The Jersey City news., 1902-05-31
AT FREEHOL[ERS' PLOT

At the Cemetery Of the Holy Name,
ON West Side avenue, Henry Wilson
Post, No. 13, G. A. r., held its services.
The orator of the occasion, Eugene II.
Dewitt, sopke as follows:-
..No gift of the Board of Freeholders
has touched more deeply the peoples
heart than this burial plot TO the sol
diers of our State. No monument, here
after created on this spot, shall speak
more eloquently of the deeds of war
than this gift of the deeds of peace.
Peace has its victory, no less renowned
than war And this is glorious victory
of peace of which we may well be
proud, because the glory reflects not only
on the giver, but also on the recipients
and especially on our County and State
for remembering the bravery of its sol
diers The gift is not limited by creed
or conscription Each soldier may choose
his own company; Catholic or Protestant,
he may select his last camping ground,
and be that choice Bay View, Flower
Hill or the Holy Name Cemetery. We
feel the ultimate goal shall be Heaven
for all.
''And when taps are sounded, when the
bugle blast Of the High Arch Angel shall
call us all to muster, all equal IN the
rank and file, when the Sentinel Of
Heaven shall ask the countersign ---may
it--be L fought for Liberty, my Coun-
try and my Principles Then passing 70
the Throne of the Almighty, you shall
gain place eternal in the ranks of the
righteous at the Altar of your God.
MY friends, | may say comrades be-
cause todar, in spite Of my youth, my
heart goes back to the days of sixty zone
when you, comrades, and they, who We're
your comrades, marched shoulder to
shoulder and arm to arm to light for
your homes, your country and for liberty;
] call you comrades because the late war
has narrowed the gulf shat separated me
from your past; I call you comrades be
easise toduy she heroes of sixty-one and
ninety eight meet upon this last camping
ground which has been set aside SO 1T
tingly in your honor and to commemor-
ate -f1e lutNioIy VI Joui s&c<tu.
Grant. Meade, Mcclellan, Sickle. How
ard, Hooker. Sloeum and Reynolds; what
recolIeetiens these names bring back. The
drum beat of today recalls that Of sixty
one; you hear again the tramp, tramp,
tramp of your comrades; again you re-
member 50 keenly the snferings at An
dersonville and Libby prisons; you re-
call the freezAg winter bivouacs; the
dreary hot summer marches. how end
less they seemed, but oh, what history
marks their pathway.
"The blood of millions has established
the. right of liberty. Liberty, which first
saw dawn in this fair land, when just
as the sun kissed the dewy hills at Lex
ington, the cannons of our Revolutionary
forefathers poured forth the roar of war
and the clarion notes of liberty; liberty,
for which the Father of our Country,
George Washington. fought British ty-
ranny and with RochambeAu and Lafay-
cite wrested from Cornwallis at York
town the priceless gift, liberty, which
Thomas Jefferson laid as the corner stone
of our government, and on which he
framed our Constitution; liberty, which
Abraham Lincoln declared to be the
right of all men, irrespective of creed or
color, and that for which he gave his
/ life; liberty, the sound that went echo
ing to Heaven when the shackles fell
from the hands of millions of slaves and
their hearts and voices sent forth with
praise the gladsome cry Of liberty; liber-
ty. the song the mother crooned to the
babe on her breast as she dreamed of its
father far, far away with Sherman in
Georgia or Sheridan at Shenandoah.
/ fighting and dying. Brave old flag,
symbol of liberty, may your stars never
grow dim, may your white stripes never
blush in the crimson hue of tyranny's
shame, but down the ringing paths of
time, borne onward, ever onward, by
that principle perpetuated by the Grand
Army of the Republic. may your mission
ever be of peace, of liberty and indepen-
deuee"