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 1. Selection from Nobucco, 
 
 2. Duett. — Maritana, 
 
 3. Do You Remember, 
 
 4. Gently Rest Thee Mother. 
 
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 Poem — Th(^ Old Sarq;canf, 
 
 Fountain of Grace, 
 
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 T. F. Lang, G. A. R. 
 
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 Miss Minnie Mosher. 
 
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 Hon. M. Brosius. 
 
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 Chaplain J. B. Shontz. 
 
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Baltimore, March 30th, 18S0. 
 
 COL. T. F. LANG, No. 7/ North Charles Street, 
 Dear Sir and Comrade: — We, the undersigned members of 
 
 Committee on " Orators and Ministers " for " Decoration Day 
 
 Ceremonies," most respectfully ask that you deliver the Address on 
 
 that occasion. 
 
 Recognizing your ability as a speaker and knowing the service 
 
 you have done our Order, and still exhibiting in behalf of the Grand 
 
 Army of the Republic, we take pleasure in soliciting your services 
 
 on that day. 
 
 Hoping for an early and fa\orable answer, we are comrade, 
 Most respectfully yours in F. C. & L., 
 
 J. W. C. Cuddy, Chairman, Wilson Post. 
 J. B. Shontz, " " 
 
 Lewis Henninghausen. " " 
 
 Chas. R. Coleman, Harry Howard " 
 J. W. Worth. Diishane Post. 
 
 No. 71 North Charles Street, 
 
 Baltimore, April 13, 1880. 
 Dr. y. 11: (\ Cuddy, Rev. J. B. Shontz, 
 
 Col. LciVis Henninghausen, Capt. Chas. R. Coleman, 
 
 Capt. y. IV. Worth, Committee. 
 Dear Comrades : 
 
 I am in receipt of your polite and very kind letter of the 30th ult., 
 requesting me to deliver the Address upon the occasion of our 
 "Memorial Day" ceremonies on the 31st inst., at Loudon Park. 
 I thank you, indeed, for this evidence of kind wishes, and for the 
 \ery complimentary words in which you have been pleased to address 
 me. It would have been better, perhaps, had you entrusted this 
 duty to abler hands, but as I am at all times ready to lend a hand to 
 anything that indicates the advancement and prosperity of our noble 
 Order, I shall accept your invitation — trusting to say nothing on 
 that day that will give you cause to regret the confidence reposed. 
 Very sincerely yours, in F. C. «& L., 
 
 T. V. Lang. 
 
ADDRESS OF COL. T. F. LANG. 
 
 Ladies and Gentlemen and Comrades : — 
 
 The institution of " Memorial Day " as a means of keeping fresh 
 the memory of the brave men who gave their lives that the Union 
 might not perish, was a happy thought. The debt of gratitude owed 
 to them could never be paid, and therefore it was well that it should 
 be gratefully and reverently remembered, and the Nation's undying- 
 obligation be annually acknowledged by the graceful tribute of a 
 decoration of their honorable graves. 
 
 The observance has grown, in some of the States, into a public and 
 legal holiday, and the demonstrations of patriotic remembrance have 
 rather grown than diminished with the lapse of years. In other 
 states, though a change has been wrought in the meaning and spirit 
 of "Memorial Day," by the spread of that insidious sentimentalism 
 which has been industriously disseminated by those to whom the 
 observance was an offence and a reproach ; and while multitudes yet 
 participate in the annual celebration with the same patriotic fervor 
 that at the first burned with its great sense of the real nature of the 
 infinite sacrifice by which the Union was saved, and draw from the 
 grave of dead Loyalty the same inspiration of lofty devotion to 
 country and flag, many have been gradually led aside from the day's 
 high teachings, and have accepted in their place the pestilent dogma 
 of a false charity that levels the grave where the fallen patriot sleeps 
 his last sleep, to the grade of that which covers the man who died in 
 the cause of human slavery and a broken Union. 
 
 I know that a few years ago, in order to do my part to assist in 
 healing the wound that separated the North and the South, and to 
 lend a hand to bridge with olive branches and cover with clasped 
 hands the bloody chasm between the late contending sections of a 
 common country, did advocate a joint decoration, (and under the 
 same circumstances would do so to-day,) and there were many on 
 
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 both sides who shared with me that opinion ; but as time passed and 
 the principle was more thoroughly understood, the most of us 
 realized the fallacy of such joint decoration, as the motive that 
 prompts the ceremony, is conducted from a widely different 
 stand-point. 
 
 The confederates do not wish it more than we do, ihey can take no 
 more pleasure in or discoxer no more argument for a joint decoration 
 than old England could take in celebrating the 4th of July. I take it 
 for granted that they meet annually for no other purpose than to pay 
 tributes to the memory of their fallen comrades, simply in recognition 
 of the gallantry displayed, and the devotion illustrated under most 
 trying hardships in a cause the most of them believed to be right, 
 and they would be inditferent to every sense ot justice if they did 
 not; the survivors certainly do not wish or hope by their annual 
 display of flowers and music, and speeches, to perpetuate and instill 
 into the minds of the rising generation that the cause for which they 
 fought was holy and just and right, to do so would be to o])pose the 
 decision of the God of battles. 
 
 The soldiers of both sides were the arbiters of the country's fate. 
 The triumph and the surrender ended the strife — so far as the clash 
 of arms could do it. Brave and true soldiers are always quick to 
 rec(.)gnize the courage, the heroism of their opponents, and are ever 
 as impulsive in their magnanimity as they are fearless in the discharge 
 of duty. 
 
 The soldiers of both armies of our late war were " American 
 Soldiers," in warfare, each combated, respected and admired the 
 j)rowess of his opponents, and the \'ictor is too magnanimous to exult 
 over the vanquished, and the defeated should feel no humiliation in 
 the presence of veterans worthy of their steel ; and hence, with us, 
 we treasure no malice towards the fallen, and are ready to forgive the 
 survivors. We ask no humiliating confession of wrong doing, but 
 we do expect and demand acquiescence in the result. Rut our desire 
 for peace and harmony begets in us no regret for the cause in which 
 we fought — no doubt of its righteousness. We respect the sincerity 
 and admire the bravery of our late enemies, but we cannot allow our 
 belief in their honesty, and our admiration for their valor to beguile 
 us into forgetfulness of the fact that they were in the wrong — utterly 
 in the wrong. But let me speak of the lesson ice hope to instill into 
 the minds of the rising generation. 
 
Why are we assembled here to-day ? Why do we come each year 
 to this hallowed spot, to deck with flowers the graves of our fallen 
 Comrades? Why did the men whose dust forms these long lines of 
 mounds, fight and die ? These and similar inquiries will be made 
 thousands of times this day ; not by my Comrades, not by those who 
 stood shoulder to shoulder with those whose graves we deck. Our 
 recollections of the Nation's dark and gloomy hour are \'ivid and 
 seem but as yesterday ; %oc know the meaning of the day's ceremonies ; , 
 our own experience is not so easily forgotten — the suffering of the 
 camp and march, the terrific struggle of the batde, and the sorrows 
 that followed the ending — the cries of the w^ounded and dying, the 
 blanched upturned faces of the dead, are vi\'idly before us ; and the 
 strewing of flowers to-day, though nearly twenty years ha\e passed, 
 is like placing them upon fresh made graves. 
 
 It's the litde children, and the young men and young ladies who were 
 children at the beginning of the w^ar, and this uniformed company of 
 handsome cadets who will ask the questions just mentioned, and, it is 
 upon their minds more especially, that I wisli to im])ress the lesson of 
 the hour. 
 
 To-day. we tenderly and lovingly place flowers upon the graves of 
 all our martyrs, no matter what their station or rank may have been : 
 we pay honors alike to President, to General, to Colonel, to Private 
 Soldier — this their common glory. They ser\ed their country well, 
 and honorably died for the Flag. 
 
 In honoring thus our dead Comrades, we strive to keep ali\e the 
 hope that those who are to follow us, that those footsteps we are now- 
 guiding W'ill ever be as ready to march to their country's assistance 
 in her hour of emergency ; will you do it boys ? I do not purpose 
 pronouncing an eulogy on war. It is generally contemplated with horror 
 and considered the most direful curse which can possible be inflicted 
 upon mankind, but to men of courage, men of a high sense of duty, 
 war is infinitely preferable to dishonorable peace, and they would 
 endure wounds and even death, rather than sufler wrong or yield to 
 slavery what belongs to freedom. 
 
 Our late troubles were an illustration of patriotism and loyalty to 
 country on the one side, and on the other, of the children of rebellion 
 fighting only for a fancied wrong ; ice went bravely into the battle and 
 saved our country, and now my Comrades, let us act the men for our 
 
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 country, and keep it sacredly ; we faced the shot, and shell, and 
 bayonet of the foe, and I sometimes think there is danger that we 
 may be called again to defend this country against her enemies. I 
 hope in the Pro\idence of God we may not. Our special duty now 
 is to defend her against the defilement of the ballot box ; against 
 financial ruin ; or the tampering of the national credit. God grant 
 that every one among you, man and woman, may so act your part 
 'for the right as to hold the country against any that would seek her 
 ruin. The country is full of bad men — especially our large cities ; 
 men whose highest ambition is to be a bully, and knock down men 
 upon the street, to run a primary election for base ends, and crush 
 out all honest suffrage. Society is establishing new models of 
 manhood ; once it was the brains that marked the character, now it 
 partakes largely of the muscle. The first element of true moral 
 manhood is courage, not the stoical indifterence nor blunted sensibility 
 to danger, but a moral principle and an intelligent devotion to the 
 right. Then be brave men ; be patriotic men — not to get into office ; 
 not to control elections ; but to look to our country's honor ; for the 
 time never was when we needed more than now the action of patriotic 
 men to save our country from disgrace ; we need the council and 
 advice of wise and honest political leaders ; we want the ministers of 
 the gospel to look to this question. When I hear the clergy say that 
 we must keep politics out of the pulpit, they are right; but when I 
 hear them say they must divorce patriotism and patriotic sentiments 
 from religion, they are wrong ; and I charge you Reverend Gentlemen 
 to look to it — let your religion and patriotism go hand in hand and 
 voice both from the same pulpit. 
 
 • A few words in relation to our X'olunteer arm\-, and U) our Order, 
 the Grand Army of the Republic. 
 
 Our Army differed from all others — of all time and of all countries. 
 In nearly all the kingdoms of Europe, creating armies is the 
 lundamental law of the land. A man there has no discretion, when 
 he arrives at a certain age. the law makes him a soldier, and he is 
 supposed to know or care for little else than toshoot at some opposing 
 army, or to be shot at for ten dollars a month. With our army, the 
 distinctive feature was its intelligence. In every cavalry saddle, 
 behind every gun and musket, on board our men-of-war, was a 
 thinking man. We discussed the issues of the war, and the results 
 
which would follow \ictory or defeat, with argumentative force. Our 
 army \olunteered from every station of life ; the millionaire was in 
 the ranks with the humblest laborer — all battling- for the right without 
 the thought of the thirteen dollars per month they were to receive. 
 Our army illustrated to the world that simple manhood, with no 
 ancient lineage to boast, accustomed only to the ways of peace, could, 
 inspired by grand and noble purposes, achieve deeds of valor 
 unsurpassed in any age. The recital of which should encourage all 
 who. in ages yet to come, shall dare for country and for freedom. 
 
 History will be crowded with the feats of courage of individuals, 
 but there will be few whose names will be transmitted as familiar 
 words to latest generation : we will have no Citsar nor Napoleon to 
 worship to the exclusion of the country whose armies he leads. The 
 hero of our war, the deliverer of our country and Flag was, under God, 
 none other than our people ; who, from first to last, never lost faith in 
 the righteousness of their cause, or trust in its ultimate triumph. It 
 is true, however, that there were those among us whom we trusted, 
 and in whose ability as leaders we had an abiding faith ; and all 
 history will place upon the official record, and carve upon memorial 
 stones the names of Grant, and Mead, and Sherman, and Thomas, 
 and Sheridan, and Burnsides, and Hooker, and Ayers, and 
 Hancock, and Farragut, and Porter, and Worden, and Foot, and 
 Winslow, and our own Wilsons, and Denison, and Dushane, and 
 Bride, and many others ; and the leaders of the late rebellion would 
 doubtless be ^'ery grateful if they could erase from the English 
 vocabulary certain names which haxe already become familiar to our 
 people as household words ; they stand for many a field of martial 
 glory, and to erase their names would be to forget Gettysburg, and 
 Vicksburg, and Appomattox, and " Sheridan only five miles away ;" 
 or when will the naval historian fail to become enthusiastic as he 
 recounts the glory gained by the Monitor and the Kearsarge ? But I 
 weary you with the catalogue of glory. 
 
 A word in relation to our Order, " the Grand Army of the 
 Republic." It is not a political organization, destined to serve the 
 ends of any political party, as has been charged. The introduction 
 of politics in any form into our meetings is prohibited by the rules 
 and regulations under which we work, and a member who would 
 degrade the Order by using it directly or indirectly for political 
 
advancement is unworthy the cHstinction of the title " Comrade." and 
 should he regarded a disgrace to the Order. Our only political creed 
 is love of our country and its hallowed institutions : we have but 
 three objects which are obligatory upon us as members of the Order, 
 and they are expressed openly and a\owedly in the motto of our 
 creed. 
 
 1st. "To preserve and strengthen those kind and fraternal feelings 
 which bind together the soldiers, sailors and marines, who united to 
 suppress the late rebellion, and to perpetuate the memory and history 
 of the dead. 
 
 2d. " To assist such former Comrades in arms as need help and 
 protection, and to extend needful aid to the widows and orphans of 
 those who have fallen. 
 
 3d. " To maintain true allegiance to the L'nited .States of America, 
 based upon a paramount respect for and fidelity to the National 
 Constitution and Laws, to discountenance whatever tends to weaken 
 loyalty, incites tcj insurrection, treason or rebellion, or in any manner 
 impairs the efficiency and permanency of our free institutions, and to 
 encourage the spread of unixersal liberty, equal rights and justice to 
 all men;" that is our creed. 
 
 And just here I wish to allude t<j the matter of the indifference of 
 this (iovernment to the claims of our ex-soldiers, and in doing so I 
 commit no violation of the law of the Order ; this is not strictly a 
 political (luestion — it is a question of duty, a question of right, a 
 question of gratitude, a question of promise the Go\'ernment has not 
 kept. It has not given a proportionate share of its gifts to the 
 ex-soldiers. It has not given to the widow of those who fell anything 
 but a pittance on which no woman can li\e. And we are justly 
 indignant, when at the Capital of the Nation our maimed and crippled 
 soldiers should be removed from positions of trust, which they were 
 competent and fitted to fill — deprived of their only means of sujjport. 
 to give place to those who fought that the Union might not stand. 
 
 Only a few days ago 1 was at Washington in the interest of a 
 Comrade who wished a clerkship in one of the Departments. In that 
 connection, I mentioned the fact tt) a Comrade there, that the applicant 
 was a gallant Union Soldier : with lightning speed he thrust his hand 
 oxer my mouth and with bated breath bade me be careful how I 
 mentioned that fact in Washington, that it was no recommendation 
 
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 to have been an Union Soldier. Comrades, we should enter our 
 most solemn protest against such injustice, not against the Republican 
 party, not against the Democratic party, not against any political 
 party ; but against those in authority, against those who are in office, 
 enjoying the liberty of a free and united country that we upheld and 
 sustained. Then, Comrades, let us demand recognition, let us stand 
 by each other "as the ship-wrecked mariner clings to the last plank 
 when the storm and the tempest gathers around," and if we fail, we 
 can at least place upon record that this Government, this proud, 
 boasted land of the free is the only Nation on earth that fails to 
 recognize the soldiers who risked their lives in their country's cause. 
 But, as the objects of our Order become better known, the value and 
 importance of it, is the more heartily appreciated. 
 
 * " Our work concerns the sacred memory of our dead, that the 
 precious inheritance of valor, sacrifice, good faith and loyalty they 
 left, may be guarded by us, and enshrined in the life of our country." 
 
 " Such work concerns our children, that they may learn that great 
 lesson o{ patriotism, that the security of the state must depend upon 
 the fidelity of the citizen. Such work concerns our country, that 
 treason with its baneful smile and deceitful tongue, may not steal, by 
 political audacity, what it could not conquer by the mailed arm of 
 rebellion, that the Nation may not suffer the shame of surrendering 
 in peace what it paid blood and treasure for in war." 
 
 Then Comrades, let us be true to our Order, true to ourselves, and 
 it will prosper. 
 
 This beautiful ceremony of decoration belongs to the (irand Ami}- 
 of the Republic ; let us foster and cherish it, let nothing that indicates 
 the advancement and prosperity of the Order be indifferent to us. 
 Its memories are too precious, its graves too hallowed, its duties too 
 important. I know of no social or other organization, so far as 
 generous fraternity, warm hearted charity, and patriotic loyalty are 
 concerned, can glow with such brave and inspiring sunshine as the 
 Grand Army of the Republic. " We are few in number," it may be 
 said ; " our numbers must grow less," it may be said ; out of the 
 Army and Navy that defended the honor and constitutional authority 
 of the Nation, we are left as a remnant, under the call of Him whose 
 Angel whispers the summons of death to every soul, day by day, our 
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 ranks are thinned. But when the last man who wore a cutlass or a 
 sabre, who handled a boarding-pike or a bayonet, stands alone under 
 our Flag, a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and the 
 summons of God's Angel calls him, he will lilt his hand in salute, and 
 reply : " Here ! at the post of duty ; " while the hosts of our 
 Comrades who have been promoted will gather about him as a guard 
 of honor to welcome him to their ranks as the last recruit, by which 
 the Grand Army of the Republic below, becomes the Grand Army 
 of the Immortals above. 
 
 Then, Comrades, at your Post meetings and around your camp tire, 
 extend each to the other a soldier's welcome ; let the experience of 
 each one. Private or General, add a fagot to your camp fire; and as 
 the fire burns and the living flame brightens, and the old time light 
 shines in your eyes, may you and my Comrades everywhere be 
 baptized into the light and life of that patriotism which loves our 
 Country next to Heaven, and of that loyalty which reveres the honor 
 of our Flag with a devotion second only to that which reverences the 
 symbol of our Christian faith, the cross. May your Post rooms be 
 the Head- Quarters of all that is brave, and pure, and true. In them 
 may you cherish the memory of our dead, in them may you give 
 o-enerous comradeship to the living, in them may the spirit of Fraternity, 
 Charity and Loyalty so actuate every member of the Order, that it 
 may ever be a recruiting station for those who shall help to form a 
 guard of honor about our Country's Flag. 
 
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 Baltimore, Md., Man ioth, 1880. 
 
 HON. M. BROS! US, 
 
 Sir : — The object of this letter is to extend to you an invitation to 
 dehver the Oration, on Memorial Day, Monday, May 31st, 1880, for 
 the Grand Army of the Republic of this city. 
 
 Your qualifications for the position of Orator for that occasion 
 having been so prominently brought before our Committee, I 
 sincerely hope that you will grant our rec]uest. 
 
 The members of the Grand Army here will be satisfied with the 
 " Committee on Orators," if we secure a speaker from our neighboring- 
 state ; one who helped to fight the battles that the Nation might live ; 
 and who is also a member of that noble body, which has for its motto, 
 the pledge of Fraternity, Charity and Loyalty. 
 
 Hoping to hear from you soon, and favorably, I am Sir, 
 
 Most respectfully yours in F". C. & L., 
 J. W. C. Cuddy, M. D., 
 
 Chairman of Cotnniittee. 
 
 Lancaster, Pa., May i2Th, 1880. 
 / W. C. CUDD)', M. D., 
 
 Dear Sir : — Your complimentary letter of the loth inst., conveying 
 i'.n invitation from the G. A. R. of Baltimore, to deliver the Memorial 
 Address on Monday, May 31st, was duly received. In answer, I beg- 
 to say, that it will afford me much pleasure to visit your city on the 
 day named. This pleasure is enhanced by the recollection of m\ 
 experience among your people during the dark days of the rebellion. 
 
 It is quite agreeable to my feelings to have an opportunity of 
 formally presenting my acknowledgment for the tender consideration 
 with which I was treated by your citizens when a wounded Soldier of 
 the Republic. I therefore accept your very kind invitation, and, if 
 nothing unforeseen prevents, will be with you on the occasion to 
 which your letter refers. 
 
 Yours in ¥. C. cS: L., 
 
 M. Brosius, 
 
'"i«_j'"'tj'"(Ljficr 
 
ORATION OF HON. M. BROSIUS. 
 
 Comrades of the Grand Army of the 
 
 Republic, Ladies and Gentlemen : 
 
 Assembled at the close of a beautiful ceremony, that garlanded 
 anew the graves of our patriotic dead, with our hearts richly freighted 
 with reverence for their memory, it would seem that silence rather 
 than speech would most accord with the solemnity of the hour, for 
 whatever we may say of the martyred soldiers whose resting places 
 are marked by the mounds that kissed your feet as you marched in 
 solemn procession over them, all our speech will be outweighed by 
 their speechlessness ; they are their own best orators to-day, for " being 
 dead, they yet speak." Still, a custom of the country full of tenderness 
 and beauty, bids us once a year assemble at these green and hallowed 
 shrines, and unsealing our lips give formal utterance to sentiments 
 which, in truth, are too tender to be torn away from their nestling 
 place in the heart, and thrust in broken words upon the outward 
 ear. 
 
 Though keenly sensible that no poweis at our command are 
 adequate to so difificult and delicate a task, yet we indulge the 
 allurement of hope that, drawing inspiration from the occasion and 
 the theme, we may be moved to some utterance that will serve to 
 re-kindle on the altar of our hearts the fire of love for those whose 
 services and death we are heje to commemorate; that as this day's 
 sun shall gild anew the graves of your dead heroes, so shall the fine 
 gold of their precious memory, likewise be re-gilded by the fervent 
 glow of your heart's best affection. 
 
 As you stand at this hour in the midst of your patriot dead, 
 " the soul's cup-bearer " brings back to you with great vividness the 
 scenes of the past when your own boys, with their hearts luminous 
 with patriotic fire, marched through your streets, thronged with 
 citizens and friends ; mothers, with their cheeks suffused with tears 
 and their faces manded with a sweet sadness, through which, like a 
 gleam of sunlight through a rift in the clouds over head, flashed 
 
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 the great courage of their souls, as they gave their sons, with a 
 mother's benediction, to an imperiled country ; wives, whose 
 hearts were pierced by the unutterable grief of parting with those 
 whose lives had been inseparably entwined with their own, stood like 
 trembling vines from which the oaks had been rudely torn, sustained 
 by the unfaltering hope that a country saved would render back to 
 the sweet embrace of love, the dear offerings that day laid upon her 
 altar ; sisters with brows radiant with beauty, and faces luminous with 
 the glow of that divine sentiment which alone could make capable of 
 a deed so grand as when they bade their brothers with a " God 
 speed " to the scene of their duty, to brave the perils of the battle 
 and the siege ; fathers, whose hearts had been strengthened for the 
 trial by the kindling fires of patriotism, stood grand and heroic as 
 they consecrated with the unbidden tear, the gift of their boys to 
 freedom's cause ; and the multitudes of citizens all stirred alike by 
 that profound sentiment that swept the heart strings of a loyal people, 
 greeted them with swaying hands and waving handkerchiefs, and 
 loud huzzas, which culminated in enthusiastic shouts for the "Boys in 
 Blue," that rent the air as they passed from the sight of home and 
 loved ones. 
 
 To-day, the survivors of those who departed, and those who 
 witnessed that departure, are assembled to commemorate alike the 
 heroism of those who gave and the valor of those who went, and to 
 contribute their annual offering, to be woven into a chaplet with which 
 to garland the memory of your un-returning braves — that grand 
 army, bivouacked under eternal skies on the plains beyond the river. 
 
 Nineteen years ago, the Nation's heart was beating with quick and 
 mighty throes, as the sightless couriers of the air on wingS'of lightning, 
 bore to waiting ears and breathless lips and flashing eyes, the story of 
 a Nation's peril. To-day, that Nation bends in solenm and reverential 
 awe over the graves of its martyred defenders ; nineteen years ago, 
 standing on the threshold of their homes, a Nation's loyal sons were 
 giving the parting salutations, and impressing upon the lips of loved 
 ones, the parting kiss, to take the field in defence of endangered 
 liberty and National unity. To-day, those who in the providence of 
 God were permitted to survi\'e, to keep the recollection of those 
 parting scenes and with the fervent heat of their patriotic love, 
 transform it into a sweet and pleasant memory to be embalmed forever 
 in their heart of hearts. Nineteen years ago, the Nation's hands 
 
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 were busy subduing the Nation's foes; to-day, the hands ot a 
 grateful people were bearing nature's sweetest floral offerings to 
 beautify and adorn the graves of those by whose patriotic valor was 
 achieved the Nation's new birth of freedom. 
 
 What a contrast for mortal contemplation ? And in its vivid light 
 is clearly revealed the grand and solemn significance of this day's 
 commemorative exercise. The memory of the soldiers who died for 
 a country in peril, is sacred to the citizens of a country saved ; and 
 this annual renewal of our affection for their memory, and care for 
 their resting places is the exercise of the noblest feeling that can 
 animate the breast of man— the indulgence of a sentiment that finds 
 a lodgment in every human heart. Honor for the resting places of 
 the dead is an instinct God implanted, and co-extensive with humanity. 
 All people, the barbarous no less than the polished and refined, have 
 concurred in the bestowal of scrupulous care upon the resting places 
 of the departed, shielding them from the perils of profanation, and 
 rendering them respect and homage. 
 
 The ancient Romans committed the guardianship of their sepulchres 
 to a special deity ; we do wiser, by committing the graves of our 
 dead Comrades to the tender guardianship of the Comrades who 
 survive. The Egyptians embalmed their dead in fragrant spices and 
 shrouded them in costly cerements ; we do better, in that we embalm 
 our dead heroes in the memory of the living, and shroud them in the 
 imperishable gratitude o ' a Nation saved by their valor. 
 
 To those, who in the love of country hold communion with these 
 graves, they become mute but eloquent teachers, and their sublime 
 lessons challenge our attention to-day. 
 
 We are not here to recite the sad scenes of the war, nor to open 
 again the closed wounds made by the civil convulsion through which 
 we were called to pass ; not here to harrow your souls with stories of 
 battle and carnage. That dark period in history seemed a necessity 
 in the providence of God in working out the Nation's destiny. It 
 was the shadow by which the sun of American civilization marked its 
 advance on the dial plate of history. It seems the established order 
 that every new birth of liberty and truth must have its dark night of 
 travail and pain. Formidable events put the Nation to a formidable 
 alternative ; the horrors of miasma or the fury of the blast. Said 
 Victor Hugo : " For every oak struck with lightning, how many 
 forests rendered wholesome." The storm came, behind the visible 
 
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 work was the invisible — the former barbarous, the latter sublime ; 
 under a scaffolding of war was to be reared a temple of human 
 freedom. 
 
 Those who are here to-day to have their hearts re-smitten with 
 sorrow for the dear departed, may find some solace in the reflection 
 that all that was mortal of the loved and lost, was used by God as 
 stepping- stones whereby the Nation ascended from the darkness of 
 bondage and cast in the golden sunlight of freedom and justice ; they 
 died in the noblest place for man to die — at the post of duty. "Near 
 the beginning of the century, a great battle was fought on the planes 
 
 of the Danube, resulting in a'victory for France. The courage of a 
 
 private soldier contributed to~the triumph, and ever after, at the 
 parades of thebattalion, the name of Latour D'Vergne was first 
 called, when the oldest Sergeant stepped to the front and answered : 
 "died on the field of honor.",' So in Walhalla, the paradise of 
 battle-scarred warriors, when on the roll of heroes the names of our 
 martyred braves are called, a chorus of dauntless spirits will reverberate 
 throughout the gardens of the gods, as the highest mortal eulogy is 
 pronounced : " Died on the field of duty." Never before did soldiers 
 draw their swords to so holy a purpose ; for never before had war 
 wrought such achievements for humanity ; there were fields on which 
 Spartan valor saved "Greek intellect and art from the Persians;" — 
 fields on \\hich " Roman law and polity were saved from the 
 Carthagemen and the Gaul — fields on which " Charles Martel hurled 
 back the Saracen hosts from the heart of Christendom," of Marston, 
 Moor and Nasby when at the hands of Fairfax and Cromwell, the 
 cavaliers met their doom, and of Waterloo, that saw the overthrow 
 of the first Napoleon, but none of these will be so consecrated by 
 after ao-es as the fields of Vicksburg, (jettysburg and Appomattox 
 which fixed firm and stable forever, the foundations of freedom's 
 empire. 
 
 But not alone in this behalf have they served their generation ; their 
 death was a ministry for good. From the memories that cluster 
 round their graves, bright creations spring, to light up the pathway 
 of the living, stimulating them to a nobler thought and a better life. 
 For every loyal form that fell beneath the blood-red stroke of battle, 
 a hundred virtues rise in shapes of Fraternity, Charity and Loyalty, to 
 walk the world and bless it ; and every tear that sorrow drops upon 
 the graves of the dead, sheds a sweet benediction upon the living ; so, 
 
as we, reaching down with human hands, deck the resting places o{ 
 our dead ; they too, reaching down with Angel hands from celestial 
 gardens, garland our lives with the flowers of a holy inspiration, 
 which marshals us in the line of a higher fidelity and loftier heroism. 
 
 The chief thought which emanates from a contemplation of the 
 sacrifices of the past is the great value and inexpressible moral 
 grandeur of the achievements wrought thereby. We most highly 
 prize that for which we have paid a great price, and when we aggregate 
 the cost in life, blood, treasures and human anguish of the enlarged 
 liberty and purified national life we now enjoy, we cannot fail to be 
 affected with a sense of their infinite value. God is speaking to us 
 through the inspiration of this hour, teaching, that as we paid so 
 dearly for a country redeemed from the barbarism of the past, for the 
 introduction into our organic law of the sublime doctrine of the 
 equality of all men before the law, like as they are equal before 
 Heaven, and for the recognition by the Government of the universality 
 and moral duty of justice, that our fidelity to these great truths shall 
 be commensurate with the cost of their achievement. This is the 
 lesson of the hour. Comrades; we cannot soon forget how our martyred 
 heroes wrote these immortal principles in lines of blood on the sands 
 beneath their feet, and in letters of lurid fire across the sky that arched 
 above them. Their impress is stamped upon the country's record, 
 and like the image of Phidias on the shield of Minerva, can never be 
 effaced without destroying that record. If the time shall come 
 when the past shall have been forgotten, the Nation's emblems 
 destroyed, or shall have lost their influence on the national character, 
 when we have forgotten to be virtuous and just, then God's hand 
 may be lifted again in wrath ; for nothing is written more plainly on 
 the tablets of time, than that nations which dally with the patience of 
 deity, and attempt to stand against the inexorable, sooner or later, 
 find their Damascus highways and amid the thunder and lightning of 
 war are brought to conviction. 
 
 To avert so dark and forbidding a dispensation, let us, in the 
 presence of these graves renew the faith pledged to those commanding 
 duties which wisdom points out and patriotism enjoins, and which 
 are the chief defences of our Government ; justice to the surviving 
 and honor to the memory of the dead soldiers of the Republic ; the 
 maintenance of a standard of moral independence, political integrity 
 and loyalty to law and order, which will guarantee a citizenship, at 
 
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 once independent, incorruptible, obedient to law and loyal to the 
 public weal. The first commands, that we keep sacredly the vows 
 made to our dead Comrades on a hundred battle fields, to guard, 
 protect and defend the widow and the orphan, their dying legacy 
 to the Nation's charity ; and the memory of their supreme sacrifice, 
 should evermore teach the American people, that infirmity produced 
 by honorable scars in the service of the Union, is sacred ; that 
 childhood, orphaned by the atoning sacrifices of the war is sacred ; 
 that widowhood, caused by the grandest womanly heroism, the 
 surrender of the partner of her love to her imperiled country, is 
 thrice sacred. The second commands, that we strive for the loftiest 
 attained standard of moral independence in the American citizen ; 
 without this, though our Empire reach from the Occident to the 
 Orient, we are a rope of sands. A cringing, fawning people, who 
 bend the pregnant hinges of the knee at the behest of wealth, power 
 or patronage, content to wear chains of the basest servitude for the 
 privilege of serving their masters, are not the material out of which 
 enduring Governments are reared and maintained. 
 
 Sidney Smith said he remembered the time in England when a 
 man could not aiTord to have an opinion of his own unless he was 
 worth three thousand pounds a year. Such servility let us hope will 
 never be a characteristic of an American citizen. Our century's 
 career has born us above this reproach. The learned pate has ceased 
 to duck to the golden fool ; the heraldry of the Republic is no longer 
 derived from the Government die or metal, or its stamp or paper. 
 The manhood of the citizen is not measured by the credits in his 
 bank book, but by the deposits of probity and honor in the bank of 
 his neighbor's esteem ; and whether fully realized in the past or not, 
 one of the jewels which will set the crown of the Republic in the 
 meridian of its splendor, will be a recognition of the moral worth of 
 humanity, a standard of independence which will hold the same just 
 contempt the man who pays court to another, in hope of gain or 
 preferment, as him who speculates in another's gold for a similar 
 purpose. " I have never defiled my conscience from fear or favor to 
 my superiors," was a part of the oath e\ery Egyptian soul was 
 supposed to take in the judgment hall of Osiris, before admission to 
 Heaven. Fealty to his own conscience requires as much of every 
 man. He who stifles his convictions of right and duty, effects the 
 principles of other men which his soul abhors, that he may be kissed 
 
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 by the sunbeams of popular favor, flings away for a trinket the 
 priceless jewels of his individuality, drags his manhood at the feet of 
 his servility, and disregards the celestial crown that hangs above his 
 head, while he rakes together for himself, the straws, sticks and dust 
 of the earth. Such grovelling Esaus are still among us, but they are 
 the stunted products which here and there spring up by the side of 
 the richer and statelier growths of manhood which have distinguished 
 the Republic for the nobility of her offspring. Fidelity to conviction, 
 devotion to duty, loyalty to conscience and contempt for servility are 
 the qualities which have moulded the men who have honored American 
 citizenship, and adorned her public service in the past, and it is a 
 hope, to aid whose realization these silent graves summon the living, 
 that the influence of American civilization, and the inspiration of 
 American progress may produce for Columbia's future citizens, a 
 race of men, who " being admirable in form, noble in reason, infinite 
 in faculty, will add thereto integrity of heart. A mighty priesthood 
 of truth, who will take not their souls to the public merit, but will 
 stand evermore before the world as manhood incarnate. 
 
 The third great command bids us remember, that the common 
 infirmities of forms of Goverftment, in which sovereignty speaks 
 through popular elections, are the absence of political integrity in the 
 elector and the presence of a blind and heedless party idolatry. That 
 these are the twin vices of Republics. That faction is treason, while 
 observance of order and obedience to law are the beginning of 
 liberty; that when intrigue and fraud begin, patriotism ends, while 
 honor in politics is the essential mark of fitness for self government. 
 The people are the source of authority, the fountain of power, the 
 keepers of the Republic's jewels, whatever measure of virtue and 
 patriotism shall exalt them in that same measure, will it feel the 
 uplifting touch. If they employ themselves in partisan strife, where 
 the triumph of faction rather than the prexalence of right, is the 
 object of contest, it becomes as certain as the fact of omnipotence 
 that the country will express and obey the baser will, and the 
 Government gradually degenerate into a political despotism ; therefore 
 it is, that to be false to these cardinal principles, to be dishonest in the 
 affairs of Government, to proffer or accept a bribe in politics, to 
 corrupt a ballot or incite to turbulence or revolution, is treason to the 
 country, and to the country's dead defenders, vandalism superadded 
 to treason, for it tends to disintegrate and destroy the proud fabric 
 
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 which is their chief monument. No Government can long survive 
 the honor, virtue and loyalty of its citizenship. These principles, 
 arising from no condition, but being the common heritage of all, must 
 be cherished by all. Then may I not say, my countrymen, as a fit 
 utterance for this memorial occasion, when our country and her 
 defenders are my theme, and when the thought is born of what all 
 observed, the occasional menace of turbulent faction in our politics, 
 that, whatever we may surrender, as we love our country and her 
 institutions, let us hold fast to honor, virtue and loyalty, to law ; these 
 are the Ibundations whereon we ha\e builded, and on which we must 
 stand or perish. Renounce these principles and the earth will crumble 
 beneath our feet, the skies darken over our heads, the political world 
 writhe in the throes of dissolution, and all our greatness, the patient 
 achievements of the golden eras of our history will become a 
 recollection of the past, an added illustration of the instability of all 
 human works not founded on the imperishable rock of righteousness 
 and truth. 
 
 But however the superstructure of our Government may be impaired 
 by the incursions of demagogues, and the influence of prostituted, 
 demoralized and partisan politics, which would count its grandest 
 victory in the immolation of the country and all its hopes on the altar 
 of party. Even though in the hour of turbulence, faction or revolution, 
 the whirlwind of passion should sweep away the fabric we have 
 reared in the blood, sweat and agony of the past, still if the foundations 
 remain, if honor, virtue and loyalty survive the wreck, we may, when 
 the storm is over, re-erect the Government and transmit it to 
 generations yet to come. And to my Comrades let me add, that if the 
 time shall come when the Republic, which we devoutly pray the God 
 of Nations may preserve to be the Union soldiers temple of fame, shall 
 fall a victim to maladies engendered in the bosom of our political 
 system, when corruption shall have eaten away the cable that liolds us 
 to the moorings of virtue, "when the nature shall totter to its fall, its 
 glory extinct, the banner of its pride trampled in the dust, its 
 Nationality and grandeur a moral of history, " when the unfriendly 
 prophesy of a hundred years ago shall be fulfilled, and a few 
 lean and half naked fishermen are dividing with owls and foxes the 
 ruins of our great cities, washing their nets amidst the relics of our 
 gigantic docks, and building their huts out of the capitals of our 
 stately edifices, let not this work of ruin, I entreat you Comrades, 
 
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 with all the earnestness of my soul, be traced to those who wore the 
 Union blue ; and if any one of us shall, forgetting' his duty, spurning 
 the obligations of a citizen, and violating- the honor of a soldier, 
 imbrue his hands in the blood of a people's slaughtered rights, let the 
 memory of the devotion of our martyred braves smite him with its 
 rebuking lash until he is scourged back to the fulfillment of his trust, 
 or if so far abandoned to self-seeking peculation and fraud as to be 
 beyond recall by the sacred memories of the past and the incentives 
 to duty ever present, then let his name be stricken from the roll ot 
 honor and his memory forever perish in the burning anathema of a 
 people outraged by his recreancy. So may it even be a cardinal 
 principle in the surviving Union soldier's creed, that whoso lays the 
 hand of violence on the sacred records of a freeman's will, shall stand 
 accused, with every claim to confidence, respect or honor, cancelled 
 by his infamy. Thus may the soldiery, who once saved by fire and 
 sword, save it yet again by the example of their fidelity to the 
 institutions of their Government. From the graves of our dead, 
 another inspiration springs which will honor any heart that flings wide 
 its gates to receive it. Reconciliation and forgiveness are as important 
 now as were heroism and valor in the hour of our country's peril ; 
 and it is singularly fitting that those who bore the blunt of the battle 
 should be foremost in promoting a restoration of fraternity between 
 the alienated sections of our common country. As a touch of nature 
 makes the whole world akin, so may the remembrance of past trial 
 and pain unite our people closer together in the bonds of a patriotism 
 firmer and more indestructible than ever. There is something in the 
 human breast that war cannot kill, and the saddest memories of the 
 past are lighted up as by a sunset glow, by the remembrance that 
 during the darkest years of the war, wherever helpless suffering 
 appealed to humanity, how instantly sprang to its relief the Angel in 
 the human heart ; these acts of kindness, these deeds of helpfulness, 
 performed with equal tenderness and promptitude, whether to relieve 
 the wracking pain of a mutilated soldier in blue, or to cool the fevered 
 brow of one clad in gray, were pinions on which many good souls, 
 north and south, rose as on bright wings toward Heaven. I speak of 
 this here and now, because sixteen years ago in this city, my heart 
 was touched by this thought, while lying in your midst, a maimed and 
 mutilated soldier of the Union, on a bed of ceaseless pain for weary 
 months, I was the recipient of the kindest and tenderest attentions at 
 
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 the hands of a number of the ladies of Baltimore, some of whom 
 were not in sympathy with the flag in whose defence I became thus 
 helpless. These ladies were to us Angels ministrant. Florence 
 Nightingale whose shadows we would have gladly kissed as they 
 swept through the wards on their mission of mercy to suffering men. 
 And I avail myself of this opportunity to convey to them or their 
 kindred, an expression of my grateful remembrance of their kind 
 attention, thus discharging in the only way in my power an obligation 
 which, through all these intervening years has lain near to my heart. 
 These ministrations upon the sick and wounded, north and south, 
 exhibited a beautiful side of our life ; they attested humanity in the 
 midst of the fiery passions, kindled by the torch of rebellion, showing 
 that above the Union, above the Confederacy, above all questions of 
 time and sense, was the boundless compassion of the human soul, 
 illuminating with the light ot di\ine action? the dark precipice of 
 civil war. 
 
 The carnival of blood ended long ago. The fields that were 
 crimsoned with human gore, and filled with the bodies of the slain, 
 yield now their bountiful harvest to the peaceful sickle. The streams 
 that ran red and glimmered in the sun, roll now their crystal waters 
 unstained to the sea. Wild flowers whose enameled cups were filled 
 high with human blood, have drooped, perished and are succeeded 
 by brighter growths whose perfumed goblets are filled with peaceful 
 dew. The silvery moon has shed her soft radiance on the fields of 
 strife — the stars have shot down their eternal rays upon them and the 
 winds from every quarter of the earth have swept over them, until every 
 trace of battles and carnage is swept away. Nature, as if to set a 
 pattern for men, who suffers the embers of hate still to smoulder in 
 his bosom has recovered her serenity, and smiles upon , the guilty 
 battle fields the same as when they were innocent of blood. To 
 follow 'where nature leads is not to go astray. Over the green earth, 
 from which they were frightened by the smoke and tumult of battle, 
 the feathered songsters now without a note of discord warble their 
 sweet praises to a God of peace. So in the hearts once tumultuous 
 with wars, stormy passions, now let the bird of peace and love sing 
 her sweet songs in tuneful glee. From the streams in whose red and 
 turbid waters the battle steeds cooled their foaming flanks, now 
 sturdy cattle from peaceful hill sides draw their cooling draughts 
 undisturbed. While the hand of revolt was raised, the waters of 
 
a people's clemency were dried up by treasons burning breath, but 
 now let the resentments of the past be hurried in the graves of the 
 past, while the erring and vanquished are welcomed with fraternal 
 hands to deep draughts at the fountain of forgiveness flowing as a 
 perennial spring from the great heart of the north. When the 
 assassin's dagger was at the nations heart, the great right hand of a 
 loyal people guided the thunder bolts of (iod's justice. But now that 
 peace blesses the land with her beneficent reign, let that same right 
 hand, Christ like, dispense to our penitent brothers, the divine charities 
 fresh plucked from the sermon on the mount. Thus may a true unity 
 of faith be restored in all hearts that are now loyal, and the people 
 north and south, rising above the mists of earth, above the smoke of 
 battle — above the clouds of resentment and hate, into the golden 
 sunlight of their better natures, will find a common ground of 
 reconciliation in the reflection that the dark and stormy path of war 
 was the way of light to a redeemed and regenerated Republic. 
 
 These are the lessons which leap from the graves of the dead to 
 the ears of the living to day. Let us heed their admonition as a 
 fresh inspiration from the bosom of (iod. Let the remembrance of 
 the dead be a kind monitor within to lead us to a sense of our 
 obligation, and to a renewal of our devotion to those everlasting 
 principles which make for truth and peace. Then the ever blessed 
 memory of our martyred braves will be to Columbia a " pillar of 
 cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night" — rich heritage of glory 
 whose lustre is fadeless, and whose life is perennial as the stars. 
 
 And now as we bid adieu to our theme, and to the tranquil and 
 sequestered haunts of our resting defenders, having discharged a 
 sacred duty to them — having renewed our faith in the efficacy of their 
 sacrifices for the nation's redemption, and re-dedicated ourselves to 
 the services of the principles for which they gave the last full measure 
 of their devotion, v/e can leave the contemplation of their graves with 
 reflection that, evermore "green giass will cover them, blue skies 
 bend over them, sweet birds sing near them, the place will be hallowed 
 grounds, but greener than the grass, fairer than the skies, sweeter 
 than the birds, more hallowed than the graves themselves, will be the 
 memory of our martyred dead, enshrined with sui>reme sacredness in 
 our hearts of hearts." 
 
NATIONAL STAFF, G. A. R. 
 
 AIDS-DE-CAMP. 
 T. F. Lanc;, Wilson Post i, JOHN W. Worth, Dushane Post 3, 
 
 John W. Horn, Burns Post 13. 
 A. (i. ALFORD, Custer Post 6, - Asst Inspector General. 
 
 DEPARTMENT OF MARYLAND. 
 
 — OFFICERS 1880. — 
 
 Wm. E. W. Ross, Post i , - - Department Commander. 
 
 Thos. S. Norwood, Post 3, - - Senior Vice Commander. 
 
 James Cress, Post 8, - - Junior Vice Commander. 
 
 A. A. White, Post 3, - - - - Medical Director. 
 
 Rev. E. K. Miller, Post 9, - - - Clictplain. 
 
 Council 0/ Administration : 
 
 Theo. W. Dew, Post i, L. M. Zimmerman, Post 2, 
 
 F. T. Murray, Post 3, Wm. H. Sprigg, Post 7, 
 
 John T. Kakr, Post S. 
 
 — official staff, 1880. — 
 John H. Suter, Post i, - - Ass t Adjutant General. 
 
 Geo. p. Mott, Post i, - - AssI Quartermaster General. 
 
 R. N. Bowerman, Post 3. - - - - Inspector. 
 
 Assistant Inspectors : 
 
 Wm. H. Searlf.s, Post i, Theo. A. Worrall, Post g. 
 
 Harm AN White, Post 5. 
 
 J. J. Butler, Post 6, - - - Judge Advocate. 
 
 Isaac D. Davis, Post 10, - - ChieJ Mustering Officer. 
 
 ROSTER OF POSTS, DEPARTMENT OF MARYLAND. G. 
 
 A. R. 
 
 Nninc of Post. 
 
 I 
 
 Location. 
 
 CoDitimndcr. 
 
 Name of Post. 
 
 Wilson, 
 
 Cor. Second and Holliday, Baltimore, 
 
 Graham Dukehart, 
 
 Mondays. 
 
 Reynolds, 
 
 7. 
 
 Frederick City, 
 
 G. W. Glessner, 
 
 I.St Monday. 
 
 Dushane, 
 
 ^ 
 
 Cor. Frederick and P'avettc, lialtimore, 
 
 1. T. Newnan, 
 
 Wednesdays. 
 
 Reno, 
 
 4 
 
 Hagerstown, 
 
 NV. W. Walker, 
 
 Saturdays. 
 
 Tyler, 
 
 S 
 
 Cumberland, 
 
 Henry J. lohnson. 
 
 
 Custer, 
 
 6 
 
 Baltimore and Light, Baltimore, 
 
 David R. Knull, 
 
 2d & 4 th Tues. 
 
 Lincoln, 
 
 7 
 
 Douglas Institute, Baltimore, 
 
 Wm. H. Sheppard, 
 
 Tuesdays. 
 
 Denison, 
 
 8 
 
 Woodherrv, 
 
 James Cress, 
 K. H. Cameron, 
 
 2d & 4th Wed. 
 
 Wingate, 
 
 q 
 
 Northeast, 
 
 Wednesdays, 
 ist &3d Thurs. 
 
 Post 10, 
 
 10 
 
 Elkton, 
 
 John E. Wilson, 
 
 Harry Howard, 
 
 ,, 
 
 Cor. McHenry and Sterrett, Baltimore, 
 
 Chas. R. Coleman, 
 
 Thursdays. 
 
 Willman, 
 
 I? 
 
 Mechanicstown, 
 
 John R. Rouzer, 
 
 Each month. 
 
 Uurns, 
 
 i^ 
 
 Westminster. 
 
 Wm. A. McKellip, 
 J. B. Islcr, 
 
 Each month. 
 
 LeCompte, 
 
 14 
 
 Preston, 
 
 Saturdays, 
 
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