Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-06-01

ItoDOrn OF W aleTNlIIe saturday after
noon.
Co NJ. end y. G., S. NJ of Augusta
arrived here at $50 Monday to par
ticipate in the Memorial day exer
cises, and after dinner returned to
take part in the exercises in their
home city.
| Memorial day at the Home was OBJ
served as usual and the graves of the
departed veterans decorated with
American flags and exercises held &C
cording to the program.
| At 100 r. NJ. Sunday a detail from
Cutler Post. No. IS, G. A. r., went to
Riverside cemetery and decorated the
graves there. At P. Nj. Monday Cut
I Ter Post and Tiffany Camp assembled
I III G.. \. r. hall and proceeded to the
chapel where high mass was celebrat-
ed by Rev. FIR. ]. P. Michigan. At $50
/ details from Cos. G, X. and NJ, headed
by the Home Band and governor and
! officers, went to the new cemetery to
decorate the graves.
/ At 10 o'clock the column was formed
at headquarters by Capt. E. L. Clark,
cemetery where appropriate exercises
were held and the graves decorated. A
patriotic concert was rendered and
General George B. Loud of New York
delivered the Memorial day address. In
the course if his remarks Gen. Loud
said:
ITO them all. living and dead, who
gave Memorial Day the poetry of its
glory, and taught the world how noble
a thing il is to live and how sweet to
die for ones country: who demonstrated
that they were ready to give their all
for the cause of the Union, and that
they regretted not that they offered or
gave it. their memory let US guard with
a holy care the little while we yet may.
Let the mighty pulse which throbs re-
sponsive in a nations heart at utterance
of that nations names of glory, never
be languid while their names are told,
or their example cited. God grant that
in this best republic upon which His sun
and His benefcent smile ever shone that
self ACKNOWLEDGEMENT viii never stand as
patriotism nor the rank weeds of pulto-
cracy with their poisonous exhalations
wither the souls of men. nor civic right
eousness lose it's throne in the hearts Of
the people.
"Fifty-four years ago when Constitu-
balance. and hope languished between
the ebb and flow of wars tumultuous
tides nearly three million of the very
flower of our country stood firm as a
rock and said, This Republic shall not
perish, this flag, the flag Of our fathers,
shall not be torn down from this Union
sky And thirty.three years later, we
greeted with open arms, throbbing
hearts and loud acclaim a new genera
ton of heroes, and our hearts went out
to them, splendid. manly, heroic fellows
that they were. many of them our sons,
who demonstrated their ability to de-
fend successfully against the world If
need be, their country's flag.
If because of decreasing numbers and
increasing years the soldier of the Six
ties Is no longer so potent a factor in
American civic life, his impress is in
delibly fixed in the civilization which
surrounds us. and he has impaired firm
ness to the fibre of the new generation.
If the American people have been gen.
erous beyond all precedent to the SOL
diers of the Civil War. they have only
paid interest on the debt they owe him.
They have not begun to discharge the
principal and they never can. It re-
quires a currency richer and purer than
gold. If every spear of grass which
carpets with velvet the earth of these
lovely Home grounds, were precious
genl-if every drop or water which
sparkles in the sunlight were a bit of
molten gold, it's wealth would be quite
inadequate to meet all Of the obligations
this nation is under to the men who
fought its battles, won its victories. per-
petuated it's renown. and preserved its
flag unsullied." ~.