The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-04-23

ng AMI decisive fight, us be was victor in
80 many that We're so very glorious-it
might have been well to lay him where
men come and goa leader of men among
men, still ruling their spirits from his urn.
| But such WAS not his death or fortune.
The calm, self-sacrificing, upright, unre-
pining gentleman
''Who wore no less loving face, because so
| broken heartfelt
humble before God and without cnmity to
men; bending the faculties that might
have swayed realm to schemes of quiet
usefulness and appraised toll silent be-
fore SANDER and insult unmoved by threat
and talsehood; teaching by noble precept
and example the duty of submission, as he
had nobly taught and lead resistance and
defiance while resistance was duty-this
was thehero who died at Lexington, giving
the lesson of a greatness that was far above
his glory. On the field of that greatness
he laid down his life, and on it he should
rest. To his fame it is nothing where he
| sleeps. To the State that bore him-hav-
ing borne hint matters almost as little.
| Could she have buried him at Arlington,
| as was her right and his. she would have
| blended the memories Of Washington and
Lee with the sacred associations of their
homes. At Lexington their names at least
are joined together, and there the pilgrims
from Mount Vernon, to the shrine your
bands will help to build, may lay their Of
ferings OH the grave of jackson also.
Washington, Lee, Jackson!
"dust, which is
Even in itself, an immortality! ~
Great applause
COMMON BROTHERHOOD AND PRIDE.
There arc before me, doubtless, some
who pay their willing tribute to the great
Confederate soldier, yet sympathize in
nothing with the cause to which he gave
his heart and genius. They see in his ca
reer and character those traits which true
men love and honor, no matter in what
cause displayed. They share the admira-
ton which his name awakens in the wise
and brave and good the wide world over.
Their pride grows warm and high when
they remember that they are his brethren
that his fame will be the treasure Of their
country and the heritage Of their own
children so long as they shall live in free
land and share its glories. 1t is in the in
spiration of this reverence for what is pure
and noblo-the perpetual suggestion Of
this brotherhood and common pride, the
obliteration Of animosities, the bringing
Of mems hearts together upon lofty, com.
mon ground-that the memory of the il
lustrious dead is benefcent and living
power. Its influence, first felt by the BRAY
est and the best of those who were his foes
when swords were crossed, is now confined
no longer to party or to section. [Applause.l
1t has awakened magnanimity and soften
ed resentment almost everywhere. 1t has
helped to break the spell of prejudice and
passion, and make men feel how narrow,
false and very mean thing it is to call
opinion crime. l look upon this influence
as of the happiest augury. [Applause.l
trust-nay, l believe-the time is not
far off when the great struggle which end
ed at Appomattox will be regarded by the
people Of all America in the light of what |
it was, and not of what violence and false
hood in high places and low places have
found it their interest to call it. look |
for the returning sense of selfrespect as
well as justice in the country to blot out |
from its laws and its judicial decisions, not
long hereafter, the opprebrious epithets |
by WHICH it is still thu. fashion to DISGRACE !
them when the Confederate war is men
toned. persuade myself it will not be
long before all intelligent and honorable |
men-without abating one jot or title of
their own convictions, or Of their honest |
pride in having fought VIGOROUSLY to
maintain them-will begin to feel that the
wearisome and insulting cant about |
"rebels," the rebellion" and ''treason,"
and TRAITORS" is altogether unworthy Of
them, and should be relcgated to the pot
houses and their demagogues. know that
such already is the feeling in hosts of hos
oms SCARED in honorable fight, and it is a
feeling that must grow and spread, because |
it is Just and manly, and because manhood |
and justice are inherent in the race from
which we chiefly spring, and, though they
may be reached but slowly sometimes, are
certain to he reached at last. APP
plause.]
Letme not be misunderstood. OF course
no Southern man has right or reason to
which he thought right. Believing that
a separate government was his plain right |
when he might choose to have it, he may
not quarrel with the opposite convictions
of his countrymeu who thought, and with |
as deep rs his, that the Union
was priceless right of theirs, and were
therefore ready to immediate him for it, as
well as sacrifice themselves. But lie has |
the right to ask that the honesty of his |
the sincerity of lis patriotism,
the good faith of his sacrifices shall not be
doubted or denied any more than theirs. |
He is entitled to demand that no enemy |
shall put q tongue into his wounds-"poor, |
poor dumb mouths" and make them lie,
Great aFplausc.l
POLITICAL DIFFERENCES.
1t was melancholy beyond words that |
political differences between brethrer-the |
citizens of republic whose government |
rested on conscnt-could not be settled |
without blood. But they were political
differences nevertheless, and they were
nothing more. They were the expression |
Of political principles concerning which |
parties and sections had been long divid- |
ed, and which separated the best and wis
est of the land lorg before their antag-
onsm was startled into strife. One side |
may have been right and the other wrong,
or there may have been right and wrong |
with both-but neither could question,
with truth, the sincerity of the ether, and |
only fanaticism and folly, upon either side, |
can deny it to the other now. l speak of
the true men upon both sides, for they on
ly are worth considering on either. APP |
plause.
LOYAL AND pISLoYAL.
There is something marvellous, if not in
conceivable, in the belief which some pco-
pie otherwise sane, profess to entertain |
that man is, mentally or morally, better
Or worse for his sincere political opinions