The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-04-27

| defending firesides and affairs, ii is not to
be wondered at that the soldiers of the
confederacy should have become in a short
| while the peer of any army of modern
times, and their grand achievements
should rank with the greatest.
! Sidney Smith. the brilliant but erratic
| Englishman, with his handful of men
standing in the path of the great Napo-
| leon, blocking the way to the east did no
more than Beauregard performed at
| Charleston.
| Macdonald, with his human wedge at
| Wagram, carrying that same Napoleon 5
crown upon the bayonet points of his SOL
! diers. is no more TO be admired tn IN
| Pickett. struggling up Cemetery Hill with
| his infantry into a living hell of cannon,
and browning Pennsylvania hilltop with
| an immortal fame.
No act of heroes in the annals of time
| surpassed the gray hero doing sentinel
| duty in the trenches around Richmond,
| his clothes in tatters barefoot in the
snow, the bleak and bitter wind cutting
into his marrow. faithful and true until
cold and starvation had done their sure
work, and he went before the Great Com
mander TO answer "adsum" to the last
roll call-dead at the post Of duty.
Around the head of Hood, the mistaken
and MANNED strapped to his horse, charg
ing the enemy before Atlanta, the blaze
| OF glory shone as bright as upon the heroes
of Balaklava.
Albert Sidney Johnston. expiring at Sh-
loh, with victory in his grasp, showed
mankind how soldier without fear could
meet death.
Jackson. the Christian. before his life
blood ebbed away at Charlottesville,
startled the civilized world with the i'm
mense possibilities Of his genius.
Barlow, eGorgias hero, illustrating his
state At Manassas, and dying with Branch
and Crane and the other brave boys, left
to Savannah recollections as glorious as
those which cluster round the names of
Pulaski and Jasper.
And Leel At the mention of his name
there rises a vision of man al his best,
man fashioned after the image of his
maker, spotless and pure in these days of
degenration, perfect to human eyes, lit
orally without the suspicion of stain. Well
may the people of the confederacy rest
their cause upon him and exclaim IF he
was Of us we could not have been wrong.
Well may the face the future with an as
surance born of the consciousness of right,
and make Of the reproachless knight of
the nineteenth century an embodiment of
their actions and their cause.
These are only a few Of the names placed
by the south upon glory's list of heroes.
The pages Of history are bright with the
luStre of thousands more, whose victories
and disasters, sufferings and steadfast-
ness are written indelbly in the record of
time. All that they suffered and fought
for is perpetuated in the monuments that
rise from hills and plains, and tell of a ma
ton that lived for four years upon the
life-blood Of a generous people, and that
died at last only when the material of sus-
tenance had been exhausted.
The confederate dead, the great majority
of them are sleeping in the soil from
whence they sprang, Indifferent forever to
the drum-beat and bugle, sleeping, envel-
oped in the precious incense of a brave
peoples love, where the hooking bird
sings a te deum full to bursting of the
praises of a land of peace and plenty.
They died without knowing that in the
fullness of time Gods mercy would walk
with the people of the south through the
valley of the shadow of death and bring
them at last out of the night of dark
ness into the glorious day beyond They
little thought that their living comrades
would some day be back in their fathers
house, welcome and honored and the
states of the confederacy governed by
their own children. would again take their
places with the others, catching step with
them in united march to the common
destiny.
Come from the four winds,
Oh, Breath
And breathe upon these slain,
That they may live"
VIII they live? Aye, as long as the hui
man heart beats responsive to patriot
isms high purpose, as long as the instinct
of liberty is alive in man, as long as hero
isms tale stirs the blood to actions glo-
rious, and courage and fortitude. fidelity
and bravery are watchwords of manhood.
Live? Yes, as long as the people s
honor is by a people held sacred. The
Breath has breathed upon them. They
will live.
Mr.. Hartridge was listened to through
out with close attention, and was several
cd puif
speech had the merit of he
ing just the right length, neither
too long nor too short. The speakers
eloquent periods showed that he
had Inherited the genius of his father.
The sentiments expressed by him were
Endorsed by the applause of the veterans
After the grafton the veterans first. and
then the children, filed into the Enclosure
around the monument and gave their
wreaths and flowers to the members of
the Daughters of the Confederacy, who
placed them around the monument. The
monument itself had been tastefully deco
rated during the morning by a Joint COM
mittee of veterans and ladies' of the
Daughters of the Confederacy. being
twined with ropes OF cedar and hung at
the base with flowers i'm the shape of an
chors, stars and other designs.
After the veterans and children had fin
ished laying their tributes around the
monument Capt. w. n. Nichols, inspector
of rifle practice of the First Regiment.
mounted to the base of the monument
and sounded lights out" on the bugle OF
the Georgia Hussars, which was found on
the field at Malvern Hill. The regiment
had, in the meantime, been withdrawn
from the north of the monument and
formed in line to the west of It, The Irish
Jasper Greens were selected for the honor
OF firing the salute. Three volleys were
fred. This concluded the exercises of the
day. The veterans and children we're dis
missed on the parade ground, while the
First Regiment marched back 10 its arm
ory. Many persons visited Laurel Grove
cemetery after the exercises at the monu-
ment.
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