The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-06-07


by GOVERNOR noILIDAY-oRArIoN BY
SPENCER @. JONES.
Especial telegram to the DispatchI
WINCHESTER, June 5.-Tbe monument TO
the Maryland dead buried In Stonewall
Cemetery was unveiled to-day. An extra
ordinary crowd Of country and townspeo-
pie met the special train Of soldiers and
citizens from Baltimore at the depot. Gov
ern Holiday delivered an address OF well
come, as follows:
Citizens and Citizen. Soldiers of Maryland I.
You have come to pay tribute TO the me.
mory OF the sons OF Maryland who died in
the Confederate war and now lie buried
here. They fell side by side with our own
soldiers on Virginia soil, and when the strife
was ended our people gathered the remains
OF all with tenderest care and buried them
In yoDder cemetery. In the spriDg-time OF
every year, on the anniversary OF the death
Of one OF Virginia's heroes, our mairons
and maidens and children have strewn their
graves with flowers, praying that their sis
tiers from above might catch the beauty and
fragrance ss they rise, aud weave them into
garlands with which to crown the spirits OF
the brave.
We bid You, one and all, a most cordial
welcome to our homes and hearts. This is
your day: to be remembered in the future
years by the monument you build. Wewill
follow you in your. holy work, and stand
around to pour out upon 1t our gentlest
sympathy and love. ! make bold to pro-
mise, that as we cherished the men by whose
side we slept, and watched, and fought on
many fields and through many dark ard
bloody scenes, and a. We have collected and
guarded their remains, so will we and
those who shall ill our places in the coming
time protect this monument from vandal
hands, and forever keep their names and
memory green.
Citations and ties TO bind them. History has
shown how our futhcrs were united, and
how their hopes and aims were one. Com.
MERGE has bound us together with iron
chains. Social intercourse and the more
lasting and sweeter cords OF domestic union
have made the life OF the two States 10 flow
in many common stream; and now we
come 10 weld another link, which by wise
decree is one Of the most subtle and far
reachi0g that can unite the human family,
and has held among all peoples and tribes
since Abraham bought the cave OF Mach
peIah wherein TO bury bis beloved dead.
But why should such vast crowds assem-
BILE and from such great distances, every
heart beating with the same impulse? 1t is
not hard to tell. The men whom you thus
honor left their homes, to which they were
no more TO return, in their country'S cause.
Religion or patriotism alone could impel
movement so widespread and profound, and
the annals of the four-years' Confederate
war present a sef-aDnegatlon and heroism
which has few parallels in the worlds his
tory.
That is~a shallow blunder. prompted by
ignorance or malice, which finds only rebel
lion and treason in struggle which went to
the very sources OF society, and for which
men surrendered their fortunes and their
lives. Ont Of that struggle good must
spring. Those who engaged in ii were
worthy OF any cause, and on either side il
they did not obtain success, by their unself-
isb devotion they deserved it. They were
honest and brave, and from their mutual
sufierings must come that greatness which
will be the heritage OF the race.
Patriotism is not a feeble and a sicky
growth. There is no power like II save re-
Iigious faith. 1t flourishes amid the storm.
1t grows more vigorous behind the heaviest
prison bars, AMI upon the bloodiest fields OF
battle. It is unselisb, and thinks alone OF
the welfare OF the Father-lsnd. 1t survives
the saddest tide Of fortune and the bitterest
vicssilude Of time. 1t may he crushed, but
il reyives changing its views OF what may
be for its country's good, 1t ever bears that
country on its soul, and in the oitiest aspi-
ration for its glory, as the Phoenix spring
Ing from its own ashes, 1t scatters be1efac-
tions on the world, like "feathers from its
spicy nest"
All Of us here to-day claim to be inspired
with its genius. We will go now and dedi-
cate the monument TO the memory OF our
hOnored brothers. And as we stand with
uncovered heads about their graves, not de-
flaming the cause for which they so nob'y
fell, we will remember the high and holy
spirit which moved them in the hour OF
death, and with our faces to the sky we will
pray that it NAV survive to us, that we may
keep our pIighted faith and build their
words and works into the glorious fabric OF
the Republics life.
People OF Maryland, we give you cordial
greeting, and bid you welcome to the soil
and hospitality OF Virgins and we beg to
Join you in the tribute 10 your heroic dead
The procession formed on Market street,
and moved in the following order: Chief
Marshal-Msjor -Gener Trlmbe-and as
sistants; first Observation-Disclosures General
Herbert and staff; Fifth Maryland regi-
ment; TowsOn Guards and Bond Guards;
Maryland Society OF Army and Navy OF
Confederate States; Murray Association and
Maryland Line; orator OF tue day and in
vited guests In carriges; second division
Virginia, chief marshal and aids battery OF
artillery; infantry. On the procession en-
tering the cemetery minute guns were fired.
The monument was unveiled by Mrs.
StOnewal Jackson and daughter. 1t is
pedestal, on which a Confederate soldier,
armed and equipped for service, stands
facing the west. In bas-relief at the foot
OF the statue is the seal OF the State
and the motto, "Fstti Maschii, Pa
role Femme MANLY Deeds and WOmanly
Words. The face of the pedestal bears
the inscriptions: maryland To the
Memory OF her Sons who Fell on Virginia's
Soil": "Manassas, 1S6l-Appomattox,
1861" and the legends, " Unheralded, I'm
organized, Unarmed-They Came for Con-
science. Sake and Died for Right !" "Alike
10 Blood, alike in Faith, they Sleep alike the
Last Sleep of the Brave"
The Grafton was delivered by Spencer &.
Jones, clerk Of the Court OF Appeals OF
Maryland.
Military Trip Contemplated.
New YORK, June 5.-The Seventh New
York regiment contemplate visit to At
lanta, Ca, next October to attend the cere-
mony OF laying the cornerstone OF the
8. Memorial Army" to be built by the Gate
n. - hot in n