Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1914-07-23
Impressive Ceremonies.
Dedication and dwelling of
Monument Attracts Many.

Dedication and dwelling O
Monument Attracts Many.
On Sunday afternoon last at 2 O'Clock
the handsome monument erected by Mrs
Edward Heffner, of Washington, D. c..
to the memory of the men of this com
munity who fell in battle and whose bur
ial place is unknown, was unveiled ant
dedicated in the presence of hundred OF
people who gathered at the United Breth
rem cemetery, this place, to witness the
ceremonies.
The services were conducted under the
auspices of Jason Damuth Post No. 80,
of Thurmont, Major George 7. Castle
being master of ceremonies and William
H. Stull officer of the day.
After calling the post to order, choir
composed of members of the various
churches in town sang the National An.
them, america" Following the sing
ing of this hymn, the monument was died.
icated and presented to Jason Damuth
Post by Mr.. Leo Weinberg. Prayer was
offered by comrade George w. Miller,
CHAPLAIN of the post, after which the
choir sang 1.-The Star Spangled Banner. y
The address for the occasion was then
made by Mr.. Weinberg, who in an ele-
giant memorial speech, paid glowing
tribute to the "unfound but not I'M
crowned" He spoke in highest terms
of Capt Heffner
His address, in part, is as follows:
"Unfound but not uncrowned.' Most
of those whose deeds we here seek to
commemorate were killed in that fearful
devastating Battle of the WILDERNESS in
Virginia in May, 1864. The Wilderness!
How significant but terrifying its name.
How freighted with memories of mag
nifcent but awful military campaign.
To-day we need and should summon
the aid of that self-sacrifice, that UNI
swerving loyalty, that high-rnindedness
of purpose and loftiness of action, that
manly valor and patriotic courage, that
devotion to duty which charact erized and
animated those soldiers who fell in order
that their country might stand. Today
we need civic righteousness and heroic
effort. Today we need leaders who will
deliver and rescue the people from the
wilderness of corporate greed and cor
ruption and who, facing the enemy of
national greatness and prosperity, will
exemplify the plan of General Grant
when he declared, Wen fight it out on
this line if it takes all summer.
" Unbound but not Uncrowned. They
are not uncrowned, because upon their
brow they wear the impress of that re-
gala, the imprint of that coronet that is
above all earthly dignities and envies not
the diadems of monarchs the crown of
duty well done. They transmitted to US
a more perfect union and secured for US
the blessings of liberty. Heard melodies
are sweet, but unheard melodies are
sweeter; and here the thought that these
brave men gave the last full measure of
patriotism and devotion, battling for
liberty, striking for home and freside,
their affairs and their country, dying UNI
seen and unshrived, makes their names
all the dearer to US and their deeds like
rain drops quivering in the chalice of the
lily. Perhaps they fell as the sun went
down behind the purple hills. Perhaps
their eyes as they closed on this scene of
earthly conflict observed the sunset, the
evening hush and marked those colors
glowing bright as from masters brush.
Perhaps as death pressed down their eye
lids still the heaven shone with crimson
fires and softer lakes and chromes and
there was traced noble spires and nina
rets and domes. To them, in whose
memory this monument is erected, and
to the gallant Captain Heffner, whose
generous soul make possible these exer-
cises, we here covenant that we shall
keep in sacred recollection their honor
and their valor. Their crown is more
lasting than marble or brass, more ele-
waiting than the palaces and pyramids of
ancient Egypt; more beautiful than the
ornate columns and musical arts of
Greece, more powerful than the con-
quering spirit and imperial nature of
Rome. 1t is the crown of freedom shin
ing like the diamonds; it is the crown of
reunited nation, gazing like the eagle,
undazzled, even at the spots upon the
sun, 1t is the crown not made with
hands, eternal in the heavens, immortal
lied through the lamp of justice and
equality-the crown coincident with the
fruition of their military genius and
transcendant work-this wonderful coun-
try-your country and my country"