The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1879-06-18

UNWILLING OF MONUMENTS AND pEco.
RATION or REBEL GRAVES AT WIN
CHESTER, VIRGINIA, YESTERDAY.

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crate dead sad tie decoration of
graves took place Thursday after
noon at ;Sionewall Cemetery, Win
chester, Va. The procession was
large and marshaled by General Jo-
seph Z. Johnston, who was repeated
ly eheered along the line Of march.
The monument erected by the ladies
bears the following inscription:
ia memory # three huadred and
niuety-eight Virginia soldiers lying
under this ground, who fell in de-
Tense Of Constitutional liberty aud the
sovereignty of their State, from 1851
10 1861
The graves were decorated with
flowers and eyergreens, and marked
by the flags of S3uthern States. TIE
Confederate flag was also displayed,
but ia the adjoining National Gene
terry, the National flag was flying.
The speakers stand was draped with
the Confederate c%olors, white and
red, with mourning stripes Govern
or Holiday delivered a brief address,
in which be said:
"Wbateyer heart. burnings, or bick-
erings, or enmities, or strife exist will
be buried here, for this graveyard is,
and will remain, a common heritage
aud to Southern hearts a possession
forever The dead past is buried
here. Tnese noble men who have
died with or without a name have
not died 10 vain. This tribute to
them is not an empty and %unmeaning
show. la a little while it will be the
glory Of our common country. With
in sight, just eve yoEder fence, lie
the bodies Of thousands who fell up
on the same fields in the FeGersl.un-
form. Those were, doubt not, as
earnest as these, for they died by
each others hands. Think you that
it was in vain? God does not SO
work. TIE death of the hero is the
life of the State, just as the blood Of
the martyr is The life Of the church.
Those died for the rights Of the On
ion; these for the rights of the States.
rom the monuments erected over
either will one day spring an arch in
which the hopes and memories Of
both shall be interviewer with 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 Repub-
lie.
United States Senator Morgan
then delivered ca Grafton. He said
the rain had frightened the flowers
and that as storm after storm passed
over the Confederate States their
glory viii grow brighter. Theirs
was a fadeless memory, founded on
truth and justice. What they did
will never fade from recollection so
long as the people OF the United
States have n sincere regard for q
great cause. Those who lie here
died in the cause OF truth and justice.
II there were traitors in the South,
there were eight millions of them.
Every citizen of the South was his
own leader and supreme judge of his
duty, and whoever should point to
those graves and say they cover trail
tors resorts TO falsehood that cannot
be formulated into statements Of fact,
The glory Of the dead can never be
furnished by falsehood. The orator
then reeited points of the quarrel be-
tween the North and South, during
which be said it was the intention Of
the Northern people 10 compel the
South to emancipate their slaves,
which were held by Constitutional
right. The South had no option but
to fight or yield to the demand. They
feared the occurrence of such scenes
as had been enacted in Hayti and
San Domingo. He alluded in eulo-
CYSTIC terms of Lee, Jackson, and
Johnston as the true opponents Of the
principles Of the people Of Virginia
and of the South, aud Hill, Breckeu-
ridge, and Price, with hundreds of
others, we're accorded Il common glo.
ry in the Southern cause of justice
and truth, and in resisting the inya-
sion Of their country. What they did
was not the work Of treason He
complimented the ladies' for their
sympathies aud conduct daring the
war. He concluded by saying the
South had no quarrel with the Con-
stitution Of the United States. they
carried it with them in the conflict,
and for this posterity will give them
due credit. Brothers in blood, but
under different banners, all would ac-
cord they died for the right. The
principles represented by our flag, be
said, commanded allegiance as fully
as those who supported the Federal
arms. No sectional strife now dis
turbs our country. We all believe
that our form Of Government is the
best known of men and is founded
upon truth and justice, a Govern
ment under one Constitution and one
flag.
The town vas lively with soldiers
and other visitors, and bands in var
ious places played MY Maryland"
and Dixie" JEFF Davis vas not
present, private engagement prevent
inc his attendance