Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-11-29

uous events, preserve memorials, as
magnificent as their means will per
NIT, of those who died at their sum-
mons in defense of this land. and 10
maintain that place among men trans
mitted to them from a noble ances-
try? On the contrary, to neglect this
sacred duty would be either TO admit
that there is nothing in our history
worthy of consideration, or to confess
that we have lost all that makes a
I people or a nation-pride in the past.
a dauutless spirit for the present and
! hope for the future. But such is not
! the ease. There never was a Dopula-
ltiOn that so well upheld its dignity
and character under misfortune as
J ours. When an Eastern King stood
captive before Alexander, he was
asked by his cOnquerOr how he de-
sired to be treated? He replied
briefly: GAS a King" So have our
people in action and expression, by
mute protest, or in calm utterance.
insisted that they should be
treated as become their great charac-
ter and achievemements in the past.
No amount of repression has vet
broken their spirit. They have intel
llgeDtly and heroically recognized that
resistance by the sword has neoessari-
ly a limit; that this ia modern times
Is matter of mathematical calcuIa-
ton, and that the horrors and priva-
tlOns of active war can only be borne
for short time by any people, how
ever brave and resOurcefIl. Rut to
all the policies designed to degrade
them and wear out their moral tex
ture, they have manfully opposed that
array of mind which cannot be I
marched against by brigades and di- /
visions; that muster of protesting /
opinion which the longest-range gun |
in the arsenal will not reach. and /
which cannot be starved into submits
sion. In defeat they have been as
great as in victory. If we would pre-
serve and pass down to our posterity
those elements of character which
have given us history, it can best be
done in our present condition, only by
the most permanent monumental
tributes to the memories and deeds
of the Confederate dead. That
these elements of character are
worthy of being preserved we
feel and know. Our enemies being
judges, we ought not to let the old
Southern heart perish.
The New York Tribune, In an arti-
Gle more candid than usual towards
US, expresses an earnest desire that the
great qualities of the South should
not be lost TO the natio1-and hoped
that these would survive the desola-
tions of the hour. There is nothing
in the mere fact of military defeat,
that casts on such an enterprise the
slightest shade of improperly. The
column of granite that rises toward
the skies from the nights of Bunker
Hill, whose summit Webster invited !
the earliest morning beam to gild, {
and where he invoked the last ray of |
the setting sun to linger-was erected
TO celebrate an unsuccessful hattie |
field, and to eommem0ratet the soldier I
dead who fell without the victor's {
wreath. /
1t Is eminently proper that the :
Church should assume this solemn la (
Dor, and that the memorial be tenn
pie of the Living God. Thus is pre- {
Sented and cOmmemOrated a leading
of our peOple-their [
evangelical piety. Intidelity and scep- {
-icism have no abiding place with US.
Never, in the wantOnness of intellec- [
-qal strength, have we thrown away i
-he pearl of salvation nor broke the
mystic chain that binds the penitent
Of earth to Calvary's Cross. Amid the
hurting hail of death, guiding his
charging columns, the old woods of
Virginia, ech0ing the shouts of his
victorious brigadeS, the stern "blue- {
light Elder, found time to wait (
4 prayer upward to his God.
Then, let the proposed Westminster r
If the South be founded; and as it ,
rises In graceful proportions, let it be
perfected by all that the genius of
can conceive. Let the
highest art combine with the amplest q
wealth to produce an elegiac strqc- [
.ure worthy OF our great dead. If I
another Angelo can be found, let
him again swing the Pantheon in
nid-alr. Let it be, in the language of =
iibbOn, when describing st. Peters :
i Rome, "the most glorious structure
hat has ever been applied TO the use
# religion" while at the same time '
t shall be in its materials, in '
Is sculpture and painting, a
rast epic ever speaking to the eye
ma soul, the story OF herOe5--blend-
ng in harmony the sorrows of a !
'hastened pride with the consultations :
If Christian faith.
At the close Of Judge Browns re-
marks, DR.. Ford thanked the audi :
nee for their attention, in a few neat {
md graceful words, saying that what
.ver else the South had lost, it stands
peerless in oratory. The audience
hen adjourned,