The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1891-01-10
SPEECH OF GEN. OLIVER PAUL
GOODING, U. S. A.
Delivered Nov. lS. 1890. IN Pick
wick Theater, IN ST. Louis,
Before the Confederate Home A.
socintIon OF Missouri.

Before the confederate Home 49,
socintisn of Missouri.
Er- -COntcte,uies Of Missouri 0oiies0nd
GeHLicmeH:
Being graduate of West Point, !
was in the regular army, and stationed /
al Il frontier post when our civil war
came on. Among the officers of that
post, the north and south ere aDOni
equally divided. | shall never forget !
how anxiousiy we all looked for the
overland coach, which came only once
in TWO weeks, to bring us the news
from the states, when the troubles
began after the election OF Lincoln in
1860, there being neither railroads nor |
telegraphs out there at that time.
How anxious we all were that the |
troubles might become compromised |
and var avoided. Some of us had |
known each other at West Point, aud !
all of us earnestly hoped that we would |
not be called upon to meet each other
in hostile array on the battlefield OF
civil war. Among the southern officers
at the post we're two who, | am proud
to say, were my closest friends Ten.
Barnard +. Bee aud Gen. John Duno
want, both of South Carolina, and both
OF whom fell i'm the war, gallant!y
| fighting tor their honest convictions.
! DuuOvant was my captain in the reg
ular army, and was the first to leave
tor the south. Bee came to my quarters
one day and said, "Gooding, come:
DunOvant is going to start for home,
anu he wants to bid you good bye
before he goes" | went with Bee
across the Laramie river, and there, in
the bottom, was Dunovant, alone with
his steed. There we had our last talk
with him, and there we bade him fare
well; and as he rode away toward the
states we longingly looked after him,
and wondered il we would ever see
him again. 1t was destined to be the
last time that 1 was ever t. see him on
this earth. Duuuvaut fell gallantly
fighting in one of the cavalry engage
ments near Petersburg, not long before
the close OF the war.
At the first battle Of Manassas, Bee
was in command of brigade of troops
from South Carolina. In the hottest
; of the fight they were wavering little.
TO encourage them, pointing his sword
toward Jackson's brigade, Bee cried
out: "Look yOnder at Jackson and
his men; they stand there like stone
WALL" and thus caused Jackson to be
: known as "Stone W all Jack son" forever
= But he had no sooner done that, than
e he fell from his hurse, slain by the
+ enemy's fire. Thus perished those two
II gallant southern friends of mine. NJ
e nobler and no Drawer men Than the,
@ ever died on the battlefield.
am proud to say that my father wa
All honest, gallant southern man, tina
# my mother WAS good and nObl
. southern woman; and palsied be III
tongue should | ever fail to do justic
to the southern soldier. BY his herOisl
g on the battlefield, the southern soldie
helped to make the name of America
y honored all around the earth. Iii
v glory won on the battlefield is q pa,
OF the common glory OF this might
republic.
: FRANCE.
- Recently, while in Paris, in Il
l. republic of France, saw the statl
ii erected in honor OF the republic, Il
N statue erected in honor of the destru
y ton of The Basiile, and other statue
erected in honor OF the heroes of Il
republic, that had been allowed
, stand during the empire, because the
- represent parts OF the history and glol
of France.
ne | also saw the Column Vondom
III surrounded by the statue of Napolet
ke the First, and all the other grand co
an amns, arches and monuments reared
To honor of the heroes of the Frent
he monarchy, allowed to remain IN t
their glory, standing in the republ
Id because they represent parts of u
ho history and common glory OF France.
lie
went down to Rome, the Etern
y" City. There, in the grand park of tn
city, called the Pincio, side by side
saw the marble busts OF Juliu, Cess
nh Pompey, Marcus, Brutus, Caius g,
sius, and other heroes OF the ROM
republic, who fought on opposite sid
IN of the civil wars of the Romans tS
I'D thousand years ago. The monarc
ch has never removed them because th
Ell represent parts of the history a
lr' common glory of Rome.
'iy also saw the grand column
as statues and arches erected in honor
ice the heroes of the monarchy stsndi
me there in all their glory.
"a; In showing the American tourist
me sights of Paris, the French guide, vi
hs equal pride, points 10 the gIories OF
Jus monarchy and the glories OF the repu
ny lie; because they all represent par s
e'e the history and common glory
YES France.
ne In Rome, the Roman guide, W
.i .he equal pride, points the Americ
'he tourist TO the glories of the reput
&c" and the glories of the monarch
,ne because they all represent parts of
the history aud common glory of Rome
the 20 /, tho tutnra M; I'm tho Amor;,
oao guide, with equal pride, point
European tourist who will come
to make the tour of America, to
4 of statues of Grant and Lee, McClel
,s., and Beauregard, Hancock and Sto
wall Jackson, Custer and Jeb Stu
and the man, other heroes who imm
l at taliZed themselves in our great C
OF war, because they all represent part
1t is our great history and our conn
lew glory. Therefore, as the governm
an furnishes homes to the federal veter,
can let it be the patriotic duty of all Am
cans, throughout the land, to see
no confederate soldier shall ever c.
site. to want, or suffer in his sickness or
s. age for the lack of a comfortable no
mis- AS to our dead comrades on /
ne,s sides, they sleep in hOnored graves
need no homes, for,
On James eternal camping ground
' Their silent tents are spread,
And glory guards with solemn rOun,
mn, The bivOuuc OF the dead.
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