The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-05-30

courtesy at once gentle and command
ing. OF n gallantry chivalric and tran.
quil OF valor princely and undyIng.
There never was knight lika young Lochin-
= war;
Nor is it surprising that suoh un.
stinted praise ia due, when we remem-
Der that these were no Hessians hired
TO tight. No Dugold Dolgettys taking
arms for the side where the most booty
could be gotten, no mercenaries bought
with gold, But they came from happy
homes in obedience to the call of their
native State, from marts of trade and
commerce, from farms and country
iiresides, from halls of learning and
study, FROM the great professions and
from legislative chambers to do battle
for their rights. Their swords we're
huckled on by their wives and mothers,
with the Spartan mothers courage and
behsst. Their sisters and their sweet.
hearts cheered them with smiles of ap.
proval aud restrained their tears ut
parting. The Southern soldier knew
for what he was fighting.
1t mems, moreover, this Memorial
Day, Justice to the living. And by
this l mean not tue reverence due TO
fields. Comrades, We are growing
fewer yesr by year. Our ranks arc
diminished as one by one. at the gum
mons OF the Great Commander, we pass
over the river to rest under the shade
Of the trses. Certainly to those who
vet move i'll active life the need of
Difference is due. Nor do l mean sole.
~ the homage of gallantry and graft
tude that is won by the fair hands OF
those who have never proved unfaith-
dul TO their country, and the glory of
tho soldier, the true, patient,
seif-sacrificing, peerless women. of
the South, the Memorial Assccia.
ton TINT keep green aud beauti-
full the memories and the graves of
our noble dead, and minister with I'M.
tiring assiduity to the living and sor-
owing. Worthy are they of our hearts
profonndest devotion. But mean that
no attainder of treason shall attach to
any who wore the gray; that the sons
and daughters of those who died for
Virginia and the South shall not be
branded thereby as rebels; that history
shall be truo aud the awards of life i'm
partial. 1 plead for sheer simple jus.
tice, and to this end for research and
knowledge, and the Instrumentation of
the truth. plead that our children in
schools be taught the reason, the mean
ing, the facts aud the results of that
great struggle.
1t is one Of the striking teachings of
our times that facts, dates, great names,
great empires have had their records
unearthed to our eye. The spade is
the great historian, A nations history
10 connected With. (may l not rather
say is told by) it's tributes to the dead.
We all know the meaning of the pyra.
mtds. the mausoleum and that dream
of architectural beauty and devotion
the Tai Mahal of India. But the
buried cities, tho buried empires, tho
buried civilizations that have been ex-
hnmed, have taught us anew the
menning and the necessity of monu-
ments. The HIttite literature has
passed away. but the splendors of the
Hittlte civilization and avows appear
from their stones and monuments.
The columns OF the Parthenon tell lis
no less than the odes of Anacreon or
the plays of Euripldes the culture of
the Greek. Comrades of Pickett
Buchanan Camp. fellow citizens of
Norfolk, Indies who dwell in this fair
y
As yet M marble column Graves
The pilgrim here to pause"
Alas. must l quote Hentu Timrod's
imltiable lines further to say:
"ln seeds OF laurel in the Garth
The blossom of their fame is blown.
And somewhere, wasting for its birth
The shaft is III the stouc.n
Still is it true, the nhaft is in the
stone.
The monument is unquarriod, the
bronze IS uncast. Let us build the
monument. Meanwhile. we see the
tremendous significance of these memo
rial days. Let us keep warm and
throbbing the love of those
"Who died for us,
Who living, were true and tried for US
And i'll death. sleep side by side FOR US
lhe martyr baud that hallowed our land
WIN TIE hlood they poured in The tide ior'uS."
Let US treasure their fame and their dust.
Here in their lowly bed
he toll OIL ,ie al en- el
MI duties done. cnr:th e turf al last
lEeir dream al fame and glory Il | are past:
i!a ast Their hopes Il I'd a,pra o - splendid
W IN loving care, their ashes wat he'd and tended
by 10 Sc whom their brave hos oms long defended
Now sleep the quiet dead.
"oh LEI us not forget how much we owe
10 hose siillcd puisclc 5 hearts. once barred
l.K walls ~ Sieti ainSi the advancing foe
- =" ME We 'y tue Al protected, now are spared
- pince our offerings on this :uriy bed
Where sleep the quiet dead
Honor the dead, And when we lie beside them
m Lies bate fought, Lies srmor laid away
~ hono'N TO our children We coniidc them;
CA ct them nc'r forget this solemn day
Bui siilI commemorative flowers lay
ron the green aud turfy bed,