The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-27


also gave welcome to the visiting assocla-
tons and turned his speech to the day I'VE
celebrate" He said:
We have reached, comrades, another ami
varsary day, and this afternoon we shall gather
ssis our custom, around the monument reared
Nv the loving hand of woman to the confederate
55ad there to place our tribute, too, to their
memory. To my mind, there is a sublime
nsthos in the bronze figure of the sold or who
keeps his silent "aech from Che summit OF that
He is indeed a typical figure Of the men upon
whose devotion and courage the south leaned
with confident trust in her hour Of trial. but it
i the soldier of "a and t6 rather than of the
earlier wears of the war. We look in vain upon
those quiet features for the bright hopefulness,
tha jighthearted gallautry that marked the
rusb TO arms But in their stead we find what
il nober, higher and better; the conservation of
q brave spirit to duty and the clear conscious
ness that it can never win success; that defeat
must be its portion and yet that with this knowl
edge presents q calm, determined, unruffled
front and evinces in every line of the face the
ouiet resolution TO die as willingly in the hour
of disaster to the cause it loved as when victory
perched upon the banners of the confederacy
and all the future was golden and glorious. He
stands then to tell the world what
manner of men they were who stood
ike a stone wall at Manassas: who
dashed in fierce order upon Grant at Shiloh;
who rode with Stuart, Hampton and Forrest;
who turned McClelaus right and in a success
sion Of mighty conflicts sent him shattered and
disheartened to his gunboats; who for long
months Withstood the attack Of fleets and
armies at Vicksburg; who formed a part Of
Jackson's foot cavalry" in the historic Val
lew" who hurled back the hosts of Burnside
in bloody discontinue at fredericksburg; who
Taught John Pope that it is sometimes neceS-
sary to provide for lines Of retreat; who clipped
the spurs of the over-conf1dent fighting"
Joe Hooker; who manned the crumbling ram
parts of Sumter and tinged with their blood the
nd md hn hrra
tie stormy cross with Pickett up the
fateful slopes of Gettysburg with daring and
devotion that the world will admire while his
tory lasts He truly represents all these, and
the land that has produced such men may well
hear their names and their deeds in loving CRATE
full memory. But the figure stands far more
than this, upon that face is the impress Of
soul for whom as the crisis of its destiny ap-
rroaches. the curtain OF the future is lifted re-
vealng a glory beyond to be reached only
through the gates of death, but of such sur
passing brightness that the rapt spirit can be
moved no more by things of earth. So Mont
calm as Parkman describes him, when rushing
70 meet the army of Wolfe upon the plains of
Abraham, rode with fixed look on his face
without utterng O word, seeing perhaps
vision OF the time when his noble character
and fair fame would be q precious memory to
brave men everywhere, and be cared for by
none mora sacredly than by the countrymen
hour in the arms OF victory. So, we are told by
Sir Charles Napier S!r John Moore looked when,
at the opening of the French attack at Co.
runna, he galloped up to that part of the Brit
ish line about to receive the onset and silently
gazed upon the approaching columns with
strange intensity, as though seeing with pro-
phetic ken the clouds Of misapprehension, envy
and SANDER that had embittered his last days
driven away like morning mists by the glory of
his death
And 50 our man of bronze stands steadfastly
awaiting and looking for the coming Of that
bright day when not by us alone but by those
who wore the blue as well-by his countrymen
throughout the length and breadth of this re-
united land-there shall be cherished not sim
ply respect and admiration for his valor, but
also full recognition of the purity of his mo-
tives and a noble pride in his achievements.
That day will most assuredly come; nothing
can prevent it. We ourselves may retard it
should we be false to our dead comrades and to
our own past, but it will come. The silly vapor-
ngs and balderdash of the recent utteraucss of
Gen. Palmer can no more deter it than the ex-
faations of a swamp eau deter the rising sun .
Already the sky is tightening ia the east, and
for the glorious dawning we too can wait
At the conclusion of Col. Olmstead's
speech. which was long and loudly ap-
plsuded, Gen. McLaws introduced Gen.
Hampton as the Bayard of the south and
invited all the veterans to come up and shake
his hand.
A cheer followed Gen. McLaws' introduc-
ton, and the veterans at once crowded
around Gen. Hampton and grasbed bis
hand. For each he had kindly smile and
a pleasant word. His reception lasted
nearly twenty minutes, and as he left the
hall with Capt. Dillon the veterans fol-
lowed him downstairs and gave him a
cheer as he started back to the De Soto in
his carriage.