The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-02-08


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Eloquent Tribute to the Confederate Dead.
AT banquent recently given BY the Texas
students of the Washington and Lee Unlyersi-
tv. Col. VIM. Preston Johnston (son of the
lamented Albert Sidney Johnstonl responded
to 8 toast to the Confederate Dead. We
make the-following extracts from his eloquent
and beautiful response: y. ~ ~ t-
We are. told that in old time the Egyptians
placed BY their banquet board, among the roses
and wines and costly dishes, skeleton, that
they might remember they were mortal. 1t i
with a contrary but more ennobling purpose,
conceive that YOUR sentiment summons to our
presence and minds and hearts on this festival
occasion, @the Confederate Dead" It IS that
this,stately procession of the knightliest dead
that ever died may for moraent shed their
glory through the gloom that overhangs the
Ind uponthe hearts gathered here to remind
rsSfhsf we are immortal. We are, trust,
cfiastened, as well as exalted by the thought
that ours israrr race of heroes; and it is well
that ever and always we should remember this,
that t.wesdefle not with spot or blemish the
SNOWY escutchen that is our heritage. We
would not barter the stainless name of our ula-
happy people for the overfowlng cup OF ua-
righteous prosperity and triumph:
The Confederate Dead - In the memories
stirred by these words are mingled what shat
tered dreams of glory, what tender regrets,
what priceless legacy of undying fame. Who
we're these men that we should so value them !?
Were it for nothing more than their martial
valor and :prowess on the field we might we'll
be proud of them as countrymen. They were
tneieayest and gallantsst gentlemen that ever
u,ent down to battle, the stoutest soldiery that
ever breasted the food of death and their
cheer had ring of victory in it that made a
comrades blood to bound ard the foema1's
heart 10 quail when we heard the exultant
shout. In the charge they pressed on with con-
fident and resistless courage, and woe to the
enemy who urged too rashly their snllen re-
treat. They never learned to fly, and IN the
last moments of hopeless struggle, the vic
tors could net stand before their assaults IT
you Judge them by their achievements against
overwhelming numbers, no contest in history
can equal their unavailing resistance. They
met in the field the flower Of the youth of eve
iylaud, aliured by the stipend of the North ;
and Celtic fire was quelled and Teutonic stub
l,ornnsss was melted like wax, and well-kni
phalanxes of the West were shattered by their
blows. The soldiers who upheld for four years
4he cause of the South will rank in history
among the first for courage, endurance, dis
cipline, ,eheerfulness, intelligence and humans
i.ty. .,,,.:..-a IS
Bnt It is not as mere soldiers we must view
our. dead. They were the champions of no
BILE cause, the cause of constitutional liberty
and of immemorial rights made sacred by the
monuments Of more than six hundred years.
They represented moreover the principle OF
self-goyernment, of local freedom, and of the
right of people, to decide their own political
associations. I'm them was struck down these
ancient and honorable ideas; and the comrnu:
nifty of nations allowed itself to listen to and
virtually to approve the plea of the imperial
and irresponsible Capitalization that triumphed
We have no complaints to make; but when
startled Liberty in other lands turns hither and
thither for sympathy or aid, we can point them
to the lists where our champions lie slain, but
not dishonored.
Tn this view the Confederate dead have q
claim upon the whole world, claim as yet un-
acknowledged, but which We may trust to time
to establish. They were the defenders of their
native land, and that land is our home. But
upon us they have closer and more peculiar
demand for gratitude They were martyrs Of
patriotism. They died for us. "Greater love
hath no man than this, that man lay down
his life for his friends" Hunger, thirst, cold
toll, wounds, disease and death they suffered
for you; will you not remember them and
cherish them3
There are three ways in which you may in
part repay the debt you owe che dead. When
ever and wherever you meet poor survivor Of
that noble band on whom the rod of aft1ictlon
has fallen heavy, whether by poverty or wounds
or disease, pay the honest homage of respect
and do what you can to tighten his lot. When
YOU see the orphans of the Confederate martyrs
with their young lives made grievous by power
Nv and bereavement, stretch forth the helping
hand, not in charity, but in the beneicence oi
gratitude.
Again; it is your duty against world in
arms to yindicate the name, the fame, and the
cause of the dead. It is your duty to lay lau-
rels on their tombs, to cherish and celebrate to
ture tuneful with their praises and most OF all
To see that the truth is told of them and their
Cause.
But you must remember that it is for you
they died, for the coming generations of their
eountrymen, and that you, to be faithful to
their memories, must in no wise forfeit the
character YOU inherit as lovers of country, OF
freedom and of truth.
/. :aTo,yo own self be true; you cannot then
be- false to any man."
Be true, be faithful. be magnanimous.-
When evil spreads her black wings, remember
you are the heaven-appointed champions Of
truth. The pale witnesses who stand for you
are your fathers and brethren who have gone
before, and are numbered with the Confederate
dead.
The Confederate Dead Are they dead who
moulder in their bloody jackets beneath the
sod? They live. 1t is we who are dead, un-
less we feel the touch of that fire from Heaven
that made them immortal.
In an article on recent fair in that city,
the editor of Macon paper says brother ed
itor took valuable premium, but an unkind
policeman made him put it right back where