Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-05-21

tor awhile IRON the pTlSOn-nOuse VI
G faithful departed, will wonder forth
guard the noble band of martyrs who
e slumbering here in peace. Yes,
The dead shall guard the dead,
While the living o or them weep,
And the men whom Lee and Stonewall led,
The hearts that once together bled,
Shall here together sleep.
Muslc-Sweet Spirit Hear My Prayer.
EDWARD MARKS, ESQ,
ad the following poem, written fol
le occasion by Mrs. NJ. A. Townsend:
A POEM.
BY Mary ashley fo'cnsend.
to the Army Of Northern Virginia
New Orleans, May 10, 1881, on the occasion
Of the unyeiling OF Stonewall Jacksons statue
which surmounts the tomb built 70 receive tn
dead who fought under him.
Comrades, halt The field is chosen,
Meath the skies Of Southern May,
Where the Southern roses ripen,
We will bivouac to-day.
Here no foe will draw onr sabres
In the turbulence of war,
Nor will drum beat nor will bugle
Wake the old pain in a scar.
All is rest, and Calm--around us
Beautys smile and manhoods prime;
Scents Of spring, like ships, 90 sailing
Balmy seas OF summer time.
Flags of battle, hanging yonder
Fiutter not at strita's increase
On their pulses lie the fingers
Of the Great Physician-Peace.
In the marble camp before us
Silence PAGES to and fro
Spectre of the din of battles
Hard fought in the long ago.
While he marches, from the meadows,
Der the heights, around the curves,
Come the men of many combats-
Deaths Grand Army Of Reserves.
In the swift advancing columns
Many battle blazoned name,
While Stewart, Ewell, Hays and Asbby,
Bears the honor CROSS of fame.
Down the spectral line it flashes
Glorious symbol ofreward
Won when all the world was looking
Unto Lee and Beauregard.
From the wal. graves of Manassas,
Fredericksburg and Malvern Hill
Carricks Ford and Massanutton,
Fast the shadowy legions fill.
From the far of Rappahannock,
From the red fields of Cross Keys;
Gettysburg-the Wildernesses-
From defeats and victories.
Tired tr0Oper-weary marcher-
Grim and sturdy Cannoneer--
Veteran gray, and slender stripping,
Hasten to encamp them here.
From the mountain and the river,
From the city aOd the plain,
Sweeping down to join their Leader
SToNEwALL JACKSON once again.
There he stands alive in granite
by the hand Of genius made
Once again to rise before us.
Waiting for his "Old Brigade"
Observation-Disclosures Observation-Disclosures
King of men, and man Of God
Crystalized about his footsteps
Greatness marks the path he trod.
soldiers! Ye who fought with jackson
Through the days and nights Of strife;
Bringing from the field OF battle
But the bitter lees Of life;
Ye. whose lips have only tasted
Ashen apples from the fray;.
Every wound ye won beside him,
Knights We on the field to-day.
Army of our old Virginia
Would ye write legend here
That shall win from friend and foemen,
Honors reverential tear
Trace We then upon this granite
With imperishable pen,
Words that shout their own hozannas,
STONEwALL JACKSON AND HIS MEN
The poem was received with applaus
and when that which followed it's &C
clusion had subdued,
GEN. FITZHUGH LEE
was introduced as the orator of the da
and spoke as follows:
Mr.. President, Ladies and Gentlemen
Upon this holy eighteenth anniversary
the name of the people of the South,
behalf of Confederate soldiers and So
ors everywhere, we extend q hearth
welcome in the ceremonies held here
day to the wife and daughter Of the
lustrious soldier whose memory they
designed to perpetuate, and we M
cordially greet again the distinguish
citizen who was our cOmmander-in-chl
Elevated to the chief magistracy O.
people bound together in the same eau
he lifted himself to the dignity OF the
flee and filed it with a single view
the object for which it was created.
was ever true to himself and true to
interests Of his bleeding country. ;
rejoice to see him in our midst tod
with form as erect and soldierly as ev
and to hear that his mind, like the TT
ic sun, retains all its former size 9
brilliancy. Thrice welcome is Jetfer
Davis to the spot made sacred witt
monument to Stonewall Jackson. L
plause.]
And now, Confederate conrad
though l stand for the first time !
public capacity, beneath the blue 81
! that bend above you, and which cont
the sentinel stars that watch over
destiny of your people, and as | rise
speak to this vast concourse Of peopl
am painfully confronted with the we
ness of my powers and the magnitude
the occasion, am not dismayed
feel that / am in the house of my frie1
because | know | stand within the W
of the Crescent City, Of our own SUI
South and when l see your eyes refi
ing their friendly feelings back to m
and fancy / hear the music ofAuld L
Syn9 throbbing from the sympath
hearts of soldiers who stood defyiDg