The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1889-05-11
ELEGANT AND TASTEFUL.

, Calhoun, delivered at hatcher
There is such aptitude of conception
and truth of feeling eyinced in this ad-
dress that our only apology in its re-
production is h.at we are unable to
give it to the readers of the TINES in
full:
Ia'les anu Gentlemen; Fellow Citizens:
lou Rave met together to manifest
your Respect for the virtues of patriot
ism and your sorrow for the loss of
those brave men who died in its manli-
est exhibition-for those soldiers of the
Confederaey who gave their lives in its
defence in the ever memorable and
desperate struggle between the States.
In elevated and peaceful emulation
in all generous things, which we may
well wage with our former foes. what
pride we may indulge in the reflec-
tion that it was our Southern women
who set the example of decorating the
graves of friends and foes alike. Over
come in arms, we were victorious in
magnanimity. Emancipated from the
demon of hatred, we made no distinc-
tion among the mounds of the great
brotherhood Of death. Regardless of
the flag of enlistment, we did homage
to purity of purpose aud devotion to
principles believed in; and these, all
the world should respect.
There is an object in occasions such
as this higher than that of mere cele-
bration of your remembrance, and
affection, and veneration of your dead.
You not only grieye for the loss of so
many good and true men, and do
honor to their memory, but honor also
to that unselfish virtue and patriotism,
to which they were martyrs. Thus,
by such public manifestations, YOU
awaken emulation not merely of the
special quality you assemble to ap-
plaud, but also of all the loftier traits
of human character, and thus elevate
the living. The virtues are homo
geneous, and when one is aroused,
they all quicken into life. They are q
cluster of flowers upon single stem,
moved alike by the summer breeze
and together warmed by the summer
sun. A single note of plaintive music
awakens thousand gentle memories,
and fills the soul with countless har-
monies which came not through the
ear. Each time we indulge a divine
emotion we warm into life all the vir-
tues of our being. The finer emotions
are holy, and they lull to sleep the
passions, and give sway to those
gentler and purer impulses which
elevate and ennoble the nature Of man.
1t is well then to look to the culture
of emotional feeling of the better sort
1t is the moro important now, because
in these days Of crowding events, and
hurrying activities, of so-callcd human
progress, ,ofutilitarianism, and facts and
figures; in these days of jostling haste
and general lack,leisure, and I'M
patience, all those finer sentiment,
which purify and adorn society, and
without which, there cnn be no health,
progress, ere over-slaughed and likel,
to be forgotten. Veneration for age
respect for woman, chiyalrous pity fo
the weak, admiration for noble attri
butes, and genuine and ardent love o
country, are, even now, in danger o
being suilocated in an atmosphere o
money worship, and petty and selfsl
ambitions.
To have us ever recurring to human
izing emotions, and refining thought
and memories, is the province o
woman with her gentle influences. II
her we look for direction and example
to her, the memory of whose encour
agement, and the anticipations o
whose smiles of approval, norved th,
arms of those heroic men whose lowll
graves her own fair hands will, to-day
cover with wreaths and flowers.
And the women of the South will
not forget their trust. True and tried
undaunted in the hour of nationa
calamity and defeat, the stay of tn
dependent, the comforter of the weak
the nurse of the sick, the heart and th
hope of the active and strong, on
people will be found, in the future, a
in the past, ever at their post, rru
to their mission, never despairinl
pointing always heavenward, they vii
speed US only in the way to all that
sublime and true. It is they who tc
day invite us to the contemplation Q
the heroism and self-sacrince, Of thos
who gave their lives in vindication G
the lost cause, and the claims of col
quered Republic.
These men now sleep forever. Br
their example lives in history and ca
never die. They had none of the stin
ulant of glittering uniforms and go
geous array; nothing Of the capt
waiting panoplies of war, none Of IL
certain hope of a regal soldiery, thu
wealth. and honor, and promotion
5 would wait upon valiant deeds. Witt
, out pay, without tents, with seal
, clothing, with mismanaged an
meagre commissariat, they marche
into the storm of shot and shell wit
| an intrcpidity that compelled the a.
plause of all the nations. In the yer
3 last battles of the war; when hope WI
gone; when speedy overthrow WI
certain, in the grandeur and sublimi'
!, of despair they gazed with undaunte
0 mien into the eye of danger and shoe
o hands with death. "Unconquere
I they lived, unconquerable they died
While they saved not the cause tht
u fought for their death itself is pric
It less heritage to their country and the
@ kind.
y | love to dwell upon this theme. a
: these glorious men, with the myria'
} who are martyrs to freedom, have no
g their homes on "Fame's eternal cam
h ing grounds" Peace to the ashes
d the brave.
We will do honor TO our glorio
=, dead. and cherish recollections Of Il
q achievements of our glorious fla
Is Furled though it is who but feels mo
v pride in having served beneath
= folds. than to be chieftain among u
', conqueriug hosts2 Who would n
u rather be "Cato in a dungeon th'
8. Cesar in the Senator
u .,Thcre are martial steps we may not hear,
There are forms we may not seei
20 "a muster roll they have answered Gle
Thev are free, thank God. they are free.
mot fetter fast, not prisoner cnaia
For the noble army gomez ,.,.,