Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-06-02

wise Creator. and in common to both b,,
barous and civilized nations Ii has =,
listed through all ages and is traceaB.
back to the Garden of Eden. We bea, /.
said sometimes that these annjyer,.r.
celebrations are in a certain degree ss,
timental, but the sentiment whit,
prompts them springs from the nobls,,
impulse i'm our nature.
The speaker said he personally coi,
scarcely remember the Presidents csT
for soldiers for the civil war being :,
that time but a boy, the son Of a M,
Irish exile. Some 20 years ago, he ssH
he visited Chickamauga and the natiorsi
cemetery at Chattanooga. His eyes restsi
on a monument erected to the memory n
10000 soldiers, and he asked himself III.
question: Why did these men die ~,
all this prodigal effusion Of blood and m.
and consequent privation unavoidabls'
We are forced to the conclusion that N.
sacrifice was not in vain. They died tia.
the nation might be free, that no ma
should be able to call another his owl
that the principles Of the constitute
might be enforced and perpetuated s-i
that there might be no north. no s1.s
no east. no west. 1t matters not VIA,
unworthy motives may have crept Ind
the gigantic conflict, the fact remain,
that 1t was the offspring Of a pure s1.
noble purpose.
The triumphant return OF the Grsri
Army meant the perpetuation Of Reryk
lican institutions, the cementing togeths
Of people drawn from the four Quartsy
Of the world, welded together in one Coz
mon homogeneous mass by one comm
interest. II a similar crisis should an
just as many and thousands more wo1g
be ready to engage in the conflict Ta
gUpa ker dnnrprated no faalfpo f,a+
listed between the two parts Of the county
after the war, but said that in the rece.t
Spanish American war the two colors TIE
blue and grey, were merged into one fast
unfading color. The average American
citizen has little laundering for military
despotism, but for the band who for four
years upheld continuously the fag
through victory or defeat, whether thay
are now sleeping the last sleep or pur
suing their vocations in life, the AmeH-
| can people feel a sympathy which Is akin
to reverence. We should today, while
honoring the memory of the dead, not for
get to cultivate the civic virtues toI which
| they died.
The service at the Auditorium closed
with the singing of America. The paais
was formed in front of the building ia
this order: Police escort in uniform;
Chief Marshal G.. H. Bond. and A.
Ward, c. L. Sturges, Patrick Fenton and
]. II. Allen, aids; the First Regimsr,
band; Company 1, Vermont NatoaL
Guard, Capt. E. w. Gibson commandlg
Sedgwick post, G. a. r.; associate M.
| bers; d. F. Curtin camp, Spanish-AmE-
can war veterans; Palestine caniL
Patriarchs Militant, in regalia; clerg
men and disabled veterans in earrings
The line of march was to the soldiers
| monument on the common. where prayG
was offered by Rev. H. r. Miles theme
\ TO the Connecticut river bridge, when
a service was read by Commander Luke
Ferriter and flowers were scattered o.
the water in memory of the sailors By
| the Woman's Relief corps, thence 70
| Prospect Hill cemetery. After prayer b
Rev. Z. Q. S. Osgood detachments Of ths
| post went to the Roman Catholic cemeteFy
! and Morningside cemetery and decorated
the graves of comrades buried there
while those remaining decorated the
| graves in the government lot and
elsewhere in Prospect Hill cemetery
Three volleys were fired and taps were
sounded, both at the Catholic and Pros
pect Hill cemeteries, and the benedicuol
was performed by Rev. Mr.. Osgood' ia-
lowed by the return march.