Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1875-10-30

| tendon have been turned TO DenOlQ the
achievements of the man, so will the hero
ic life here enshrined radiate back to the
remOtest bounds Of the world lesson its
example has taught. Applause Itspeaks
| to our fellow citizens of the North, and,
reviving no animosities of the bloody past,
it commands their respect for the valOr,
the manhood, the integrity and honor of
the people of whom this christian wOrriOr
was the representative type and champ
| ion. Applause.] 1t speaks to our
stricken brethren ofthe South, bringing
| up his sublime simplicity and faith, his
knightly and incOrruptible fidelity to each
engagement or duty, and 1t stands an en-
during admonition and guarantee that
| sooner will the sun reverse its course IN
the heavens than his comrades and his
compatriot people shall prove recreant to
the parole and cantract of honor which
binds them in the fealty offreemen to the
constitution and union of the State. APP
plause.l Itspeaks with equal voice to
every portion of the common reunited
country, warming all that impartial JUS
tice and impartial right to the North and
to the South, are the only pillars Oh which
the arch of the Federal Union can secure
ly rest, Applause 1t represents that
unbOught spirit of honor which prefers
death to degradation, and more feels
stain than a wound, which is the stern
nurse of freemen, the avenging genius Of
society and which teaches and prOclaims
that the free consent of the governed is at
once the strength and glory Of the govern
ment. Applause. 1t stands forth a
mute protest before the world against that
rule of tyrants which, wanting faith i'm
the instincts Of honor, would repress and
degrade brave and proud but unfortu-
nate people; which would bid them re-
pent, in order to be forgiven, of such
deeds and achievements as heroes rejoice
to perform, and such as the admiration of
mankind in every age has covered with
glory. Applause.
Let the spirit and design with which
we erect this memorial to-day admonish
our whole country that the actual rec
onciliation of the States must come, and,
so far as honorably in us lies, shall
come; but that its work will never be
complete until the equal honor and
equal liberties of each section shall be
acknowledged, indicated and maintain
ed by both. We have buried the strlfes
and passions of the past; we now perpet'
uate impartial honor to whom honor is
due, and STOPPING to resent no criticism,
we stand with composure and trust
ready to greet every token of just and
constitutional pacitication. Applause.
Let this statue endure as symbol OF
the respect which both sections will &C
cord to the illustrious dead of each, sig
nifying, not that either will ever be
prepared to apologize to the other, but
that, while calmly differing as to the
past neither will defile its record, each
will assert its manhood, its rectitude
and its honor, and both will equally
and jointly strive to consolidate the lib,
erty and the peace, the strength and
the glory of common and indissoluble
country. Applause. Let it endure
as perpetual expression OF that great
world sympathy with true great
ness which prompted so noble gift
from Great Britain to Virginia; and let
its preservation attest the gratitude OF
the Commonwealth to those gleat-heart-
ed gentlemen of England who origina-
ted and procured it as tribute to the
memory of her son. Great applause, |
EULoGY OF JACKSON BY REV. DIR. HoGE,
OF RICHMOND, Va,
Governor Kemper then introduced the
euloyist of the dead, the orator of the
day, the companion and friend of Jack
son. the reverend man of God, Moses
d. Hoge.
DR.. Hoge, in opening his address, al
luded to the emotion stirred In his
breast by the vast throng congregated
and extending beyond the limits of the
capitoliue grounds, gathered to do hon.
OF TO the illustrious dead. He said:
We have come from the seashore, the
mountains and the valleys Of our South
ern land, not only to inaugurate a stat
ne, but new era in our history. Here
on this Capitoline HILL on the Goth day
of October, 1875, and in the one hun
Gredth year of the Commonwealth OF
Virginia-we have met to inaugurate
new Pantheon to the glory of our CON-
mon mother.
We honor ourselves and do homage
to virtue, when with the brush and the
chsel we perpetuate the images OF our
fathers and the founders of the State.
Already has the noble office been be-
gun. Here on this hill the forms of
Washington, and Henry, and Lewis,
and Mason, and Nelson, and Jefferson,
and Marshall arrest our eyes and make
their silent but salutary and stirring ap-
peals to our hearts. Nor are these all
who merit eternal commemoration. |
miss James Madison and others of VEN
cradle and illustrious name. Let us not
cease our patriotic work until we have
reared Pantheon worthy of the indy
ing glory of the past
But this day we inaugurate new era.
We lay the cornerstone OF new Kan
theon in commemoration of our coun-
try's fame. We come to honor the mem
DRY Of one who was the immortal perso-
nation of our Confederate cause, and
whose genius illumined the great con-
test which has recently ended, which
made an epoch not only in our own his
tory, but in that of the age. Cheering ]
We assert no monopoly in the glory of
that leader. 1t was his happy lot to
command, even while he lived, the It:
spect and admiration of right-minded
and right-hearted men in every part of
this, and in all lands 1t is now his
rare distinction to receive the homage
of those who most differed with him on
the questions which lately rent this re-