Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-05-06

hOnsFs to the Gallant Dead Of the Lats
Confederate Armies.
Programme Of GsrsmsRlss-Whsrs and
Whsn the Procession viii Form
LlHs u March.
MaFshals. Aids and Ora 0rs Of the Day
Tributes 10 Verse 10 the Sol
dieFs in EimWaBd.

The ritual Of sorrow in which all great
revolutions chaunt to human hearts their
deepest meanings, has COnsecrated US
afrssh TO me another in the Offices OF pa
triStic fellowship. However HbsraliZsd
our opinions, however, in this age of steam
and thorough admixture of populations,
the unity Of civilized nations is confessed,
yet we, who stand side by side to-day
about the burial places d Confederate
dead, find ourselves fellow cOuntrymsu
by virtue Of birth and blood, and united
through those common traditions and SEN
timsnls, which, at the period of our an
cestral age, formed N era in the
career Of Modern Civilization, ard
in our day have reproduced themselves
with broader significance. Sharing, as
we lave done, the same Instincts, the
same aims, the same heroic inspirations,
we, who participate in the solemn csre-
mOnials Of to-day have been made fellow
cOuntrymen in a larger measure Of atfsC-
ton BY means Of those losses and sacri-
fees and suffsrings which q -benehcent
Providence ordained, and in ~OrdEIning
annOintsd US to endure. A holier sanctity
Dreathed from Heaven, has been thus
impaired to our civil and social
relations. The strong flores that
bound US to brothers, husbands, sOus,
now bind US to the soil in which
their msrtyred dust repOsss. We of the
South, confsssing in act and feeling, the
brotherhood of u race, assert on an Oc-
CasiOn like this. not less earnestly, that
We are fellow cOuntrymen as we never
were before. Sublime and lmpgssiOned
feelings are the highest achievements OF
revolutions, and if the uJterances to
which We listen this day and its solemn
c~srsmOnials draw US closer together
there viii only spring from it that pro-
founder conviction Of human brotherhood
which American civilization has hitherto
violated and thus incurred a guilt for
which i5 stands arraigned at Gods most
righteous bar. The day Is not distant
When the South WAS transigur-
ed into q g q such as no people ever
exhibited. Heroic qualities regarded the
attributes OF the lew, immOrCaIized the
many, and n monument and Oue
inscription might f5ly record the lives,
dea rs and virtues of those whose deeds
to-day are cOmmemOrsbed. The memories
that now dsrksu for Us the dIal-plaCs Of
time with their infinite shadows, which
stretch far down IN lsngtheuing blackn6ss
from Washington, and the facts that
gather our people about burial-placss Of
the dead, are too full Of sadness and sOr-
row for any indulgence in csrping criti-
cism. H5artless nus he be who, amid
the sanctiJies OF grief now resting upon
the South, could profsne the tenderness
of such an occasion by harsh censures and
sharp denunciaJiOns. The hallOwed breath
of God is IN the wall Of mourning which
rises over these soldiers graves, and from
homes saGder than graves, and r~scisss, in
the liJauy Of breaking hearts, the losses
and grIefs of a weeping PsUple. With
these thoughts and these emotions, attend
a ElmWOOd to-day.
IN THE OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES DAY.