The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-05-30

tame to those who did.
Genius coupled with gentleness, sell
assertion with modest claim, loftiest
ambition with humility, fiawless re-
cord with tempting opportunity, sub
lime faith with unflagging zeal, and
every impulse subordinate to patri-
otic end, constituted fitness in the
highest for highest command. Let
it content us in defeat. my. brothers.
that the cause by them espoused will
be gagged in history by their exalted
standard. 'Causa victrix placlnt
deis, sed victa Catoni." Observe in
like connection jackson. the superb
grandest lieutenant that ever captain
had and his brother Hill, cast in kin
dred mould; that stern intieXib!e
brace of old Ironsides. who had inn
plicit faith in Providence and Presby-
terianism, dry powder and cold steel
and could not realize that soldiers
could de before their time had come.
II would seem that they had interpo-
lated another tenet in the articles Of
! the church militant; namely, dying
for cause and country and liberty is
a no mean atonement for duties un-
/ done.
Such has ever been a conquering
creed for under sized armies. deficient
| alike in numbers and resources. 1t
made the camel driver of Mecca. the
prophet, the law-giyer. the master OF
the Eastern world. 1t made Hunting
don's brewer the most renowned ana
respected potentate of his time, and
who ennobled as only one had done
the kingly place he held. IT enabled
the adventurer CorteZ with n few
| c.,ll. To
ton of millions. And 50 the clnhat-
tied host. urged on by faith in Cod
and duty to man, is we'll nigh invita-
chile until by attrition anI'Ihilation
follows. The eight thousand guns
grounded at AppomattoN is eternal
proof of the dictum lald down.
Brief retrospect of few others of
our typical heroes, and we pass on
to the subject of our text. The en-
tire roster could scarce be called be-
tween the rising of the new moon
and the going down of the same, at
the end of its course for from the
modest President to the jocund drum
mer bow. it was an army of heroes.
Take the two fighting parsons. for
instance. Hear them at critical iunc-
lures in the hour of battle aud you
gions. "HoId your position, General
Cheatham. for it is the kew of the
line" exclaims Bishop General Polk
a brief space before his lanentcd fall:
''hoId it though it cost every man in
Your command. Cant promise,
General was the iocular retort,
''since you've made me promise 20 give
up cuss words. Since I have, these
boys of mine don't fight Il bit bet
ter than blue coats"
Speak to them today in your own
emphatic way, Cheatham, bit hold
your part of the line" WAS he part
ing injunction, or at least it was SO
reported.
''Take good aim. my men, before
pulling the lanyard" is the caution
OF the grave old artillcrist. brother
Pendleton, land may the Lord have
mercy on their souls
On this occasion for obvious reason
we pass the most superb infantry that
the world has ever known or is likely
ever to know. God bless them, they
fought on the plane of demigods and
like demi-gods. and make our salaam
to the Cavalry. | give you fancied
review of our horseback heroes in the
mythic shades of Walhalla.
There's Stuart, the noblest of the
line of kings. whose name and blood
he bears, replete with piety, patriot
ism and school-hoy fun, who to we'll
laid plans loved fight for right as
he did frolic. If claim to kinship
there was with Scotland's kings, the
knightlv Rupert. who lowered above
them ALL must have been his linea
progentor. Farewell. "Old Beauty"
goodbye, "Jeb.' old friend and class
mate.
And there rides one unskiiled in
schools and hence could never master |
the definition of the word defeat. His |
name is Forrest. BY concensus of |
opinion of most approved military !
critics of neutral nations the grand |
est leader of hrsemen in the annals |
of all antecedent times. A rough |
rider they say but by my troth court
w. His theory of war may be crude
but it has ever proved Napolconic: Il
make it a pint to fight the enemy
wherever | find it and try and get the |
most men there first" Doff your cap. |
Murat, Marshal of France and King
of Naples, and discard your golden
spurs and cockney feathers, for hence |
on YOU ride behind that untutore,, SON
of Genius.
And there's Hampton. lie hasn't |
forded the dark river yet. Gnd grant |
the day be far. distant. and hence to
spare his bushes we must needs be |
chary of praise. But truly hath he |
ridden well unless universal report be
lie him. BY birthright End oy right |
of self-made good, no Bayard e'er
bore prouder and more sporless front. |
Political ingratitude may hurl its
puny shafts at such an one IS did the
little men in Lilliput, rltoirs at Cap |
tain CULVER, but the muse of his |
tory has him enrolled amongst the |
worlds foremost and most lnselfish |
cavaliers.
And there goes Wheeler, little
fighting Joe. He, too, was Il marked |
hero in ''the war between the States. |
and later on he came ont as the nero
of another war. Toe big is he, little |
as he looks, for the standing army"
He once wore a gray coat.
And here is a pair of old web |
Foots" who must not be forgotten. al |
though out of place in the ''crliter
company But chat makes no odds.
Doff hats. heroes. all of every arm to