The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-04-28

and like Caesar at the siege of Alesia in
terpose his command between two armies.
For this he stormed the face of Mission
Ridge. For this he led the massy columns
of his brave soldlery into the gloomy
shades of the Wilderness and entered upon
the year of battles when the rifles were
never voiceless and the dread artillery was
scarcely hushed To this silent man who,
in his youth and simple young manhood,
had been evolving powers of which he HIM
self was not aware, was accorded in the
second year of his leadership the greatest
military command under government the
world has ever known. That his armies
were tremendous is true, but other gener-
ais trained like him. with equal opportu-
mites, had equal armies, and they had all
failed, even as the sons of the ancient He
brews passed before the prophet of
God, and Samuel said. The Lord
hath not chosen thee but when
David came the Lord said, Arise,
annoint him, for this is he And
had he not foemen worthy of his steel?
Who so ready as he to record his estimate
of their constancy and their valor? The
sincerity of their convictions he did not
question. Here in his imperial state,
where the nobility of your manhood has
given bond in stone and ever enduring
brass to guard and to immortalize' the
ashes of the Confederate dead, here where
lived your great commander who, in his
last recorded words, declared that they
deemed their principles dearer than life it,
self, ii needs not that l should laud the
manhood or defend the sincerity of South
ern men. No affront would he permit
when they stacked their arms to the worn
and wasted veterans of Lee. The great
commander was in battle their sternest
foe, their gentlest victor in defeat. They
are our countrymen now he said to his
gallant soldiers before the last wreath of
smoke had foated away from the firing
lines at AppomatoX. How he kept his
soldierly word to Gen. Robert Edward
Lee when the parole of that great SOL
der was threatened, will forever endear
his memory TO Southern men. We are
brethren now, shoulder to shoulder under
the glory bright ensign of our common
country, and l thank God that with the
clear vision OF the dying, the
noble patriot whom we COM
memorate to-day, lived to see this truth
In simple phrase he wrote i feel that we
are on the eve of a new era when there is
to be great harmony between the Federal
and the Confederate. l cannot stay to be
a living witness to the correctness of this
prophecy, but l feel IL within me that it
Is to be so. The universal kind feeling ex-
pressed for me at a time when 1t was
supposed that each day would prove my
last seemed 10 me the beginning of the
answer to "let us have peace" With
such emotions in his heart, this great
American died.
"And, my countrymen, his prophetic
words were true. Now i'm our country
need we are a reunited people His mag
nanimity TO Southern men, his soldierly
fidelity to his great adversary has found
It's reward in the devotion to his country
of that other Lee, who amid the curses
and tho treachery of the stealthy Span
iards, the pestilence among their victims,
and the cruel massacre of our sleeping
sailors with consummate courage and
manliness has maintained the honor of
the Stars and Stripes. Far to the South
in the state OF my birth and my love. In
a park in beautiful Savannah, where soft
winds from the Atlantic rustic the palms.
swing the silver censers of the acacia.
aud dsperse The fragrance OF the magno-
IN ana the rose. noble men and gentle
women have reared a monument 20 the
Confederate dead. on lts face, taken from
the grand poetry Of scripture. are these
words:
Come from tho four winds, . breath.
ana breathe upon those slain. that they
may I've
The prayer has been granted They