The Penn's Grove record., 1909-06-04
Tfa teldLaf Dead a6noted.
Memorial Day Appropriately cele-
brated By Acton Post.


brated By Acton Post.
Memorial Day was mostly observed as
a holiday last Monday in PENIS Grove,
and it is becoming more generally a
day for the remembrance of the dead,
not only by the old soldiers, but by
others. 1t has been a great incentive to
many to keep cemeteries in better con
aition, besides it has led many to decor
ate graves a. kind remembrances of theil
friends and relatives.
The Days celebration begun Sunday
evening when the members of Acton
Post No. SO G. A. R. and the Patriotic or
ders attended st. Paul's Church and list
ened to a thrilling sermon by Rev. J. w.
Lee.
Monday morning at 7.O5 the Post and
Sons of Veterans accompanied by oath
Regiment Band vent to Pedricktown and
decorated the graves there. The train
was an hour late aud OH their return at
II O'Clock they were joined by the Pa
triotic Orders, Liberty Band and a hun
dred and fifty Sabbath School children.
Fifty children dressed in blue
came from Pedricktown on the train
and S. j. Shute brought a wagon load.
There were about $50 in the line of
march, and while it was the largest citi-
zen parade ever in Penn's Grove on
Memorial Day, yet the ranks ofthe veter-
N are becoming so thin that only a
dozen were in the line of march.
After strewiug flowers on the river at
the wharf in honor of the sailor dead
Riverview and Emmanuel Cemeteries
were visited and geraniums in bloom
were planted on the grave of each soldier
of the Civil war, by the Sons Of Veterans
while the Veterans went thru therir itual-
istic ceremony.
1t was / O'Clock when Rev. Edgar A.
Miller began his address. Because of the
late hour there were not as many present
as there otherwise would have been to
hear his interesting address.
He said in part that as his father wore
the grey and he was educated in the
north be had an opportunity to drink in
sentiment of both sides. 1t was the fash
ion of some to minimize the conflict, but
it was great when we consider that $780,
060 men died and $50, 900 were manned.
We hear Of the Charge of the Light Brl-
gate, the battles of Austerlitz and Water
loo but they fade when the loss of half OF
more in some regiments in the civil con-
fict is considered. We are here to hon
or the memory of those fallen comrades
and those by our side.
There was a great difference between
the Pilgrims who settled the North and
the Cavaliers who settled in the South.
The southerner was looked upon as low
ers of ease and pleasure, and easy to be
whipped by the hard hearted, industrious
money lover Of the north. The North
was educated in the principles of Alex
ander Hamilton who believed in a strong
central government. The South took
Thomas Jeffeeson as their leader and be-
lieved in the sovereignty of the states
and personal rights. The North had
freed their slaves and their was some SEN
timent in the south favorable to emanci-
patton. When the South threw down the
gauntlet the North took it up and the
conflict ragged for four years from Bull
Run to Appomottax.
The difference in the Interpretation of
the constitution concerning secession
which was first favorably discussed in
the Hartford convention in the North,
discussed in North Carolina in 1912 and
the right claimed by Texas on her ad-
mission in 1916, was forever settled by the
conflict over slavery which was abolish
eddy the emancipation proclamation. 1t
was forever settled that this should be an
indissolyahle union of indestructible
States. While the central government is
made stronger the sovereignty ofthe states
are maintained.
The American soldier is prominently
a lover of peace and liberty. The conflict
is over and all rejoice at the spirit of
patriotism and courage manifested on
both sides. When General Grants son
served on the staff of Fitzhugh Lee and
Joe Wheeler again wore the blue in the
war with Spain it showed that while we
have our quarrels we are all one united
family. We rejoice to-day ma we have
mi country n flag. Long may it wave
over the land of the free and the home of
the brave.