Evening Star Newspaper, May 30, 1891, Page 11

and menaced the peace, even the life of the Bation. The supporters of states rights and of negro country daring this long period by reason of their more determined and more united con- | never been er tention against an opposition which was at first disunited, disorganized. but which grew year | breathing, lovi by year and decade by decute stronger in pop-| American peopl |, in | is political party which | land, will lected AUraham Ifn- | Hevea In, more coin President of the United States, and which | of monuments, whi sentiment and stronger in numbers 1860, it crystallized into carried the country and also elected a Congress thet would support bis imcoming administratiou. The friends of cied they saw in this lopment of the new political party and administration there can be little doubt that | teach to the: the history of this nation would bave been en- turely different from what has been enacted dur- ing the past thirty years. =The people of one state, more impetuons, More ambitious, more intolerant than wise. rushed into their favored whirl declaring the state absolved from its compact . af or jeopardized, there will always he found with and allegiance to the Union. The people ; ates followed in. rapid euceesston | PF8¥e, Datriotic m of oth Until eleven states had committed themselves to — ——— ps country, to protect it — BECCLUTION. feeble loved ones from Bi ‘Lhe other lesson is before us, and its teach- sion and Committed no over: act there arenone | ing is read of all men. that the great loyal wise enough to say what would bave been the4 beating. generous heart of a grateful people base = go out = Dlessing» toward those ae = “Whom th * first | defended and saved their country and their ens eee Seer ey Fat | eenen, and tans carne grenstal beast sill never struction seized upon thove people and with | Cae to remember and revere the names and mad haste rushed them on totheir destruction. | Pet*ons of those who fell in line of duty. © was ended in 1865, when the e army of the United States, Had they been content with peaceable seces- Those people were so fully imbued with the doctrine of state rights, under <he silent au- | SUTVivors of thority of the Constitution, that to them seces- | &fter four years of buitle and blood and death, sion was in no way treason, but only the exer. | returned to homes of pence and civil life they cise of constitutional rights. The government left more than 100,000 of ‘the comrades, who 2 | Went out with them, but who came not 2 of the, United Btstes could take bus one view of | sass cut, with, them, bu the situation, and when the forts, arseni other property of the government were seized & upon and armed forces marshaled to enforce | they had fallen and bur! and maintain the seizure, these acts became | PPT rank treason and open rebellion, &nd the war | °Vet U a Of 1861 and 1865 was inaugurated. Such « war | Tecord and their resting place. These ceme- was never known. God grant may never be bese are religiously known again. ‘The great loyal beart of the nation throbbed U as by one impulse. From every city and town | 00 and hamlet, from workshops a tion’s life. “When Greek joined Greek. then was the tug of war!” For four years American met Ameri can in a hundred battles. Brave, dauntless, determined, desperate it may be, but fighting he always met afoeman worthy of his steel. It will bea century till the pen of historiai line. It began with the clash of arms, it was only to end when to fight was to die. For four that should stay the clash of wi promise which should appease the demon of . As the war of battle echoed and re-echoed over a hundred fields and brave soldiers of the north and brave soldiers of the south went down by thousands and by hundreds of thou- sands to stay the wrath of that implacable demon, the “people of the country, whether loyal or otherwise, standing with’ uplifted hands and with bated breath, raised to heaven the despairing cry, “How long, ob, Lord, how long!” no more daring to propose terms of arbitra- tion or to offer interposition than feeble man dare raise his puny hand to stay the wrath of heaven's thunderbelts. when war could go nofurther. When the thick settled like a pall upon the contending forces, Union army under Gen. Gran:, close upon his host on the flank, and the intrepid Custer, with his thousands of ‘dashing cavalrymen, right in front, no mortal mind can imagine or human pen portray the despair of that worn and weary Toa Wetteced rebel army. ‘Tradition saye ch ‘that moment a mounted aid deshed up to Gen. Lee and handed him a slip torn from a pocket note book on which was written, in the well- known hand of one of the bravest of the rebel generals, this appeal: “Generel Lee, for God's sake and for huimauity’s sake, surrender your army!" Betreat o advance of cecape was impossible; surrender or annihilation inevitable. Gen. Lee bowed his head to the inevitable, and that stupendous war was ended. 4 MAGNANINOUS VICTOR. ‘The terms of surrender offered that con- quered army were the most magnanimous ever offered s vanquished foe. Those scarred and war-worn veterans mounted their own horses or, footsore, wended their way peacefully to their southern homes, and thai gallant army of northern Virginia melted away like,the mists over Appomattox. The victorious Union army made but one demonstration of glorification over the tri- umph and that was on the way to their homes inthe north and west. They made that ti, umphal march through the streets of Washing- ton—that historical grand review of June, 1865. Even then there was on the faces of that Union host no glamor of rejoicing over a fallen foe. It was rather the look of peace and fond long- for their homes and loved ones left behind. ““o talk so much of war pains the heart and offends the sensitive ear, but the whole history of the world is one continued story of war, and the rebellion of 1861 and 1865 was not of un- mitigated evil In that first year the people of the United States numbered 31.000,000 souls; today, notwithstanding the deata of more than 600,000 able-bodied men killed, or died of dis- ease or wounds incurred in battle, the country numbers sixty-two millions of people— doubled in the incomparably short period of ‘thurty years. DEVELOPMENT OF THE SOUTH. In resources, in enterprise, in intelligence, in wealth, in national honor the growth has been far greater and more astonishing. In those states which seceded and inaugurated the re- Dellion the results are more astounding than elsewhere. Then cotton was proclaimed king end the traffic in that and in slaves was mainly the source of state and individual revenue. Todar those states aro traversed in all directions by and by electric wires and dotted all over by mines, in which is heard the clink of the pick of the miner, and with bundreds and thousands of factories and workshops and great manufactories where the singing of cevelving ‘machinery ‘and the beat of the hammer @ sweetest music. The brave soldiers of the southern army, who ac- cepted the results of that war as the inevitable, now give assurance that twenty-tive years of peace has accomplished more for that country ‘and people than could have a huadred years of ancient ‘That the institution of slavery, which wasacurse rather than a DI sunk into eternal oblivion. That the conten- tion of doctrine of states rights was forever settled by the arbitment of war. That hence- forth the American Union is one and indissolu- be ‘That in all that country there bas been in- | God bless our land from lake to seal fused e new life. new purpows, new enter | 4. prises, born of the experiences of twenty. Years ago, and born of the social and commer- cial contact our country. , which | As Bawcalled into li sources and de’ war might forever have lain dormant, the Delief is there expressed that bad the knowled, ofeach other which now prevails and financial relations which are now held by the rest of the country, existed thirty and forty and fifty years ago, no such war could have by any possibility occurred. If such be the testi- mony of those whose loyalty during the past twenty-five years cannot questioned who will dare gainsay or deny it. HONORS TO THE DEAD. All people in all lands under the sun have Bonored their nation’s dead. In barbaric, nomadic life, where habitations were only for today and where the living of tolay knew not grander but colder im the marble imbecility than was ever erected by } any people. It may be deemed sac: to gigvery, though in a nume-ical minority, main- | predict that the day joay dawn when a future med ‘control of the political affairs of the | American that such a massive, z heartless, dead symbol of living greatness had ill come when to the living, g heart of an honest patriotic le ceremony, which all over this great more cherished, more be- yenerated than’ the building Here and sleowhere, wherever ite today for the purpose has brought us here, there will be found -and southern slavery—fan-| but @ little handful of the survivors of that Grand Army of the Republic of 1861 and 1865. Fevolution the death of all future power for | These throngs of people were not there —knew ‘them under the government and the probable | nothing of that strnggle which cost and death of their several theories and institutions. | the country so much. Had they patiently and philosophically waited c t 2 Very many of these to life since those days, but to all these simple ceremony is an object lesson—to little ones and to these of larger rowth certain truths that must be and will be rned ws they go through life. LESSONS OF THE DAY. The first great lesson taught—perbaps the lof secession | Steatest of all—is that whenever a country is in by @ convention composed of the most radical, | peril by invasion or insurrection, whenever the | Mate, Is hut the child of most hot-headed citizens, passing an ordinance | lives and liberties of a people ave endangered who will freely offer their ind give their lives if need betosave the le and to shield the Ts and devastations. A grateful country hered the remains of those who lay where d them side by side in riate cemeteries and placed beadstones eir graves to soark their namee, their reserved and protected ‘Thé army and navy of the ited States from 1861 to 1865 enrolled 2,000,- of loyal men; of these 300,000 laid down farms tbe | tbeir lives. The Grand Army of the Republic best men of the nation rallied at the call for | 8 called into existence to perpetuate in fra- defenders of the nation’s honor and the na-| ‘ernity, charity and loyalty the memories of that grand army of the Union. ANSTITUTED BY LOGAN. . ‘Twenty-five years ago one of the survivors, a representative citizen-soldier — Logan — then for what they believed right and patriotic on | C°™mander-in-chief of the newly organized the one side; heroic, irm, gallant, loyal defend. | Grand Army of the Republic, introduced here ersof the countryon the other. No brave | in Washington this custom of assembling once Union soldier bas ever been found to deny that | in cach year on this day—at the end of the month of roses—to pay tribute to the memories can tell the whole story of that struggle. It is | 0f OUF comrades dead by strewing flowers idle in an hour toeven attempt to draw the out- pep lime Every year this custom My comrades, it is ours to mr _ anniversary. The legislatures of the stutesand Years Congress legislated in vain to enact laws the Congress of the United States have made it “our Memorial day.” All over this land some Xo COMPROMISE. one today is religiously observing it—for every- Scholars and statesmen and diplomats tor- | where is found the grave of some soldier which tured their intellects in vain to divine a com- | is being decked with flowers. Let no comrade forge grave ever be forgotten. Let the ceremonies of this day be ushered in by the booming of can- non—symbol that it was through the baptism of war that the nation was restored to peace undivided. Let strains of martial mame be re- minders of the days when our armies were led by music to battle and victory. Let orators proclaim in trumpet tongues low our nation was brought through fire and blood and war to ace and let poets repeat the story ind let no soldier's a glorious ‘The whole civilized world locked on appalled, [rier tepe| Necven uped ls an ries, its motives and its conse: choruses raise peans of praise to join the great anthem which shall proclaim ‘Peace on earth.” Millions of loyal hearts all over this great land ‘WAR, ONLY WAR, COULD SETTLE THE QUESTION. | will beat in unison with these songs and cere- From beginning to end the insurgents grew | monies. Millions of helping hands will join in weaker, the army of the United States stronger Saecee ees = ae stage son = > in ears, and more determined, till there came a day luck the beautiful flowers of spring , lovingly, reverently lay them as joyalty and veneration uy : ‘thers and our com: Tose over Appomattox and disclosed the con- | jf tears shall sometimes fall among these roses federate army of northern Virginia, commanded let them not be by Gen. Lee, confronted by the overwhelming | mourning, but tears of gratitude and love. e roll book of the public is our record, our ‘The names engraved upon these headstones here and elsewhere, wh in miniature waves today,and where we roses, is our roll of hon ‘On this roll or on that, whether it bears the name of Farragut or Porter or Grant or Sher- man or Logan—or whether it bears the name soldier, who bore the musket is bosom’ to death by the b ere be found there only that sad word “Unknown” on this roll or on that, is found no mark of distinction of rank or con- ‘As year by year the roll is called for volunteers to perform the work of this anni- versary fewer and fewer of the comrades will answer to their names; but if search be made those missing names will be found transferred ‘ot one of them will be lost, till by and by, not many years hence, tenderly and gentl mists of that memorable morning, that had | trei®tribaies of the graves of tears of lamentation and , ‘Again, comradi rear, the invincible Sheridan with viccorious | Gre Army of history. to our roll of honor. to the roll of honor, will sleep on and on till ti summon us to the grand army beyond the ‘Then, citizens of the re- nd daughters of these dead ‘ill be yours which today is ours. ‘By your loyalty, by your veneration for your nation’s dead, by your love of your and you and I assembly call shall picket line of tin jeroes, the trust you, keep it. Could @ last farewell word of comradeship and love reach the ears sleeping in these graves Sleep. soldier, sleey Sleeep. soldier. sieep! War's dread alaria is o'er," Your country calis her sonsto die no more, auc wisohaleraporat ‘Than where i valut “7 ‘Their lofty deeds like incense rise; By beauty they are crowned. ‘The hero's path ends not at the grave: live on forevermore! it exiles the brave; ‘Their fame wilt aay, ride obiivi vouae” on the other: ‘Their “arms” are “stacked” ‘The patriot dead No bat of endieas nl ‘They calmly “1 They aweetly sleep the y ‘Thetr life is one eien Asn And flowers fresh as And “Love and For both the To those who won, One sentiment ai Are fallin het 1 ir “nerried ranks” ar ‘Their “wavering lines” ‘They are “marching,” f Comrades! Columbia's Favorite Sons,— Sherman and Forter,—bave been “mustered on Since last we met, the “minnte guns,” a” wall, the Proctaim their “capture” in ‘The “Dead Mar Way Comrades and Friends! Teee them “mmster” in ‘They are “dling b; Immortal tai Brave Comrades, rest! Bri And now, a fond adieu, Nv nore on life Repose beneath Until the last “review.” “Sleep ont Sleep on! Heroic Dead! Ji little recks what we may say,” Far, far beyond your narrow bed, Where peace's effulgent beams are shed, ‘You live again in perfect day. ———"Brevet Maj. Gen. J, Mc x al PS Mra - ¥.. im whose «divi the writer served. ELOQUENCE IN ANACOSTIA. Dr. Godding's Remarks at the Exercises at St. Elizabeth’s, Fellow citizens: In this work-day world of America the times when we may rest come but too seldom. I count but six national holidays, and these for the most part are birthdays. The Ist day of January, when ris born’ anew; \d day of February, when Washington was born; the 4th day of July, when out of revo- lution the nation was brought forth; one day in November, when we H may thank God that we ourselves are born into such country: the 25th day of December, when One was born for our example; the 30th day fay, when we are DR. W. Ww. Goppixe. reminded how some have died that a nation might be born again. We keep no saint's days, none the less our Saint on on your hallowed mis- is consecrated, welcomes outstretched and all her singing birds; welcomes you with her lon reaches of soft lawns and quiet shade, and wit her green graves that you come to strew— the final’ resting place of men who died for their country—silent mounds more eloquent in their silence than any words Elizabeth welcome sion to which thi you with leaf; graves that a spoken above them. er we go their devotion to her. ceeding year red. the memory green. on battlefields or leep, soldier. sleep! inant oer Sour grave honor-death—your mation's -_ ‘Wake, Leroes, wake. Prof. Evans’ Poem. L May ali her years of Joy increase; nd down the ages yet 10 be, ve | Around her brow bind fair and free, ‘The trophied victories of peace. lots, friends, we meet today, ‘9 greet our comrades. dead! nd roses sweet we kind: ine turf above thetr head. ‘The scarred ‘The loved and ‘The bugie’s biare, the drum's loud best, ‘The cannon's soi! strais.the fe repeat — columns, down the street, ‘iMank God! no more From foes within, and foes without, ‘swept the land and ocean; their enemies fo routs battle’s shout, could even dared to die. In this hallowed lives were consecrated. and strength. If £ should try to sway the memories that oc- casion awakens and ex- press them in fitting words I should be over- whelmed. When it was decided by the committee of arrangements that, by virtue of my office as commander of this post it became my duty to address this assembly, I felt at once my inabil- @ COMMANDER FRISBIE. soldier's duty is to obey orders tion. ‘The duty that confronts us at most sad and most sacred. Sad, Preparation the ‘upon me at this been almost overwhelmed with the on fairer fields, ears away, The palm ts now the blade tI ve | Their confictw over thetr'woe mal day. y1 e wealth of verdant Bedeck thelr graves, anew. mm. ‘Then, greetings give to all who fell; May. ue aud Gray.” -to those who lost, 4 be; Yi martial prowess, each may boast, n this fraternal toast,— “ihe Starry Banner, Freel” ‘Those who survived the battle’s din, by day; re growing thin; ast aways “muffied drums,” the “last redoubt.” O% Death! why this ingiorious “raid” ‘pon our gallant Union line? Why Grantr” who met thee, McClellan, Hancock, and Met Brave, generous, and sublit A? peerless Knight! who won the day ter! And him, whose ray ade), at Gettysburg won t wuihobest thou thea away? vor. Blow, Bugtera! Your ‘Reveille,” Blow! ees the honored dead! I feel the Orient of their 5) writ glow! 7.” Uncover every head! Accept, O, Saviors of our Liberty! ‘These Boral offerings trom our hands; Loved by the Land your valor rendered free, Ammmortal, you are evermore to be! ‘Your deeds rehearsed ia many lands. Sleep aweetly In your honored gray Blessed martyrs of a holy cause!” 1@ awaits the brave! For “Home, Sweet Home,” For G id Freedom's |i area e Comrades, sled “parade” you'll meet; exe DiossOIns of nations which would soun take advantage of our weakness. But with a loyal Perple we are safe from their encroachments. hour. But for what purpose, you ask, are we to learn lessons of loyalty? Why should men voluntarily offer their lives for their country? Iwill tell you that in return your country offers you civil and ae 8 liberty, and this is a greater blessing fe. would life be without blessings which liberty brings? Some of you here today know what it is to offer your life for your country. Suppose that I, speaking for thisnation, should say to this assembly, I want your life; come up on this platform and offer it. How many would come up here and say, here am I; take my life for your need? Yet more than two millions of men made that answer. Suppose, again, I should say I ask x ou to become crip- ples and drag out a miserable die, or become idiots for your country. many of you would volunteer to do that? Yet more than two millions of men obeyed that call, and among them were memories we honor toda} ited of This is not because they are graves, for earth holds nothing more commonplace than graves— “AW kuow, and the way we with its dusty crowded thoroughfare. But it happened to these men traveling the common way of life to stand at the supreme moment of @ nation’s need and not humanity's highest level. apart, these honors paid, these tributes tl bring. And not in our time alone, but when wre are lying in forgotten barrows, as each suc- lens its roses, processions other than ours will do them honor, will come to deck their graves anew. Their lives may have been commonplace enough. We ask not who they were, but what they did. Of the 300 who gied with Teonidas at Thermopyle history has forgotten the names, but keeps forth, whose flowers today, whom our thoughts mounds are strewn wi what names they Bore, whether they fell lingered on for years in the slow decay of mental eclipse, matters not. We only know they are filling soldiers’ graves and that they died at a time when it meant some- to be a soldier. Poor and unknown, I grant you, but all they had they gave—kings 30 nomore. ‘Greater love hath that this, thata man lay down his life for h® friends,” that he die for his country. The devotion of self—thisis our lesson for the hour. Without it Decoration day Jess. But seen in that light heroes stand on the mount of transfiguration, an example to us and to ourchildren's children, speaking to us of a nation saved, of worth living for, because for ‘it some have ice let all our striv- ings cease. From the north, from the south, from the east and from the west, let us remem- ber only our common country, to which Be ready to live for her, ready also to die at her command. Commander Frisbie’s Oration. I once read of a man who tried to wear the armor and wield the sword of some ancient an- cestor, but found them too great for his stature THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C, SATURDAY, MAY 80, 1891-SIXTEEN PAGES. forming, and on the village green are learning their first lessons in the art of war. Men from | which it soldiers. The dark and ominous into 5 ‘war clou which bad so long hi thresteni iy round, the boron, aed atin tS far hep Be ed burst forth with an awful Cag FB our land and of citizen soldiers on ir departure for the fields of | the ve of home and friends. Some for the last time with the maidens mre they adore. We hear the whispered vows of eternal love as they part, ‘perhaps, forever. Others are kissing babes in their cradles leave of wives, le with cheerful words and smiles they are endeavoring to arf away awful fear. Others in are receiv- ing the parting bles of father and mother. We seem to hear the silver-voiced_ bt ig them away and see them falling into line and march away in their blue uniforms, kee ing step to the grand musio of war. rs rough the streets of towns and cities, across prairies, down to the fields of glory to battle for the Union and the right We are with them on the gory fields and in the hos- pitals of pain and suffering, torn by shot and shell or wasted by disense.” We are also with them on the weary marches, in the bivouac and on guard with them boneath the silent stars. fe see them after complete triumph has crowned their arms returning again, with tat- tered banners and decimated rat ks, to their homes and former pursuits of life; many missing and by their graves a grateful nation stands in reverence toda THE LESSON OF THE DAY. Now, what, you ask, is the meaning of these exercises? What are the lessons they are de- signed to teach? What do these exercises, held all over this land today, signify? That great trinity of principles ot’the Grand Army of the Kepublic, fraternity, charity and loyalty, finds no greater exemplification than in these ceremonies. At the Christmas season a deeper love and reverence for Him whose birth that day commemorates, and a friendlier feeling for those around us, takes possession of our hearts. It is in truth a season of peace on earth and good will to men. This fraternal union of carts, welded in the fire of battle, as each year brings around this season of flowers and this duy of sacred duties and sad memories, is the sweet mantle of charity bound together in a closer bond of comradeship, and we are incited to greater liberality and sacrifice for our less fortunate comrades; and their faults are now easily transformed into virtues. With us charity is used in its most comprehensive sense. We seek to wrong no man or judge him for his opinions, however opposed they may be to our own. It is the universal cusiom, I believe, Wherever our decorating committee perform the duties assigned them, to strew the graves of friends and focs alike That charity which suffereth long and is kind, that thinketh no evil, but rejoices in the truth, is second in the great trinity of principles which, like a band” overshadowing all others is the crowning virtue of Joris; loyalty to country and the flag foug! ciples of truth and justice, loyalty to home and friends and to the government established by our fathers. Without the loyalty of the people behind it this would be the weakest nation on earth and might become a prey to the rapacit; of silver, unites us. But t to maintain, loyalty to the eternal pri oyalty is our st safeguard. It is better than great great armies of soldiers who fight only for glory or conquest. ‘Ihe great mission of the Grand Army of the Republic is to teach our children and those who come after us this great princi- ple of loyalty. So the G. A. R. has instituted a of the United States has made this a public holiday for the purpose of showing to the world that the men who offer their lives at the call of duty should not be forgotten by a grateful people. THE BLESSINGS OF LIBERTY. Then let us learn well the lessons of this itself. What existence When Pericles had made Greece famous in arts, liberty and law he called to his aid the genius of Phidias to erect in Athens a mon ment to commemorate its glory and beauty. He erected on the heights of ihe Acropolis a colossal statue of Minerva, armed with spear and shield, as the representative of liberty and law. To every Greek she was an emblem of glory and power, before which all bowed with Feverent awe. ‘But the Acropolis, with its temples and statues, is now a heap of ruins. ‘e cannot restore them to their former great- ness and grandeur, but we can erect in our and those who come after us a monu- ment more lasting than brass or marble; a monument dedicated to universal liberty and equality before the law; » monument before which all nations will bow in adoration. The Winds that blow from these shores have carried to other climes the word “Freedom” and have awakened a responsive chord in the hearts of the oppressed of all nations. From the vine- clad steppes of Russia, the cry of liberty ofthe Rhine, across the —— the s up and'wafted eastward across the Himalayas to the plains of Hindostan. ‘The despotic rulers of monarchies turn pale with fear at that cry from the people) they have, so long op- pressed. ‘Lhey are beginning to feel the weig! of the immortal principle that the only just power of government is derived from the con- sent of the governed. THE MISSION OF THE REPUBLIC. The mission of this republic is to solve the problem of universal liberty and equality be- fore the law. For this purpose was the war for the Union fought out. "Some think that sol- diers are chielly renowned for bravery; why, bravery is one of the cheapest kind of com- modities. Cats, dogs and Hons fight to the death, and who will say they fight lew bravely than do soldiers? But there is this difference between their warfares and ours—they have no ideas behitid them; our race has ideas, and ideas are immortal. ‘The war for the Union wus one of ideas, not » mere test of physical strength and endurance. ‘The right triumphed in that great contest, and we are here to perpetuate the principles for which the Union soldier fought and to honor the memory of those who fell in defense of those principles, or who, having survived it, have since fallen by the yaide in the march of life. I stand here to- day and can truly say that, treasuring in my heart all the sad and sacred memories of the Past, of flerce battles, of comrades stricken down by my side, and four years of toil and danger, I have no malice in my heart for those who battled for a cause they deemed just, and are now willing to accept in ood faith the | na #03 results of that war, but can freel eay to them as citizens of a reunited and undivided country, ‘as did the great leader of the army of freedum, “Let us have pesce.” A ‘There is a house in Massachisotts over the door of which are two crossed swords, one of which was carried by the grandfather of the proprietor on the field of Bunker Hill, the other by the English grandfather of the wife on the same battlefield, but on the other side of the conflict. Under the crossed swords of their e angestors lives « happy family in the erties. 1 trust that the time is not far distant when, under the crossed swords of Americans north and south, the citizens of this republic will well together in harmony and FY. Vestibule gig i ry be his proudest boast to say, am an @ American citizen.” “Dr. A. H. Witmer’s Address, Friends and fellow citizens: I must address yon thus on this memorial day of the fallen brave, whose patriotic serv- ices are annually commemorated over our en- tire land, because at the period when the civil war broke upon us I was not of military age to engage in its con- flicts. ASTETATTA ROUTE, aaa WY FAND NLFICE Bectine daily at Harriaisuny w After the eloquent words which yo heard from "th ed AC RATLROAD. mains but little to add ace poe, in commemoration of the great events ofwhich Decoration day is beautiful outcome. From a remote antiq- coples of all countries andLof all na- tions, civilized or barbarous, have in some form or other set apart days and seasons to recall with solemn ceremonies those who have died in alf of their country. As apprehend the nd lesson to be drawn from the memo- Int it, o Abrewe of Pullman Parior Care. with Die 00. dauy savas See Ican but think the custom conveys days and 4p. m. datiy. significance of vaster im ward form and tance than the out mbol of fragrant flowers. and all acts which kee departed show e reserve intact a belief— in every environment of life, pagan as well as Christian, learned as well as unlearned—a belief which Horace, the most t of classic Rome. embodied in ‘Non omnis moriar’ . This belief in immortality, findiny expression in the literatures and customs of nations, is now especially emphasized in the renaissance of all nature. ‘The cold cerements i rave are transformed into the mar- of springtide life; the vernal incense of newly energy, is indeed a very bridal of sky and bears upon its sheen the signs and tokens of nature's rejoicing in a per- e immortality. fe f oo G. A. R., to whom it is especially given to keep in brance your dead commde y | of which these memorial be unread in the traditions the luminous teachings of the present. Weare in truth the heirs of all that is i which have gon EsS of trend of the “ the solace of man! aoe ‘i For Palitmors, 600, 6:3 1090; 11-05 ‘eu eee ee koe) THE NEW EASTERN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. A NEW CHURCH BUILDING. ‘The Eastern Presbyterian Church Congrega- sills and trimmings. The style of design is The main building is covered with a high pitched slate roof. A large inted arch window, filled in with tracery, the main feature of the western frout, with a gable above it. The other fronts are or- namented by gables projecting above the eaves and forming a picturesque roof tower at the corner of Maryland avenue and (th street is square shaped and extends 110 feet high and will be covered with tile roof. open belfry forms the upper story of the tower ‘end will be richly ornamented. ORIGIN OF THIS CHURCH. The Eastern Church had its origin about twenty rears ago in a Sabbath schaol organized and conducted by F. C. Cate, B. H. Warner and eight or ten others. Subsequently the ground upon which the present church stands was donated and the house erected. In the last two or three years the membership has greatly in- creased. One year ago a call was extended to Rev. Dr. Cornelius of San Francisco, who ac- cepted and soon afterward was installed pastor with impressive ceremonies. Dr. Cornelius is @ man of more than ordiuary fluent in language, clear in sts lists the attention and then ca heart by his eloquence. He has he! tes in the east and on the F and is well known as a successful ‘The work done by the Eastern Church during the past year is more than double that of any year in the church's history and the prospect for the future is very flatter- A HANDSOME EDIFICE TO BE ERECTED ON STAN- | TON SQUARE—AN IMPOSING EXTERIOR aXD WELI-ARBANGED AUDITORIUM—HISTORY OF THE | CHURCH AXD ITS PRESENT OFFICERS. HE CONGREGATION OF THE EASTERN | Presbyterian Church, now located on 8th street between Gand H streets northeast, has begun the erection of a handsome church edi- fice in Stanton square, corner of Maryland ave- nue, 6th and H streets northeast. Mr. Appleton P. Clark, jr., architect, has prepared the plans, | utilizing the entire lot, which is 80 feet on Maryland avenue, 50 feet on 6th street and 85 feet on C street. °THE INTERIOR ARRANGEMENTS. The main entrances are from 6th street | through a stone porch supported by columns, with carved caps, tos vestibule running across the western end of the building. also be an entrance from Maryland avenue at the eastern end of the building, which will con- nect with the pastor's study, located in a round tower. The main room will be octagonal in shape, 70 feet across. The pulpit will be lo- cated in the eastern side, with a pastor's robing room immediately to the mghtand rear, formed in a recess of an angle in the lot andcovered in front by a Gothic oak screen. A similar screen will stand on the opposite side of the pulpit, and formenentrance walk to choir gallery. The organ and choir will occupy the south- eastern side of the church, to the left of the the congregation. A curved roached by stairways from the extend across the rear of e church and day, gladdening us w for 54 pom. week dg For Kichmond and ‘Accomnvoda’ let not the wisdom are 80 pregnant the past or in in the civic as in the scientific relations which man holds to man is forever upward and development of a broader relopment whose and deeper humanity, a field of vision is more extensive than mere sec- tional lines, and whose tield of activity knows no sect, no people, but encom- Passes the world, the brotherhood of man in the fatherhood of God. are destined by the highest Christian philos- ophy to be of prefigured by the symbols of eve spring, by thesymbols of every returning Deco- day, so let us see to it that we are of e robe of flesh in all & OBIO RAILROAD. juie in effect May 10, 1801. ‘Leave Washington from station corner of New Jersey even Pet. orthwest. Vewcibuled Limited ep 5) church builder. inchester and way Stations, 15.30 p.m. kin here while we wear < that tends to the elevation of our humanity. Let us see to it that we rise the hate and bitterness conflict and factional strife, we may be of political opinions and religious beliefs. Let us march in unison with the best spirit of the times, whose ken discerns in the future for all people, however distant it may be, that consummation of the noblest com- \Onwealth in which ‘The war drum throbs no longer, and the battle flace ‘are 1urled, In the parliament of man, the federation of the world. Friends of the G.A.R.,I say again, it is in the remembrances which these solemn ceremonies awaken, to conseérate ai your plighted swor: erection of the new church building will not only bean important addition to that locality in ‘the way of church structures, but an improvement that will greatly enhance the value of property in that section. COST OF THE NEW BUILDIXG. The lot on which the new building is to be erected cost about $17,000 and was purchased through Mr. Jay B. Smith of Smith & Jeffords. The Presbyterian alliance of Washington city contributed $12,500 toward the purchase of the lot. Work on the new bui soon and will be pushed rapidly, as the pros adequate in every way for wing congregation. OFFICERS OF THE CHURCH. The officers of the church are Rev. M. N. Cornelius, D.D., pastor; elders, W. M.D., H. A. Dobson, Chandler; deacons, W however tenacious i For Philadelphia. N« dally. 4:0, 60 C1000 fet Parlor Carson all For Boston, “2:40 p.m_, Car running throuch to sagt Bes ry ‘ ‘The interior of the main floor will have a high ing will begin enriched with plastic work, with a dome in the center of ceiling. be filled in with stained glass. The room will be waiascoted 5 feet high. The In the ‘basement room, extending across the wid! from north to south. ‘The infant located in the southwest corner. and connected | folding partitions. A Minton aie peatioy eee Ber neranda kitchen wi ttached. am oe to the highest interes of an undivided country, to sce that fraternal union is deep and strong enough to include gray as well as those who wore the blue. A united country presupposes all endeavors ap- elevation of man. mngthened by soldierly discip- ith hearts warmed by the glow of camp fire recollections, it is for you alike, fed- eral and confederate, to marc ment of humanity which recog- ent structure is in For Atiantic city. the needs of the gro: days, 4:05, 1 Soe those who wore th {pie ‘of wu btaria trains eee time tate, to betes “Daily and cliacked from it will be the main school With minds stre1 ith of building class will be E. Harvey, John Alliger, M.D., E. Q. tees, J. E. Crandall, R. W. Blair, Joseph Kaufman, Jay B. Smith, Samuel Bright, John Shearer,Edwin Walms- oodward. The building ‘com pastor, Jay B. Smith, mn, K. W. Blair, committee of B. H. Warner, Hubbard, A. W. Bryant and with the main room _ ley, Fred.’ E. Wi mittee is composed of the M.'W: Wince, Joseph pray that jous. As come it will, for a” thi at Chariotiesville dail ‘That man to manthe Shall brother be, m burg with Norfol Bo THE EXTERIOR DESIGN. wil The exterior of the building will be faced with blue stone, quarry faced, with Ohio stone phur ier Lyne Judge Armstrong's Remarks, so Race ie oS Ladies and gentlemen and comrades of the G. A. R, I thank you most sincerely for this honor you have conferred upon me, but I shall not be betrayed by it into mak- ing a lengthy « ge here who have entertain- ed you far more eloquent than I. Thesetection of this day for these exer- cises, a day consecrated to the memory of those IT 18 FOUR STRAIGHT Now. The association clubs stand as follows in bat- ting: Boston, Baltimore, Washington, St. Louis, The record in club fieidi Boston, St. Louis Athletics, Louisville, ‘Cincinnati, Columbus, ‘The National Team Again Defeated—-Other The Senators could not bat a little bit yester- day,and, although they fieldedalmost perfectly, they managed to lose the fourth straight game tothe St. Louis Browns by the score of 6 to 1. The hitting of the Nationals was very weak,and consequently the other side had an easy time, through good work in the field, in keeping the score down. The batteries were Bakely and McGuire and McGill and Munyan—the little man with the bald head. Dowd’s finger was so bad that he was sent home and the regular combination worked in his absence, Smith at second, Hatfield at short, Alvord at third and Lohman in right field. Each side scored one in the first inning. St. yuis made ‘@ run ona two by Fuller and a sacrifice Beecher took first juery and McGuire hit for a base e second the Browns took a us: Dowd ‘ath, with 317; Davis leGuire and MeQuery d twenty-sixth, with 280 and 279; ; Bakely thirty- eighth, with 241 ; Smith fifty-seventh, with 212; a with 1 twenty-third, with 286 ‘Neopet termediate stations, The SSD ‘Charlottesville. seventh, wit Hatacld Yorty. honor and authority in this republic, is most a betting: that our flag encircles. us with its folds today, the object of our loyal love. What can I say in such a plac as this, where the ‘very GEORGETOWN. A PLEASANT Oocastox. Last night the larger parlors of Mrs. Wester- velt of $102 Gay street were filled with « merry throng who passed the hours in playii dancing and partaking of refresiimente. those present were Mrs. Westervelt and Minses Gibbs, Poindexter, Engl Casilear, JUDGE ARMSTRONG. is, Meridian, New tremulous with holy sacrifice and the rust- by O'Neil For places of the nation’s des on balls and Mo- feeble are mortal words in the presence of this solemn and mighty host, who, being dead, yet pe inestimable cost of preserv- ing the heritage of freedom, the free recious blood to purchase the blessings today by the greatest and most pros- tion on the earth. It is now a little over twenty-six years since the general in command of ad. How poor an Paliman Buftet Lynchburg, Danville, Garoiina Bi ‘Pulls > Washington to New Orleans ‘and Ouio division Residents on 35th street between O and P complain that the parki tween the sidewalk na the curb objectionable kind of dirt consist- » Which makes the place so | 44, muddy and sticky’ in wet weather that the grievance is now greater than it was before. REV. DR. FULLERTON'S RETURN. Rev. Dr. Thos. Fullerton of the Qual Church, who was detained in thie west by sick- bas arrived and ie vig Atlantas Mow on that street be- | "trains on Wack: plate. Faller went hus been filled off, threw out into left hit out a single and he the latter punched the ball so could not find it until the runner had made bases. The last run of the owas a four-base hit made by O'Neill in am. and S40 piu. daily, and 6.50 a m., except Virginia surrendere to Gen. Grant, the commander of the Union and victorious armies, who th rs had fought that the unioi preserved: ana from thence reigned throughout the entire length our beloved country, amd we trust shall so continue for all time to come. And now, when more than twenty-six years way since that memorable event, Logan Pi rough four los n of states might Sens checked at office, ATLOR, censttal Tass POTOMAC RIVER BOATS. TESS MOAMOE, Nom OLA, Ve., orany ‘south take propellers Sia a SOHN CALLAMAN. Gen’ Supt OLK axp dppr or mt ay SS ae ae Vatie avenue, ana and somewhat impro cae Pes will be unable to occ: n his stead his son, Her. preach. our republican institutions and lib- | Te™ eeaaceee day of resurrection. To assistants, on behalf of J and superintendent of St. who ba I t i ie [ u