Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1899 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

| Double Significance of This Memorial Day.,* J M' EMORIAL DAY has a doable significance this rear that wUI be given S expression in every section of the country, and this very fact will tend jj to-draw more closely together than ever before the bloc and the gray. From Maine and Mississippi, from far Oregon and Florida, from erery t HHaaBVjM State and Territory of the land, unselfish and ralorous volunteers J W enlisted for the Spanish war. It was Freedom’s own fight, and color f 111 IJbwli-w and nationality cut no figure, sectional prejudice had no part. The I MW result is that a new bond of union is cemented, and in its freshness and " true, deep meaning it is with ns this Memorial Day riridly. W ■ There are many new graves to decorate, and the heroes of the Caban S campaign will not be neglected. In many instances the son will sleep not far from ths last resting place of hie honored sire—in others, the | I surviving comrade of last year wUI this year bare joined that vast army of patriots whoso f bravery this country la proud and ardent to honor. The mother of some worthy son of one rof these chivalrous souls who gave his life righteously, he believed, for the Southland, will j clasp hands and mingle tears with the widow of some strict, hardy old New-Englander, to whom liberty was dear wherever it was deserved. In a common cause each fell. The memories of the dead soldiers of the war of 1861-5 have come to be a solemn, sacred [influence— -those of any later dead will be more vivid, more poignant. Alike, they sleep, | however, honored, regretted, myrtle-crowned. Every fond flower strewn, while bedewed with .. j the tears of sorrow, smiles up into the face of the giver a benison. Beneath the sod is one | who helped to strike the shackles from groaning slavery and persecution! I Half a sigh, half a cheer, the soft, humid Cuban breezes waft westward the prayers and r the praise of unusual devotees at places where some of our brave boys fell. To these, our |j new neighbors, as each Decoration Day comes around, although there'appears to them the I merest shadow of its general celebration in this country, the holy sentiment of sympathy cannot fail to exist snd find expression. There is an object lesson for the rising youth in the double presentation of this Decoration Day; tbe garlanded grave of the Union soldier snd the garlgnded grave of the hero of ■ the Bpani»h war. We are not a nation of warriors, bnt we are patriots, steadfast and true, | and as from the grand old stock of the days of Washington'there descended the brave, impetuous spirit of ’6l, so these noble sonls seem to have left to their children and grandchildren n the spark divine of courage and devotion, that responds magically quick to the call of distress ] I and the clarion-note of liberty tbe world over. I■ - I

ERECTED BY XHE BTATE OF KENTUCKY IN HONOR OF HER SONS WHO FOUGHT AND FELL ON THU FIELD. Aa are are united in life, arnLUty united In death, let one monument perpetuate their deeds, and one people; forgetful of all asperities, forever hold la grateful remembrance ail the glories of Chat terrible conflict which made all man free and retained every star on the nation's flag.