The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-12-14
now took up arms and suffered martyr

l. now took UP arms and suffered marty
e dom.
r Slavery.
= But II hostile criticism urge, ''Yor
own Involuntary servitude at home wa
at war with all this fine preachment {
!, willing Union" the answer IL:
First II was the condition with whic
you deliberately made your bargain an
received your redundant consideration
which was, and is still. redundantiy re
tained.
Second. The institution OF slavery wa
fastened on us by others, and very largel
by those who seized It as a pretext 10
war against us. IL Is not for them 4
revile lis for not solving In a day tn
tremendous problem which, on a scale S,
diminptive. consumed more than half
century OF their own time. Slavery wa!
the fail in their hand wherewith TO bea
down freedom. 1t was constitutional Gov
eminent and the rights OF the State; 4
was the reality OF a Federal Union which
they sought ''to put In course of ulti.
mate extinction" They were guilty OF
what Jefferson called treason against
human hope" Slavery was our mode OF
dealing with a problem for whose pres
ence I'm our midst our accusers In old Eng
land and New England were responsible.
Third. Had emancipation been the only
thing desired the economic reasons, which
| had been so successful at the North,
would not have been wholly idle at the
South. The forces which put an end to
slavery in Russia and Brazil were not
Obliged to lose their cunning elsewhere
| those irresistible forces of the brain OF
! commerce. out CT whose ceaseless throb
| Is nurtured the opinion. which rules at
| last the world and all the brave empire
! thereof. BY the side Of this Titan, the
| aboltionist was "a puny arm, which could
! only misdireCt the mightier one, and make
| Il mischievous-"da shing with his oar
to hasten the cataract, waving with his
fan to give speed TO the Winds Our
accusers dealt with their own problem
at their own convenience. What right
had they to force us to do otherwise?
Undoubtedly we were not prepared to
exchange the freedom of the white race
for the slavery Of the black. Undoubted-
~ we were not prepared for an emanci-
patton which meant the enforcement OF
the negro.
Fourth Never was there n great trust
so nobly fulfilled as that incurred by the
South for the institution of slavery, i'm
posed upon her from the same magnanl-
nous source whence her crucifixion for it
also proceeded. If any labor in any land
ever more cOnvincingly proclaimed that
IL was subject 20 a more enlightened
supremacy than force, ! do not recall it.
For four years of war, all force was
withdrawn from the negro, but his af-
lection, his obedience, his fidelity did not
withdraw. A beneficial subordination and
no other could have stood this test
A story of yalor.
OF this cause the statue this day UNI
yelled is emblematic. and II | have left
myself but little time to tell the story
Of yalor of which 1t is also emblem. 1t
is because that story is beyond the reach
of controversy. on the 9Th Of November |
1859, the Howitzer Company was organ
lied. 1t saw service for the first time in |
the John Brown raid-the real beginning |
of the war 1t seemed to George Wythe |
Randolph, the first captain of this glow
ing strength, that If his mighty ancestor
could speak once more from his lofty emf
hence he would shout ITO arms" For
the practical Interpretation of the Con-
stitutiOn and the Federal Union which ii
had come to this; that a peace
full village south of the Potomac might
be invaded at midnight for the purpose
Of midnight murder, and the invader
be made by legal execution not a muir
1erer but a martyr, so that the bells OF
Northern churches toled his requiem as
ne expired, and In the words OF one Of
lis euiogists: '"The gallows was made as
sacred as the cross" The John Brown
aid was the vivid revelation Of a spirit
which left no alternative between a
jattle for the compact of the Constitu
Ion or its unconditional surrender The
Richmond HowitZers did not organize
o surrender without blow the heritage
Il their fathers; and at the tap of the
rum, the company grew to a battalion
ike Gonsalyo, when he pointed TO
Naples, they preferred to die, one foot
onward, than to secure long life by one
DOT OK retreat. We hear much OF the
ana OF the free and the
ONE Of the brave" but the two are one. {
Is only home Of the brave" which
an be land Of the free" Only so ]
ing as men are brave in the assertion y
+ their rights are they free in the pos {
ession of them, The rights which we /
ave now We owe to the fact that we a
nee Stood. not languidly, but with clear s
termination, for them-to the respect t
hich is compelled by the courage of | n
1nviction. II is the HoWitzer chapter T
this history that we are here to cello 4
rate to-day. Wonderful must it have u
cen TO any soldier of the "Old World" -
witness the daily picture in that How 4
ger camp-otiicers and men seated I,
-cund the common camp fire, as though v
| u
mporal only and the only real and n
ernal thing, the cause which Joined their ;,
sarts and hands 1t was the picture h
what Jefferson called the Roman h
tnciple, which esteems it honorable for Va
e general Of yesterday to act as p,
rporal to-day. Every man was a briga- c,
er around the camp fire. and every man r.
as subject to a discipline Of honor G,
ore unsparing than the laws Of war D;
every real dereection. And how alb m
lutely did those officers command lust n
cause they never spared themselves, h
be first in rank was to be first in
niger, and side by side in every hard
lip.
L was on the extreme right at Freder- :"
Isburg, when Stuart and Pelham. from !"
q force Of habit. were leading artil- '"
y, In what fairly seemed a cavalry Ia
arge, that the gallant Utz was torn y
I'm his horse and from his life by the %
ell to which he opposed his invinci- -
: breast. This day is his memorial SER ID
e. And how tenderiy when the pit ~
ess rain had ceased, we bent over the =
II form of Randolph Fairfax-the Of ~ ~,
ing Of our grand old ally in every ~. 90
MT, the Rockbridge artiliery-how 81
derly we bent over that marble sleep. III
4 gaZed for the last time on the fair. 80 80
ght brow OF the beautiful boy. How w.
watched through all that winter, %
lie one, not Of the Howitzers, but I'm o.
-hortty over US, was sinking, and the 20 80.
y light of learning itself seemed 10 W. ",
ker in the socket, as the life of Lewis ! % %
eman put on it's spiritual body. II 81
In the first clinch of that long :.
Ith grip, which lasted from the VIII w., W.
ness to Appomattox. that as John ~, 30
batteries - -. ~ iionl OF RAJ