National Republican., 1875-11-22

then that Is the principal trouble with the
World. Il always insists upon going TOO far,
either in telling good story or summing up
election returns. It never will keep. within
bounds, and for that reason people generally
divide what 1t says by two, and believe what.
ever they choose of the result. You see the
whole of an aged mother at one meal Is germ-
ish, simply and clearly CORNISH. II the World
had said Louis RECALLED himself on q foot
part Of a leg, or hand, or even the head, some
people would have been inclined to believe 1t,
but you come to place an ordinary man, fel-
low with an average capacity for viands, at q
table upon which lies the whole of his mother
boiled and waiting for the eater, and then at
tempt to make the public believe that he
actually found himself on the outside of the
dish at the first sitting, why you simply ap-
pear ridiculous in endeayoring to make an i'm
possibility seem possible. If the World had
said 1t was his mother-in-law, and that he ate
her raw, and became furious because 1t was
the only one he had to eat, there would have
been some sense in It, but to talk about eating
whole aged mother, the only one he ever
had, boiled at one sitting Why, it's all bosh.
" Once more unto the breach, dear friends"
Under the caption of "The Lost Cause" the
Norfolk LGndn,drk gives space to nearly four
columns of matter composing letters and
speeches read and delivered at the reunion of
the Thirteenth Virginia cavalry at Suffolk.
Among the speeches is one delivered by Col.
Chambliss, whose strained effort to exhibit
proof of his unaltered fealty to the cause
which was broken up and destroyed by the per-
sistent energy and fervent loyalty of the mar
shaled forces of the National Government, Is
so marked as to give fair demonstration of
the spirit which still finds welcome harbor in
the breasts of majority of those cavaliers
who attempted to dissever the Union by the
force of lead and steel. The following is an
extract of the Colonel's fiery-feeble remarks
am rejoiced TO see so many of you here.
We who were ever ready when duty called,
though our deeds have been forgotten by many,
still, in the language of the great, good and
sainted man, Lee, "we have the consciousness
of duty faithfully performed" Though We
left home and all, animated BY the desire to
free our country from the oppression of the
North; though our arms were not crowned
with victory, still our lives and our deeds have
been crowned with imperishabie honor.
though the purple blood which dyed the
many streams has passed away, yet the history
Of the Thirteenth Virginia cavalry will live
forever; and future generations, when they
look upon that towering monument which We
hope to erect to the dead and living of the
Thirteenth Virginia cavalry, will remember with
grateful hearts the brave men who SO nobly
battled for the safety of their homes, and will
bless the memory of our brave cavaliers.
Though we are poor, sapped of all save honor
and courage by relentless power, and that
power centered in one man, by him was every
vestige of liberty and security to our citizens
overthrown; by him were our municipal rights
Cancelled and destroyed; by him was State
sovereignty obliterated. All this by the man
whose sworn obligations were to protect and
preserve all our rights; man who, were it
not beneath the dignity of history, one might,
in the language Of Curran, brand as the "per-
jurer Of an hundred oaths;" who would blast
the memory of the dead, blight the hopes Of
the living, and increase his greatness upon the
ruins of his country and the graves of his vic
tins. He, the person who would enslave and
damn us forever. Does the chivalry of Vir-
ginia accept iil Though at Appomattox we
laid down our arms and swore to defend the
Constitution of the United States, still it will
never be that we shall always appear before
His Highness as q crouching dog. Virginia's
voice has ALREADY been heard by the naughty
North; it shall continue to be heard in thunder
tones. She who proposed terms to Cromwell will
not forever bear the tyrant's yoke. The day is
coming Il believe 1t as firmly as believe the stars
twinkle in Wonder heavens) when q new era
will dawn on our Southern land, before whose
sway the North will be forced To bow. We
may not see 1t; but It's coming. Virginia shall
be the raven; New England the frog. Yes,
fellow soldiers, then viii come O time when
freedom will look to the South for home;
when the oppressed of every nation will watch
with anxious eye the star of freedom in its
onward course, and follow its bright guidance
till 1t stands over the place where Virginia, the
mother of liberty, is. viii it, then, be nothing
for future generations to point to our names,
and, in the language of pride and gratitude,
cry: "There lie the authors of our freedom p
"Truth crushed to earth will rise again" And,
fellow-soldiers, the cause, the principles for
which we fought cannot sleep forever; the
many deeds OF heroic daring cannot be for
naught; there is a crown of Justice awaiting
us. We meet on this occasion, fellow-soldiers,
to renew once more tie ties of friendship
formed amid those glowing days sswhen death
spoke in every booming shot that knelled upon
the ear -