Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-05-31
AT HALLOWElL.

The veterans of John =. Hubbard Posi-
decorated with wraaths and garlands
the graves Of 175 Of their sleeping com
rades, Friday. Previous to the eXcr-
cis5s of the morning details of the Post
visited the. cemeteries III Manchester
West r'lrmingddle ANA Chelsea. and
these graves are numbered with those
mentioned.
At . \. NJ. the depleted ranks Of thc
Post gathered ut the Post rooms ana
joined the awaiting procession, when
the march to tire cemetery was made,
IN the following order:
Iallowen Police
G. y. Brown. Marshall.
Aids.
Lafayette Band. Edmund Doyan,
Leader.
Uniform Rank. X. of p.
John +. Hubbard Posi-, M. 20, q. A. r.
Ex-Soldiers and Sailors.
Disabled Soldiers in Carriages.
Carriage with Flowers.
President Of ihr Day.
Members of lily Government in Car
riages.
clergy in Carriages.
Citizens in Carriages
The Memorial Grafton was delivered
BY Rev. Il. r. Dunnacl at City hall 1T
o'clocE. There was q large attend
anoe Of tnwnsreople ana the exercises
were Of unusual moment ANA interest
Beautiful selections were rendered by
Carev'S orchestra.
Music. Careys Orchesi ra
Prayer, Rev. Z. A. Wight
Remarks. President Of the Day
Music. Orchestra
Grafton, Rev II. L. Dunaaril
Music. Orchestra
b"nodiction. Rev. Walter Canham
Mr.. Dunnack said in part:
Through all history there appears an
heroic figure, lighted by fire. dafI<en4d
by smoke, stained by blood. with fierce
ness and melancholy contending for the
mastery in his countenancc This fig
ure is not that of prophet, priest OF
poet, but of the soldier. You see him
1T Marathon contending with the
Asiatics, with Martel he defended the
cross when the crescent undertook it's
destruction, with Wellington he pre-
served the peace of Europe at Water
leo; he struck the iirst blow for Amer
lean Independence at Lexington. Or a
thousand bloody fields he defended the
Union
We come to hold solom memorial this
day, because of what the soldiers did
for us in the war of the rebellion. The
nation has not summoned its sons ana
daughters from factory, schools and of
fees to celebrate this anniversary be
cause the old soldiers need Memorial
Day. They viii remember without our
help, the reverberating thunders that
woke the July day across the plains Of
Gettysburg. No. no men and women
about me, about these men. They need
no memorial day, but we do. There is
danger that we will forget the price
these men paid for the Union and for
human liberty ana forgetting shall neg
icct to defend.
We come with flowers, with music,
with oratory, to hold solemn memorial
If our efforts are not 10 be mockery we
must remember the ideals this day
stands for. If we forget the reasons
involved in the war. If we forget the
price of victory. If we forget the re-
suits OF tho contest. Then our flowers
will fade while vet in our hands: Our
music become insane discords. our ora
tory win become sounding brass.
This day IL to remind Us of the great
principles involved in the Civil War.
II was not for independence Otis ana
Adams OF Massachusetts, Hiney in
Virginia. Parker at Lexington. Prescott
at Hurker Hill, and Washington al
valley forge had made that secure. II
was not for territory others had carried
the Gar to the gulf across the MISSISSIPPI
pi and over the mountains to the Pa
cific. 1t was net in defence of slavery.
Lincoln said II will save the Union
with slavery if possible; if not he
would save the t-nion without slavery"
The unspeakablc moral struggle in
which those men engaged then, was to
save the Union.
The people Of one section generally
believed that the Union was Il federal
union Of the states. and that the states
as such had Il right to withdraw. The
rest of the country maintained that the
Constitution is a federal union of the
people and that no provision for dis
union is expressed or implied therein.
Slavery was guaranteed by the Con-
stituti0n and no political party propose
10 Interfere with it: but whether it
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