Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-06-03

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our country, reyerently lays this
wreath of flowers at the foot of this
monument, in slight acknowledge
ment of the debt of gratitude which
we owe to the brave defenders of our
common country, who sleep in I'M
known graves on southern battlefelds
far away from home"
@. d. Jones' address was given in
the court house square previous TO
the march being made to the ceme-
terry. He spoke of the flight of time
since the stirring times of the civil
war, of his recollection of those days
and of incidents as he remembered
them when a boy. He told of the
gallant boys who first responded to
the call to arms, of their great sacri-
fees, of their return home at the
close Of the war. He closed with
these words to the veterans of the
civil war:
sob, you veterans who went so gal
lantly to the front a half century
ago, the youth of 186l-5, too fast are
you disappearing from our midst.
Each Memorial Day finds your ranks
thinner, your steps more faltering.
But your courage is as serene, your
fortitude as great as in '65. You have
fought good fight. Your names will
ever be emolazoned on the brightest
| pages of our country's history. May
we who follow you be true to the
same high sentiments which have sus-
tanned you in your great deeds. May
we have the same love of country, of
freedom, of union and of justice, the
same courageous spirit to stand for
righteousness and good government,
and may it be our lot, like yours, to
so live that we, too, may be CRATE
fully remembered by succeeding gen.
| erations.'
Mr.. Ogden spoke in part as fol-
lows:
Taking for his text Cicero's state
ment. "Of all things human there is
nothing more honorable, nothing
more excellent than to deserve well
of ones country" He showed that
the boys of the sixties came within
this honor and excellency by what
they did in defense of their country
and flag
While giving great credit to the
boys in blue he maintained that all
the heroes did not go to the war, and
read of how the late Hon. w. T.
Price, of Black River Falls, dealt so
kindly and honorably with the sick
and wounded soldiers on his stage
line and paid a fine tribute to. Mr..
Prices loyalty to the country defend
| ers.
Showed that an object lesson from
the Lord was necessary in order to
remove the bitter feeling between
the North and South. A grave con-
tanning both the "blue and the gray
was shown the same natural protec-
tion and care by the Almighty hand
as though it contained but the blue.
Also referred to the inscription on
the monument at Gettysburg that
was erected to commemorate the
heroism of both the blue and the
gray-this inscription being adopted
by both the North and the South,
and helped heal the wounds.
One feature was the turning of the
flag which "the boys had followed
where every step was slippery with
the blood of friend and foe, up the
hillsides where the iron hail and
leaden rain was veritable hell, over
to the rising generation. A beautiful
silk flag was presented to the boy
scouts as a token that those who had
defended it so long and nobly were
too old to do it longer, and its protec-
tion and care must fall on other and
younger shoulders. He made a clos
ing appeal for peace. universal peace
when all nations, kindred and tongues
should join in ''peace on earth, good
will toward men,"
Rev. Grauer's address in German is
spoken of by those who understood
the language as replete with patriotic
fervor, and was in every particular,
appropriate to the day and to the
occasion.