The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1895-06-13
Contederates Capture Chicago.
PEACE HATH HER VIC-
TORIES.
dedication of tho hOnurnent to South
ern Heroes--ElOqucnt Address of
Wad0 Hampton.

ern acknowledgement Address OF
Wado Hampton.
The monument erected in Chicago
to the memory Of Confederate dead
was dedicated with imposing ceremo.
MES on the 3lst Of May. There was an
immense concourse of people. and many
prominent Confederates cook part in
the proceedings.
Gen. John Q. Underwood, who origi-
mated the idea of the monument, brief
~ ske sched the inception and progress
OF the monument which eliminated in
tho great gathering, and closed by
introducing rs presiding officer Of the
exercises the Rev. H. w. Bolton, pas
tor of the Centenary Methodist
Church and past commander Of u. S.
Grant Post, N. 2S, G. A. r., whom he
or. Justice and morality, a broad rep
resentative of the Union veteran, u
humanitarian and q Christian gentle
man." DR.. Bolton, on taking the chair,
returned thanks for the honor confer
red upon nim, aud in q speech of some
length delivered an eloquent eulogy
upon the soldiers Of the late war. both
North and South. After an anthem by
a double quartette, the orator of the
day, Gen. Wade Hampton, was intro
duced, and spoke as follows:
The scene presented here today is
one that could not be witnessed in any
country but our own, and for this rea-
son, II no other, 1t possesses Il signifi-
cance worthy of the gravest consider
alton. A few years ago, brave men
from tho North and from the South
stood facing each other in hostile er-
ray, and the best blood of the country
was poured out like water on many q
battlefield. Thousands, hundreds of
thousands, Of our bravest sleep In
bloody graves; men who gave their
lives to prove the faith of their con-
Vlctlons and how North and South,
standing by these graves wherever
they may be, grasp hands across the
olo0dy chasm, and proudly claim Fed
eral and Confederate soldiers as Amer.
leans, mon who have given to the
world as noble examples of courage Q
and devotion to duty as can be enroll
ed on the pages of history Nor ia
this all that marks this occusion as
exceptional and remarkable, and
which would render it memorable in
our annals for all time to come. No
monument in the world has such an
honorable history as attaches to
yonder one. That marks the graves
OF No victorious soldiers, but of the fol-
lowers Of a lost cause it stands not on
Southern soil, but on Northern the
men who rest under it's shadow como
from our far off Southland and it
owes It's erection not to the comrades
OF these dead soldiers, but mainly to
the generosity and magnamity of their
former foes, the citizens OF this great
city. All honor then to the brave and
liberal mon OF Chicago who have
showed by their action that they re-
gard the war as over, and that they
can welcome as friends on this solemn
and auspiciOus occasion their former
enemies. AS lohg as this lofty col
umn points to heaven; as long as one
stone Of its foundation remains, future
generations Of Americans should look
honor to those who conceived it's con-
struction, but as silent though noblo
emblem of a restored Union and re-
united people. In the name of my
comrades, dead and living, and in my
own name, give grateful thanks to
the brave men of Chicago, who have
done honor to our dead heroes, not as
Confederate soleiers, but as brave
mon who preferred imprisonment and
death rather than freedom obtained |
by dishonorable sacrifice Of the prin-
ciples for which they were willing to
die.
or the 5000 Confederates buried
here not one was an officer; all were
the unhappy war which brought an
Iliad of woes upon our country. And
yet these humble private soldiers, any
one of whom could have gained free
dom by taking the oath of alleg lance to
the Federal government, preferred
death to the sacrifice of their princi-
Piles. Can any possible dishonor pos
sibly attach to the brave men Of Chica-
60 because they are willing to recog-
nize the courage and the devotion te
duty of these dead Confedorates.
Imagine, If you can, my friends, the
despair, the horror of these poor pri-
Yates, lingering in prison and dying
for their faith. They died hero, in
what they looked upon as a foreign
and hostile land, far from the land of
their birth, with no tender hand of
mother or wife to soothe their en-
trance into tho dark valley Of the
shadow Of death, and with all the
memories of their far Off homes and
loving kindred to add the sharpest
pangs to death ltself. They were
true men, and say if you please that
they were mistaken, that they we're
wrong, no brave man on earth can fail
to do honor to their courage and their
steadfast adherence TO what they con-
eSeivcd to be their duty. You, the
brave citizens of Chicago, in doing
honor to their memory, honor your
selves and humanity. Nor will you
uialne us OF the South, while apprccia
ting gratefully your generous action
ln pehelf OF our dead comrades, for
ceherishing with pride and reverence
their memory. You could not rcsnnct
ns were we to feel otherwise. Death
places its seal on the nctions ~ men
and 1t Is after death that we "maas.
nre men," o'''
"a King once said of Prince strnox
down; ''' w"
"Taller he seems in death
And this speeoh holds true for now az tho,,
1t is after death we measure men,
And ns the mists of the past have rolled
away, -
Our heroes who died in their uttered grew
Grow taller and greater in all their parts
Till they fill our mind as they fill our
hearts, ;.
And forthose who lament there is this re.
lief,
That glory stands by the side Of grief.
Yes, they grow tailor as the yenrs so by,
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