The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-05-31
Senator Mallory the Chief
Speaker in Memorial
Services Here.
CEREMONIES IN
NATL. CEMETERY
confederate Veterans and u.
d. c. Parti :ipate in
Decorating Graves.
ARTILLERYMEN FROM THE FORT
FURNISHED THE MILITARY
PROGRAM I'M HoNORING MEN
WHO DIED ON THE FIELD I'm
THE UNION CAUSE IN GREAT
INTERNECINE STRIFE.

| Memorial Day with the local Grand
Army of the Republic was fttingly OBJ
served yesterday. when tribute was
paid to the federal dead by federal
and confederate survivors, and flowers
were placed upon the graves by
Daughters of the COnfederacy. among
others,
The members of the O. A. R. and
Sons or Veterans assembled at the
noon hour at their htvOuac on West
Government street and preceded by
Wyer's Band marched TO the court
house to be Joined by members OF
Camp Ward No. 10. U. c. V. The
march to the terminal depot was then
commenced, and the veterans of the
blue and of the gray kept step to.
gether on their march to pay a de.
served tribute to the departed.
A large number boarded the car at
the depot for the National cemetery.
Upon arriving at the road leading to
the cemetery the car came to a stop,
and the veterans, speakers, members
of the quartette and others left the
car and Joined the battalion of artil-
lery from Fort Barrancas and tho
members Of the Army and Navy
Union, and together they marched 20
the NallSnaI cemetery.
In the Cemetery
There the ceremonies by the G. A.
r. and Army and Navy Union form.
ing a circle around the monument OF
the soldiers and sailors. and a short
dedicatory service was held, at the
conclusion of which one company of
the artillery battalion from the for.
formed in front of the monument and
rrnI1
ed, and the assemblags moved to the
pavilion, where Rev. Julian S. Sibley
delivered a most eloquent prayer and
Wyer's Band played The Star Span
gled Banner"
MR.. MALLORY'S GRAFTON.
Senator Mallory was then intro
duced by Captain Peterson as the
principal speaker of the day
In opening, Mr.. Mallory referred
TO the maxim that the people of re-
publics are ungratefuI, and said that
the falSity of such an assumption is
eXemplified by the manner in which
the people of the United States have
taken care of the survivors of the
federal armies of the civil war, and
by the annual devotion OF a day TO
paying tribute to the memory of the
men who in that war gave their
lives to their cause; that all over
the land, and in hundreds of cOmmuni,
ties, the people were laying aside
their business engagements and their
daily vOcations in order to pay firing
tribute to the men who gave their
lives for the preservation of the
union.
Patriots Motives.
at would be both out OF place and
useless" said Senator Mallory, TO
undertake TO examine into the logical
of the views which
shaped the conduct of the men of
either side in that contest for when
we know that a man is willing to sac
ritice his life for the cause in which
he believes, all controversy as to his
must cease. He may not be
correct, but he has done the
manly part-the part of the patriot
when he lays down his life in defense
Of the cause in which he believes"
The Common Glory.
Mr.. Mallory then related a CONVEX
sation which he had with the late
President Mckinley several years ago
in which the latter had expressed the
opinion that the people of both sec
tons of the country had come 10
recognize the fact that the passion,
prejudice and bitterness engendered
by the war had passed away, and that
we are again Il united people for
which Mr.. Mckinley thanked provf-
dence. The speaker also read an ex-
tract from President ROOseVelt's re-
cent address at the jamestown expo
5itiOn, in which Mr. Roosevelt de-
clared that the valor and glory of the
American soldier, both those who
followed Grant and those who fol-
lowed Lee were the legitimate heri-
-age of all the people of this country,
and that the honor which their
achievements JegOt should be shared
alike by the men Of the north and the
men of the south.
The Only Real Danger.
In closing. Senator Mallory said
hat patriotism is essential for the
preservation of the republic. and that
when the spirit of commercialism-
he cursed hunger for gold-shall be-
;Ome the paramount source for inspk