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" We come ■wit'lifc-reversed arms,
O comrades.-Who sleep,
To rear the proud marMe,
To muse and to weep."
s^~l   Year by year Decoration
?steadily gaining ground as the Most
•distinctly patriotic and-educative day
•of all the. round of anniversary occa**
'sions, civic and fratemaL Its nature
mafees it so» Underlying the demonstrations of Independence Day lies a
a principle as profound ■ as that upon:
-watch Decoration ©ay is established,
and one that is more readily comprehended hy the mass of (humanity fee
world, over, because'the 4th of-$My is
associated every whesse with the name
©£ Liberty. IFet that €ay is. losing its
deepest significance, and its value as
-- -an educator*©f pataJietic sentiment is
not as greatms formerly.. This is* not
because the peopte-a-s a whole are less
appreciative of snobl© sentiment, but.
because the meB©emary spirit of
the times has entered, into the -flay,
and the .question-usually asked hy fee
•merchant when refuested to subscribe to the 4th of July fund is, "How
mueji can I -make out of it besides
paying my subscription." Patriotic
sentiment, gratitude, and those other
noble sentiments ase too seldom, the
motive for ©bserfinir that cpeat day.
Steo often it-is but- a" magnificent ad-*
¥eftising' scheme to attract purchasers. JSven tlie speech which is
listened toby a few on that day, is
usually but a tea W fe&2# 'M§ :W&
semblance *ot patriotic, instruction;
& tell game or a tese face captures
the larger audience. .
With Decoration Bay it-is different.
Clare W. B, C.
B-ar well W. B. O,
Hvart W. B. 0.
BiyisiOK 2.—W. H. Elden, marshal.
Eorthey marshal band.
Glare schools.
Drvisios" 3.—G. H. Clark, marshal.
Mt. Pleasant cornet band.
Clare division, U, B. K. of P.
Cadillac "
Division" 4.—J. B. Bogers, marshal.
Clare fire department.
Citizens.
The procession as a whole was quite
imposing. As it neared the cemetery
rain began to fall. Although hundreds
of citizens on the side walk fffift&ed
back as the stor m. came on,, the greater
number, as well as those marching in
■ the road in the line of march kept
bravely on until they surrounde'd the
monument and speaker's stand in the
cemetery. On account of the growing
storm, Mayor Alward, who was president-of the day, announced at once
that&he excercises afc the cemetery
would be abbreivated and the
balance of the program would be
carried out at Doherty opera house.
Without further formality the monument was unveiled-. In brief but appropriate words Mayor Alward referred $g the work -of the relief corps in
erecting the monument and eloquently .touched upon the heroism of the
men who merited such high honor. In
■©losing he quoted the following touching lines, written by his own mother
upon another occasion:.
•the loved ones -whom we
"ffihey are not dead-
mourn;
Though out of sight and hearing they are gone,
"Ufeej live, removed from earthly grief and ill,
With sweeter, holier power to bless us still."
The president of the day then in-
•tr-educed ex-department Chaplain
•Charles Gardner, of Eewaygo, who in
.an eloquent address on behalf of the
W. B. C, of Clare, presented the
•soldiers'monument. We regret that
we have, not the -manuscript of the
-Chaplains address, and as it was impossible to take notes in the rain, we
*can only-say that it was a magnificent
•speech. There was nothing in the
weather- .".to .produce . enthusiasm.
Everything was 'drizzly damp, the
speaker being s&afronted, not hy a
:g©a of fa<U8%-bat ..by billows ®i w&
bsiiMs. The lessor of bravery which
the day teaches must have been well
learned, else a thousand or more
ladies would not have stood for nearly an hour in the -dripping rain, even
in England there were two forces—two
eare either mt of place or of^^        e g       er       assed tne an.
propriety.    Shops are elosjal^^Jl ^_ _,_„_„    mt „_
_ the time of-service. The whole
thought centers In the beautiful eere-
moay—beautiful because loving—and
in the patriotic teachings-.of the ad-
!«y
It is a time, "not of exuberant joy,
but of sorrow whose poignant grief has
been, softened by 'the lapse of time.
So long as the Teterans of the war re-
maiffi to tee salutes above their dead
comrades this .day will remain inviolate. What .may be done after
they are gone no one can tell,butif the
iMng generation learns the present
lessoa well the sacBsd'day may remain
uMnvaded for^yeass to come.
The observance ©f Decoration Day,
1884j ia, Clare, wiE long be remem-
bered. Aithough.the attendance was
mot' so large, owing,to the weather, as
.had been espected, and although the
^program was intenanpted by the same
cause, the day was.a magnificent success. Hearly all th© visitors came by
:toifi. The country people of the ad-
4g£ent towaships mostly remaining
away on acco.i2nt of t&e inclemency of
|h@ weather. -.
At § o'clock a detail from Haucock
post* marched to Cherrj Grove and dee-
orated thegraves of the eleven soldiers
who rest there. They were accompanied hy a detachment from the uni-
ioraed rankof the Knights of Pythias.
Tkm floral offerings, of which there
wemsisteen,. were triangles set with
roses in the three colors al the order.
Of these, fourteen were deposited
upon the graves of relatives of Sir
Knights interred at Cherry Grove, one
was sent to Detroit and one to Stratford, Out. The. remainder of the
morning hours and until 1:S0 p. m. was
consumed in meeting trains and welcoming visitors.
The line of march formed on Main
street at11:3© p.m., as follows, with
jaead at G. A. B. hall i
Peter iforte, chief marshal.
Judge S. B. Daboll, the orates of the
days and Mayor Alward, in carriages.
Diyisjoh 1—Jacob Masopj Marshal.
Cadillac cornet band.
Hgfleoek Post^ of Clare.
DwigM May Post, of Midland.
Sedgwick Post, ot Bvart.
.   G/harfcE Gf iffio Bostj of Farwell.
Bf iilef Posts -of Hartison.
<SSMr veteau soldiers But sailors.
eights in eloquence.   The ceremony of
dedication by the G. A. B. was
abridged, and the crowd returned to
Doherty opera house, where as many
as could be packed m. were admitted.
After the song "Forget Them Kbt5"
by a glee club composed of Messrs.
Giberson, Mussell, L. Converse, G. T.
Converse, Galliver and Palmer, Chap-j
lain Gardner offered prayer.
A mixed choir sao?
Dust of Hoble Dead."
W. S. Cooley, commander of Hancock Post, then made a few remarks,
and introduced William Anderson,
—familiarly called " Uncle Billy Aa-
.derson"—of Sheridan township, wh©
was for some time a prisoner in An-
dersonville prison. He was presented
before the audience in the very rags
in which he was dressed when he was
exchanged, aud exhibited the last
rations issued to him for dinner oa
that day, and the pail in which be
coookd the little fool he got, together
wfsth the spoon assi knife he usefi
there. Commander -Cooley's remarks
ant the sad spectacle presented of the
su*iering of the bra^e boys in those
horrible southern prisons, brought
tears to many eyes. Commander-
Cooley, who was -stationed at one oil
the northern prisoss where rebels
wese confined, told h©w the prisoners
were fed and clothed. Judge Daboll
remarked during his address following,
that .-of 2,500 prisoners he saw come
down ithe river from the Libbey rebel
prison not one was dressed as well as
Mr. Anderson. The impression and
lesson taught by the presentation of
Mr. Anderson and the remarks made
in connection therewith will last long
with those* who saw it.
The Glee Club sang, "Brave Battery
Boys.'"
Judge S. B. Daboll of St. Johns, ex-
judge advoeate of the department of
Michigan G. A. B., was introduced
and made the address of the day. He
spoke without manuscript or notes and
held his auditors attentive to the
close, whieh was remarkable, considering the way they were packed like
the petals of & rose. He said ia substance: Ereedom began not witli. the
4th of July X776. The peal of tb& liberty bell was not the awakening of
liberty.  Back of this two £©ntets§
theories, the puritan and the cavalier.
One theory settled at Plymouth. This
was the theory of universal equality
and liberty to all men. The other
theory landed at Jamestown. This
theory was based upon servitude.
Above one theory swaded the dark
pines and hemlocks, over the other
waved the spreading foliage of the
palm and the cypress. The towering
branches of the pines of the north
waved and sighed, and the leaves of
the palm of the south rustled until
they met over Mason and Dixon line
and crimsoned the laurel below witn
blood.
The pines swayed and the palms
rustled, but the country did not fully
realize the crisis that was approaching
until the cannon belched forth at Ft.
Sumpter. Accustomed to peace it
came as a tropical storm in fury and
suddenness. Neighbor looked into eye
of neighbor to read if possible the
meaning and result of the storm burst.
But they rose as a single man—the
country must be saved. As the tire
burned down and reached the magazine, it reached a human magazine
that burst with a thousand fold more
terrible result.
We had no standing army but at the
note of danger a million freeman
rushed to arms. Not as hirelings such
as an autocratic monarch might summon to do his bidding, but freemen
who fought for liberty. It did away
forever with the prophesy made by
some foreign nations that, when America should become envolved in war
and be compelled to rely upon her citizens composed of foreigners from every soil to fight her battles, she would
find that, composed of so many antagonistic elements, they would be unmanageable and prove the country's
ruin. But it was not the case. Beside the American, fought the German
from the hills that slope to the blue of
his proud Bhine, the Irishman from
the Emerald Isle, the Frenchman,
ever ready for a new ssene of conflict.
Together they could sing:
"In the "beauty of the lilies
Christ-was horn across the sea * •
With a glory in his bosom
*3^at transfigures you and me.
As he died to make men holy
SaSS u§; die to make men fese
While^God is marching on."5*-
It was to honor  these that  this
"monument was reared.
I see before me women who sent a
ihusband* a son or a l©¥er into that.
■terrible conflict. Sue bade him good
isye out upon the gceen—a kiss—an
embrace—a last look—and she-gave
jour country a defender. With a
.struggle she held baek the tears less
sincerity that the ladies bore more
than the men in war.
battle was sustained
menc- of the   hour,
camp has means to
The soldier in
by the escite-
and    even   in
while away the
weary hours.   She suffered most.    It
was the uncertainty, the dread.
The Grecian matron, as she handed
the shield to her son, enjoined
upon him to bring it back in honor or
be borne upon it, so they handed us
■' Old Glory," but believing we would
bring it back in honor. We took it
emblazoned with the names of Bunker
Hill, Lexington, Saratoga, Princeton,
andYorktown. Its folds blazed out
through the smoke. There was no defeat but pointed to victory, and no
victory tarnished with cruelty to the
vanquished. We brought back the
flag with new lustre added, emblazoned by such names as Yicksburgh,
Gettysburg and Chicamauga. It
stood before for liberty to the world.
It now means more than ever
that no factor should rend our
country assunder.
The war settles forever some questions. He who teaches that the war
was a party fight, and that it could
have been quickly settled by killing off
a few of the leaders on each, knows
nothing of which he talks. Away
with all mawkish sentiment. Let it be
taught everywhere that we were everlastingly right and the other side as
everlastingly wrong. That sentiment
is growing, in the south as well as in
the north, that we were right. As
one of their southern poets has said,
referring to the fight on Cemetery hill
at Gettysburg where rebellion reached its high water mark:
"Godreigns; he forged the iron will
That clutched and held that trembling hill.
He lives and reigns:   He forged and lent
To freedoms hosts that battlement
Where floats that starry banner yet."
The editor of one of the influential
papers of Atlanta has said, "In that
fight we could not win. We were
fighting against the generous impulses
and the christianizing influences of the
l$th cen tury,and we could not succeed."
The leaver is working and the time
may come when this shall be .the universal sentiment.
I am glad to see s© fnsny young men
before me. As I saw the beautiful
sight of the children coming out of
your school Mlding, I thought of this,
I fancied that there might be from
•one to a doses big boys who thought
themselves too big to join in the
procsession, But, no, they are not to
big. Soon they must take the management of this government. They
should learn to revere its institutions
•and its Veteran heroes.   Boys, do not
they should unman Mm, though perhaps before he had marched out of
sight she was prostrated upon her
couch convulsed, with her life's
greatest sorrow tugging at her heart.
Do not think in those days it was
the men who had the hardest of it.
Sleep Sacred] t0 hid. good hy^ and then go where
smoke and flame "were breath and iron
bullets fell like hail was not so hard
as the uncertainty and dread of those
who remained afrhome. Some fell in
battle, feeling the unspeakable joy of
dying for their country. Some faded
away in the .hells of the prison pen.
Some wounded-« diseased came back
to die in peaceful homes. There comrades you won the title of heroes,
which no after ;aet of yours can ever
take away.
Elowers are Mt, offerings to place
above their graces, they are pure as
the patriot Use that burred within
their breast. True, they wither, but
they revive again next Spring, ever as
they revive perennially in our memories.
We should .not forget the other
graves to-day -.which none can find,
marked only by nature's hand. They
die among the-rocks and hollows, beside the rusbiag mountain stream,
along the sedgy shore of old ocean.
Spring comes and strews their resting-
jplace with flowers, but no loving hand
is there to train the vine or cut away
the briars. On Shiloh's bloody field,
on Kenesaw's hard, fought mountain,
among the rocks of Gettysburg,
above the clouds of Lookout mountain,
they have made those scenes historic
by their deeds. Under the sighing
pines and beneath the laurel and
cedar, by rushing stream, or where the
ocean sighs their requium, their
graves were heaped by loving comrades. We are not here to mourn for
them. They condensed their • lives
into one brief hour, From the president down they filled their full cup of
possibilities; their lives were complete; they did what'they could.
i am reminded hy the badges before me that the W. B» CL erected this
monument. I am reminded that we did
not .suffer 2i:osfc  I want to say in all
.go into the army, beguiled by the glittering armor, or the gay uniform, but
if the time ever comes 1 want these
boys to know that this country promises greatly. There is no lad so lowly
but that he may aspre for any thing
&at the country Isolds in its gift.
Take a lesson from Lincoln, child of
the south, adopted -son of the north
and giant of the west. The speaker
proceeded to pay a Mgh tribule to the
emancipator. After paying a graceful
■compliment to Clare, and touching
upon the subjcet of pensionSjhe closed
by urging to cultvate the love of coun-
•try that we may res© the full benefit
©f what they died to save.
N0T3SS.
Though rain interfered with the execution of tbe program, it could not
hamper the good fellowship that prevailed throughout the day.
A. J. Doherty has the gratitude of
everybody,-and especially of the committee on arrangements, for freely offering the use of the opera house in his
^haracteristicly generous way rwhen it
■was found that the exercises could not
be held in the open air.
*
The Cadillac band won a generous
amount of praise, both for their music
on the march, and for the open air
concert of two hours preceeding the
departure of their train. Some of
their selections were unusually fine
ones, notably a trombone solo by Mr.
Bisby. Clare people mil be glad to
hear them again.
*
W. A. Carruthers of the IP. & P. M.
and H. Hunter of the T. & A. A., deserve much praise for the pains taken
by them in arranging for special trains
and in securing favorable rates upon
the railroads.
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If there was anyone man who worked harder than any other for the success of the Occasion, both before and
during the day, it was Peter Mortz,
the chief marshal.
The Belief Corps netted about $15
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