Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1867-05-30
Neutrality-suspicious..

Neutrality-suspicious..
1t has been just about one. year since the
slumbering remains of our Confederate dead
were gathered together. and re-interred in our
Cemetsries hillocks thrown up, and head and
foot boards, with suitable inscriptions placed
at each grave to indicate the spot where those
sleep the sleep which knows no, Weakening.
Though the season which witnessed the perfor-
nance of this pious duty to the relics of de-
parted braves, has gone and returned their
graves have remained untouched by the hands
of the sacreligious despoiler the sod is rich
and green oyer them-and in many instances
shrubbery is blooming and emitting the most
delightful fragrance. They sleep, and sleep
sweetly in their last resting place. In the
language of another who expressed the thought
and feeling we. indulge and cherish, more
beautifully and touchingly than we possible
can. We dwell with pious fondness on the
characters and virtues of the departed and as
time interposes its growing distances betWeens
us and them, we gather up with more solicitude
the broken fragments of memory, weave as'i it
were, lulO our HEARTS tut luIoduS OIL tuclt HIS
story. MONA ffA 81 Ma
IT'S true, we have not as the last resting
places of our dead, vast catacombs, stupendous
pyramids, or sculptured sareophagi and maui
soleums,-we have the low table land, flower
ing and ornamented hills, and these we may
embower with shrubbery and thread with flow
cred and ornamental walks. Who can say
aught against what has been done, and what
more does respect, reverence. and love demand?
For a voice seems to come from the sacred
places of repose themselves the brave
repose who have died i'll the cause of their
country"
Months ago this question arose, was consid
cred, and decided by the writer-who fam
could cherish the recollections of the past the
memory of our hero dead, as fondly, tenderly
and reverently as any one and another cues
ton was entertained, and considered, how
should the emotions felt and cherished. be ex-
Inhibited in these disjointed and chaotic times
The deliberate conclusion reached, was: Let
there be no more public demonstration, their
tendency will be to revive luminosity now CIV
rekindle and awaken fresh feeling of resent
rment, which now gives indication of slumber
and still more, these will afford capital to our
enemies in ihe diligent employment Of which
all the enginery Of oppression may be: put in
more active operation against US, ard thus the
little of liberty and privilege now permitted
and enjoyed, be circumscribed, and property
now possessed, snatched away from an impov-t
erished, oppressed, and down-trodden people.
Do we realize cur situation, anomalous
and momentous transition state of the present,
which we.occupy? And do we fully appreci-
ate the unmistakable signs of disintegration in
the dominant political party of the country
If we d. then We will walk most crcumspeot- /.
7y; and with the Richmond Enquirer, we will
see the absolute necessity Of prudence, and de-
sst from furnishing additional capital to the
abominable HuRnicutts fthe land, permitting
such like incendiaries, as those to work out
their own ruin and destruction.
Do you ask whether our Cemeteries, stpla-
ces of repose,'' shall be neglected, even under
the present untoward circumstances ? We an
swer, nay, never F. never! Forbid that we
shall ever see the day in the future, when we
shall deliberately neglect or manifest irrey-
erenee for them, or fail to exhibit respect and
reverence toward those who fell, covered with
glory, in the unequal and sanguinary conflict;
and speed the day, when; the now sunken,
neglected, and almost entirely obliterated
graves of the dead of many years-of many
ac mil; TO,
hold words, the companions of our boyhood,
of our manhood, and maturer years, shall be
filed up, sodded, and properly >marked,--.
shaded with shrubbery, and perfuIned with The
fragrance Of the sweetest flowers How shall
we most fittinglX and appropriately respect,
honor, reverence and scatter affection incense
over the sleeping ashes of the hero dead
Let the elite, intelligent, and patriotic of Fred
ericksburg, Richmond, and other places speak
and answer to the question. The last day of May
has been selected by the ladies of the Holly
wood Memorial Association, for the painful,
but pleasing duty: and the 31st inst will,
therefore, be devoted to adjoining the soldiers
graves at Hollywood, and for this, proper
contributions of flowers are requested The
celebration wW be informal and unostentatious,
and addresses are erpectcd on the occasion.
Tall Specimens of Rye.
Mr.. Jacob OFT, of this place, left few stalks
Of Rye at our Office the other day, taken from
one of his fields on Blackjack Ridge, measur
ing six feet eight inches in length. A large
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