The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1866-12-27

ton with which my friend, youI marsh FSAs
Lnresented me. | feel that am ut home ana
aanong friends. and that you extend to me
| shat Seleoming reception that is the offer
inc az kindred sympathies and common
afection. For our hearts beat together as
we recall our struggle and our defeat
and many Of your dead whom you bury
afresh TODAY, were very dear TO me- knew
| their worth aud shared their sutierrlngs, ana
with YOU, share their loss, And, IN Gaining
| me to this duty, you have ID my person. III
yoted the ministries Of that religion whose
snhlime revelations have opened 10 the vir-
| tuous and the good those heavens toward
which the shaft of this monumental stone
will point, a symbolic token Of their aspi-
| rations after better world and trner lie.
The fair givers of this draped banner ana
| and this CORNERSTONE aud these young men,
vour own sons, who have received these gen
erous Gifts. the offerings of a brave man to the
| brave spirits who sealed their courage with
their lives. in true and thrilling words have
| moved your hearts and moistened your eyes
with their glowing tributes TO yonf loved
| and lost No words of mine can add 10 .ha'
| impression Nor is it well to linger TOO long
| about our graves, feeding our sorrows with
memories OF our desolations. Let me rather
| hid YOU look up lifting the heads that hang
| dbwn. and nerving anew souls that are de-
| pressed as we contemplate the clear COM
| pensations and strong consultations that are
| to be placed over against these losses, ana
| minister comfort in these bereavements
| And the first thought which, in this spirit,
| shall offer, is this THAT those generations
| of n nation whose chief experience is adver-
i sity, who know suierings, expressions, ana
| bereavements, often live to higher purposes,
| and work ont nobler results, than other gen
| erations of the same people, whose expert
/ encts are prosperity and success. And, for
| proof turn to the past, to the nations the
| clear aiming of whose records light up the
path DC the present, and crown with a beck
| oning glory headlands of hope in the future
| Take al illustration, that people whose
history il the oldest and the grandest-the
| Israeltes Why are not we idolators TO-DAY
Because three centuries of the bitterest
bondage kept the jews, as they attained
their national growth, acquiring the learn
| ming, and skill, and arts OF the hrst people
| of that period kept them from accepting
with these great gains, their customs aho
worship Isolated and protected ny TINS
very oppression, they preserved and trans
mitted the knowledge and worship of the
| one God, the one only, the living and the
true. Again, the generation of that SAINT
people that died in the wilderness between
| Egypt and Canaan, received from God anC
| gave to man the two tables Of the law, tha'
| are to this day the basis of truth. justice
and right throughout christendom. DIG
not such grand results repay expressions
and wanderings Again, there are the mar
tyrs, of whom Paul writes that the worlt
was not worthy" and OF whom Mlltoi
sings. asking in that noble sonnet tina
their martyred blood and ashes may %
Il sown DER ali the Italian fields" They dranl
| t..ss 4 a. nra fbaN flp rlnTCli
crown and glory Aud the fathers Of on
land, who battied against British power
all we uncover our heads to that noble ye
suffering generation.
Ny second thought is this: that peopl
cost dew; s.io- nuu, tuurcaUls vftfier tteb.Ioi
Ted or doomed. All the great nations hay
\ lknown Just such vicissitudes. England ha
Rbeen thrice conquered; the Dane, the saxon
the Norman have in turn pressed her be
meath their feet.
Every continental capital saw the Tag o
the great French eonqurer Haunting victor.
from its spires and domes all these banner
in turn hoated over us, And still anothe
turn has come with cycling time. Britain
chained that great victor in rock bound
seagirt prison and there he fretted his might.
heart away. Yet afterwards his land CAV,
him kingly burial and his simple nam
gave that land lord, who stands to-day il
the fore front of the earth's emperors Lool
at Scotland. England lorded it again ant
again over her Lowland plains, and he
Highland crags Yet, after ages OF STRIFE
she gave her free assent when made equal
and became one with her Southern neigh
Dor, when admitted as her peer. The North
ern Conservatives, our conqnerors, hold on
to us the hand of English differentiation
to them we return the Scottish grasp
ready, with the great man who rules TIN
land to-day, to strike hands in just ant
equal reconstruction.
And, now, turn from these thoughts 4
the duties of the hour; that we may lear
lessons of wisdom from this solemn scene
To what are we exhorted to-day answer
firstly-and / know that L speak in thu
name and with the spirit of your beloved
dead, could they, bending from this out
spread sky address you've are cxhorted t.
a great patience To patience, which, lik'
the possession of lofty spirit. as the birth
| right of bold and noble souls. A patiene'
like to the courage which we illustrated
during four long years of wearying an6
eventful war. Great peoples are eonsisteI
and unique in the proportion of their grea
qualities They fight heroically; overborne
they yield grandly. We fought for sep
arate nationality; we failed Our adver
saries, themselves being the judges, We
| proved '1Oemen worthy OF thelf stcei. ~
said your honored Governor, Mississippi
veteran son, our spirit in the fight is thu
guarantee onr honor gives. q give his sen
timent, not remembering his words.) And
our full and clear, and honest yielding hai
sustained that guarantee. SO quiet, so com
plete, SO entire has it been, that the party
dominating in the North cannot appreciate
it, cannot credit it. Against their forces We
are powerless and if unconyineed and un
relenting, they pursue us with still furthel
woes, let us oppose to these that which
while it is the last resort of a PROSTATE
people, is also browning glory-an uncoD
/ quering patience Humanity looks Will
reverence upon great man calm amid al
versities men and angels honor a greai
people who, quiet, selfpoised and self-eon
] tanned, bear great and continuing wrongs
Another lesson that We should read to-day
is this: God gave us a great trust. Foul
million of bondsmen and bOndswOmen vert
bs1rs To teach them, to elevate them, e
Asl,ri- fisr iz1-them; these were our plain dn
-. We did not discharge these duties
ad we, this trust; in that very form, hae
IN ours te-dsy. Our relations 20 that
are changed, but the trust in aDethei
nd with like duties, remains. Lee