The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-07-04
..oORESS BY DR.. INQUIRE.
He Delivered a Unique Discourse on
General StOneWall Jackson.
TELLS MANY INTERESTING INCIDENTS.
The Speaker Related facts which Tut the
Great Soldiers Life and Character
inaNew Light Before Many
Who we've Present.

evening on the occasion OF the dedication
OF the Jackson Memorial Han in Lex
ington on June z5d last. Dr. Mc0uire
WAS on General Jackson's staff as medi-
cal director aud attended the great SOL
der during his last moments.
For these and other reasons DR.. Nc
CURES address was OF special interest
and his bearcs gave him close attention
throughout. IL was one OF the most
uuioue discourses ever delivered about
tho life or character OF General jackson,
and DR. Mcclure was cOmpllmented on
AL sides on his address. lie was request
cd 10 repeat ii before the meeting OF Lee
Camp last Friday night. which he ala
An the presence Of large audience
FILL TEXT OF THE ADDRESS.
Fellow is the full text of the address:
l understand, and L beg TINS audience
10 understand that / am mere to-uaE'
not because 1 have any place among inc
orators. or am able to do anything eN-
cent TO speak right on" and tell you
that which you yourselves know, Dut
bccauso the noblest heritage ! shau
hand down to my children is the TACT
that Stonewall Jackson condescended TO
hold me and treat me as ms TREND 1
know. and you know. that as long as
yalor and virtue are honored among
men. as long as greatness OF nina anu
grandeur of soul excite our admirauoh'
as long as Virginia parents desire nobie
examples TO set before their sons, ana
a. long as there dwells in the souls OF
Virginia boys THAI FIRE OF native noble
ness which can be kinded by tales OF
berois endeav0r so long will Virginia
men and women be ;cady TO hear OF tie
words and the leeds Of Virginia's heroic
sons. and. therefore ready and glad 10
hear how valoroIs and how Virtuous,
how great and how grand IN every
thought and action was the Nirginian OF
whom | speak to-night-to know in what
awosome Titanic mould was cast that
ouiet Professor who once did his duty
here; that silent stranger whom no man
knew until the fire Of God fell upon
him In the battlefield" as IT did upon
Arthur-the Ere by which Sir Launcelot
knew him for his king-the nre that Ike
the live coal from off the altar touch
cd the lips" Of Jackson and brought
from them that kingly voice which the
eagle Of victory knew and Obeyed. For
a king was Stonewall Jackson, IL ever
ROYALTY. Amounted as by fire. appeared
among men,
When Egypt. or Persia, or Greece or
Rome was the world: when the fame OF
a king reached the borders of his own
dominion, but scarcely crossed them
when a great conqueror was known as
fas as his banners could fly; frlenus
Cor enemies) could assign a warrior
rank amongst mankind and his place III
history. These latter ages have agreed
that a Rameses. a Cyrus. an Alexander.
or a. Constantine shall be styled The
Great"-accepting therein the estimate
nut upon them by the contracted times
I'm which they lived, supported perchance
hv the story of their deeds as laborious-
" chiseled on some long buried slab,
recorded on some hardly recovered sheets
of ancient parchment, or written on some
dozen pages Of literature. the language
OF which serves the purposes of the
ghosts along the Styx. as they tell eacn
other Of glories long departed.
-0-iay the world is wide. and before the
worlds tribunal each candidate for his
toric honors may appear. The world
estimate. and that alone. posterity will
accept and even that 1t will hereafter
most carefully revise.
a VAIN ESDEAVOR.
The young Emperor of Germany. seek
ing TO decree his grandiather's place in
history. would have him styled will
liam the Great" Here ana there, ID
one nation and another, press ana peoI1e
combine to defy some popular hero ana
of1er him for the plaudits of the worship
of the age. Ii is a vain endeavOr. The
universal judgment cannot be forestalled.
No force or artifice can make mankind
accept as final the false estimate instead
of the true. Money, powerful, dangerous
and threatening as it now is in this Re
public. cannot for long buy a verdict.
The unbiased world alone is capable OF
stamping upon the forehead of man that
mark which neither the injustice of ad-
verse interest. nor envys gnawing tooth,
nor the ceaseless flow OF the river OF
time are able TO efface.
Therefore. it was with swelling heart
and deep thankfulness that 1 recently
heard some of the first soldiers and mil
itary students OF England declare that
within the past two hundred years the
English speaking race has produced but
five soldiers Of the first class-Marlbor-
ough. Washington. Wellington, Robert
Lee, and Stonewall Jackson. l heard
them declare that Jacksons campaign
in the Shenandoah Valley, in which you,
and you. and you. and l myself in my
subordinate place. followed this lmmor-
tai. was the finest specimen OF strategy
and tactics OF which the world has any
record; that in this series of marches
and battles there was never blunder
committed by Jackson; that this cam
OF those made by Napoleon in Italy.
one British officer. who teaches strategy
in a great European college. told me
that he used this campaign as a model
of strategy and tactics and dwelt upon
Ii for several months in his lectures;
that IL was taught for months of each
session in the schools OF Germany; and
that Won Moltke, the great strategist,
declared IL was without rival in the
worlds history. This same British OIL
Ger told me that he had ridden on horse
back over the battletelds OF the Valley
and carefully studied the strategy and
tactics there displayed by Jackson. lie
had followed him 10 Richmond, where
he Joined with Lee IN the campaign
against Mcclellan in 1862; that he had
followed his detour around Pope; his
management of his troops at Manassas,
that he had studied his environment OF
Iarper's Ferry and its capture; his part
OF the fight al Sharpsburs. and his flank
movement around Hooker. and that he
had never blundered. Indeed" he adj
ded. Jackson seemed TO me (him in
spiIed." Another British soldier told me
that for its numbers the Army OF North
ern Virginia had more force and power
than any other army that ever existed.
High as is my estimate OF the Second
Corps OF the Army Of Northern Virginia
j heard thtse opinions with new ella
ton. for ! knew they presented the yer,
dict OF impartial history. the verdict that
posterlty will stamp with it's approval;
verdict In itself such tribute TO valor
and virtue, devotion and truth as shall
serve TO inspire. eNalt and ennobie our
children and our children's children to