The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1866-03-24

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40 not know u any such and "
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BILE 10 some dcreliction on The part o
those who have survived The war,
Men are sometimes 70 obtuse and
80 Insensible Of their obligations that
II would require a monument more
durable than brass and more lasting
than marble 10 remind them Of their
duties.
But the a half clad and half fam
ishod little children" that arc to be
led cup to the cold marble moau-
mcnt erected to their fathers memo
ry," certainly have no real cxistencci
they live only in the imagination OF
the pretty writer. May | not assert
that there Is not a single half nude
or hungry child in this county--thc
institution Is not Southern in it,
nature; IL otherwise, God will visit
us with terrible judgments for allow
lowing II to be 90.
How many disabled soldiers are
there among us who cannot and dc
not make a subsistence by their own
efforts? How many Of the entirely
disabled have not relatives or friend:
able and more than willing to assist
them? Are there half n dozen?
As to the education of deceased
soldiers orphans, have we not schools
all over the country, within reach o.
all9 and would any teacher ask oil
receive remuneration for their instruc.
ton? Now, for this small charge
for taking care of a disabled mar
and a few destitute widows and or
phans. Shall we quiet our conscience.
and say "to our lost comrades, We
can do nothing for you; we thought
we would once, but are so poor, ane
have given SO much to charity w
can't afford il now%
Soldier, did you feel this way wher
you stood up with him on the skirm'
ish line, or in the thickest OF thu
fight, or when you saw him fall a
your side? and when, with YOU
comrades, you talked the battle scenes
over hal night, could you have be
lieved that anything done for him o.
his memory would be a sacrifice to-
great for your then generous an'
noble impulses. Time and thing
have changed; obligations are i'm
mutable and Interchangeable.
), No one can have a higher sense o
the claims of the living victims o
the war than I do; but do we ow'
the dead nothing.
I was surprised and mortified tina
; a writer (in a woman's name, if no
: a woman,) should term our pscjcc
for a monument a "vain display"
"Pharasaical ostentation." We can
comprehend this. We have seen tai
shafts of beautiful Italian marbl
placed over the remains of very ordi
nary persons, and no one pronounce
them hypocritical demonstrations Q
exhibitions; and is a Confederai
1 soldier not more worthy than they
y I know of no service that / coul
: perform with more sifectionate regar'
!, more sincere devotion, and more re
Il reverence than in building my pa
. Of the monument.
70 Now, to our mind, the whole alta
resolves itself into this, If we fe
3 that we arc required to do no mo
ID than contribute annually a e
C pounds Of bacon or -four, for q
-..u...unu~ .nll.n~.f Families