The Washington herald., 1907-05-31
DAYAT ELIZABETH
Private Dalzell Delivers Adj
dress to War Veterans.
MANY GRAVES DECORATED
Impressive Services Conducted in
Cemetery Under Auspices of John
Veterans and Rechabites Assist in
Exercises-Dr. white Speaks.

Under the auspices Of John \. Logan
Post G. A. r., impressive services were
conducted yesterday morning at St. Eliza
beth Cemetery. The floral decorations
were unusually beautiful and the ad-
dresses exceptionally eloquent. Lincoln
Camp, Sons Of Veterans, and Victory
Tent. Junior order OF Rechabites, as
sisted the c. a. r. post members in con-
Quoting the exercises.
The main orati"l was delivered by
Private" James NJ Dalzell. Commander
A. B. Frisbie. Dr. William A. White.
superintendent Of St Elizabeth's Hos
pital for the Insane, and Col f. T. F.
Johnson of the Sons Of Veterans, de-
liyered brief addresses.
Pleads for Patriotism.
Private" Dalzell spoke in part as fol-
lows:
Memorial Day was not designed to ex-
ploit mere oratory, promote political or
business schemes, or in any manner. shape,
or form 10 minister 10 avarice, vanity. or
ambition I fear the day is often desc
Grated for these ignoble ends. Our only
fitting tribute 10 the memory Of the men
who saved the country and its flag is
surely one OF the greatest Of simplicity
and sincerity The words Of our mouths
and meditatOns OF our hearts should be
as pure and simple as the flowers We
bring to decorate these graves Like ap-
pies Of gold in pictures Of silver, our
words should be few and well ordered to-
day The day is dlshonored, is prostituted
To transitory phases OF passing thought.
or 20 launch or float booms or schemes
of any sort These patriotic shrines are
too holy for that Really and truly, my
friends. there has never yet been pro
nounced above these graves but one great
oration-the model Of the sainted Lincoln
at Gettysburg while cannon were stu
booming.
story One OFT Told.
1--WE cannot repeat the story told in a
thousand volumes Of history, and by a
thusand orators since the war, how our
soldiers saved the Union and the Hag in
the brave days Of old. You know the
story we'll Most of the men who risked
their lives for their country have laid
down in their graves by the men who
fought and fen on the fields OF battle.
But few remain The country IS dotted
an over with cur soldiers graves A ma
ton was saved by their valor and devo-
tion. Every grave to-day is bright with
flowers strewu by the hands Of the CRATE
ful people who owe an they have. and are
20 be. 10 the men in blue. II IS well Be
il ever so Year after year. and for a
thousand years 70 come, let the nation
thus honor the men who saved its life.
"And right here. when / remember the
comrades Of many nati0nalities and races
and cOlors and religions I'll these honored
graves-when I remember the Irish and
German. the Scotch and English, the
French-yes. the Catholic and Protestant
and Jew who fell beside them on thou
sand fields of battle-hOW can I refrain
from a passing tribute 90 the colored
troops2 And especially as l speak here az
the home Of Frederick Douglass. second
only 70 Lincoln in emancipation, IT, in
deed. second az ALL Under God. the black
man owes more 10 Frederick Douglass
than TO any man who ever lived. Yes
and TO the 100000 coIOred troops who came
Ar IincoIn's call. $1,000 of whom sealed
their devotion with their blood on tie
fields of war But for Frederick Douglass
and Gen Butler the negroes would have
never been armed or cWaucinated. But
for the negro troops Grant would have
surrendered 10 Lee and the Union would
have been lost forever This is historic
truth, We saved the negro and the negro
saved u.s.