Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-11
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New Orleans Plcayune.
The ex-President, tall and unbent
by age, but with certain signs Of
lessening vigor, rose in his place at
the table and amid deafening plau-
dts and in ringing voice and
with his accustomed dignity of man.
ner said
brethren of a cause not lost but
sleeping, Ii makes me happy to be
with you this day. Your history is
written in my heart, your deeds are
craven on the tablets of the history
of heroes. 1t is not, however, the
recollection of these great deeds that
gives me most pleasure but IL is the
knowledge that they were wrought
In behalf of grand principles that
they are the very foundations of
the American union--states rights
and self-government. 1t is this
knowledge that gives me the most
pleasure.
You were not conquered but
overborne by vast odds and superior
physical force. You never hesita-
ted when you marched to the as
sault, but attacked the force in front
of you however great its numbers.
Stonewall Jackson had come like an
avalanche in the valley of Virginia,
encountering numerous armies
greater than his own, and sweeping
them away in defeat. That was the
history of the army of northern
Virginia.
Lee and Jackson, its great chiefs,
made a combination which had
never been surpassed. With Lee
to plan and jackson to strike, the
army had been invincible, and well
had Lee said when jackson had fall
len that he had lost his right arm.
Jackson had fallen in the hour of
victory by the hands of his own
friends. He fell only before his
own conquering troops. You have
raised for him a lofty monument
and you have done it nobly.
Louisiana had hero, wise i'm
council, glorious in arms. He fell
on victorious battlefield and sleeps
III distant State. To him Louisi-
ana owes a monument. Albert
Sidney Johnston, the first COM
mander of the army of Tennessee,
was one of the heroes of the confed-
eracy, the peer of chiefs in his own
or any day. i knew him and Lee
well, and even at the very beginning
of their career in the army.
Jackson, did not know before
the war, but when 1 came to know
him / loved and valued him with
Lee and Albert Sidney Johnston.
remember jackson after the battle
of Malvern Hill, when he galloped
up, saying: 1.-THE enemy are gone,
but let us take their track and fol-
low them" This was his ruling
idea, to push an adventure with his
wonderful energy and unfailing de-
termination.
The first battalion of artillery fur
nished to the confederacy was from
Louisiana. ] remember it well and
saw and felt its wonderful value at
Manassas. 1t is represented here
tonight, and now thank its men,
bers for their magnificent services.
Brothers, you have endured all
the fatigues of many campaigns and
the dangers of hundred battle
fields. You remember how, amid
the tolls and hardships of those try
ing times, comrade gave you Il
piece of bread or a draught of wa
ter from his canteen. There are no
ties like those which grow up amid
such scenes, and you are indeed
brothers.
You have written your record,
you have done your duty. The
principles you then asserted are as
necessary for the preservation Of
the American union as they We're
when you struck for them, and the
existence of the best government
the world ever saw, the American
union, is still indissolubly bound up
in the principles for which you
fought. Be still ever ready to fight
for this union, as / would be will
ing TO unsheath my sword for il.
| have no regrets for the past for it
involves these principles.
III you suffered for your principles
and lost all in war save honor you
still preserved that, and you came
from great war with your hands
unstained by plunder.
This is your record and thank
God for it."