the cannon's mouth belched
forth destruction, while yet the earth
was trembling to the tramp tramp of
armed millions; began too, not by the
victorious North, but by bereaved
ones of the South. A simple and
modest, yet noble and elevsting GUS
tom. Instead Of animosity Being
aroused, hostility kept alive, it has
been found that often over the flower
strewn grave the hand of the South
has been met and. grasped by the
hand of the North; that sectional
jealousy has been swallowed up by
the nohler sentiments inspired by the
day. That often, side by side, to the
last resting place of their comrades.
have marched the blue and the gray,
and together have united in cheers
for the living and tears for the dead"
Republics may be ungrateful. To
the living soldiers who gave their all
for the maintenance. and now old,
crippled aod poor. and who ask but a
pittance from the rich land they
saved. alas. too often that bare pit
tance is denied or niggardly given,
and after their loyal hearts have ceas-
ed to beat, they give them stone.
"We must remember, and with sad
ness, that sc years have rolled by
since that victorious army of veterans
the like of which the world never
saw before. and most likely will never
see sgain-msrched along Pennsyl-
vania avenue at the close of the war:
The ranks of these veterans have be-
come thinner. The command: CLOSE
up, is more frequently heard, and
when they meet their words not only
revert to the time when they laid in
trenches before some beleaguered
city, or rushed in charge, their COM
rades falling like the dead leaves be-
fore the autumnal blast under the
deadly fire of Southern guns, but
look forward to the time, may lis
coming be delayed, when no longer
one comrade may hail anothe er, for
they know
Ere long the last shall seek the camp
Beyong their battle liues-
That silent camp that waits for all
Beneath the misty pines"
"0ne after another the veterans OF
the civil war are responding to the
drum-beat on high; one after another,
oh, so rapidly now, are they hearing
the commendation-they have fought
good fight, and with course finished,
with this worlds weapons forever
laid down, are passing into the eternal
armistice Of the otker world.
eve realize on this Memorial Day
that there are yet dangers that
threaten our Republic. AS we decor
ate the graves of the fallen, Reming-