Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-01-26

tory assemble? Lee ana StoneWah shck,
son, Joseph E. Johnston Beauregard ana
II. and A. =. Hill. Longstrees,- Gordon,
Anderson. Rhodes. Hoke, Ramseur.
Fender. pickett, Terry, Hunton. Corxe,
Hood. Hardee. Bragg, Dick Taylor. Polk,
Maury. Walker. HAYS, Nichols. Price; Kir-
by. William and q. w. Smith; Magruder,
Pat. .Cleburne, Bate. Cheatham, W. b.
Taliaferro.
What cavalry leaders
stuart, Hampton. Forrest, Asnpx, MOI
r. Jones, bearing, Payne, Butler. Fitz and
Rooney Lee.
What artillerists? -,
Pendleton- Long. Pegram, Pelham. LAti-
mer. Breathed. Thomson, Andrews, Has
kell, Poague. Carter. Nelson. Jones.
What men Of the scar
.Semmes, Hollins, Wood, Maury, Bu-
chanan, Lee. Tasnall.
But who can name or count the stars!
Men Judge Napoleon by his marshals:
summon them to the field of Mars and in
such galaxy rs this they would be proud
of peerace. Troop behind them those ar
mics of "tattered uniforms and bright
musket but no, il is beyond the reach OF
either brush or chisel to redeem to the
imagination such mon, such scenes; as
shine in their six hundred battles. NOT
the harp can mankind be penetrated by
sense of their heroic deeds, and then alone
in the grand majestic minstrelsy OF epic
song.
And now that war is fragrant, far and
wide on land and sea and river, over the
mountain and the plain rolls the red bat
tie tide, and rises the lofty cheer. The
son falls, the old father steps in his place.
The father falls. the STRIPPING of the play
ground rushes to the front: the boy be-
comes man. Lead fails. old battle-helds
are raked over, children gather up bullets
as they would pluck berries, household
ornaments and utensils are broken, and all
are moulded into missiles OF war. Cannon
fail; the very church bells whose mellow
chimes have summoned to the altar, are
melted and now resound with the grim
detonations of artillery. Clothes fail, old
garments are turned over, rags and
exercise are raiment. The battle-horse
is killed. the ship goes down: the endorsed
trooper and the unshipped tar trudge along
with the infantry. The border States are
swept away from the Confederacy, the re-
naming ones grid their loins the tighter.
Virginia is divided; there is enough
of her left for her heroic heart
to beat in. New Orleans is gone
Vicksburg falls Gettysburg is lost; armies
wither: exiles make their homes in battle;
slender battalions do the duty of divisions.
Generals die in the thick fight; captains
become generals; private is company.
Luxuries disappear; necessities become,
Injuries. Fields are wasted, crops and
barns are burned, focks and herds are con-
sumed, and naught is left but IMAM and
steel-the soldier and his sword"
The desolate winter lays white and bleak
upon the land; its chill winds are resisted
| by warm and true affections.
Atlanta, Mobile. Charleston, Savannah
fall-the Confederacy is cut to pieces. Its
fragments become countries, with frontiers
on skirmish lines and capitals on horse
back. d,
Ports are sealed-the world and the South
are parted. All the dearer seems the scant
sky that hangs over her bleeding. children.
On and on and on come the thickening
masses of the Norrh-brave men, bravely
led and ably commanded; and az those OF
the South grow thinner, theirs grow
stronger. Hope sinks; despair stifens
courage.
Everything fails but manhood and wo-
manhood. The woman cooks and weaves
and works nurses the stricken. and buries
her dead. and cheers her living. The man
stands to his gun behind Johnston, behind
Lee. Petersburg and Richmond starve
and bleed and yet stand dauntless. And
here amongst you-while the thunders
shake the Capitol and the window-panes
of his home and the earth trembles-here
stands jefferson Davis. mistaken, I'M
trembling. toiling to give bread to his
armies and their kindred. toiling to hold up
the failing arms Of his veterans, unbellyng
that Heaven could decree the fall of such a
people.
AT last the very fountains Of nature fail.
The exhausted South falls prone upon Its
shield.
LET HIN REST II RICHMOND.
II is gone. All gone. Forever gone.
The Confederacy and its sons in gray have
vanished and now at last hoary with
years the Chieftain rests his body mingling
with the ashes of the brave which once
auickened with a country's holy passion.
Hither let that body be borne by the old
soldiers of the Confederacy. Here IL
Richmond by the James, where was his wal
home. where his child is buried where his
armies were marshalled, where the Con
press sat, where was the Capitol, the arse.
nal. the citadel. the field of glory, and at
last the tomb of tho Confederacy-her lei
! him be buried. and the land OF Washing
ton and Lee and Stonewall Jackson will
hold in sacred trust his memory and his
ashes.
THE FUTURE WILL HONOR HIM.
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 sum-"
The white sails of commerce will thick
en- on your river and the smoke or IN
creasing factories will blacken the skies
Mountains will pour forth their preciou:
metals, and fields will glow IN the garni
: ture of richer haryests. The remnants o
lives spared from the battle will be inter
woven with the texture of the Union; new
etars will cluster upon the flag, and tn
sons of the South will bear 1T as their IA
theirs bore it to make the bounds OF freedom
wider yet. Our great race Will meet ano
solve every problem. however dark. that 4
now faces. and a people reconciled anc
mighty will stretch forth their arms u
stay those Of the oppressor. But no great
er souls will rise than those who ind resi-
under the southern sod from Sumter
battered wall to the trailing vines and w.
leaves of HOLLYWOOD, and none will conn
forth of truer heart or cleaner hands o.
higher crest to lead them.
Tothe dust we give his body now; the age
receive his memory. They have neyel
failed to do Justice, however tardy, to hin
who stood by his people and made thei
cause his own.
The world does not to-day think the les
of Warren because he fell at Bunker Hill
a red-handed colonial rebel, fighting tn
old flag of his sovereign even before III
people became secessionists from tn
i, crown, nor because his yeomen were beatel
in the battle.
8 The great character and work of Johl
Hampden wear no stigma, though he rod
out OF the battle at Chalgrove stricken x
death by loyal bullet and soon filed
!, rebels grave.
Oliver Cromwell is q proud name in Eng
. lish history. though the English republl
which he founded was almost as short
lived as the Confederacy and was sool
buried under the reestablished throne
, the Stuarts.
And we but forecast the judgment OF Tn
years to come when we pronounce tina
Jefferson Davis was great and pure
statesman, man. and patriot.
In the eyes of Him to whom thousan'
years are as a watch in the night, the wa
and the century in which it came are bu
: as a tick of the secondhand Of time, an,
l when the myriads of this great land shall
: look back through unclouded skies to tn
! old heroic days the smoke and stain OF tn
! battle will have vanished from the hero
name. The tall chieftaln of the men VIII
wore the gray will stand before then
: with a countenance like the Lightning