Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-05-31
GENERAL WALKERS GRAFTON.
A Splendid yindication of the south's Love
and Eeverepce for Her Heroes.

and Reverence Tor Her heroes.
Az General Walker came to the front, his
shattered and almost useless arm hanging
limp at his side, q burst of applause went
up that made tho welkln ring. he was IN
splendid voice. and spoke with a feeilns
that carried the crowd with him from the
beginning. tie said
Mr. President and Gentlemen Of the
A. p. Hill Monument Association.--Wo
meet 70 pay tribute TO the memory OF
comrade whom We love and admire, and
who IL worthy the love and admiration OK
all true southern hearts.
We come thus together in no spirit OF
disoyalty to the present, Or " to the powers
that be- but in spirit of loyalty to the
past, and out of reverence Tor great
nation which perished In its infancy.
The war between the States has long
been over; the most prominent actors In
that struggle have passed from the stage
of life; the angry passions 1t engendered
haye subsded, and with no feelings OF
an,mosity towards any living on account
of that strife with hearty acquiescencs
in the settlement OF all vexed questions OF
government and politics fairly submitted
to the arbitrament Of the sword and fairly
decided by the award, the people OF tho
south accepts the result IN all its leglti-
mate bearings and Just deductions as be-
come brave and honorable people, bus
with no feeling of inferiorlty, with no
craven spirit; with no regrets or profess
slops of Borrow for the past, and With no
no apologies 10 Offer. =,
They staked their all upon tho uncertain
chances of war, and they will stand the
hazard OF the die.
the record they made--of the yalor OF their
armies; of the patriotism and courage OF
their women, and OF the suferings they
endured IN just cause.
They honor and reverence their chosen
leaders and cling to their memories with
tender recollections, which neither time
nor change can efiace.
BROKEN WITH THE STORMS OF STATE.
A few months ago. in the city of New
Orleans. the President of the Confederate
States of America lay dead" old
man broken with the storms. OK state"
who for twenty-five years had been
prescribed and disfranchised by the gov:
ernment under which ne hved oenied
the rights of citizenship accorded to his
former slaves; without country, wlthout
fortune or influence, and by whose life or
death no man could hope to be gamer OF
No mercenary motives influenced . sim
gle individual to mourn for him. And yet
| the whole Southland, all the sons and
| daughters of the Confederacy, oil thor
| children and their grandchildren, from the
gray-haired veteran to the infant OF ten:
| der wears, wept over his bier and mournsd
with genuine heartfelt sorrow for Jehe..
son Davis.
Dead, but his spirit bresthes;
| Dead, but his heart Is ours;
| Dead, but his sunny and sad land WreatAes
/ His crown with tears for nowera
| statue for his tomb:
Mould IL OF marble white;
1 For wrong, spectre OF death ana doom;
An angel of hopo for right
| They mourned for him. not because they
grieyed for the proud banner which was
| furled. or for the cause which was loat, but
because no had been their President tust
and true, In the days Of their trial and
adyersity. and because he had been perSe.
| cuted for their sakes.
| History records no more touching scene
| than the South weeping st tho grave OF
| Jefferson Davis-a scene which toucheQ
even the bittsrest foes OF the sad NOUN
ers.
| from the State of Kansas man - poted
or his hatred OF tho southern people -
| or his brilliant talents, from his place n
he Senate chamber saidi "He eoxo a.
reonla Tor Jsferson Dsvis.s "Hs hoS-
ored them for their constopW 20 thai
heroic man" ideas could nsteS b snni.s
hilated." mo man was eyer eoqvertsd
by being overpowsred.S "Davte Aao r.
NAMED to the end, the .lnqovatip type,
cxponent, and representative -ot those
IDEAS tor winch be had stsksd al md loss
all"
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