Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1905-04-28
MEMORIAL DAY
ARRANGEMENTS

hohts LUZ heihoIlaI LAY. AS might
be expected at this date they have not
proceeded very far with their plans
But there is every reason to believe
that tine day will be observed in the
usual creditable manner. There will
be the time -honored march to the
cemetery, with the school children
among others in line there will be the
usual fine addresses at the cemetery
with the ceremony over the graves that
belongs to tho full observance of the
day. An effort will be made also to
repeat the beautiful ceremony of cast
ing flowers upon the river in memory
of the sailors lost at sea, which has
marked the observance of the day in
Danville for several years past
The following general order No. 6
relating to Memorial Day has been re-
ceived by the post:
L. 'Killed in yesterdays battle. +"
dying in the field hospital" =" Bad
ly wounded" " Wounded and in the
hands of the enemy"
Forty odd years ago, my comrades,
we were thus accounting for the rosy
checked, bright-eyed. manly boys,
darlings of their mothers, who with
the elastic step and merry laugh of
youth marched by our sides as we
bade od-bye to our homes and dear
ones aud answered Here am l." to
the call of country, and cheered the
sad heart of our God given Lincoln
with the refrain, We are Coming Fa-
ther Abraham, three hundred thou
sand strong"
Recall today the hastily delivered
message aud token from these dying
boys as you grimly continue the charge
| over their bodies or as you sullenly
retreated, most reluctantly leaving
them on the field. You have sacredly
kept the promise hastily made to your
dying messmate: Yes, Jack, I'll tell
your mother. Sure, Joe, your wife
shall get your ring and message. /"
Never doubt Charlie, your people
shall know what brave soldier you
were, how pluckily you died to save
our colors -
As you moved carefully among the
dead aud the dying over the battlefield
| after the fight was over as you walk
ed through the rude field hospital
| hopelessly searching for the comrade
you saw fall, but could not stop to
help. the dear boy who had been your
| playmate at school. and to the appeal
of whose weeping old mother as you
marched away you had tossed back the
cheering promise, IN take care of
Billy" AS you steadied yourself, and
| helped to bear across the deck of the
battleship to the cockpit, slippery with
the life blood of your shipmates, the
| body of the sailor boy with whom you
had left home to ship in your coun-
try's service.
| Did you not promise the dying and
God for the dead, that YOUR comrades
and their supreme sacrifice never
ent ones should be tenderly and fully
cared for? Have you kept that sacred
promise? Our glorious Grand Army of
| the Republic has helped you to keep
it. 1t has collected aud helpfully dis
bursed in relief millions of dollars. 1t
made possible, kept alive and cherish.
ed the sacred memories and friend
| ships of the war. 1t was established,
| by the order of one of my honored pre-
| decessors, Commander in Chief Logan.
and given to the world Memorial Day
| on which day you annually redeem
| your promise to keep green the me.
mory of your comrades by decorating
their graves with the faire st flow ers
of spring, or casting them upon the
mountains to mingle with its waters,
which are the sailors winding sheet,
and by securing the services of your
most eloquent and gifted speakers to
recount their deeds of self sacrificing e
| devotion that our country might not
be disgraced, dismembered and de-
stroyed, but might live as a nation,
the grandest on the face of the globe.
IL Memorial Day will be Tuesday
May 30, 1905. Department and post
commanders will attend to the fitting
Observance of the day.
III. 1t is the very proper law of the
Grand Army of the Republic, which |
direct all department and posts to OBJ.
serve, that the following classic be
read at all Memorial Day services:
| -Four score and seven years ago ouI
fathers brought forth on this contin.
ent. a new nation, conceived in lib.
erty, and dedicated to the proposit ion
that all men are ere Gated equal.
Now We are engaged in great
civil war, testing whether that ma.
tion, or any nation so conceived and
so dedicated, can long endure. We are
met on a great battlefield of that war.
We have come to dedicate portion OF
that field, as final resting place fol
those who here gave their lives that
this nation might live. IL is altogeth
er fitting and proper that we should
90 this.
But, in a larger sense. We cannot
dedicate-we cannot consecrate. we
cannot hallow-this ground. The
brave men, living and dead, who strug.
gled here, have copsCcrated it, fat
above our poor power to add or de-
tract. The world will little note. nol
long remember what We say here. but
it can never forget what they die
here. 1t is for US the living. rather
to be dedicated here in the unfinished
work which they who fought here
have thus far so nobly advanced. 1t i,
rather for Us to be here dedicated tc