The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1878-02-19

that his remains should repose beneath the
coil he loved so well, aud among the people
nv whom he was idoliZed. think it is es-
,,oo;allv 80. and am sorry to find the dis
tinouished gentleman from Lee, opposing
tbe resolution on the ground that 1t would
he discrimination that would amount TO
iniustice to those who fell In defense OF
Southern soil, civil liberty ana constltu-
tional freedom. Sir, honor the gentleman
tor his love for the fallen heroes, the unre-
turning braves OF Mississippi, but In the
name of the Lost Cause in which they iell,
their peaceful sleep should not be disturb
ed The hero, patriot a1d soldier crave no
greater boon than to sleep on the Heiu Q,
Glory where he poured out his blood AS
iibatjon upon the alter of his country
ere he Welded up his lite in defense of
principle, there his blood ran in the same
Str cam, and there his body Is deposited III
the same deep pit with those VINO strugSie d.
at his side; there the white winged guar"lai'
angel of glory guards with solemn round
the bivouac OF the dead. and there he should
sleep until tee end of time, peacefully, plac-
idly. sweetly sleep Sir, the great deaG past
with all its proud memories and glorious
recolectionS has been buried, In It's own
immortal grave that flag under when MIS-
sissippians were marshaled, led, fought,
bled. died, and were buried, must forever
lie in the grave where the inscrutible de-
! crees of an All wise God has placed IT.
| Those heroes, your fathers, your brothers.
and your sons, who lavished their treas
| ures snd their blood, who in defense OF
| their country rushed upon destruction on
| hund ed:battlefieldS,w whose bodies now lie re
| posed beneath the consecrated soil of"fame''
| eternal camping gro nd" and over whose
! ashes the most precious tears of the daugh-
| tiers of Mississippi have been shed. Their
memory we certainly should love and cher
| ish, and on each annual return of Spring
we should repair to their graves and cover
them with immorteles, for III tell you thai
until the last monument reared to cOnstltu-
tional liberty shall have crumbled into dust
| these battle fields are ever to remain as di-
dactic EN- blrms of a peoples fortitude, anC
as the proudest, grande>t monuments OF 3
nation whose glory is immortal. Rob the
battle fields of the country of their deaf
and you rob them of their greatest glory
The Confederate soldiers need not be remov-
ed. They need no monumental shaft rear
ing its peerless Parian spire to Heaven, to
tell of their immortal deeds and mperisha a.
BILE renown. Way down through the dis
tant cycles Of recedng centuries, long after
| the teeming. surging million who to- day
Ii ve and move, and have their being though
out the grand arch Of this Union, shall have
left this mundane sphere, and the places
which know then now will know them nc
more in time forever. men of every cline
creed and nationality will repair to the bat
tie fields of the South to learn there a lessor
Of uneXamp pied patriotism, heroism, devO-
ton and valor. Sir, theirs is fame which
can never die, but
1t will live from age to age
! Their country'S prOudest heritage,
| Midst her green wales their fame will dwell,
! Her mountain winds their names will tell,
And the historic muse is ready to proclaim
The bright forever of their undying fame.
But here. Sir, it is proposed to bring back
to Mississippithe remains of one of her mos
distinguis ned sons. AS has been said those
remains wv lie in a distant land far from
the theater of his splendid career, in
grave scarcely it ever visited by Missis
sippian. Ii has been the custom of nation;
from time immem Orial to honor those o
their sons who succeeded in writing theil
names upon the lof,iest ratters in fame
proud temple. It was sublime custom o
the Romans to burn the remains of thei
dead heroes, and placing them in costly
urns believed that even
''In their ashes lived their wonted fires"
Mississippi yearns for the possession OF
the remains of John j. McRea even as
mother yearns for her lost babe and tn
cOnvulSed lips of her dead son who sleep
to-day in far off British Honduras appea
eloquently to you in the behalf of the reSO
luton. Let it be ours to show to the world
that Mississippi is ever ready to honor those
of her sons who have been truly great. ant
| believe the people of the State will indOrst
the House in the adoption of the resolution
The amendment was adopted
Mr.. Miller moved to table the resolution
Carried.
II. B. to secure greater efficiency in tn
collection of taxes. Indefinitely post
poned.
II. B. for the relief of E. NJ. Ramsey, ex
Tax Collector of jackson. Committees sub
stitute adoptcd,and the bill passed.
III. B. to facilitate the redemption Of
lands held for taxes. RecOmmittp0.
Mr.. McSwine moved to have 200 copies OF
the educational bill printed. Carried
III. B. to provide for sales under judg-
ment on mechanics liens. Senate amend
mentS cOncurred ill.,
). B. for the relief of A. d. Cranberry
VIM. Wallace and John Erwin, of Issaque
ma county, was read and referred.
At 2:15, the House adjourned.