Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-05-01
FOR MEMORIAL DAY.
Commander worrar Issues the Annu

commander WOrra1l Issues the Annual
Address to the Department OF Delaware.
John W. Worral of Pleasant Hill,
commander in-chief Of the Department
of Delaware, q. A. H., has issued the
following Memorial Day address to the
members of tho order in the State:
Headquarters Department of Delaware,
Grand Army of the Republic, Wilmington,
Del, April 26, la2-Comrades Veterans of
the Grand Army of the Republic: The
nations Memorial Day, May HOth is near.
Let us in the most fitting manner make the
services of Memorial Day us impressive MS
| possible. Memorial Day is peculiar to our
American civilization. 1t is Il tlily on which
we honor alike the humblest private and the
greatest general. Ii is not ushered in with
| shout and song and strains OF JOY. II is II
day of the heart, of the soul, day sacred to
memory ns in ministries of mourning she
marches up and down among the grassy
mounds upon which tender hands have placed
the wreaths of sorrow and affection. At this
fowery gateway of summer. we stop amidst
the roses to renew in silence our faith in
solf-government by tender ministries to those
who gave it, and In the promises of iminor-
tality written i'll leaf ard bud and flower, we
can read the story of national honor and
picture the future which has been guaranteed
to lovers Of liberty. In the silence broken only
| by the falling OF flowers upon the graves,
every patriotic heart beats with tender love
country anu every We tlNtbflIt is "
monument 10 freedom. Tears and flowers
for the dead, love and gratitude for the liv-
ing beneath the mounds lie those who once
fought for national honor, above them wave
the blossoms which tell of immortal life.
Post commanders have duty, the carry
ing out in Il betting manner the usual eSer-
cises of the day; and TINT those exercises
| may have Il wider influence and greater sig
,iticancc, they are urged to invite the Sons
OF Veterans, Spanish American War Vet
Grams, ciyia associations, the city authori-
ties and the children of the many schools in
the city. 1t is the desire of your department
commander that "Lincoln's Address at
Gettysburg he read as Il purt of the pro-
gramme of Memorial Day exercises, and all
flags be put ut fNlt-must.
The Sunday preceding the Goth day of May
is known as Memorial Sunday. II Is the prac-
tlce OF posts to attend divine worship on
that day and acknowledge their debt Of
gratitude to God. Let this custom still con-
tinue by each post in this department, and
il is urged on all post commanders that it is
their duty TO get full attendance of the
comrades and march in Il body to church on
that day.
In order that the youth of the nation may
see and be taught an object lesson by the
presence of the comrades, II is desired that
u detail be made so that @. A. X. comrades
in full uniform visit all the schools, and
either by their presence or short address i'm
press the children, so that their young minds
might grasp such lessons OF patriotism that
the country may be benefited by them.
Long after the Grand Army shall have laid
down its work grateful people, not now,
but then living, will take up the labor and
Keep fresh and green in all their hearts the
deeds of the Union soldiers of the great war.
"Our veteran soldiers. Those who sleep have
earned their country's love,
We give them flowers here--and Heaven
gives them laurel wreaths above.
hn Fn'y at
walk with faltcring tread,
We crown with the honOrs We accord the
patriot dead,
And loyalty and truth unite on each Mem
orinl Day
In kindly greeting to the boys still boys,
though old and gray"
The order is accompanied by Presi-
dent Lincoln's address at Gettysburg,
November 10Th, 1863, as follows:
Four score md seven years ago, our
fathers brought forth upon this continent n
new nation, conceived in liberty and dedi-
Gated TO the proposition That all men were
created equal. Now we are engaged in a
great civil war, testing whether that nation
or any other nation SO conceived and SO
dedicated, can long endure. We are met on
q great battlefield of the war; We are met to
dedicate portion of 1t M the final resting
place of those who have given their lives
that the nation might live
IL Is hltogether hitting and proper that we
should do this, but, in larger sense, we
cannot dedicate, We cannot consecrate, we
cannot hallow this ground. The brave men.
living and dead, who struggled here, have
consecrated it far above our power TO add or
detract. The world will very 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 dedi-
Gated here to the unfinished work, that they
have thus fur so nobly carried on. II is
rather for us to be here dedicated to the
great task remaining before lis that from
these honored dead we take increased devo-
tion to that cause for which they here gave
the lust full measure of devotion; that we
here highly resolve that these dead shall not
have died in yain-that the nation shall
under God, have new birth Of freedom
and that government of the people, by the
people, for the people, shall not perish from
the earth.
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