Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-05-25
GEN. PATRICK Z. CLEBURNE.

We clip the following well written and
Just tribute to the memory of the brave
Cleburue, from the Shreveport ConSerrG-
the. The author is typo" and cas
q soldier:
A great people have, by force of cir
cumstances of adversely, submitted their
cause to the arbitrament Of the sword,
and lost all save honor / state the case
in this particular manner, because it is
false as it is fashionable to say, that the
South Willingly submitted her cause to
the bloody arbitrament of lead and steel.
She did so, it is true, but shh was forced
to do so. Before the firing of the first
gun in the harbor of Charleston, as well
as that sad period, in the mountain
girdled vale of the Appomatox, when
Robert E. Lee delivered up the sword
whose uplifting hand so long seemed,
bright as the glance of destiny" the
radiance of success-the intelligence
and forecast of the South was well
aware that, in contest of mere brute
strength-with Southern ports actually
blockaded, and all Northern ports open
to the importation of mercenaries from
overy clime-there could be no doubt of
the ultimate triumph of the North; yet
the hope of the South was not unreason-
able, as she believed that such induce
ments could be held out as would insure,
sooner or later, the cooperation of thou
sands of the friends of freedom in for
eign lands, who, it was hoped, would
volunteer to aid brave but feeble nation
in its struggle for republican demo-
cratic principle, involving " life, liberty,
and the pursuit ofhappiness," and all that
men hold dear. But the combinations
of politicians and the fears of emperors
prevented the fruitien of this hope, and
the Confederate gonfalon, after waving
triumphantly over a hundred fields of
blood and carnage, was folded away in
the memory of its surviving defenders,
mayhap never again to be kissed by the
breeze or display its " stars and bars in
the sunlight gliding the cantonment Of
chiVary and honor.
Though that flag was borne by Lee,
johnson, Hampton, Forrest, and a my
riaa of other patriots living and dead,
whose names the world will not will
lingly let die" it was never, in the hour
of battle, further advanced than by the
lamented officer whose name | have
chosen as the caption of this article.
Though born in that Green Erin "
which has so long groaned in the gives
of British bondage-that land of poetry,
eloquence and song-he was as true to
the South, to liberty, to Republieanism
and true Democracy, as the Paynim
wanderer to the name of the Prophet. l
knew him as a civilian of Arkansas in
the better days of many years ago-a
young and talented member of the bar,
fast rising to eminence and opulence,
beloved and respected by all who came
in contact with him who deserved his
confidence and regard. And all men
knew him as a soldier, the impersonation
Of chivalry, bravery and honor. He
sleeps "the sleep that knows no (esrthly)
waking" near the village Of Columbia,
Tennessee, in that broad Aeeldema where
lie the remains Of so many Of the brave
meu who were the forlorn hope of the
" lost cause the battle SCARED Army
Of the West No monument arises over
that pure now stilled, alas forever. In
the beautiful wsrds of the Scottish verse:
4" No lordly sculpture, towering to the sky.
Mocks his poor dust with monumental glory
A s:ern-worn hilloek tells the passer-by
His simple story"
He hved-he died But Arkansas
claims the hero for her soA; and it has
been suggested that Boston mountain,
the highest elevation in that State, be
changed in name by legislative enact
ment. and be hereafter called Cleburne
mountain. Reader, will you not second
the suggestion that this ragged twin Of
Time may become the time defying mon
ument Of that brave oountryman Of
Emmei, and Phillips, and Grattan, who
so freely poured out his blood a ibation
on the broken altar Of the liberty Of his
adopted laRd2
Such graves a. bis are rilFrim Shrines,
Shrincs % no code OF creed con1nedi
The Delphiau rales, the lalcstincs.
Tho Mcccas Of the mind
VlRGIxIUs HUrCHEE.