The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-06-13
MEMORIAL MONUMENTS.

The unwilling oftwo monuments cree
ted to the memory of the Confederate
dead, took place at Stonewall Cemetery,
near Winchester, Va, last Friday. The
telegraphic reports of what Was said and
done was as follows:
The monument erected by ladies bears
the following inscription:
In memory of 1913 Virginia soldiers
lying under this ground, who fell in de-
fence of constitutional liberty and the
sovereignty of their States, from 1861 To
1866"
The graves were decorated with flowers
and evergreens, and marked with the
flags of the Southern States. The Con-
federate flag was also displayed, but in
the adjoining National Cemetery the
national flag was flying. The speakers
stand was draped with the Confederate
coIors, white and red, with mourning
stripes.
Governor Holiday delivered brief
address, in which he said "Whatever
heartburnings. or chickering's, or enmities,
or strife, it will be buried here, for this
graveyard is and will remain q common
heritage, and, to Southern hearts, a pos
session for ever The dead past is buried
here. Those noble men who have died
with or without name have not died IN
vain. This tribute to them is not an
empty and unmeaning show. In little
while it will be the glory of our common
country. Within sight, just over yOnder
fence lie bodies of thousands who fell
upon those same fields in the Federal
uniform. Those were, l doubt not, as
earnest as these. for they died by each
others hand. Think you that it was in
vain? God does not 20 work. The death
of the hero is the life of the state, just as
the blood of the martyr is the seed Of the
church. Those died for the rights of the
Union; these for the rights of the States.
From monuments erected over either
will one day spring An arch in which the
hopes and memories of both shall be to-
terwoven with the golden threads Of
Gods eternal love and truth, and on
which the eyes of the people shall ever
read how individual rights and local
government can live in sweet harmony
with the central power and glory of the
great republic"
United States Senator Morgan then
delivered IN Grafton. He said the rain
had frightened the flowers, and that as
storm after storm passes over the C0nfed-
crate States, their glory will grow bright.
er. Theirs was fadeless memory founded
on truth and justice. What they did
will never fade from recollection 20 long
As the people Of the Uuited States have
q sincere regard for the great cause of
truth and Justice. If there were traitors
in the South there were 8, 0O0, 900 of them.
Every citizen of the South was his own
leader, and the supreme judge Of his duty
and whoever should point to those graves
and say they cover traitors, resorts to
falseho0d that cannot be formulated into
statements of facts. The glory of the
dead can never be furnished by falsebood
The orator then recited points of the
quarrel between the North and South,
during which he said it was the intention
of the Northern people 70 compel the
South to emancipate their slaves, which
were held by constitutional right. The
South had no option but to fight or TO
yield to the demand. They feared the
occurance Of such scenes as had been
acted in Hayti and San Domingo. He
alluded in eulogistic terms 70 Lee, Jack.
son and Johnson - the true opponents Of
the principles Of the people Of Virginia
and of the South, and Hill, Breckenridge
and Price. with hundreds ofothers, were
accorded common glory in the South
ern cause of justice and truth, and in
resisting the invasion of their country.
What they did was not the work of de-
fusion or OF treason. He complimented
the ladies for their sympathy and con-
duct during the var.