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[For the Messenger Our Honored Head.Pmi.o. ILw.n, August liStli, 1S(53.The Committee appoiuted 1»v tlie* Pliil-omathiun Literary Society, to draft resolutions expressive of the feelings of thesociety, on the reception of the sad intelligence of death of 5laj. A. M. 01 Godspeed i and lt;’a[*t.M. ltiiggs, who have recentlyfallen in defense of their country’s cause, would submit the following preamble andresolutions:\Viikkka8, We are called upon in the intllietive providence of lt;vod, to mom n the iloss of Mnj. A. 51. (»oodspeed, of the 1th\ a. Pegiment, who fell before Vicksburg, |and ( ’apt. 51. Jbiggs, of the 75th (. lie*giment, who was killed in the battle of! (iettyshurg, both worthy members of this)Society; therefore. I►Hesolred, 1st. That with resignationto the will of Divide Providence, vvestif-j for the loss of noble, patiiotic and goodstudents, who were highly esteemed byall their associates.Jimolml, 2nd. That wo deeply sympathize with their friends and all others, j who are suffering similar afflictions; yeti we would console ourselves and them with the remembrance that thev fell wifhmtheir faces to the foe, defending tin* cause Iof liod and humanity. Let us remem-}her that while their bodies slumber in thedust with the honored dead of our conn-1trv, tliev live, Thev live with others ini •• * *our memory, as volunteer offerings for! liberty, and the universal rights of man;! they live and rest, we trust, in peace, no] more to he called forth to battle and toconflict. IAVaro/m/, 3rd. That our Hall be hungin the drapery of mourning as a feeble expression of the gloomy remembrance of their fall. IResolved, 4th. That a copy of theseresolutions he printed in the Athens Mes-1 seugei.i Iz. lt;\ prsu,lt;\ C. IloLIHtOOK, I Committee. W51. lt;LIPHA\T, )
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Athens Messenger
Athens, Ohio, US
Thu, Sep 03, 1863
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