The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1891-06-11
NEW SERIES. VOL. I, NO. s.

IN L
ana those who followed them came to know
each other well. and to feel for each other the
respect which every brave man entertains fol-
an adversary who has the courage of his CON
victions
All That Grant contended for was established
All that Lee maintained failed of accomplish
ment.
Every sensible citizen of this Republic now
acquiesces cheerfully in the result
iUis certain that many thousands Of tie Con-
federa6e veterans are today as affectionately
| loyal to the Federal Government as il the
! larnentabie strife had never been.
We come as men who feel that time has taught
all citizens Of this Republic that they honor
i themselves in honoring this Great American
Passion has subsidized sufficiently to let us see
him as he was-greater than any part Of our
| divided country-a patriot whose fame belongs
| to all his fellow citizens.
AS TO our own beloved commander, it may be
mat the time VIII never come when men who
/ sustained the Union cause can reconcile it to
their sense of loyalty to do public honor to his
memory. Far be it from me to urge that course
upon you.
4 We, who followed him and loved him. seek
/ not to share our vencraton for his memory
/ with any one Who is unwilling. 1t may be that
his name and fame viii be left to us as all our
! own.
| Yet it will be strange, passing strange; it will
reverse all history in the past. il with the Amer
lean love of valor, of honor, seif-sacrif1ce and
humility Your grandchildren. when the bitter
ness of our day has been forgotten shall deny
their share in the name and fame of him whose
sword SO often and gailantly crossed that of
| but him. or yielded save to the power of over
whelming numbers and resources-one Who
when he ceased to fight, accepted the result in
oheerfulness ana displayed the same manhood,
| sincerity and humility which make us honor
Grant as great
Still, be this as it may, here stand the old
Confederate veterans at Grants grave; no longer
as sectional partisans, not as his vanqushed,
disappointed, irreconeilable foes, but with
hope and pride, and the ambition of citi-
zens of the whole Republic, claiming full share
in Enc giores of Grant, and title to do honor to
his memory.
Do the dead look down on us.
1t must be so.
What JOY of Elysium could compare with that
experienced by the dead warrior, as looking
down upon the land for which he died, he be-
holds it blessed with peace, prosperity and fra
ternity, fruit of his self-sacriiice
Can we look up to them.
With mortal vision-No-
Yet, in Imagination, Yes, indeed,
ANU unis' my pieeni en- VI 'he ->oi1 anu SCUM
is the vision which saw of late.
through Ihe open porta's VI .ne GREAT neSoho
Sd" ehe oouiioiesS piaiiiS VI "aihaiia -"hete'
Lar as inc eye Cunt leaoh' were spieau oiie
snowy Oeii0S VI snoaois iesiohs iahs'ea oeiieaoi
the banner of eternal peace.
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stfaiii vi ceiest'ai ''as' anu ehe ioarse rosr VI
siiou'ins thousands
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aS we Mic" o'iehi "ion oies 'oiui'oeleu' 'he
cfuel seai9 al soie 0iie "ioou sVaiiis "asue'.
away.
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Lee ON Traveller The same Grant and Lee we
knew of old. save that the lines of strife and
care were smoothed awav Clustered around
them in frateraal groups were all our early
loved and lost.
There were sedrwick and REYNOLDS and
Wadsworth-A1he,.t sidney Johnston Stonewau
Jactson and pat f,,ahurn
There we're Mcpherson and phil Kearney.
There were Garnett and arnistead with their
Gettvsbur, smile-tbere were the pegrams
stan,iipy naar ia Meade
uancoek and Rreckinride.a ,xare side nv side
Bragg and observation-disclosures and Hood
Stuart and sheridan. Tins was the hillside |
throneed. Thus were they riiugling in indis-
criminate fraternity
From the willowy ferry. where the river of
time is crossed: where so long ago Stonewau
Jackson crossed over and rested beneath the
shadow of the trees. .aw an escort advancing
-up the lines it came surrounding two aged |
warriors. walking arm in arm. From right TO |
left swelling and rolling and diving away along |
the lines with the thrill OF the olden DAYS came
the wild cheering as Sherman and Johnston |
passed on to reioin their long lost hosts.
Then there was nlassing of men and n,lshed
expactant stiffness. as the great Silent smoke /