The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-06-12
NO9


flowers. In the dark days OF Rome.
there was q law passed at the instance Of
Tribune 0ppius, prohibiting woman from
wearing costly aitire,ao that the revenue
for defence might be increased. The good
women Of tho South equally as patriotic
have proven themselves richest in tender
memories, reodiest to bring devotion to
an honored past and last to desert
fallen cause. Yes, you rose in 1861, by
your ministration TO the sick the wouud-
ed and the dying the true Pontif Of d
Commonwealth, and today 40 your
fairy hugor's twine these memorial
wreaths, we recognize a holicr affection
and more touching memory, than was
ever embodied in Ephesiau dome OF
5eaIptared urn, History teaches us that
there Is no earthly Immortality fcI the
dead except in the iuperislable keeping
Of written language. The marble pi !ala
lat up by Sesoslis to mark Lis colqaest
have dissolved into dust. The great
tumulus over the heroes Oh the plain Of
Marathon is almost gone. Tho slo1e
lion st the pass Of plernopylae, Gle
tyub5 Of Abraham, Aeuoa5 ana E0uulus
have aal persbel amil the iud.stiugui-A-
able wrecks OF mortality
Dn, le, ue express the hope that tho
monument which you now aa7s in COL
template. may, at an early day. DO
erected high, massive and pure like t4o
stainless heroes vAe viii sleep beneath
It's shadows, and ere itcrumylca u,olus.
the lives and doedslt comi4emor.aew
have been rauSrn tied 20 the uuyi. d ing
embrace of history. It viii have related
to postoli.y how our Confederate dead
fer four long yeas, bal.4d with IT,.
hraudisleJ weapon Of war. aud who
finally rocked themselves to sleep il ao
lsaden arms Of death, while singing die
patriotic lullaby
U, ho" sweet to die for such eouss.'
/ will teach poste1ty to ever hoaortlasa
patriotic mothers, "Gol bless tie name,
lis the first, last, sweetest G-riYv %, q
saxon tongue;" who, in 1861, bucE,ed
the gray Jacket of war around their hero
ic boys, bade them a sad farewell with
the grand parting injunction, ego. my
boy, with loyalty as o virtue. o4a ,hor~h
uawept by those VINO love you, yet re
member that the most precious tear
winch Heaven san nesto- is that winch
yedaws .4e uubunyI head Of patriouc
so- o-lier."
IIsr..rosl.AE alter rovi.r.nc the past
few years Of American history to come
home to the present,
.yh,a danger. rr,n,1.l o,.hf ba.ra,a
AM the star oI peace r't4lued.
at the close Of the civil var many were
As-l" 70 ezolalm i'll asoui1lug doubt,
'ean IT be that those men died ~ E'i..
ou' IA'1A dod 'hat there IS a- answer
.Ad instinct IL Southern hearts to-day
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'-A.- voice o. Vo| himself Ne aopa
.-e.'a he '21a decd IL over .-.-- I'D F".-.
f..',..' Sait in memory ol ;1e anthem,
-"l@ VINO !ell iA the sas4-a1 T-r, '-ley
.f- become lnm'rtai,' so have ,ue Con
ts.t-iafe soldiers who L1-y .h-i7 oaus#,
.'75 lA5H lives ana lost their property,
'I1 ""' guinea moral Fic'cFI Owe. IL
,'.'ls!". aScenuency, aud the battle
l'-.s anu Tue nonofsl u HIS o! Cemetery
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'4 '.'''u' 'D' 7l''s4' Oh rue dead dS'aaA,.-,
.l." p"S'lDS over We ian" Ai1aae5 ec-~
'-3i-' 'nG meadow ana Whispers iyT upon
'Ao IlSnt Wlnu' words oi wise ooHAoA 10
'Ao people. low No~n'lIn'iy alplJay4e
TO 'l'e 9o"Vn Is 'Nls 'ia'i""h, al" 10"
'Iu-"'ulIJ uoe7 II D'sye"~ l'e MAXIM
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