Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1898-10-06
WINNIE DAVIS MOURNED.
MEMORIAL MEETING AT WASH.
INGTON ARTILLERY HALL
ELOQUENT SPEAKERS.
Rev. B. II. Palmer Delivers the Ad.
dress Of the Evening-He Was In
spired by the Occasion to
Marvellous Eloquence.

From the New Orleans Times-Democrat.
Under the auspices OF Washington
Artillery Camp No. Is, U. @. ", q
memorial meeting was held Friday in
the hall of that organization, and elo-
quent speakers paid tribute to the
memory of the Daughter of the Con-
federscy, Miss Winnie Davis, whose
recent death came in the nature of o
personal bereavement to each and
every heart that beat beneath the
gray in the buried years of the Lost
Cause.
Mr.. Marks closed his brilliant
encomium by reading superb eulo-
ogy of Miss Davis.
Rev. B. NJ. Palmer, the orator of the
evening, then delivered the following
address:
"There are memories both mournful
and pleasing to the soul sorrows that
have such touch of sacredness that
they sub due the heart to tenderness
and consecrate the sufferer through
his pain. Such q memory is that of
our dead Confederacy, laid to its final
rest more than thirty years ago. In
the surrender at Appomattox the ex-
piring cause found its tomb in every
heart that survived the long and
dreadful conflict. 1t was not rashly,
nor in petulant anger, that the South
rushed to arms; but in defense of
great principles construed by us as
lying at the foundation of our govern
ment and interviewer, warp and woof,
with every fibre of our political con-
stitution. Those who opposed us, of
course, judged otherwise; but this
does not affect the reality or the sa-
credness of our convictions. These
lent their sanction to the cause we
espoused; we were contending for
what seemed to us the very genius
and life of the republic. What our
convictions were then, they are to-
day; and the same sacredness throws
halo over the memories of the buried
past. They are memories free from
all sense of guilt and devoid Of anger
and resentment, and filled only with q
calm and melancholy sorrow, purified
and ennobled not q little with the joys
of martyrdom. The dead Confsderacy
has gone into history, subject to the
cold criticism of those who sum up all
equations which enter into . great
national result; but for these battle
SCARED veterans who survive it is q
living memory of all that was inspir-
ing and ennobling in the record Of
their past.
"These memories, however long they
may slumber, have their seasons Of
awakening. All here present recall
the splendid but mournful pageant of
q public funeral, when thousands
gathered in Lafayette Square, near by,
and the body of our great civil chief
tain lay in state on the porch of our
City Hall, while the minister of God
in his surplice read from Holy Scrip
ture the words of Christian triumph
over death itself.
"It was scene never to be forgot.
ten by those who witnessed It's deep
solemnity. All the memories of the
Confederacy gathered as drapery
around the couch on which its great
leader and statesman lay asleep. 1t
was fitting that for his first reception
the tomb of military heroes should be
opened, and then that he should be
laid to his Anal rest at the capital and
in the tomb of Confederacy itself, the
shroud which covered the one en-
shrining form of ito first and only
president.
"Again, on this mournful Friday In
September the sheeted ghost of the
past reappears upon the scene in the
death and burial of her whom we
fondly styled the Daughter of the
Confederacy.' She was born in that
dark period when the struggling Con-
federacy was pressing through ita
many disasters to its overthrow. With
the unanimity Of q strange but sudden
inspiration she was adopted - the
young queen to sit upon the throne OF
our affections and was proclaimed the
daughter Of her country.
"Growing up at length In the beauty
of matured maidenhood, she became
more and more, after the death Of her
great father, the living representative
of Q dead but cherished cause. Wher-
ever she appeared before the people
of the South she was greeted with the
applause OF hearts that loved her be-
cause of her association with the
buried past. It was the spontaneous
outburst of living patriotism, which
would still do homage to the princi-
pies which came now to be holy az
death.
"All this appears to me exceedingly
touching. Here are these veterans In
their gray old age keeping guard, "a
it were, around the tomb of dead
government for which they were will
ing to give up their life, and dwelling
only In the memory of all that 10 gone
out Of sight forever, mournfui guard
ians of what can never return to them.
What is Scott's Emul-
sion
1t is the best cod-liver oil,
partly digested, and COM
bined with the hypophos-
phites and glycerine. What
LII =. l. LII