The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-06-30
Circular to the People of the South.

AS Correeponding Secretary of the
"a PETERSBURG5 MEMORIAL ASSO-
CIATI0N, it becomes my duty, to seek
your aid In acause which is 40 sacred, 90
things for ite successful prosecution; but
circumstances deny us what would be
equally the pride aud joyso our hearts Co
perform. We, therefore, come to you, op-
pressed with the magnitude Of the works
asking. your sympathy and cooperation.
And Al. what is the cause for which we plead2
lis 1T that we should say come with us to
crown with laurel, and celebrate in song,
the victors OF q righteous, noble struggle,
to rejoice with them that the conflict end
cd, the warfare accomplished, they return
with shouts Of victory and glad hosannas
to their happy homes, their long forssken
'aitars, their expectant and e1ulting loved
hearts are in the dust, our laurels wither-
ed, our homes desolated, and our warriors
return no niorel "They have fought their
last battle, they sleep their last sleep,"
and it is on their graves We place the
roses OF our grateful affection, and the
All along the lines of this long beleaguered
city can be found the little hillock which
marks hero's grave; while in distant
homesteads, in every Southern State,
weeping mothers mourn these loved ones,
absent from their firesides, absent from
the conseorated cemeteries of their fathers!
Shall these 1000 graves be neglected and
uneared for? shall they be trampled into
nothin gness by the very beasts of the
field, and be ploughed into the soil which
they died to defend? Forbid it, ye mo-
theirs: ye sires, ye maidens of the South;
forbid 1t, We comrades, who battled at their
sides; forbid it, ye legislators. who are
Commonwealth; forbid it, oh. God! Thou
God Of the fatherless, the widow, and the
riendless!
We, as an Association, offer you the pit
tance which the ravages and desolations of
war have left US; we offer you the willing
labor Of our hands, and that of our noble
young men who have toiled with US; we
generosity of our city fathers; and we say
to you, help us to take these bodies of
your noble sons, rever emily to lay them in
honored graves, and to rear over them q
proud monument worthy of our cause and
their deeds. Is it not fitting that here,
where the last blow was struck, where
haif-clad, starving men stood up so heroi-
cally amid such scenes Of terrible carnage,
pressed and finally overwhelmed BY
legions of the foe, the admiration and
wonder of the world. is it not fitting that
we should thus honor their memory and
exultlngly exclaim "these are our sons"
proudly committing their names to pos
ceed $500; up to this date all the dead
have received equal care; now we are
making efforts to rescue from distant bat
tle-felds the 'slain of our city" which
draws largely on our impoverished treasu-
ry, and unless this appeal shall be liberal
~ responded, to the traces of father, hus-
band, son, must perish from the earth.
Then, shall we lay them by the side of our
noble sons whom we are now gathering
from mountain, hillside and valley, send
them to slumber in their natal soil or
leave them were they fell2 No, no! let us
deny ourselves anything, everything,
rather than deny to these SCARED, and
manned, and toil-worn martyrs, the sweet
rrepose of consecrated grave, until the
last trump shall summon them to man
sions prepared above. Confident that we
shall not plead in vain, we leave the cause
with you, awaiting your action to carry
out the plans before us.
MRS. j. NJ. WYCHE,
Cor. Sec'y. L. NJ. A., Petersburg, Va.
EXECUTIVE CoMMITTEE.-Mrs. Wm. 7.
Joynes, President; Mrs. John Miller,
Treasurer; Mrs. G. Pannill, Recording
Secretary; Mrs. J. NJ. Wyche, Correspond
ing Secretary; Mrs. David Calender, Mrs.
VIM. Simpson. June 27
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