Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-06-18
the TOURNAMENT.
Result Of the Tilting-The
- Victorious knights. 3
The Queen Of Love and Beau.
" and her Court.

II
In our issue Of yesterday, we leit the
knightly list on the tournament grounds
taking their position at the call Of the
bugle for the second tilt. We omitted
and here produce the following address,
delivered by General J. R Chalmers to
the Sir Knights, prior to the commence
ment Of the tilting:
YouSa GExTLEMEE: You have ap
peared as knights Of this tournament to
contribute. by your graceful horseman-
ship and skllful bearing Of the lance, to
the support and maintenance OF the wild
ows and orphans who have been made
such by the late Civil war.
II would beA mockery, and would
give occasion TO ridicule, if | should
com pare you 10 the knights Of ancient
chivalry, who met in the death strug-
giles OF the tournament of the middle
ages, or to the gladiators of ancient
Rome, who slew each other in the arena
for the amusement Of the multitude.
Indeed, our enemies have already
made merry over these mimic tourna-
ments of the South, and have Attempted
to bring ridicule upon US for induging
in jousts 80 free from peril.
1t is true that your lances are not
barbed with the polished steel, and that
your steadied aim is not directed against
the breast Of your fellow-man, and that
your exercises o(to-day are not marked
with any of the emblems Of martial
array But those who sneer at your
peaceful tournament should remember
that they have forbid to US the exercise
of any more military display. Our uni
forms have been tabooed by military
orders, and even the use OF brass buttons
by us is the occasion of nervous excite
ment Like the Helots of Greece, we
are not permitted to indulge in thu use Of
arms, nor to engage in any warlike train
ing, lest, perchance, some lurking treason
should be Matched against the Govern
uent and it is nnmanly in those who
have thus placed limit on our amnse-
ments, 10 attempt TO cast ridicule upon
our peaceful sports. 1t ia true that you
are now engaged in no perilous contest;
but see around me some, at least, who
/ have met before in other scenes, and
whose seats were as firm IN the saddle
when they rode down the enemys line
blazing with fire, whose nerves were as
steady aud whose aim was as true when
they leyeled the nnyy-six at the breast of
the foe as now, when the peaceful lance
is pointed at the harmless ring.
The object for which you are assembled
is worthy ofyour labor. The widows and
the orphans of those who fell fighting
against us are amply provided with pen
sioas and homes by the strong purse of
the Government for which they fought,
and by the liberal contributions of those
whose wealth was unimpaired by the raw
ages of war.
Their wounded are the wards of the re-
public, and the bodies of their dead have
been gathered by the hand Of a CRATE
full Government into grand national Gem
eteries, where q natiou's tears can water
their graves, q natien' anthem sing their
praises, and a nations prayers implore
blessings upon them to the latest pos
teri,y. :.
But your father, your brothsr, and
your friend lies where be fell in the thick
est of the fight, and where you left him,
though your heart was sick aud sad, to
continue the struggle. The little hillocks
which mark their last resting place will
soon be forgotten, and the rude plough
share Of the husbandman will up the
sod made rich with the purest blood that
patriot ever shed in freedoms cause.
But let us remember that "the blood of
the martyrs is the seed of the church,
and hope that this stone of States Rights,
which the iconoclasts of the republic
have rejected, may yet become the
chief stone of the corner
Your MANNED and wounded brother,
who escaped the leaden hail of death
upon the battlefield, and survived the
freezing winters of a soldiers life, has
lived TO endure the more chilling and
heart-beDumbing blasts Of this worlds
cold charity. The Confederate WIDOWS
bowed down before the hymenial altar,
whose fires have gone out forever, and
the orphan listens for the voice and the
footsteps of father who will never re-
turn.
These are the objects Of your care. 1t
is for them that you have practiced the
sports which you are TO perform to-day.
For their assistance this vast multitude
has assembled, aud while we freely con-
tribute our mite to the living, we will
cherish with deepest reverence our men,
cries for the dead.
They loved the cause. they loved the land.
They loved its daughters true.
Its sons of ready heart and hand,
Its flag of bonnie blue.
And though that banner never rise
kmbattlej hosts before, ,..a,l
Within our hearts. as in our skies.
II will live forevermore. .f..5lg .s-t
. As blade and fowerets' lives outlast
A thousand winters reign.
The buried dead their spirits cast
Through life's electric chain.
They are not dead, those mangled forms
We laid in Southern clay: a.
Their memories shall survive the storms
Till time shall pass away,
The second and the third tits rode, the
following was the grand result: 4,
Will v illiford, knight Of La Salette.- OIL
M. Kaufman, Knight OF pixie.'..:..'. - ! %
Bcxar...... u
AMI Jones, knight of he Lost Lily. 2-6
Heart ........... o3
Lagoon - - OIL
w. 6. Cannon, Knisht Of Leon st,
Clair 10
A. O. Brewer, KniRnt Of ST, kimo...... ] 3-6
Andrew Will ans. Knight Of X. X. X. ! I Is
Sam Finley night Of WotshamHeuse I'll
Va Sss hoe........ ...a.-.....--...-. 0 90
George W. McKie, Knight Of the I'm
trained Horse .... .....................s'.. IS
G. II. Williams. Knisht Of Lene Star Q OIL
As shown by the score, Capt Geo. W.
A. NJ. L.. ar ~. ac-,t ,,x;1o and Mr