Year: 1879

the left its mark. recall how friend of mine,
woman who had worked for the soldiers till her
weary sought for rest in the country during the
The train upon the rural railway stopped at little sta
tion surrounded with hills lonely that not house
in sight When it stopped, the passenger who
assisted wounded soldier crutches and the
cars whirled away my friend saw one lon sy woman walk
ing down from farm house to receive him Safe
from the thought of WARP The little farof valley like
the city, filled with that thought Thatit passed
away you TO those whom you laid IN these graves


90 The soldiers won for Union. That this still
nation that is anything but accide ntal alliance of
few jealous and warning States, TO them, The
picture which rises grandly before the American eye
in foreign countries, of continent which home for
liberty and receives the poor and the humble from ali
nations OF the eart giving to them shelter and employ
ment and to their children educatontha belongs TO the
work achieved by these graves


81 once encamped New York regiment called
popularity " The Lost Children because it said to
hold from almost every European nation
Such babel of dialects as you heard in passing that
camp ground but there words which they all
derstood, and when the order Column Forward Y
came they all fell into their places and obeyed That
solemn command, carrying in English words summons
that all nationaes obey, is the watchword of Am
erican civilization and it is the soldiers who preserved
for its meaning But for them each of us might
still have State, but not of us would have nation
every American born would be without country.


''3. The soldiers for this nation liberty | remem-
Der hearing, at antisavery meeting, Wendell
Phillips say of Garrison may he not die till he has heard
the shouts of liberated millions helped to free
1t sounded eloquent, but incredible it if
invited you visit him hundred years from to-day
Garrison has just died full of years and of honors and
his last words were plea not for slaves but for free
men for the negro chained slave in Mississippi
but free emigant into Kansas That every American,
black white, may go where he peases, and work
he peaseS you owe to the soldiers whom you laid IN
these graves


"A The soldiers gave to the nation prosperity We
our long business depression butit because has
taken all these years recall from the period of
lation in which the left Business may be good
or bad-the returned soldiers may have been successful
or unsuccessfubut the most successful business in
the country the soldiers that there any such
thing as business ALL What could there have been
had the nation been cut up series of little States
lyith ifS OVyuc IT'S
system of patent laws had it been divided
into half republics with guerilla forever raging
along Mason and Dixons line? That this calamity was
averted we owe to these graves


From all New England we receive interesting ac-
counts of the observance of Decoration Day.


There were many thousands gathered the field OF
Gettysburgh brought by trains from all the surround
ing country The Grafton there of the finest pro-
ducons we have read, by General McCandless, We
publish it entire in this issue.


The day observed at Cincinnati, Ohio, by the clos
ing of the Chamber of Commerce and other public offices
the display of flags PROFESSIONS and the usual ceremonies
the cemeteries At Spring Grove where lie most OF
the gallant dead there large attendance Judge
B. Foraker the orator of the day In his address he
said


Toward the people of the South whether they sur
vived the struggle fell in it, living dead haven't
single unkind thought of any character description
whatsoever do believe that any Union soldier has.
On the contrary know is the sncerest desire of all
every wound of the heaed-every breach and
gap closedup But at the time | know too that
don't want and cannot afford to have these results at
the expense of sickly sentmentalsm that would dwarf
the patriotism of which they should be born We would
teach also that the people of this country in the matter
of patriotism not going backward that another such
exigency that of 1861 would be met in the
If any doubt this if any thinks there is less
patriotism in the country less devotion the Union less
love and affection for the old ag let him look abroad
over the land this national Decoration Day and be
deceived Let him witness the impressive spectacle of
whole people gathered in sorrow, but with the choicest


flowers of sprngme in their hands, about the graves of
their dead soldiers Let them listen to the patriotic hymns
that will be sung, the fervd sentiments of patriotism that
will be expressed and from these things let him learn that
the loyalty of this people is unquestioned ever


At Columbus Ohio, large procession, COM sting of
regulars and militia civic societies. ex-sodiers and cti-
zens paraded the Streets and thence Green
tery when after Grafton by Governor Dennson, the
soldiers graves decorated by exvounteer soldiers
An immense cOncourse witnessed the exercises.


4 At Dayton there a great gathering This inn