The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-02-07

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then |, for one, would never lift finger
or utter word in favor of such
memorials But ] most emphatically
deny that there is any such
design, or that there will be any
such result A soldiers monument in
every city, town. and village OF the South
would have no political or sectional sig
nilicance now The interests of the
South now lie in the preservation OF the
Union. A. ii prOspers, 50 do we. To
sir up sectional strife would he blum
der on the part of the South. II would
be suicidal II would be equally 50 on
the part of the North, which fought four
years 10 maintain The Union. And were
il 10 encourage sectional slrife--the ten
dency of which is to weaken and disrupt
the Union--it would be to confess judg-
ment, for it would contradict the logic OF
he war, and if possible demonstrate its
absurdity.
sECTIONALI>M itLBrKED.
No true patriot, no gallant soldier is
ever found tanning the fires of sectional
animosily only demagOgues DO that;
only men who pander To the bascst pas
sous OF The basest people in The mistaken
lODe that there are enough of such peO-
pie 10 wait them into power on the wave
Of sectional passion To fOmcnt sectional
stiifc is not only to attack the unity of
the states, it is crime against Christian
civilization, against the God of peace and
lover of concord ! gratefully recognize
the fact that some OF the truest friends
Of the South are TO be found among
Northern statesmen and among those
who fought against MS i'm the Northern
army You had striking illustration of
this when al the unyeiling Of the Jackson
statue on Capitol Square a noble Senator
of "A Northern State was one Of the first
To- lay a wreath ON the pedestal OF he mon
ument YOU have il in the words Of "a
gallant citizen of Massachusetts when he
said he time may yet be when the
Northern as we'll as the Southern heart
will throb revcrently 10 the proud words
upon the Confederate monument at
Charleston, These dee6 t,r their StGte' DIS
What then is theusc of erecting monu-
menis 10 the Confederate dead OF what
use To- as is The lost cause II Is lost
emphalically lost hut does 10 follow that
what is lost should be forgotten We
say, truly, Jet the deal past bury lis dead
Yes, let us bury all that is really dead i'm
the past But there are some things in
the past that cannot die. and We don't
want 10 bury what is still living The
Confcderacy is dead, but the memories OF
thcmcn who died with and for il are NOT
dead; their yalor, their endurance, their
self sacrifice, their sublime devotion To
duty, these are not dead.
IMMORTALITY OF EXAMPLE.
The men are dead, but the examples of
the men who, with the courage OF their
holiest convictions maintained al The
risk of fortune and life, what they be
lievcd TO be their constitutional rights,
with the world in arms against them,
such examples have no faint of the
tomb upon them The men are dead,
mt the patriotism tina, dched danger ant
held life not dear in the defense Of hon
OF. home. and State sovereignty, and
which knilcd in their souls the qlench-
less fires of devotion 10 liberty, cannot
be wrapped in shroud, or orscrewed down
under "A coffin lid or committed TO the
grave.
The noble line of the ola Roman poet
comes back To u.--l line worthy tO be
inscribed over the gateway oi every Gem
ctery where the Confederate dead lie
buried" III jens prDpHri4 cum pltfNQHe
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