The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-06-06
HONOR THE
NATIONS DEAD
Major Lambert'S Eloquent Ora
ton on Lincoln.


War and Local Battery-Services
at Monumental Hope League
Provide Banquet.
Memorial Day, especially dear to
the hearts the patriotic citizens
throughout our broad land, was, as
of yore, appropriately observed in
Morristown. There was a general
cessation of business and it was re-
marked by strangers who happened to
be in town that they never before had
seen in place the size Of Morristown
such general tribute paid to the
memory of the departed dead. Flags
were half -masted from the flagstaff
on the Green. business houses, and
many places of residence, while over
each soldiers grave in Evergreen and
the cemeteries Of surrounding viii
lagos, hoated small flag in memory
of those under the sod who had: faced
danger, disease and death.
Promptly at ten O'Clock Bugler
Hessey sounded "fall in" when the
Morristown Flute and Drum Corps,
the members OF Gen. Torbet Post, G.
A. r., headed by Commander James
Darling; platoon of soldiers from
our late war with Spain commanded
by Benjamin Sayre followed a num-
ber of veterans in carriages. At the
rear, supporting the old veterans,
Capt. Cyrus Loree, marched the Lin
coin Guards in their new uniforms
of gray with maroon trimmings; the
gun was drawn by pony this year.
During the exercises on the Green
the Guards fired minute guns from
Fort Nonsense.
The line of march was down South
street, countermarch at Miss Dana's
School, up South street, around the
Park to the monument, where the
solemn ritual of the Grand Army
for the burial of the dead took place,
followed by the pronouncing the bene-
diction.
At the conclusion of these exercises
an informal sociable was held in
Grand Army Headquarters, and at
one o'clock the line of march was
again taken up to the County Hall
where sumptuous banquet had been
prepared by the ladies of Hope
League. The hall was prettily draped
with flags and the platform was
bower of flowers. DR.. Pierson pre-
sided in his usual happy and hospit-
albe manner
Following the banquet addresses
we're made by Rev. Albert Erdman,
D. D., Rev. J. B. Beaumont, Rev. j.
l.. Hurlbut, DR.. F. W. Owen, Mayor
Reed and ex-Mayor Rev, Norman L.
Fox, who read the poem, "The Old
Canteen, by Wright, in touching
manner. Commander Darling was
then presented with large cake,
after which the gathering adjourned
upon the singing of America.
In the evening a large audience
gathered at the Lyceum. The singing
by Miss Tippett, of "Tenting on the
Old Camp Ground" Columbia, the
Gem of the Ocean, and "The Star
Spangled Banner" Tin which the
audience joined in the chorus, Ewas
enjoyed by all. DR.. Erdman offered
the invocation; Judge Cutler read
the Roll of Honor, while Rev. Norman
P. Fox read Linooln's Gettysburg ad-
dress. Following the singing of
America the benediction was pro-
nounoed by Rev. J. L. Hurlbut, ID.
The grafton on abraham Lincoln, "
by Maj VIM H. Lambert, of Phila-
delphia, formerly of the 9th and
33rd New Jersey Volunteers, was
listened to with close attention. 1t
was, in part, as follows:
Such is the veneration in which the
memory of Abraham Lincoln is
held, such is the halo which surrounds
his name and his history, that it is
difficult now to recall him to view as
he was before the War of the Rebel
lion.
So important was his work during
the four eventful years, so powerful
was his influence then and since, that
it is now almost impossible to realize
how little known Lincoln was to the
country at large prior to the assem-
bling of the Convention which nomi-
mated him for the Presidency.
Elected to the Presidency by min
GRITTY of the popular vote of the
United States. his election followed
by the pronounced withdrawal of
several states, Mr.. Lincol:. might we'll
be awed by the stupendous RESPONSE
bility which awaited him. The long
period of suspense between his elec-
tion and inauguration was fraught
with intense anxiety, unrelieved by
any public utterance from 1.-THE Presi-
dent-eleot until he set forth from the
home to which he was never to return
live. His touching farewell to his
Springfield neighbors, and the series
OF addresses in reply to greeting
from the various communities through
which he passed on his journey to the
National Capital, plainly showed
that he appreciated the weight of the
burden which he was to assume, and
so far encouraged the party which
had elected him; but they gave little
evidence that he was equal to the inn
pending responsibility.
In the lurid light of after events
the assertion which Mr. Lincoln made
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