Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-02-07
eloquent peroration

LET HIM REST IN RICHMOND.
It is gone All gone. Forever gone. The
Confederacy and its sons in gray nave
vanished; and now at last, hoary with
ling with the ashes of the brave which once
quickened with country's holy passion:
Hither let that body be borne by the old
soldiers of the Confederacy. Here in Rich
mond, by the James, where was his war
home, where his child is buried, where his
armies were marshalled, where the Con-
gress sat, where was the capital, the arse
nal, the citadel, the field Of glory; and at
last the tomb of the Confederacy, here
let him be buried, and the land of Wash
ington and Lee and StoneWall jackson
will hold in sacred trust his memory and
his ashes.
THE FUTURE WILL HONOR HIN.
The restless tides of humanity will rush
hither and thither over the land OF battles.
The ages will sweep on and rift the hills
roll the waters. flash the lightnings, weigh
the sun"
The white sails of commerce will thick
EN- on your river and the smoke of increas-
ing factories will blacken the skies. Noun
tainS will pour forth their precious metals,
and fields will glow in the garniture of
richer harvests. The remnants OF lives
spared from the battle will be interviewer
with the texture of the Union; new stars
will cluster upon the flag, and the sons OF
the South will bear it as their fathers boIe
it, to make the bounds of freedom wider
vet Our great race will meet and solve
every problem, however dark, that it now
faces, and people reconclled and mighty
will stretch forth their arms to stay those
OF the oppressor. But no greater souls will
rise than those who find rest under the
Southern sod from Sumters battered wall
to the trailing vines and ivy leaves OF Hol-
lyWood, and none will come forth OF truer
heart OF cleaner hands or higher crest to
lead them
To the dust we give his body now; the
ages receive his memory. They have never
failed to do Justice, however tardy, to him
who stood by his people and made their
cause his own.
The world does not to-day think the less
of Warren because he fell at Bunker Hill,
red-h handed colonial rebel, fighting the
old flag Of his sovereign even before his
people became secessionists from the crown,
nor because his yeomen were beaten in the
battle.
| The great character and work of John
| Hampden wear no stigma, though he rode
out Of the battle at Chalgrove stricken t.
death by loyal bullet and soon filled {,
rebels grave.
Oliver Cromwell is a proud name il
English history, though the English repub-
| lie which he founded was almost as short
lived as the Contederacy and was soon
buried under the re-established throne OF
the Stuarts.
And we but forecast the judgment of the
wears to come when we pronounce that JET
ferson Davis was great and pure as state.
man. man and patriot.
In the eyes OF Him to whom a thousand
wears are as watch in the night, the wal
and the century in which it came are bu.
as a tick of the secondhand of time, anG
when the myriads OF this great land shall
look back through unclouded skies to. the
old heroic days, the smoke and stain OF the
battle will have vanished from the hero's
name The tall chieftain of the men who
wore the gray will stand before them
s'With collntenance like the lightnin
and in raiment as white as snow"