Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-19
CONFEDERATE VETERANS.
RESOLUTIONS ON GEN. JOSEPH
E. JOHNSTON ADOPTED.
No Man is ssfo from Himself, His Enemies
or His Friends Until He
is Dead.

met IN the courthouse last night, a large
number Of old Confederate soldiers being
present. The following report was read
and adopted as the sense of the camp:
To the r Z. Lee Camp OF Confederate
Veterans at Fort Worth, Tex. Report OF the
Mortuary Committee on the Death OF Gen.
Joseph Z. Johnston.
Comrades Of the Camp:
Inc Undersigned committee detailed TO
draft suitable words on the death of their
late comrade in arms, Gen. Joseph L. John
ston, have the honor to report as follows:
That we have carefully considered the
HE OF our dead brother from its beginning
IN the first decade of this century till its
ending in this, its last. Having in mind
the well preserved aphorism, that no man
is safe from himself, his enemies or his
friends, till he is dead, we are happy to
return that we find that he has lived his
four score years and four, faithfully to
himself and his people, true to his manhood
and that now III his death, ne sleeps well.s-u
He was born in the period of cycle OF
men that came after the first great souls
who formed the ark of the covenant under
which we lind shelter, and it was to him
and that galaxy of brilliant stars that the
lot fell to work out by words first, then
war, those differences of the construction
of that instrument that could not otherwise
be settled. He lived to see these ideas
fixed on new line of thought, by means of
revolution, and to bear with the unsuccess-
fuI ones the terms traitor and rebelr and
to see 1t grated in the history of one sec
ton IS the war of the rebellion" and in
the other as the war between the states -
Soft will continue ever, till the Sl35, 900, 000
annually paid the victors, ceases to warp
their Judgment to its proper conclusion.
We are told by the greatest of English
thinkers, at an age removed from this, that
the law OF gravltatlOn even can be reyOlu-
uonlzed for given sum insthe opinion Of
those owning the vested interest in that
sum. So let il pass, till the next genera
ton gives the sum of all these past differ
enCes by going behind the returns and re-
cording this history Alright. That this may
be done of our brother, we hope to be per
mltted to say, that we will take the YER
dict OF his deeds as made up by those, who,
II not most capable of Judging, are at the
least not impelled by an excess of affection
to do his memory maudlin injustice
From the Brooklyn Eagle of March 10,
1891, we read of him: Gen. Johnston wills
rank in history among the ablest leaders of
the rebellion. His name viii be associated
with Lee, jackson and Albert Sydney John
stOn on the one hand, and of Grant, Sher-
man and Sheridan on the other II
Against Sherman he fought n magnificent
defensive campaign, but could not perform
The Springfield Republican of March %
Robert l.. Lee and Stonewall jackson, it
would be hard to find a Confederate leader,
either military or political, more eminent
than he, or on the whole more able in field
service
The Baltimore cAmerican, same date
says: Lee was greater as u man but
Johnston was greater as 4 soldier, and
Jackson, considered as purely military
genius, was probably greater than either.
He was considered worthy to bear the re-
mains of Grant and Sherman to the tomb"
Among the first of the Confederate lead
ers to reap a great victory at Manassas (the
Federal Bull Rum and among the last to
we as his beloved comrades in
arms, viewed him in the days of his great |
est prosperity as well Us adversely, and can |
truly say ne comes up TO the great Talley-
rand's standard of a moral hero-(which he |
tonfeSSeS his master, Napoleon, was want |
ng in)-that is, one who could bear success |
without undue elation, and reverse with |
lightly and loftiness of spirit. The last act |
II his life portrays this last virtue in its |
sweetest light. We find him following the |
remains of his, at first, friend; next, most |
lble enemy, and last, friend again, to his \
est, from which he contracted an ailment |
which carried him from us to rest in the
rave. The grave levels up all. 1t is but
he barest justice to him whom we ara
lever 10 see on earth again
" Say Illdb "Ulle UQOSe whom he
opposed were sufficiently successful over a
construction of an organic law in which he
vas vested with as much right to determine |
IS they and deserve now equal merit as
me of the arbiters in its final adjudication |
While they are rewarded with cash con-
iGerationS over the counters of the nations |
i'll they were beyond toll and trouble for
he means OF living, yet this noble soul |
'lodded on from day to day, earning with |
is brain and Drawn, not only living, but
n Independence that made him worthy of
he association of those who were patriots |
NTH price. We repeat it is but the |
mallest justice to conclude that hu- an
lrtue in him appears to have touched its
arthest limit in such simple generosity of |
pirlt under such conditions as of the last
avs of his well spent life. His was a life |
T racial wars carrying out the prophesy of
'oah to his son Japheth. First in the
vergladeS of Florida he is found tanning |
he fierce nature OF the man in red to suit |
ne conditions of his new environ
tents. Next we see him march
lg with the ten thousand Ameri-
ans who, in justice to the great
Vest, wrenched from the Aztec eagle with |
ne serpent in his claws, an empire-part of |
Inch we are rejoiced to claim as Texas,
he dearest spot on earth to us, and on
'hich we now stand, and wherein we ex- ,
ect to be buried. The halls of the Monte ,
mas rang again with the victorious shout | :
the race of Japheth. And last came the !
reatest of questions, the status of the :
ian in black. On turning to Webster we :
nd that gray means a mixture of white I
I'd black-so it is formed. 1t was the 2
leory Of those who stood guard with him \
'ound the borders of our beloved South /
nd, and gave those who came over Row. {
nd for an Oliver, that these blacks i
DIVIDED down in one corner of this Union a
lould by the organic law, be dispersed | n
lually all over these states and territories; 1
I'd thus abate the evil by scattering it.
ut we lost. A "higher law steps in and
US this is not the end; and gray is not
lie of the original colors which God painted S
| the clouds in his bow of peace. That
lie is, and so is red. We came from the O
a coats and out of them we fashioned the r
ue. Time has assuaged the phobia we S
ice entertained for the red, and Judgment, e
Stice and mercy will in time bring to the II
emory of Joe Johnston and his soldiers Fl
at full measure of truth they deserve. C
hen it does, the love of the blue will be t
US US as that of the red, the colors of our L.
mmon mother. But we hold fast to the III
'pe that gray is the mingling of the blackS
SIS OF our past sorrows with the light Or a
w era in the history of the land of III n
nth, the land of sunlight and shad6wSl q
This justice in the circling years Will be Is
dered by Him who measured the waters G
the hollow of His hand, and melted out q
e heavens with span, and comprehended
e dust of the earth in a measure, and
,lghed the mountains in scales and the | s
Is in balance" Respectfully submitted,
A. p. BROWN, S