The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-06-01
C. A. R. AT OAKWOOD
DECORATED GRAVES OF THE
 FEDERAL SOLDIERS.
As Orator for William B. Woods Post, Judge Buckley Delivered Stirring and Patriotic
 Address.

Simply, but impressively the graves of Union soldiers, who sleep in Oak wood Cemetery, were strewn with flow CTS yesterday afternoon and the occa- sion was made noteworthy by an earnest and patriotic adress by Judge |C. w. Buckley. postmaster at Mont gomery.
 The decoration exercises under the direction of William B. Woods Post G. A. R., were to have taken place Monday but were postponed owing to down. pour of rain in the afternoon of that day.
 Without formality members of the local c. A R. Post went to Oakwood at { o'clock yesterday afternoon.
 Robert West. acting as chaplain read la prayer and President Lincoln's Gettysburg address was head by George post commander
 Then Judge Buckley delivered the ad- dress of the occasion as follows: Comrades and Friends:
 Time changes the character and modifies the spirit of anniversaries as of this Memorial Day devoted to honor ing the memory of the Union dead who fell in the great Civil War. This day will come and go In the future as it has done in the past. yet not just the same. In the years to come, rapidly thinning
 
 field where lie the remains of those who fell beside them forty years ago, fight ing their country's battles; as we stand here today, with uncovered heads, in the presence of our silent and honored dead. Widows with gray hairs win stand again by the graves of their brave husbands who left them in their youth and never returned. Time can not change this. It cannot dim the memory of the heroic deeds of our noble dead. It cannot blot out the love we cherish for the cause for which they gave up their lives.
 These sacrificial graves will always remain sacred spots. And tnose who rest there are beyond the mutation of time. They are mustered into the Army Triumphant.
 "'On Fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread,
 And glory guards with solemn round The bivoac of the dead
 which we are witnesses. Lowell says: New occasions teach new duties, Time makes ancient good uncouth.'
 Comrades: By the grace of God we are spared to gather here again as the outpost. a little remnant of the Grand Army of the Republic. on a memorable occasion, to pitch our solitary camp where forty years ago they dotted our Southland as the stars of heaven. To- day few land marks indeed are left to tell the returning soldier where he camped and marched and fought. So kindly does nature cast the mantle of forgetfulness over the scenes of strife and hate.
 Memorial Day is no longer a day of mourning. The anguish of those early sorrowful years has passed. We have been permitted to live to see the fruits of victory toGa al hfttarnhSo We now see the Union cemented by the blood of those who fought bravely on both sides for what each believed to be right. During the passing years new history has been written. new literature created which speaks tender sympathy each for the other. It Is not the Union dead alone we think of on this Memorial Day and occasion. In the words of our comrade William Mo- Kinley The time has come, in the evolution of sentiment when the gov ernment should care for the graves of the Confederate dead
 This day is no longer typical of an- tagonism and division. 1t now wears a new significance in its commemoration of the love of a great people for a country no longer discovered, but now and henceforth united in feeling no less than in fact. forever one and indivlsi- ble.
 Dear comrades and friends, on this Memorial day let us be profoundly thankful to a kind Providence for peace. National peace which flows like river. revealing us to the world fin our true light. a mighty nation loving freedom, humanity and justice and the arts and pursuits of peace as the most priceless of all things. On this memo rable occasion which appeals to our highest nature and the deepest in- instincts of the human heart, let us comrades, as a little remnant of the great military organization of the Grand Army of the Republic give thanks to Almighty God for the Chris tian unity and fraternal spirit so con spiciously manifested in the great ec- clesiastical assemblages of our country whose sessions have just closed Espe- cially are our thanks due to the pas sage on May 19, 1904, of the following resolution. too long delayed, by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of Ameri- ca. assembled at Buffalo. N Y. and sent to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States at Mobile. Ala.
 Resolved, That this General As sembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America hereby removes all aspersions and charges of any and every kind made by previous assemblies refiecting on the Christian character of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, and Is ready at any time to confer on the subject of closer relations whenever such confer ence shall be agreeable to the Preshv terian Church in the United States
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