Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-05-17
NO. Al.

and fever patient Of the Mississippi the
West Point cadet, the lieutenant Of n
tillery, whose track was first blazed
through the burning sands ofold Mexico,
was your own glorious Commander,
Stonewall jackson! To-day, my coun-
trymen, his fills the world, and the un-
fettered winds that sweep over his grave
bear to every part Of the habitable globe
the memory of his virtuous life and the
universal sorrow felt for his untimely
death, Upon the second Of May, eigh-
teen years ago, another report was made
to Joe Hooker. This TIME the place was
the wilderness Of Spottsylvania county,.
Va. 1t told him that his comrade in
Mexico was in his right rear, and with
hostile foot cavalry too; that there
was blind panic.N and q great con-
fusion there. ESQ @. O. Howard report
ed, who commanded his right, that the
attorney generals department., as then
run by Devens, who commanded on
Towards right, was sadly telescoped
into and mixed up with the interior de
partment, which Schurz, who was next
was then running with to the interior;
that Schimmelfennigs and Krzyanowski
and Bushbecks and Steinwehrs, and
Wiederichs and the foreign allies there.
composing the Eleventh Federal Corps,
were also generally trying to get back
to their homes, even though they lay
across the oceans vast expanse. Alas
it was the last official report OF any
movements Of Stonewall Jackson.
Friendly bullets had been moulded BY
friendly hands; friendly eyes glanced
down the barrels of friendly muskets
friendly fingers pulled friendly triggers,
and the soul Of the great chieftain leaped
| from its earthly easement, never to re-
turn. Aye, there, right there On the 60.
| ~ ground Of Charlottesville, the grand
est battle, SO far as grand tactics and
strategy had place, that was ever direc-
ted by Robert E. Lee, Thomas Jonathan
Jackson furled his battle flag forever,
and entered into the everlasting JOY Of
| the kingdom which has no end. You
know his tattered, dusty ensigns no
longer wave over victorious fields. You
know, over his grave no trinmphal BAN
ners rise, but above it, yea, above it,
shall INCREASINGLY roll all the eternal
glory of the heavens" and by it shall
Hpass forever the grandly glorious pro-
cessons of the never ending seasons. "
Beating to the music Of their march are
the hearts Of his Louisiana soldiers, who
to-day gather around this emblematic
testimonial of their love for the heroic
soldier. When you, my comrades here
to-day, shall have answered to your H.
nal roll-call, the eyes of generations yet
unborn shall greet this good work Of
yours, and with inherited fire their eyes
shall flash when, touched by the wand
of memory, they are told they are the
descendants of the men who fought I'M
der and honored the living Jackson,
4 and who so testified to it as to leave to
| their posterity such an everlasting re-
membrance Of the dead hero.
Brave men meet here to-day. The roll
{ ofmusketry, the roar of cannon are ex-
changed for the rutfiing sound Of the
hutterings of the white wings at the
angel of peace. And while thank God
! for that. | can at the same time look
with heartfelt emotion upon the striking
scene which this picture presents, and
| which must bring a responsive echo III
the heart of every survivor. ] offer Up
praise for peace, while fear to-day the
, death cry of Jackson as it mingles with
| the victorious shouts of his men, when
Something down the soldiers cheek
washed off the stains of POWDER While
before me is the re- United States of AM
, ericaat this hour look behind me, and
picturing the past see the Confederate
! States. and / recall that, animated with
common principle lmbued with the
/ same spirit, united by one cause, inspir-
: ed by identical interest. the soldiers ol
: the Pelican State were found side by
side with those Of the Old Dominion,
: fighting in their hearts to preserve the
honor Of the people of the South.
{ shall therefore speak to you to-day as .
e Confederate soldier--as one who, looking
r back over the mighty past with it,
n trials and triumphs, and thinking ofthe
e record made'by the South for courage
/ GUS devotion to principle, finds naught
in memory's vase but pride, and Wit
a can truthfully exclaim. in the glowing
! words of the Irish patriot: .'Do you
g ask me, my lords, if in my Lifetime
IS have thought any treason or done an.
d crime which should cali to my cheek az
Q stand alone here the hot blush of sham,
d or the paleness of fear, though stoot
# by my grave to receive my death blow
e Before God and mankind | would an
i swer YOU, Now These feelings are re
e echoed in your breasts and alone com
O mand the respect OF our late antagonists
IS A Federal officer, bitter in war, brillian
n in peace, recently said over the grave
v of his soldiers: ''In our enumeration O
n our dead or in honoring our living sol
e diers, we are making neither reproacl
d nor criticism on those who fought agains
If us. We appreciate their devotion to til
" cause for which they warred-we homo
l. their bravery. admire their fortituds
t; and claim no small part Of the glor
er they acquired on the battle field by a
lie their soldierly qualities, because they al
" Americans and bone of our bone"
o, The hour that marks the Norther
j. people marching up to these sentimen'
n will find that this great Republic is 9
le last, what our forefathers intended
of should be--the glory of America and
90, | ,,lass;,,1r Tn buY,aoitv The, will III