The National tribune., 1883-03-01
TALL DRAGGING.
COnfederates Rcafirming Their Faith and Boosting
of Their ExpiOtS.


The Society of the Army and Navy of the
Confederate States in Maryland celebrated
Washingtons Birthday at Baltimore with a
banquet, preceded by lecture on "Jackson's
campaign against Pope III August, 1862 and
the second battle of Manassas" by Gen. Jubal
A. Early, of Virginia. His peroratiOn was as
follows:
And now, my comrades, when called upon for
defense justification of the cause in which you
We're enlisted. you can point proudly and conf
IDENTIFY 20 the characters of the great leaders whom
You followed Lee aud Jackson, for y0ur complete
Vin,ication. When the captive lsraclitcs sat down
by the rivers of Babylon and wcpt. the sacred
P-llrnist put into their mouths the following Ian
gUagC: If forget thee . Jerusalem, let my right
hand forget her cunning. If i do not remember
thee let my tongue cle;'ve TO the roof of my mouth
if prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy"
trust that every faithful soldier of the Army of
Northern Virginia is ready to cxclaim with me: :
IF | ever disown. ropudiatc or apologize for the
cause for which Lee fought and jackson dled, let
the ighning- of Heaven blast me, and The scorn of
all good men and true women be my portion"
The audience" says the Baltimore SHR, in
its report of the lecture, was in Il sympathetic
mood aud vigorously appIaudcd Gen. Eary's
humorous sallieS and quaint sarCaSms at the
expense Of Pope. His allusions 30 the part
played by Marylandcrs at Cedar Run was
warnly welcomed and when in this and other
connections the names of Windcr Trimhle,
Johnson, Andrews Brown, Dement, or Pcgram
were mentioned the applause was redoublcd.
When at the close Of his lecture the General
made his confession of unabated faith in the
righteousness of the Confederate cause, and his
Discrimination ever to 'disown, rcpudiate or
apologize for it, the hall 1oarcd with wild
cnccrS, which, coming largely from his former
comrades in arms reminded the hearer of
that inarticulate battle-cry with which the
COntcderatcS were won't 10 advance to the
charge a score of years ago. Gen. Wade llamp-
ton was on the stage, and mention of his name
was loudly appaudcd'
At the banquet, which followed, Gen. J. Il.
Trmble was one of the speakers He INDUCED
in the following hraggadoco:
The only occasions when the Confederate infantry
could not surpass the Fcdcras in marching
those when the lattcr going TO the rear
The speaker said he had often wondered mt the
facility the Fclcrals had of getting away from the
CuntrdCratcS hut he supposed IL was because they
went in light marching order" without KNAPP
saciss, muSlcts or ovcrcoatS. If any one doubted
the superiority of the Southern soldier, let him
suppose the relative numbers reversed, and then
ask what would have been the result. Would the
ablcSt and boidcSt of the Federal generals have
been rash enough to have hurled 5000 OF their
best men against Lee in command of 10000 South
ern infantry" If they had done so, who can doubt
what the result would have been"
After the battles around Richmond Gen. Trimble
said 10 Gen. Lee that with 20,nD Niarylanders he
could march to New York.
Bieut.-Col. Clement SulIivanc responded to
the toast Our Cavalry" He said:
hsn"t the Confederate survivors of the late bloody
struggle between the States who are ashamed of
their sleeping comrades of the cause in which
they fell. Theirs acts NOT tO he excused. but
UppiauGCd; not To he par,loned, but admired. And
il l. not III this company that will condcscend to
Nndi"Ite deeds that the latest pnaterty Will revere,
and which arc calculated Ia cnkmdic i'll the hearts
OF unborn millions the holy enthusiasm Of free
dom