The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-05-31
MEMORIAL SERVICES AT THE
CEMETERY.

Universal Decoration Of Graves-Hun-
dreds at Nuuanu Cemetery-Oration
BY Judge Estee-The farewell volleys.
Memorial Day was celebrated yester-
day more generally than it has been for
several years. A feature of the day
was the practically universal decoration
of graves in the cemeteries. In Nuuanu
cemetery there was scarcely a grave
that did not bear some floral remem-
branCe. The same was true of the Ca
tholic cemetery on King street, and
the Makiki cemetery, while many went
out to Pearl City cemetery to renter
like service there. The graves and cas-
ket of the royal dead both at the maui
solemn up Nuuanu Valley and at the
tomb of Lunalilo in Kawaiahao church.
yard were strewn with flowers early in
the day.
The memorial services for the soldier
dead under the auspices of the Grand
Army of the Republic were well at
tended Hundreds gathered in and
about Alakea street where the process
sion formed and from whence it moved
up Alakea and Emma streets to Vine
yard and Nuuanu and thence to the
cemetery At the cemetery the memo
rial services of the Grand Army ritual
were held. Following Judge Estee's
address, Mrs. w. w. Hall read Lincoln's
| Gettysburg address. Then there was
the Roll call fthe Dead" the bugles
sounded retreat, and a detachment or
Coast Artillery from Camp Mckinley
fired three volleys over the graves. All
present then sang America" and the
services closed with the benediction by
Rev e. S. MuCkley.
Judge EsLee's address was as follows:
The thirtieth day of May will always.
in America, be a day cOnsecrated to the
memory of her soldier dead. We all aC-
knowledge our debt of gratitude to the
soldiers of the rebellion. Today $4,000, 600
of the American people stand uncovered
in the presence of three hundred thou
sand of the martyred dead, who died
that this country might live whose
lives were given as ransom for ma
tional life, for freedom, for union and
for liberty.
1t is forty years since the brave men
now silent in their graves, shouldered
their guns and marched to the front to
defend or to die for their country No
one who has not been tried in the cru
chile of a soldiers life, who has not
made long and tOilsome marches. who
has not paced the solemn sentinels
round in the dark and storm by night
or who has not helped to form the first
| rank in the deadly charge, can fully ap-
preciate what a soldiers life means.
The man without patriotism is man
| without country, and the highest test
of mans patriotism is exhibited when
| he willingly defends his country I'M war,
for the strength of nation is in its
men, in its ability to defend itself
, through their devotion to principle and
the love among the people for their
| country. 1t was this devotion to prin-
ciple. this love of country, so character
istic of the American people, that called
to arms million of Americans to de-
fend the Union.
In this Republic each citizen is a part
of the nation; he shares in it's triumphs
and in its defeats, for the people are
/ the government. Our country is our
: home. Without a country we would
have no home, no flag, no patriotism, no
honored graves to decorate. Imagine a
/ country with no illustrious dead. In
America, every national cemetery is a
monument to American patriotism.
The Grand Army of the Republic of
J the United States as at present organ
/ lied, is the most illustrious veteran as
ISOLATION in the world. 1t has rallied
/ together the living soldiers of past
wars and it has glOrified its heroic dead
| 1t has declared all American wars were
national wars. and that American vete-
! ran soldiers are the wards of the ma
/ ton. Thus by their influence this gov
eminent has provided homes for old and
! disabled soldiers and thereby this gene
ration has shown that it has not for
gotten the heroes of the conservatism of
| the past and the patriotism of the PFC
! sent. The Grand Army of the Re-
public has no enemies in peace, as it
! has no politics in war.
! They are the friends of the dead whe-
/ Their they wore the blue or the gray.
| They stand for all that is American.
! And they know that no man can fight
under the Stars and Stripes without
| loving that flag and the country it re-
presents
| In no single instance have the gallant
! sons of America failed their country in
! time of peril The great Republic has
always been sustained by the faithful
| devotion of free men. Wealth may aid
! in preserving a nation, but it can never
alone make it great or fill the ranks
! of the army.
| We meet today in the name of peace.
There is a common brotherhood among
! the veteran of the war of the Rebellion
whether they wore the blue or the gray.
! Dead men are not enemies, and happily
among the living, the animosities of the
| rebellion are ended. All were Americans
| in that war, and we come here now, not
to decorate the graves of the Union
dead but also the graves of the Confede-
rate dead if there be any here. Mistaken
they may have been but they fought a
! brave fight.
! The greatest name which the Ameri-
| can rebellion brought conspicuously to
| the front was that of Abraham Lincoln
Though he was in no sense a soldier,
yet no man of ancient or modern time
! possessed so many of the qualities of
greatness. Born among the poor, rear
ed on the frontier, accustomed to all the
hardships of pioneer life, a self-educat-
ed man with all his early friendships
among the plain people of the place
where he lived he possessed a broad hu-
manity beyond that of any man of his