Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1866-11-15
GEN. WIsEs ADDRESS.

We make the following EXTRACTS from
The address delivered by Gen. Wise at the
dedication of the ''Stonewall Cemetery"
at Winchester, on the 18th ult:
+ FELLOW CITIZENS: meet mourning
people on the holy ground of graves, the
dust of which is more sacred than that o!
kindred. You come to do homage to the
virtues and commemorate the glorious
deeds of the heroes who died defending
the stricken land they lived in and they
loved; and | come to condole with and
comfort the living by invoking the spirits
'ef the mighty Confederate dead! l come
to search among their ashes for the exam
pies and lessons to teach as ho,o ta surcire
their deaths-ho0 to Ire after them ou
to s,oarish their seeds Of sndestractiUe
truths resown in this sacred soil, now al
read y terminating again in these graves,
and which shall yet again overshadow and
save the land these heroes died for, as sure
as that the moral power of the Universe
will forever overcome all evil and .malig-
nant forces. -as. r. E.a,.5e-
+ Alas! who are the dead +? The buried?
or rather the bruised and broken survivors,
who daily die living deaths amid the ruins
and ashes of a wronged and wrecked
country, scathed by "a wrathful war of con-
quest, ending in disasters worse than death,
in shackles, and in shame worse than
shackles All !. the blessed buried
80. care past the fear t.as
Vi future tempests or wreck shore.
Those who escaped are still exposed to BOTH
The buried have overcome death and
are now immortal, whilst we survive to
suffer and need the succor their lives and
deaths can give, to those who would not
live in shame or die in vain Their names
and deeds need no monuments or mauso-
leums Of earth. Nor stone nor board may
mark the clay where they sleep so well %
Though every turf beneath our feet be"
their sepulcres. and the dust of cemeteries
may mingle mans with mans remains in
undlstingulshable comradeship; yet they
are individually known at headquarters
above and their nanes are separately in
scribed on the everlasting rolls. and Hea-
ven's adjutants will forever keep them in
the book Of mar'yrdom Martyrdom for
imperishable principles of faith, of truth,
of honor, Of religion. of law, of liberty
and Of right! No hostile hand can strike
them now, and all the malignity of good
mems enemies cannot alter or spervert the
facts or moral forces of their past lives and
present being Eternity has scaled their
testimony to the truth and times testino-
ny will not permit human history to be
perured to their shame We need not
/ fear for them. With them all is well. -
They are now shielded by an inpenetra-
BILE buckler, the bosses of which is the in
tegrity as well as courage with which they
battled for their faith and fatherland -
They now wear al, arnlor more than bullet
proof; and the missiles and messengers
of death were their better angels and pro-
we'd that they were preferred Of Heaven
when they fell! Ye mourning survivors
| bring yon the full assurance that the bu-
ried are not dead have communed with
them, and they yet live never to die -
We 'the dead'' come not to bury the dead
we have but to touch their turfs- they
have no tombs-and be ourselves ..alive
again. We come not to raise funeral
pyres, but to be ourselves so terminated