Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-12-25


To them l make no appeal, for their hearts
ever beat in unison with all that is true, all
that Is beautiful, and all that is good.
Let rs, then, take such steps as may be
necessary to show, not in words only, but
in act and deed as we'll, the sincerity of our
desire to be trusted with watch ard ward
over our honored dead as he sleeps crowned
with the reverence and the love of his poo
pie.
$50 sleep the brave who sink to rest,
By all their countrys wishes blest;
By fairy hands their knell is ruDg,
BY forms unseen th cir dirge is sung,
There Honor comes, pilgrim gray,
To deck the turf that wraps their clay;
And Freedom shall awhile repair
To dwell, a weeping hermit. there"
At the conclusion of Major Stringfelow's
remarks, he was approached by number
of gentlemen, and heartily congratulated on
his eloquent and beautiful Grafton.
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED.
General Peyton Wise, chairman of the
committee on resolutions, spoke as follows:
Mr. Chairman.-Iu presenting these reso-
buttons, desire on behalf of the committee
to say that while they may lack in the grace
of expression, they do not fail, and we did
not intend that they should, in the fire of
devotion.
TOT LILO TobL anu lOT uyooli l. WILL To say
now, as please God, shall say with my
latest breath, that the people of Jefferson
Davis are my people, aud his God is my
God That people produced in him, for he
was of them as we'll as in them strong.
sturdy, earnest, honest man. That God
made him what some one with reverence
aud praise has said that Christ was true
gentleman.
His remains that may be, and, as We pray
will be, consigned to us, will inevitably grow
to be dust. Any monument which we may
rear to him will certainly crumble into ruin,
but the ideal he has furnished shall stand,
armed cap-a pie, forever the impregnable
defence of the liberties of his people. All
hail to it! We greet it for the glad coming
time as for ourselves.
Like a ripe oak in the stiffness of the
forest great man has fallen. Jefferson
Davis, of Mississipp-laureIed officer in
the army. Secretary of War, Senator of
the United States, and late President Of the
Confederate States-having added the
crownipg grace of Christian life to the
sturdy strength of his natural manhood,
has been gathered to his fathers.
He had not merely been the representa-
tive OF the cause of the Southern people;
he not only when this failed took our
burdens upon him and suffered in Our
stead, but he was the type of whatever is
best and truest in the Southern character,
of its undying love of liberty, it's unswerv-
ing devotion to Law and order, its uncom-
promising adherence to principle, it's gentle
ness and gallautry, its simplicity and good
faith, and its chivslrous defense of women
and children and of whatever is weak
against whatever is strong
Wo o;tizapa Of RinhpoO in m rS m aat
ing assembled, come, therefore, tonight
lovingly and earnestly, not to bury. but to
praise him; not simply to mourn him, but
to make memorials of him and to rejoice
that God give him to US for 40 example
and an inspiration forever. And we come,
too, without apology, but without defiance,
with affectionate regards for orr fellow
citizens everywhere, but with special love
for him, to commend his character to all
America as one to be reverentially pom
dered. and which in the special respect of
stern fidelity to honest convictions is alto
gether admirable and glorious.
With these sentiments, and proud and
grateful to have them in Us, we resolve:
!. That as Richmond was the capital of
the Confederate States and tho place where
his high manhood and craftsmanship, his
stainless probity and glad self-sacrifice for
the Southern people were most copspicu
ously illustrated, Richmond, on behalf of
all the Southern people, should be the spot
where his remains shall DO tendery
guarded, aud where statue (now gladly
pledged), rising above them, shall teach to
Southern youth that not worldly success,
but duty done at every hazard, upon every
field, and the being every inch man in
evil report as in good report, through all
the suffering of the body ard the mind, are
the real goals of the Christian gentleman.
Aud we humbly pray the beloved widow of
cur great chief to give those remains to US
for such disposal of them.
Q. That the Governor of Virginia, who is
the chsirman of this meeting, be requested
to convey cur action to Mrs. Jefferson
Davis.
The resolutions were received with ap.
plause, and were feelingly seconded by
Colonel John Bell Bigger, and were unani-
mously adopted.
PERMANENT OFFICERS.
Judge Flournoy, as chairman of the
committee on permanent organization, re-
ported the following permanent officers:
Chairman, J. Taylor Ellyson; Vice-Presl-
dens. Maj,r L-ws Giuter; Directors, D.
G. r chardson, N V. Randolph, George
L ChristiaD,P P. Fl. Mayo and Peyton Wise;
Secretary. W. D. Chesterman; Treasurer,
john S Elicit. The report of the COM
mittee was unanimously adopted.
Appropriate addresses were also made
by Hon. J. L. NJ. Curry, Rev. DR.. J. VIM.
Jones, and Rev. DR.. Goodwin.
Throughout, the meeting was a most
gratifying success in every respect. The
large audience was intelligent and symps
thetic, and we're fully in accord with the
sentiments Of the various speakers.