News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1908-05-20
M EN- ORAL DAY
Arrangements for the Event by James
M. Warner Post, G. A. r.

M. Warner Post, G. A. r.
Again Memorial Day will call us to as
semble to pay our tributes of respect
love and veneration for the heroic dead
No sight so quickens the heart of the
veteran as to see the children with theii
baskets of flowers at the graves OF his
comrades. Why is it that we observe
Memorial Day after the lapse of these
many years? No legislature ordered it,
no governor directed it, yet in every state
In this Union, it is religiously and rever-
emily observed. 1t is a custom no other
nation or people ever followed. All ma
tions have honored her soldiery; they
have welcomed home their victorious
armies with many demonstrations of love
and affection. Monuments have been
reared to perpetuate their memories.
1t has been left to the American volun-
teer soldiery to naugurate Memorial Day.
Better than all monuments, better than
all triumphal arches, better than all stat
utes, is the beautiful tribute.
Better by far that this country have no
granite shafts than to forget this day. 1t
is living, breathing patriotism, renewed
each year. 1t is a'monu nent rebuilt an
nually in the hearts of the people. Gran
lite or bronze monuments are erected but
once. 1t is by far the best lesson of 10y
atty that could be taught to the children,
who are so soon to be the men and women
OF the nation.
Better for the Nation that its children
and youth remember this day than that
it had armies as large as those of all Eu-
rope. No war of disunion will come to
this country so long as it observes Me-
mortal Day, which, securely intrenched
in the hearts of the people, will make the
government safer than myriad of forts
bristling with cannon. 1t matters little
how large or small may be our standing
army, if we give to the people the educa-
ton this day teaches. 1t is day the
people themselves created. At Gettys
burg Lincoln said:-" We have come to
utulCdUC pOl UlO1l VI IIbU lCit bS a. hlibi
resting place for those who gave up their
lives that the nation might live. 1t is al.
together fitting and proper that we should
do this. But in larger sense we cannot
dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we can
not hallow this ground
And so each year on the 30th of May
as we gather to dedicate anew the hal.
lowed ground, where rest the brave-we,
in higher sense, cannot dedicate, we
cannot cOnsecrate, we cannot hallow the
ground. The brave men, who on hun
bred battle fields gave their lives that
the nation might survive, have consecra-
ted it far beyond our power to add or de-
tract. 1t is for us to dedicate ourselves
to the work of perpetuating the Union
they preserved-the country they saved
to. the end that their devotion, which en-
ded with their lives, shall not have been
in vain.
Therefore, in accordance with general
orders from National and Department
Headquarters, James M. Warner Post,
No. 4, with it's kindred organizations,
will observe Saturday, May Both, the day,
that Grand man and Comrade, General
John A. Logan, 40 years ago, designated
for the purpose of strewing with flowers
or otherwise decorating the graves of
comrades who died in defense of their
country during the rebellion, from 1861
to '65, and whose bodies now lie in al
most every village and hamlet church
yard in the land
DETAILS FOR DECORATION.
The following Comrades have been de-
tailed to decorate the graves in the GEM
eteries in Morristown, Elmorc and Hyde
Park Plains In the yard at Nor
ristown Corners, Comrades c. A. Davis.
S. c. Eaton and J. R. Russell, flowers etc.
to be left at j. B. Carleton's; at Cady's
Falls, A. Wilkins, j. Sherman, G. E. Mud
gett, G. H. Miner, and S. White; at Nor
ristown Plains, Carlos Bugbee and H. S
Muckler; Laport Yard, w. B. Patch; the
Delano and Lewis yards, Julius Bliss; the
Wheeler yard, G. w.. Currier and D. d.
Brown; Elmore, L. L. Camp; Hyde Park
Plains, A. A. Darling, r. c. Munson and
C. w. H. Smith; Pleasant View Gene
terry, G. w. Doty, L. M. Mayott, &. A.
Cheney, d. w. Rogers and w. G. McClin-
took; Riverside Yard, Fl. B. George, J.
w. Daniels, Frank Kenfield and A. l..
Champeau. The Flower Committee for
the Riverside Cemetery, in connection
with the exercises in that yard on May
30th are G. W. Doty, Geo. A. Cheney, D. |
w. Rodgers, and H. 3. George.
Let the relatives and friends of the de- |
ceased, and all others who will, who live |
near the different cemeteries above men,
toned, meet the detail and assist them |
in honoring our Nations dead, at 1000 |
o'clock sharp on Memorial Day, after
which all the Comrades will meet at the |