The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-08-03

ING, AUGUST 1876.
Our grand past we also commend TO ouI
own Imitation bis cheerful and gallant cour.
| sge, his lofty and delicate personal honor bis
genial generous, and kindly temper bis de.
Votion to, bis duty and his State; and bis un'
obtrusive worth as citizen. t" Jsr
- Resolved, That we teader TO bis bereaved
! family our profoundest sympathy in grie
which we we'll ksow is far too deep and
overwhelming to be assuaged by any human
consolation. 'JE2 asE1I .c-l vi ',EE
Resolced, That the secretary Of this meet
ing be requested to furnish q copy OF these
resolutions to the family of the deceased.
-s '- MAJOR ROBERT STILES.
Major Stiles In presenting the resolutions
spoke Of Pickett's great modesty and OF him
as the leader of division that deserved" to
rank with the Terribles of Marshal Victor,
or the Tenth Legion Of Cesar" He knew the
deceased as one who breathed in 40 atmos-
phere of personal inlrepldity. AS a Chris
tian and a man Major Stiles desired to. record
publicly his honor for Pickett's valor.. Many
were ignorant of that kindred trait fPickett's
at which the mistaken Christianity OF thase
days IS prone to sneer-the high and delicdte
sense OF personal honor; and the speaker il
lustrated his point by an appropriate anec-
dote. Another proof Of Pickett's greatness
was bis quiet unobtrusiveness in civil Ca
reer, following the illustrious positions he
bad held in the armies OF the United States
and Confederacy. 49,. .....
Major Stiles. spoke with great eloquence
and effect of the sacrifices Of General Pickett
in leaving the United States army, and de-
sired to record the Indebtedness OF the south
ern people to Pickett and his companions Of
the old army who in resigning gave up all
worldly chances that men could have under
rich and powerful Government to enter our
cause. he knew OF no set of men who had
exhibited more manhood or more deserve
our gratitude.
Major Stiles's speech was one of the best
Of the evening. His description of Pivkett's
charge at Gettysburg, the rush up the
hill, the crossing of the soldiers bay onets,
and the fearful struggle, was splendid pas
sage, and, delivered in bis eloquent style,
thrilled nearly every one present.
.. BISHOP DUDLEY. .#a
Governor Kemper introduced Bishop
Dudley as the first speaker after Major
Stiles. The Bishop said it was almost by q
strange accident that he was able to be
present at the meeting and to bring bis
Offering to the memory of his childhood's
friend. The peculiar trait he had TO notice
in General Pickett's character was his eX.
treme love for Virginia. He never forgot
that he was VifglDian, whether as boy
carrying the flag Of his country over The
walls of Chapuitepec, on the border, or in
the subsequent and more stirring and event
full scenes of the Confederate war. His
whole heart throbbed with affection for bis
mother State, and he was proud of his
division as Virginia soldiers, remarkiog
on one OCCASION TO an old friend, whom he
jumped from his horse to greet as his dyi-
sion was passing through Richmond, " Mol
lie, these are my boys, and they are all Vir-
enians." In Pickett and Pickett's men the
glory of Virginia is best illustrated; and the
speaker exhOrted his hearers never to lei
the hour or the day come when they would
fail TO uphold her honor and glory, and to
90 with her whenever she calls, "because
She is our mother" The Bishop lamented
that General Pickett bad died away from
Richmond and from those. who had known
him from boyhood, though he hac
been in the midst of atfec!ionaie
comrades in Norfolk. He hoped The
time would soon come when his remain:
would be brought to Richmond, when q
monument to Lee should be erected here
and Pickett and his other lieutenants should
he gathered together in the midst of the sol
diars who lie buried beside our royal river
Bishop Dudley speaks with pathos ant
feeling that at once commends his words tC
his hearers. In concluding he pictured the
ConfeGerates as men "who lacked nothing
of soldiership but success; nothing of CT
lamity but dishonor."
CAPTAIN GEORGE D. WISE.
Captain George D. Wise having been in.
troduced, said General Pickett was one
who moved so noiselessly along that some oI
us had forgotten we bad q hero among US
and he clearly and graphically sketched the
military history of the deceased from the
time he entered the Military Academy ai
West Point until that supreme hour when
he marched into the jaws Of death on the
iron.cad heights Of Gettysburg. he tbe
speaker) very cleverly compared the charge
OF the 600 at BalakaVa with the onslaught OF
these 5000 Virginians at Gettysburg, aud
introduced some of Tennyson's beautiful
lines about the former adapted to suit the
charge of the latter. He spoke of Gene
raj Pickett's sacrifices for our cause,
and also of the sacrifices made, indeed,
by all the old army officers who espoused
our side, and declared ttfst theirs was
the hardest fortune OF any who had been
overwhelmed by the war. Unused TO civil
pursuits, they were at loss how to enter
into the struggle for bread; but since tbe
war they had shown the most exalted pa
triotisrl and Roman fortitude. These heroic
men have as we'll entitled themselves
to the affection of their people for
their sufferings and sacrifices since
the war as for their courage and skill
In battle. Their conduct challenged the ad.
miration even of our enemies, and of them
Pickett furnished one of the brightest exam.
ples, In closing, Captain Wise claimed that
Virginia has right to be proud of her
dead, of her Lees. her Jacksons, her Hills,
her Stuarts, and her Picketts, and, like the
yestal virgins we read of in Mythology,
whose duty it was to keep forever bright the
sacred fire in the temple, 1t Is incumbent upon
us to see to il that the sacred fires OF patriot
ism are kept forever burning and warm in
the temples of the hearts of our people"
REV. DIR. N. D. HoGE.
Governor kemper, in presenting Or. Hogt
az the next speaker. said he had been nc,
altogether, but almost, Confederate soldier
and If bis garments were not rolled In blood
| it might at least be said of him that one BIAS
Of bis bugle-voce was worth a thousand
men.
Or. Hoge said: Mr.. Chairman and Fellow
| Citzans,- hstever else we may have LOST
| In the defeat of our Confederate cause, tht
demonstration of this evening proves tina
patriotism still survives, and not only so
but eloquence also, to give noble expression
to the sentiments which glow in the patriot:
heart. '.. t.~
Absorbed "a we NAV and must be ia tht