The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-11-15

are made known, and be judged |
upon the record made in this life. |
He seemed to live continually as in |
view of that end and | doubt not
that the God whom he worshipped, |
and who had given him the grace |
and the courage to bear the ills and
the trials that he had here so pa
tiently and heroically, that his char
acter only shone out the more radi-
antly, as the darkness and the
clouds gathered the more heavily
over his pathway, had given him a
home where he is free from those
trials; that He took him away from
the hot conflicts that were raging
around him here to a home of eter-
nal peace, there.
l never knew a man who amid all
the severe tests to which the sol
diers were subjected during all of
those years, showed a more wonder
full self-control or 50 uniformly
kind, gentle and sympathetic a ma
ture, whether amid the quiet, the
more &C. i've, or the stormy scenes,
when the pillows OF civil sJrife were
surging furiously around, he always
exhibited those noble traits, and
both his words and his actions
showed that he relied with implicit
trust on him who rules both the
calm and The storm, and the only
sought to do his duty and leave the
result with him, feeling conf lent
that it would all work out Alright.
And L think this audience will
agree with me, when | say that he
who could, with the countless prov
ocations and trials that he had
through all of those vars, fight
each days battle successfully and
have his life radiant and beautiful
all the while, was nothing less than
christian hero, which you will adj
NIT is the highest type of heroism.
We were singulany unfortunate
in the field officers of our. regiment
In 1864. Our co.onel, 1t. colonel
and major were all killed on the
battlefield in the Georgia campaign.
Each fell at his post in the active
discharge of his duty, after having
made records of which their friends
may ever be proud, and gained the
warmest attachment of those in
their command, and their very
ashes are sacred to US.
And besides these, there are
host of gallant ones who fell at
their post lighting for their cause,
and sleep in nameless graves on ev-
cry battlefield from the first to the
last battle of the war. Would it
were so that we could erect monu-
ment over the remains of each one
of them, showing the future gener-
ations the spots where our heroes
rest, and pointing to heaven where
many of their bright spirits have
flown. Duty to ourselves as well as
to them, it would seem would
cause US to give some marked tes-
timonials of our appreciation of
their services and their lives. For
Whatever was the result of the
struggle, we owe them as much as
if it had been successful, and we
should give some token of our kind
remembrance.
Who can look on those silent
mounds that are scattered all over
our south land and cay that the
slumberers who rest in them did
not do their duty? Those graves
themselves are the mute but elo-
quent witnesses that tell us that
theyfwere faithful to their trust,
and we earnestly endorse the SEN
timent that there is nothing posi-
BILE to the human soul greater than
simple faithfulness, and they were
faithful unto deBth to their cause.
Admit that they were mistaken,
if you please, and if so still it
should detract nothing from the
glory and the need of praise to |
which they are entitled, and their
names and their deeis of haroism
ought to be kept fresh and green in
the hearts of their countrymen, and
handed down the ages, that the
world may know and be bene fitted
by those exhibitions of true cour-
age and faithfulness to duty, that
has been seldom equaled and never
surpassed in any age or country.
But now we are grateful that all
these unhappy scenes are past. The
former foes are now friends. The
smoke of battle has long since
blown away, and the sad remind
ers of that unfortunate struggle are
fast disappearing from view,
and peace mas come and. has
spread her bright !iwfngs cover all
this broad land, and with her boun-
teous hand she is lavishing her
gifts upon us in rich profusion and
our people are graspihg them with
eager hand. We earnestly pray
heaven that she may make this
land her eternal abiding place, and
may she continue to crown US with
all her rich blessings, and may our
people appreciate them and pre-
serve the government under which
we enjoy them, and afar down the
ages may the increased millions
that shall inhabit this land adopt, as {
we do, unitedly the sentiment of
the poet.
"Great God, we thank Thee for this home 8
This Loul teoIs biEthland of the free, c
Where wsadeiers from afar my come
And breath the air Of liberty. =
Still may her flowers untampled spring,
Der harVestwRve, her cities rise, q
And yet till time shall fold her wing,
Remain esrth's loveliest paradise.