The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-05-17


gether once moro. We saw many old familiar
faces there, until then long unseen Old times and
memories were awakened, and the merry scenes
OF other days. But truce to reflection. We will
stop, lest sadness should step in and throw q
| Gamper over our enjoyment.
We congratulate the Mesdames G1RAnD and
DowELL, and the young ladies Of their school, on
the brilliant success Of their May Festival.
ADDRESS OF REV. DIR. BAouMAN BEFORE THE
LADIES ASSOCIATION TO COMMEMORATE THE Con-
FEDERATE DEAD.-The Rev. DR.. BAonMAN delivered
tho following beautiful address the othor evening
before the above Association, at the Mills House
Ladies: feel very highly honored for your too
favorable opinion in selecting mo to preside over
meeting called by yourselvess, for which You de-
serve all the credit you will have all the labor
and expense. When our brave defenders were
lying in our hospitals sick. wounded, and dying,
remember that many Of you were there nursing
sent friends, brought to them nourishing food and
cordals; when they died you wrote letters Of con-
dolonSe to the mourning relatives During that
ate States, from Mississippi and Arkansas to Mary
land, and from the seaboard to the mouptains,
patriotism, sympathy, and untring devotion to
our brave soldiers; urging their sons and brothers
onward to the battlefield; striving to provide
clothing for them whilst In the camp, and working
with their needles to support the families OF the
absent soldiers The war has now ended: bnt
Whatever may have boon the result OF the war we
ers; whatever may have been the conduct of the
selfish and unpariotc, our soldiers and our ladies
their duty And now who
meeting together in every portion Of our land to
strew wreathes over their graves, and bedecS
their tombs with laures. I have read With pride
tions Of the ladies OF Virginia, in memory of
Stonewall Jackson and all our great battle fields
are beginning to be converted into cemeteries,
temptation. In Europe you everywhere meet with
these memorials to the patriotic dead In Eng
land, the great chiefs have found resting place
In westminster Abbey. In France, Perele Ohaise
one of the most picturesque romantic. and inyit
ing spots on earth, is daily visited by thousands:
whole villages in tho suburbs Of Paris obtain a
Livelihood by manufacturing wreathes to hang on
the monuments and spread over the graves OF the
departed and beloved friends. The Churches of
rina 1ermany are hung round with tablets with the
some, whether these demonstrations ara Alto.
geIner proper, since force OF circumstances have
compelled us to return to the Union, and those
who laid down their lives in defence of their rights
ana liberties are stigmatized as rebels. To this I
"opia ansWer, we contended for great principle
the right OF self government; a principle for
which our fathers fought and bled. Washin eton
was proclaimed an outlaw and rebel-he WAS
sGccessa sue and then was hailed as the Father of
wrong; the Christian religion was opposed by the
heathen and the Jew, and it's blessed author Was
condemned and crucifed--t caused rivers of blood
to How; it was not established for ages afterward
The Protestant Reformation in GERMANY pro.
duced the thirty years. war; the vito Of Luther
vas Obliged to go barefooted and a begear. but
nnnaily succeeded England did not gain her
magma Charta and her liberties until ages of
struggles with despotism. France has been
steeped In revolutions. Switzerland and Germany
are free, but Poland and Ireland are not. Gods
ways are dark and mysterious. I believe that in
principle the South was right; be this as IL NAV.
We are in duty bound to remember the patriotic
soldier; he struggled and died for his country.
You have met for the purpose of scattering the
memorials OF your gratitude and affection over his
grave. You may do openiy-no enemy dare not
molest you-grief is respected even by the savage.
You need not go in the dead of night, as the poet
Young did in France, when his daughter was
denied ele Christian burial, and the father said:
with Pious sacrilege agrave STOLE" When our
lthe sisters Of Lazarus), one Of them had gone to
the grave to weep, and he (the Saviour) also
wept; it was then he proclaimed the doctrine OF
the resurrection and the life. And, when the
Saviour himself had been laid in the tomb of
Joseph OF Arithmethea, the pious Marys came
with sweet spices to embalm the body GO on. INV
friends, in honoring the heroic dead; we will
cherish their memories, and. when the graves
shall give up their dead, we hope to meet them
again. 1