The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1888-11-08

Texas Far, at Dallas, where on Saturday
he addressed 90 GEO people, his spec oh be-
ing in all respects he finest effort Of the
kind heard for many years. 1t WAS largely
made up of commercial and statistical
matter but of absorbing interest through
out, and its concluding references were
touchingy beautiful. We quote as fol-
lows:
NOBLE TRIBUTE
What the negro? This of him. l want no
better friend than the black hoy who was
raised mp by my side, and who is now trudying
patiently with downcast eyes and shamb bling
| figure through his lowly way in life. ! want
10 sWeeter III usic than the grooming of my old
NANNY, now dead and gone to rest as
heard it when she ED me- in her loving arms
and bending her old black face above stole
| the cares fl my brain, and led me smil ng
into seep. ! want no l uer soul than thai
which moved the trusty save. who for four
| years while my fatht r fought with the armies
! that barr ed his freedom, slept every night at
my mothers chamber door. holding her and
! her children as safe as If her husband stood
| guard. and ready to lay down his humble life
| on her thre shOld. History has parallel
| the faith kept by the negro in the south during
| the war. often 800 negroes 10 ~ single white
man, and yet through these dusky throngs the
women and children walked in safety. and the
unprotected homes 1esit d in peace. Unmar-
| shalled, the black hattaIlions moved patiently
| to the fields in the morning TO feed the armies
! LDetr luleneSS would have starved, and at night
gather anxi0usly at the big house to 'shear the
news from MAJ ster," though conscious that his
victory made their chains enduring. Every
where humble anu kindly. The body guard of
| the helpless. he rough con panon of the lit
| tie ones. The ohservant friend. The silent
sentry in his lowy can1n. The shrewd coun-
sellor. And when the dead came home,
mourner at the open grave. A Thousand to, Oh
| es would have disbanded every SouIhern army
| but not lighted When the master
going to a war III which slavery was involved
| said to his slave, ~ leave my home and loved
n in van ahD
man and master stood disclosed. And when
| the slave held that charge sacred through storm
and tenn alton, he gave new meaning to faith
and 10y atty. rejoice that when freedom came
to him after years of waiting, 1t all the
the shackles tell were stainless n single crime
against the helpless ones contided to his care
| The South, under the rapid diversifcation of
crops ana Investigation of indus1 ries is Jh ILL
| ing with new life. AS this new prosnerity
comes to Us, it will bring sweeter thought to
me, and TO y ou my countrymen, am sure, that
| 1T ADDS not Only to the comfort and happiness
| Of our neighbors. hut that it makes broader the
glory. ana dee per the majesty, md lore endur-
| Ing the strength or the union which reigns SUI
preme in our hearts, In this republic OF ours
| is lodged the hope of free government on earth
Here God has ested the ark of his covenant
with the sons of men. Let us-once estranged
and thereby closer bound-let us soar above ali
provincial pride, and md our deeper inspira-
lions in gathering the fullest sheaVes into the
harvest, and standing the staunchest AID most
devoted OF its sons as it lights the path and
makes clear the way through which ali the peo-
pie OF this earth shall come in Gods appointed
time.
A few words for the young men of Texas I
am glad thatI can speak to them all. Men, es-
peciaily young men, look back for their inspi-
ration TO What is best in their traditions Their
mOpy lac cast spartan sentiment in heroic mould
anu sustained Spartan arms for more than a
century. Ihermopylte had Survivors to tell the
story OF its defeat. The Alamo had n me- Tho
volceless it shall speak from ITS dumb walls
Liberty cried out to Texas as God called from
the clouds unto Moses. Bowie and Tanning
| though DEAD. still live. Their voices rang above
the ain OF Goalid and the glory of San Jacinto,
ed w hp
who rejo1ced at the birth of Texas Independ-
ence. 1t is the spirit of The Alamo that moved
ABOVE the Texas soldiers as they charged like
dem1gods through a Thousand battleheIds and
it is The spiritof the Alamo that Will spers from
their graves held in every State of the Union,
enobnng their dust, their soil, that was Grim
soned with their blood.
In this spirit of this inspiration and in the
thrill OF the amazing growth that surround
you. my young friends, Ii will be strange if the
young men OF Texas do not carry the Lone Star
| into the heart OF the struggle. The South needs
her Sons 10 day more than when she summoned
them TO the forum TO maintain her political SUI
premacy, more than when the Du.le called
EN- TO the field to defend issues put to the ar
bitrament OF the sword Her old body is IN
stlnct with appeal calling on MS TO come and
! give her fuller independence than She ever
sought in field aud forum. 1t is ours TO show
| that as she prospereu with slaves she shall
prosper still more with treemen; ours to see
| that from I'll : lists she entered in poverty she
| shall emerge into prosperity; ours 10 carry The
| transce nding traditio OIL The old south from
which none OF lis can i'll honor in reverence
| shall we TALL? Shall the blood of the old SouIh
the best strain that ever uplifteu human en-
deavol-that ran like water at dutys call and
| never stained where 1t Ioucheu-shalI this
| blood that pours into our Veins through a cen.
| fury luminous with achievement, for The first
| time falter and be driven back from irresoIate
| heat, when The Old south, that leu US a better
| heritage ill inanllness and coulag. than in
broad and rich acres, calls us settle the
I! problems?
| a soldier lay wounded on hard fought field
the roar Ut battle had died away. and rested
| III the deadly stiffness of its aftermath Nnt
| ID sound heai az he lay there, soreIy srlIt.
ten sbeechless, but The shrek OF the W,,It,t
| ed aud The sigh OF the dying SOUL AS it escaned
| from the tulnult OF earln Into The uLsp.akah
peace Of the stars. off over the field Ilicke cred
! the lanterns OF the surgeons with Inc Inter
bearers; searching that they might take away
/ those whose lives could be saved ana leave in
| sorrow those VINO were doo1ncd ae with
| pleading through The darkness. TINS u,;.r
| soluier watched. unable 10 tuin speak as the
| Ian tel gi eW t last the light ii SHED
in his face, and the Se, II, Win klnu Y face
| bent over him, hesiIated moment snotk mis-
| head and was gunt, leaving The puUr 1rIiog
alone with death he watcl ed in .,;ltIent .ann~
| as they went Oh from one part OF the field 10
| another As they came back tie surgeon bent
over him again, 81 be Iieve il this poor fellow
| lives 10 sundown to- morrow he will get we'll
| And again leaving HIM, these words fell into
Ills lips, I'll he but lives TIL sund ,wn, he will
get Well He turf Ell Ills Weary head To The
east and watcht d iot The coming sun AT last
| the stars Went uui, the east titmbled with Ia
dance. the sun. slowly lifting aLuve the
| hon lion, tnged his pai.d face with flame. lie
watch, u IL I.ciI by .Dch us ii Iutu slowly IN
| the feave He thought Of die lie hopes .nu
| ambitious. It's sweetness a.-d las Iaplur. s. and
he fol Titled MS soul against despair uuLIl The
SUI had reached hi nuon. IL sIopru down liz
| slow scent, al his HE was eubllg away and
| his heat WAS atttilng lie ne, Il If 81 rn..r
ulalila To make hlIus aud tn ugsie n-
Ill the end vi the day had couie. Tie Sthous hi
, his far oil home lie blessed n,t- r.sI,,.s IN
| tranoui peace with The roses climbing To us
| door, ana III, tIees Whispering u ITS wIudow
| and dczins III the sunshine, ne olphald aud
| the It'll lie brook IunAlnS IKE sllver thread
| through the iiir. II.
III live iii shutdown win see IL again.
will walk dow II The siiauS Ian. viii open the
| battered gate, and The knocking Dild shall call
| to me from the orchard, and will urink again
| from the Old NOISY spring.
Ana he thought of the wife who had come
| from the neighDoring tarm house and put her
| hand shyly in h $ aud brought sw, elness to his
| life ana hight TO his home.
cit live till shutdown shall look once more
| into her deep and loving eyes and press her
brown head once more to my aching breast"
And he thought of the old father, patient in |
prayer. bending lower and lower every day nm
der his load of sorrow and old age
.:lf Put live Till sGndown l Shall see him |
body, and his hands shall rest upon nv head
Whine the indispensable healing OF his blessing
falls into my heart"
And Tie thought of the little children that |
Giant ed on his knees and tangled their little
hands into his heartstrlngs, making TO him |
such music as the world saan not equal or !
heav surpass.
at live till shutdown they Shall again find !
my parched lips with their warm mouths and |
their little fingers shall run once mole over my
face
And then the thought of his old mother, who
gathered these children ABOUT her and Dreu1 he'd
her old heart afresh in their brightness and at
tuned her old lips aneW to their prattle that She
might live tiliher big boy game home. -
IF ! live TILL sundUWh | Will see her again, |
and will rest my head at my old place on her |
knees, and weep away all memory nf this des
-olate night" ana the Son OF God, who had |
hand that had been nailed to the cross on ebb. |
ing life and held ON the staunch until the sun |
went down and the stars came out and shown |
down in the brave man heart and blurred in |
his sistening yes and the lanterns OF The SUR
y1ous came and he taken from death to |
life
The world is battlefield strewn with the |
wrecks OF government and Institutions, ofthe- |
cries and Of faiths that have gone down in the |
rayages of years. On this field lies the South
sowni with problems. Upon the field swings the |
lanterns of God. Amid this carnage walks the |
Great Phys ician over the South he bends
.slf We hui live until to-Inorrow's sundown we
shall endure MY cou3itrymen Let us for her
sake turf. our faces to the east and watch as
Inc soldier watched for rhe coming SUM- Let us
staunch the wounds anq hold steadiast. The
SIM mounts the Skies. AS 1T descelds to iIs,
minister TO her and stand constant ather side
for the sake Of hi children, and of generati jobs
Unborn that shall su fer if she fails. And when
The sim has gone down and the day of her pro-
baton had ended, and thc STATS have failed her
heart the lanterns shall be SWING oyer the
field and the Greab Physician shall lead her up
from trouble into content; from suffering into
peace: from death INTO life. Let every man
here pl edge himself in this high and ardent
hour, as pledge myself and the boy that shall
follow me- every man himself and his son.
baud to hand and heart to heart that In deah