The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1889-05-09
GENERAL GREENS VICTORY.
What Senator Vance Said at Guilford
Battle Ground Last Saturday.

anity, and speeches, patriotic and
eloquent, were made BY Senator
Vance, Gov. Fowle, Chief Justice
Smith, Auditor Sanderlin, Judges
Davis and Shepherd, and Hon. p. F.
Caldwell. - I-s-.s 2----4
We can publish nothing more in
teresting in this issue than the sub
Joined brief of Senator Vance's
speech
"From time immemorial that por-
ton of the human race which has
left any record of its actions, has in
dulged the practice of commemor-
ating the notable events of~its own
history. The method by which this
was done was a good test of their
civilization. In Genesis it is record
ed that Jacob took the, stone upon
which his head had rested whilst the
wondrous vision was displayed to
him of the angels ascending and
descending, and erected it as a mem
orial pillar. And, when the Lord
appeared to Jacob when he came
out of Padan-aram and blessed him
and removed the promises which
had been made unto Abraham,
Jacob set up pillar of stone in the
place as a memorial, and called it
"Bethel." Twelve stones were like
wise set up in commemoration of
the crossing of the river Jordan by
the tribes dry shod. The sacred re-
cord is full of this method of per-.
petuating the memory. Of noted
events by the priests, prophets and
people of the Jews. The Greeksex--
celled all others perhaps in the num-
Der and artistic excellence of their
concentrating stones. Not only
all great events, but all their great
men were thus commended to the at
tention of posterity by the erection
of temples and statutes which have
never yet been surpassed, if indeed,
they have been equaled. The ,Ro-
mans copied their custom and their
art in this regard. To this day they
remind us of the genius and glory Of
Greece. In very truth, h ss1ii 81
''The silent pillar, lone and gray,
Claims kindred with their sacred clay"
Much of the profoundest learning of
modern times has been devoted to
these exhibitions of Greek art and
the Egyptology of the Nile. Thus
the progress of art is traced from
the rude unhewn stone of Jacob to
the exquisitely chiseled and proper
toned column of the Athenian Aero
polls and the wondrous scructures
of Egypt. III aae @9ys.i ~ -
In addition to this method of COM
memoration the moderns have
adopted what may be called the ira
ditional. Great masses of the peo-
pie meet together. on anniversary
days, and discourse concerning the
events which are the object Of the
meeting. HiJa'vI 5iTo1 g.-,
1t is nothing more than the re-
newing and strengthening the re-
membrance of the events which we
wish to, perpetuate. Perhaps, of all
the western peoples, we in the I'm
tied States excel in this matter of
celebrating events in our history.
We are not satisfied with the. mere
erection of monuments or piles of
stone, but we meet together in multi
tudes; we speak; we, march in pro-
cession with bands of music, we fire
cannon and display banners. 1T is,
we'll that we do so. There is no
better school for our youth than
this hero worship, this exalting of.
great deeds! There is no inaugura-
ton which can conceive the extent
of its influence upon character; and ,
it is always a high and noble I'M
fiuence. -. .s,,, -, te,t; os-dors d
After all that can be done with
marble or granite the truest monuS
ment by which the memory of any
event can be aperpetuated is to be
found in the results. It rarely hap
pens that an event in a, peoples his
tory is worth the perpetuating in
stone, which is not, already eyerlast-
idgly embalmed il. the hearts Of the
people. What monument is reauir-
ed to keep alive the memory of the
man who invented the mariners
compass, by which 1.-THE 1trackless
paths of the sea are made as FAM
liar to commerce as our inter state
highways ? What stone is necessary.
to the inventor of the art Of print
ing, when all science and all iitera-
ture daily, unconsciously hymn his
praise? What shaft is needed by
the inventor of the steam, engine,
when the whole earth is full Of the
works which magnify him 2 or to
the discoverer of the cotton gin by
which the world is clothed? La the
walls of st. Paul IS inserted q tablet
on which Is written the name Of Sir
Christopher Wren, its arehitect, with
the words underneath, aLector ST
monnmentum requires, circumspice.'n
The imposing structure reaching up
ward with all its lines Of beauty aud
strength, was his monument! !,
Should the inquiry be made, what
was done at this spotain 1871; 2. and
where is the monument Of results 70
commemorate it, the answer might
well be made in the single word,