The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-03-20
BILL ARP ON DR.. INQUIRE.
Would BE Proud TO Have Been Born n
Nirginian.


I have hal some most delicious reading
lately II IS the address delivered by DR..
Hunter Mcclure on January 22d last past.
at the St. Denis Hotel in New York at
the eighth annual banquet of the Con-
federate Veterans Camp Of New York
city. " must bo. know. the most beau
tiful and thrilling tribute 20 StonewaU
Jackson ever written or spoken by any
man. Or. Mcclure was Jackson's rnedi-
cal director and most confidential friend
and has told In this address more touch-
ing incidents connected with the great
generals military career than l have
ever found. and they are beautifully,
charmingly told. Every page Of this
little booklet "a adorned with them. IL
Is NOT often that medical men indulge In
biographical literature. but DR. Mcclure
IL certainly a man OF rare culture. read
this address aloud 10 my wife and daugh-
ters last evening, and at times l could
not read. / had 10 pause and wait Tor
my heart 10 be- still ana my voice TO come
back To me. These always tell me when
what / read f. inspired. How did our
hearts burn within us as / read ana how
was our patriotism revived and set aslow
with a new fire. Even on the first page
time and current events bring over the
best OF patriots. for he says:
1T was with a swelling heart that /
recently heard some OF the first soldiers
and military students OF England declare
that within the past two hundred years
the English speaking race had produced
bur I'VE soldiers OF the first rank-Marl-
borough washington. Wellington. Ro-
bert 4. Leo and stonewall Jackson. /
heard them dcrlare that Jackson's cam
paign in the Shenandoah Valley was the
finest specimen OF strategy and tactics
of which tho world has any record that
i'm this series OF marches ana battles
there was never a blunder. and that this
campaign was superior TO either OF those
made by NAPOLEON in Italy. one British
officer who teaches strategy in a great
European tcnege told me that ne used
this campaign as a model. and dwtlt upon
il for months IN his lectures and that II
was taught in all military schools OF Ger
many. and Won Moltke declared II was
without a rival in the worlds history.
indeed he added. jackson seems 10 me
to have been inspired. Another British
soldier OF high rank and a trained stu
dent OF war told me that for its numbers
the Army of Northern Virginia had more
force and power than any other army
that ever existed"
Well. that is enough for a starter-a
starter Of the blood In the patriots veins.
Sometimes l feel like l would be proud
to have been horn Virginian. where
these great soldiers lived-Washington
Lee and Jackson-and where Jefferson
and Madison and Monroe and Patrick
Henry and John Marshall hved-"l wish
that every old soldier and every young
I, Low this
splendid address. II reads like ro-
nance. and II there are any young men
who are inclined 20 make sport OF the
war the perusal of this address VIII
make Them feel ashamed that they ever
entertained any such unpatriotic feelings.
We have heard of a young mans
party as hostile TO any further political
honor to the veterans but surely this can
not be true, for what young man can be
found who would so dishonor the mother
who bore him or the father or uncle or
kinsman who fought or fell in the late
war. No Rather let every young man
I'm the South echo the sentiment or Henry
Grady when he said at the New Eng
land banquet: The South has nothl'B 10
take back Ia my native town Is a nonu-
ment that crowns its central hill-a pam
white shaft. Deep cut into its shining
side IS a name dedf 10 iho "Dof' tHN
names Of men-that OF a brave and sim
pie faith. Not for all the glories OF New
England would 1 exchange the heritage
he left me Ia his soldier death. To the
foot OF that monument / shall send my
children's children TO reverence him who
ennobled their name with his heroic
blood"
That Is patriotism-pure and simple.
BILL ARP.
Home ond Farm. Louisville, KY