The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-02-20


the -a'Be salary or pr ttIr "a 5tIi..,,-d b. LA
20 TIA ~ps-ak 81 the Hons II II JrrS-t.:;,-
- - crs-t arg OF a'e - 90 n Ci-th
81 600; An ~, S2,Ju0, ID s.utt Andi-,,r.
sl,2j0; four Clerks. ) 900 each. Provided
That all I. g aBd pc q lis It's allow III Tia.
AUDITOR shall be paid ant the 5 ate Tr4a- u
~ the t1oY-ruor t. bt- allowed Ia IN plov
additional clerical force Tor Auditor 10 be
PAID ont If said fees, etc safe ,su-
rer, $500; Clerk. 81 go. AID one
Clerk. AT ST 900; Attorney General, $4,000
Supreme judges, 50 500; Provided, the
salaries OF the present Judges shall not
be effected BY this bill; Circuit Judges,
$4,000 each; ChsnceIlors, 81 900 each; Dis
trIct Attorneys, 81 800 each; fees and per-
qustes hitherto collected by District At
torneys to be pJid into the County Treasu-
rles; Superintendent of Public Education,
$1,000, and shall not be allowed a clerk ::
| Librarian, $500; SupeTinl endeut of the
Penitentiary, $500: superintendent of the
| Lunatic Asylum, $1,000; Superintendent
OF the Blind and Deaf aad Dunn Institutes.
| each
Mr.. GhoIson moved to amend the Gov
ernor's ~alaty by inserting $1,000. Mr.. Rcd
head moved u table Carried. Yeas, % !;
nays, 81; absent. % Mr.. Street moved to
place tile bill on is pass az. Carried, and
the bill passed, reconsdo red AMI tabl'd
| Mr. lis n, chairman Committee on WAYS
and Means reported mum Der OF bills and
resolutions. The report was taken up.
| II. G Il. appropl iating 81 900 To have the
brought to this STATE and inferred at the
| Capital, comm tee amendment striking
| out 81 900 and inserting $3.50. 1fr. Tisou
| favored the amendment and opposed the
| re Olution. Mr.. Hatch said
! Mr.. SPEAKER-I have ma it q point to
/ speak as little "a possible upon this floor.
| and | hope for that reason. the House will
| excuse me for @ew minutes while | give
| nv views in support OF the resolution offer
| I'd by tile thoughtful and III Ugulshed 2eu-
| q man from Clarke. | shall not attempt to
! amuSe the House with rapsodes of senti-
ment, or gather The most beautiful flowers
| that bloom in the Edens OF fancy and offer
| them IL a tr! butte 70 the memory Of MiSsiS-
| sippi's dead Governor, John j. McRne Tue
remains of this eminent aud distinguished
man now lies in a distant land, far from the
home of his friends ana from the field of
his magnificent services and splendid abili-
ties. Here he lived and here lived all that
he held sacred and dear in his heart; here
he was respected, loved, hOnored. idoliz 81.
No man ever made a better citizen, no man
ever filled the elevated position which he
occu pied, who flecfed greater honor upon
Mississippi and her citizens. John J. Nc
Rae had heart that was warmed and en-
liyened by every noble and generous and
virluOus i'm pulse. he never intentionally Of
Tended a friend or male an enemy. and he
never cherished Il thought which related 20
Mississippi ana her people that he couldn't
consistently ask Almighty God 10 bless
MIN in. He was oue of the nObleSt, puTest
my power | would Gull bouquet Of the
choicest, sweetest flowers of the English
language and offer them as a tribute to the
ver-brightening fame of oae who looks
down to-day from Heaven upon his beloved
Mississippi. and uDon all that is great, and
grand, aud glorious in her annals His is "A
name that will shine with renewed lustre |
long after many who are present shall have
passed into oblivion. y name known, hon |
ored and dear throughout Mississippi, and |
ri ltEh n 4
iIreg ritY, ChiValry and patriotism are hon |
ored, a name that viii be handed and watt |
ed down to latest times in words that burn |
and thoughts that breathe" by tradition, |
history and song, and name that will
shine on forever, one of the brightest
gems in the reaplendent diadem of Missis- |
sipUi's fame. Is it not then appropriate, Sir, |
that his remains should repose beneath the |
soil he loved so well, and among the people |
by whom he was dolized. | think it is es-
pecially so, and am sorry to find the di>-
tngush2d gentleman from Lee. opposing
the resolution on tho ground that il would
be a discrimination that would amount to
injustice to those who fell in defense OF
Southern soil, civil liberty and cOnstitu-
tional freedom. Sir, | honor the gentleman
for his love for the fallen heroes the unre
turning braves OF Mississippi, but in the
name of The Lost Cause in which they fell, |
their peaceful sleep should not be disturb
ed. The hero, patriot ald soldier crave no
greater boon than to sleep on the tield OF
glory where he poured Outhis blood as
libation upon the alter OF his country.
7 ere he yielded up his lite in defense of
principle, there his blood ran in the same
str cam. and there his body j. deposited in
the same deep pit with those who struggled
at his side; there the white winged guardian
angel of glory guards with sotemu round
the bVOuac of the dead and there he should
sleep uatil the end OF time, peace uly, plac-
idly, Sweetly sleep. Sir. the great dead past
with all its proud memories and glorious
hos hgyr in ~
Immortal grave, that flag under which Mis-
sisSippians were marshaled. led, fought,
bled died, and We're buried, must forever
lie in the grave, where the inScrutable de-
creeS of an Advise God has placed ii.
Those heroes, your fathers, your brothers,
and Your sons, who lavished their treas
ures and their blood, who in defense OF
their country rushed upon destruction on
hundred battiefields, whose bodies now lie re
posed beneath the conaecrated SOL ot"fameS
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 immortelles, for I'll tell you thai
until the last monument reared to constitn-
tional liberty shall have crumbled into duS
these bat tie fields are ever to remain as di- |
dactic emblems of a peoples forJituda, ami.
as the proudest, grande>t monuments OF
nation whose glory is imm ortal. Rob the
battle fields of the country of their dead
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 aud imperjsha-
BILE renown. Way down through the dis |
tant cycles of receding centuries, long alter |
the teeming, surging million who to-day |
live, and move, and have their being though |
out the grand arch OF this Union, shall have /
left this mundane sphere, and the places |
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more in time forever, men of every cline,
creed aud nationality VIII repair 10 the bat
tie fields of rhe South to learn there lesson
of uneXampled 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 ever ready to proclaim
The bright forever of their undying fame.
But here. Sir, it is proposed TO bring back
to M,ssisSippithe remains of one OF her most
diStinguis he'd sons. As has been said those
remains now lie in distant land, far from
the theater of his splendid career, in
grave scarcely ii ever visited by Missis
sippiau. 1t has been the custom OF nations
from time immemOrial to honor those OF
their sons who succeeded in writing their
names upon the lottiest raiters in flames
proud temple. 1t was a sublime custom OF
the Romans to burn the remains of their
dead heroes, and placing them in costly
urns believed that even
in their ashes lived their wonted fires"
Miss ssippi yearns for the possession of
the remains of John J. MeRea even as a
mother yearns for her lost babe. and the
convused lips of her dead son who sleeps
to-day in far off British Honduras appeal
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. and
l believe the people of the State will indorse |