The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-05-02
MEMORIAL DAY.
War Veterans Finally mastering Out at
the Rate of 5000 Each Month.
RANKS ARE THINNING OUT RAPIDLY.

fore leaving for u visit to the
southern, western and acitic
coast department, issued HIS
Memorial Dty proclamation az.
general order uuu.rrr seven. 1t
announces that Linco,n's Gettys-
Nrrg address should be read at
i. services on MN -, AAd says
We have Oceu ouservng this
lay ever since oar beloved Logan
instituted 1T in 1865. Tins year,
my comrades, we are crossing
he broad river at the ate Of 5000
D, month, 10000 a year; soln n the
lreat majority will be sleeplf g
heir last sleep, and 1t is our priv
lloge now, as it has been for so
many years, to pay loving tribute
10 their memory by decorating
their graves with flowers which,
starting forth from mother earth
With each recurring springtimc
are EN- blematic of a resuerrec
ton to glorious I'm mortality.
81 am but performing my sol
emn duty when 1 ask all to assist
IN this loving service. Upon de.
partment and post commanders
the duty rests Of attending to the
fitting observance of Memorial
Day, which this year will fall Oh
Wednesday, May 30 Welcome
all auxiliary and allied organiza
tions, encourage school children
to attend and to assist and to Sc.
cure speakers, who in clear and
eloquent language will teach the
lessons of patriotism for which
our comrades gave the last full
measure of devotion.
"phlrty Yeas ago, when | was
department mander of New
York in Memorial Day order [
then ISSUED, l suga ested to the
comrades Of New York that
wherever, from Montauk Point
10 Buffalo, any Confederate sol
dlers who had found sepulchre
among us, | trusted that when
we went out to laurel the graves
of our Union dead that cur com
mon American manhood would
not prevent US passing by the
graves of our former opponents
without dropping thereon some
floral remembrance, Not, | sa' ID,
in honor of their couse, for that
we opposed, fought and conquer
ed; but because we who met them
on the field of battle know that
braver men or better soldiers
have not been known since men
we're first marshaled in battle ar
ray.
''We were then scarce a dozen
years away from AppomatoX, but
this suggestion seemed to me
met with very general approval.
TO the order at large [ now conf
dently make the same suggestion.
"We have returned the battle
standards of the dead confeder-
acy to those who treasure them
as sacred momentos of their low
ed ones who died under them.
The Congress of the United States
has just unanimously voted 5000,
900 to care for the graves of those
dead, and the heart of the nation
has SAID, with great unanlmity,
sit is well. Unitedly we march
along the highway of nations,
rose bushes blossoming over and
around, and the birds nesting in
the mouths of the cannon that
once roared defiance and death at
each other, the world applaudng,
our conscience approving.
"If mothers of the south still
sit, like Rachel OF O d, weeping
for their children and refusing to
be comforted because they are
not, let the news go down to them
that on our most sacred day we
feel it privilege to stand in the
pla &c OF their far distant kinsman,
and lovingly mark their last rest
ing place with Gods sweet EN-
blem OF peace-aowers.
"rhe old flag has been re-bap
tized since 1865 with the blood O
the north and south alike and the
ship of state is securely anchoted
tor all time"
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