Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-01-31

Senator Daniels Grafton on the
laie Jefferson Davis wns mastery
effort. 1t concludes Us follows:
1t is gone. All gone. Forever
gone. The Confederacy and it's sons
in gray have vanished; and Gow Mt
last, hoary with years, the Chieftain
rests, his body mingling with the
ashes of the brave which once quick
ened with coun!ry's holy passion.
IIither let that body be borne by
the old soldiers of the Confetlerncy.
Here in Richmond by the Jlmes,
where WAS his war home, where his
child is buried, where his armies
were marsballed, where the Congress
sat, where was the Capitol, the arse
mi, the citadel, the field of glory
and ut lust the tomb of the Confed
eracy-here let him be buried, and
the land of Washington and Lee and
Storewall Jackson will hold in sacred
trust his memory and lis ashes
The restless tides of humanity vii,
rush hither and tlitler over the land
Of battles. The ages will sweep on
and rift the hills, roll the waters,
flash tho liShtnings, weigh the sun
The white sails of commerce will
tbicken ON your river and the smoke
of increasing factories will blacken
the skies. Mountains will pour forth
their precious metals, and fields will
glow in garniture of richer harvests
The remnants of lives spared from
the battle will be interviewer with
the texture OF tho Union; new stars
will cluster upon tho flag, and the
SONS of the South will bear it us
their fathers bore it to make tho
bounds of freedom wider yet. Our
great race will meet and solve every
asproblem, however dark, that it now
safaces, and people reconciled and
s5Iamghty will stretch forth their arms
,ito stay those of the oppressor. But
Z no greater souls will rise than those
wAo find rest under the Southern
Z 500 from Sumter's battered wall to
'athe trailing. vines and ivy leaves of
Hollywood, and none will come forth
of truer heart or cleaner hands CO.
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, how
ever tardy, to him who stood by his
people and made their cause his own.
The world does not today think
the less of Warren because he fell at
Bunker Hill, red.handed colonial
rebel, fighting the old flag of his
sovereign even before his people be-
came 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 of
Chalgrove stricken to death by n
loyal bullet and soon filled rebels
grave.
Oliver Cromwell is proud name
in English history, though the Eng
lish republic which he founded was
almost as short lived Ms the Confed-
eraoy and was soon buried under the
re-established throne of the Stuarts.
And we but forecast the Judgment
OF the days to come when we pro-
nounce that Jefferson Davis was great
and pure as statesman, man and pa.
triot.
In the eyes OF Him to whom n
thousand years are as watch in the
night, the war and the century in
which it came are but as tick of the
second hand of time, and when the
nyriads of this great land shall look
back through unclouded skies to the
old heroic days the smoke and stain
OF the battle will hive vanished from
the hero's name. The tall chieftain
OF the men who wore the gray will
stand before them with counter.
ance like the lightning and in raj
ment as white as the snow"