Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-05-31
MEMORIAL SERVICES.


Tell them of those remarkable scenes
when the confederaleS had to give up
the struggle. Tell them how the foe of
yesterday was intermingling in the
ranks of the victor, and being treated to
subsistence TO appease his hunger.
Tell them that at the close of HOSTILE
ties, thousands, yea hundreds OF thou
sands of soldiers of the North and of the
south returned to theirhomes and at once
became citizens and yeOman of the land
once more, no rumpuS or excitement
about it, just as if it was matter of
course. There is no land on the face of
the earth where such an event could
tcile place without creating a great
social disturbance, but such is and
always has been American manhood.
Courageous in the hour of danger,
tenacious of his inherited rights. yet
magnanimous to the conquered foe"
1t is this trait of the American char
acter that brings it about, that with
each Memorial day there is lessening
of the stlugS and sorrow of the pain of
war, a hiding of the scars, and the turn
ing of a feeling of bitterness into SYM
psLhy. No more do we speak with
divide the nation, who fought for
slavery, and whose activity and perse-
verance cost us so dear. The separa-
ton and danger and bitterness of the
conflict is past, and while we honor
those who preserved the nation, we do
not hate the others, who forty years
ago were our enemies, but have now as
whole and with very few exceptions,
accepted the issue of the war in good
faith, and are now loyal to the stars and
stripes. We respect them for their
bravery, remember that they are fellow
citizens. We have forgiven them for
their errors and yet not forgotten the
valor of our own soldiers who defeated
their attempt to disrupt the Union.
The nation is bound together forever,
one and inseparably. There is no North
and no South, nor is there a West or an
East. This Is the United States, and when
say the United States is, | mean TO
emphasize the perpetuation of the
Union by using the singular verb, and
we ali feel thankful that we are per-
mitted to live in a country that has "A
government "of the people, by the peo-
pie and for the people,
But the lessons of the day ought to be
an incentive TO every American, young
and old, native born or adopted, to SO
regulate his life, and so conduct himself,
"
world at large may be convinced that
we are people desiring peace and
pursuing it, cherishing good will and
exercising it, respecting law and obey
ing it, loving God and doing his will,
and SO in our day and generation work
ing out, so far as possible, and as we are
able to, the problem of our nations
high destiny, which is to be at the head
of civilization and an example for other
nations to follow.
AT this monument we are assembled
today to pay tribute to the memory OF
those of our comrades whose bodies
lie buried in southern soil or other
places unrecogniZed but not forgotten,
and from here, will proceed TO the
cemeteries to pay like tribute to the
memory of those whose bodies lie
buried among their friends and rela-
tons. And now on behalf of Cutler
Post g. A Il. | ask these young peo-
pie to scatter memorial flowers upon
this monument, which represents the
graves of all these buried in unknown
places, and who died in the sacred
cause of our country
Our floral tribute shall wither, let
the tender love fer which it stands ZEN
dure until the touch of death shall still
the warm pulse beats of our hearts.
The parade was then formed as fol-
lows, marching to the cemetery
Columbia Band
Police, command of Chief Malone.
Flower Girls and Flag Escorts
Mayor and City Council.
w n g., Capt Abraham
Spanish-American War Veterans, Capt.
Becker.
Civil War Veterans in carriages.
Civic Societies.
Citizens and School Children.
AT the cemetery the services were as
here given
Music by Columbia band
Ritual services by Cutler Post, G. A. r.
Prayer h Chaplain James.
Address by Commander Jones.
Male Qnartette.
PRAYER by Chaplain.
Address by NJ b. Rosenberg
Music by band.
Benediction, service closes.
Mr. Rosenberg, the orator of the
day, spoke as follows
Thirty-nine years have come and
gone since Generals Grant and Lee
at Appomatox formally ended the
greatest civil war known to the
history of the world 1t was a
struggle that brought forth the best en-
deavors of Americans, both north and
south. 1t was a struggle, as each side
believed, prompted not by ambition of
any men or set of men, but by a deter
mination to stand by that which each
side thought was right. On she part
of the north it was struggle for human
liberty and human rights. 1t enlisted
the sympathy and arrested the attention
of the civilized world. 1t was not a
struggle for political supremacy,
territorial expansion or commercial
aggrandizement.
When upon the stiffness of that April
morning the roar of the first gun fired
upon Snmpter sounded throughout the
land, its echoes awoke to life and activ-
ity the patriotism and devotion of
millions of free men.
No military overload ordered these
men to assembly at government bar
racks to enlist them in the cause of the
cenqueror They were not ordered by
anyone, but when the immortal Lincoln
requested the men of the north to en-
roll themselves upon the side of human
liberty and right, most nobly did they
respond.
Every village and hamlet was in
stinei with the portent ofgreater things
TO come Brave and patriotic men
hesitated not to sever the ties that
bound them to home and'kindred. No
less brave than the fathers and brothers
were the mothers and wives of these
same men, who babe their departing
ones God speed as they marched away
to the field of battle. Forgetting every
thing but the duty they owed to their
country, a million free men took mp
and fought out the cause of human
rights.
And most worthily did these men
bear themselves in tiIat great conflict,
not only on the field of battle, but on
the march aud in the camp they bore
without complaint the privations and
hardships of war To-day under the
southern sun sleeps quietly beneath the
flowers, side by side, the hero of the
nriSoD men and the hero of the battle