Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1867-01-04

| ana ashes VI q WlunSetl ;tliu WfcCkei county
scattered by wrathful war Of conquest, end
! inS in disasters worse than death, and III
s6ncAies; -nlld in shamS, worse tbau@hackles {
! All! thd blessed Duridd-
"Arc past tn. fen;
uf future teInprsts Is wr'a.i Oh shore.
Those who escaped are stiil exposed to hoh'
Tue buried have overcome death and are
now immortal whilst We survive I" suffer
and need the sccor their lives AMI deaths can
rive to those who would not live Ill shame
mor die in vain. Their names and deeds need
no monuments or mausocunS OF Garth. Nor
stone nor board may mark the clay where
| they " sleep 50 we'll" Though every turf
beneath our feet be" their scpulchrcS, and
the dust Of cemeteries may ming lc mans with
mans remains in undiStingu!shahic comrade-
ship; yet they are individually known at
Head Quarters Above; and their names are
separately inscribed on the Everlasting Rolls,
and Heavens AdjutantS will forever keep
them in tho Book of Martyrloln Martyr
dom for impcrishabe principles of faith, OF
truth, nr honor, OF religion, OF law, Of liberty,
and Of right! No hostile hand can strike
them now, and all the Inalignity Of good mems
enemies cannot alter or pervert the facts or
the moral forces of their past lives and pre-
| SUN iitClIIlS SCaiSU N"N'A w.
mony to the truth and times testimony will
not permit human history to be periurci to
their shame. We need not fear for them.
With them all is well. They are now shielded
by an ilupcnctrablc bucklcr, the bosSis OF
which is tile integrity as well as courage with
which they battled for their faith and father
lau,l. They now wear an arInor more than
huliet-prooi; and the missiles and messengers
Of death were their better angels, and proved
that they were preferred of Heaven when
they fell Yc mourning survivors; bring
YOU the full assurance that the buried are moi
dead II have communcd with them, and
Ney vet live never to die. We the dead ,
come not L" 70 bury the dead" We have but
to touch their turiS--they have no toinbs-
and be ourselves "alive again We come
not to raise funeral pyrcs, but to he ourselves
50 terminated and so re-nvigorated by the
living spirits Of the departed faithful and true,
IS to be able 10 brave nisiortlncS rs they
braved death to prove ourselves worthy ol
their sacrifice made for us, and ol still assert
ing if not maintaining the faith for which they
fought so good { fight, and which they con-
secratei by their precious blood Aye: their
foes shall build their s1rines, their friends are
| too dcSDoiled to more than mark the places
where they lie. All around them tLcir ~,
yadcrs are gathering the bleaching bones anu
mouldcrin. remains of those they rcIluiseu
and slew. t. raise mounds and monuments u
deeds made memorable, and to memories
made worthy OF mention by their steel ana
every stone they pile On stone-thc hlghcr
the more exprcssive-shall tell the story Oh
tlIc war to every passcr by, or their battIrS'
hy WHOM lost and won, and Of who were inc
real heroes. This play of monuments Is one
in which the lIamicts Of heroism cannot be
left out.
We need these examples more than monu-
mcnts, and more uo1r than during the war,
and lave need to heed them more. hen
under arms we sought to follow the best ana
brayest of the leaders; and now that our de-
fence has stacked its arms, we have more
need than ever. i'll the dismal straits OF SIR
lyen,ier and Submission, to summon their Wis
dom and riltuc, thcirmoral power and their
manhood, their constancy, their tortltudc
their patience. their endurance, their sell
denial. their tirmness, and above all their
faith. to INSPIRE and sustain our saddened
spirits, and counsel our imprisoned actlon:-
"Now, more than ever, We have cause TO 'ea,
Aud bc upon our guard. The hand OF Heaven
Spreads cloud on cloud DER our heniGhel heads
And wrapy'd in darkness, doubles our Distress.
through the flaming furnace Of the red hot
war, we need more than Moses now, I" pear
rs m in dungeons of defeat, and to lead Us out
nv WAYS to prove lis worthy Of the great trials
: With which our honor is entrusted. In this
/. gloomy, moral conflict, without the least
"n,viit r,yfamirpS'' of arms of steel, there /,
more danger, more toll, more dust, disease
and death, than ever threatened, or tried, or
suilcd. or destroyed us i'll the camps, or
,r,arrhcS, or trenches, or hattlC-iiCldS. We
!. have need of prctcrnatural hclp:--l invoke,
then. the " Mighty Confederate Dead" And
r la, instantly the valiant clay of this consc-
! rsatcd Valley Of Virginia becomes instinct
with motion in every atom, and grave III
lexington trembling quickly, gives up life
breathing spirit in great example! ltstandS
] Mllpably before and above IT'S, the moral per-
@ sonation Of the whole Confederate cause.-the
u now sanctiiic,l Stoncwall Jackson, very
Michael of dcivcrancc. The whole host Of
i heroes. dise1nbulied. point to him; and awed,
d I rcycrcutiy ask So WI hat in this hour would
r h. have us do?" His example spenE ks to MS
pronounce not his euogy. His fame and
il deeds are above my praise. Ills enemies
|. praise him. His shade austerely reprchend-
. all fullsome panygcrc. l speak not of the
y military captain, nor Of his glorious battles
+ and victories. l speak not of the man, how
e trained. or what his traits :--courtly or cur;
= eccentric or like common men; awkwarT or
graceful: genial or silent and severe ;-rl Ills
- characteristics, whatever they were, Tc 'lo"
IS sacred. speak not of his achievements, 'front.',
flank or rear, however lighted ur IN lnStrc !;
bnt sneak of the intrinsic, ste ing stamina
V Of his moral greatness, of his zhrlst'af' nero
~ ism, Thousands in the Oriederate armies
- ware like him. "wthout tear ana without
rcnroacbn but the etern* adama'N OF his cha
ro,.tor md nature whch won for him the
A Stopewall of his -tlnc, was MS supreme
u fa;th.--Faith in rod Faith in imnutable
,Mor,l laws and rlnciplcs, and in their might
to nreyail in nc end against all opposing
no,rcrs, uis.aith knew Of no erpsatfncy op,-
t pposc1 70 jutce; Of policy opposed to Truth
and rioht of no price opposed to h"""r. TO.
" nod n " an answering Christian sense Of
" dut~ y did his part according to the "'ery
W r;aG and, implicitly, without reserve, trust
l'yTn God so to shape consequences as to
Like the very right prevail. lie cared not,
r. inquired not, whether it would prevail III his
= time, or for his personal advantage; but he
loved "yirtue for virtues sake" and placed
its power to prevail on the omnipotence and
omnisccncc Of the Father and tinisher OF his
faith. lie knew that the very test Of the
virtue of faith is not only to be constant,
firm and abiding whilst the struggle is going
on between right and wrong; but to be more
and more constant, firm and abiding, when
the enemies of moral law and right seem to
have gained their most decisive and crushing
trumphs. Io never mistook the benign look
of divine pity upon the mortal weakness OF
denial, when the Master was betrayed. He
knew that then it was, when the Almighty
sufferer seemed to he crushed and .forsahsn.
that faith was required to be most abiding:
This faith made him what he was, instant and
irresistible in action; direct and ilnmorable
in purpose; with moral instinct above in. !