The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-05-11


Orator Of the Occasion)
by n large number Of citizens on horse
back They represented the oakwood
Memorial Association. The Junior oak
wood Memorial Association. the Holly
wood Memorial Association, the junior
Hollywood Memorial Association. Inc
parade was in charge Of chief Marshal q.
Percy Halves, and Captain y. W. LOCK-
W01u. Jr. acted rs cnlrl-oi--iai.
The procession went down Broad street
% Twcuty-cirhth. thence 20 Libby lllIl
Park. around the Soldiers and sailors
Monument. out Twcnty-ninth street 10
Broad. down Broad to Ihirty-fourth, ana
from there out TO the cemetery. bpon
the arrival az OakWOOd the parade was
dismissed. and the ladies' took seats on
the platform that had been erected near
the monument IN the soldiers section.
Mr.. ID. G. Richardson presided over INC
gathering and he first called ou Rcv. j. i.
aIastin. Of Trinity church. who offered a
fervent prayer. Colonel Gordon ". NJ
Cabe was introduced as the orator OF the
CT. MCABE's SPEECH.
Colonel McCabe. who wore DIS uniform
as Past Commander, said in part:
"To do honor 90 the memory of these
dear dead comrades. who in the noble
words Of Pericles, chose death IN re-
sistance rather than safety i'm subm.s-
ding of the patriot women Of our mother
town. who. I'm those evcntful years OF
civil strife checred these men. when liv-
ing. as they trod the thorny path or
DUTY. and who will each recurring year.
i'm the full tide of spring rich symphony
NJ life. and love and blossom. Wreathe
Nth FRAGRANT flowers the graves OF those
Vho died that the State might I've.
He went on TO say that CHEESE impress
slve rites. this Opulcnce OF fragrant bud
blossom. strewn by pious hands upon
these unforgotten graves arc not alone
for those who called Virginia mother
but for an our Southern dead lie then
spoke Of the patriots OF '6l. who. al the
trumpet call Of duty hOcked 20 Virginia
from an tho Southern States 70 attest
upon these distant fields their fidelity 10
constitutional liberty
Tomorrow" he continued. "this sol
emn naeeant shall be a thing OF vestcr-
sav-tbose few poor words OF hating
ouioev shall be forgot-the iron-throated
plaudits' OF the thunderous guns shall be
bushcd-thcse strains OF wailng martial
music shall have died upon the breeze
But ~ We their surviving comrades
remain hut true 70 orr own se'f-resnoot
md manhOOd-if we shall teach our child
ron i'm the sch0Ol-rOOm and mo the fire.
eide tcnnerafelv and with chastened
prlde the true story OF that mOment0us
conflict II we shall seek 70 impress upon
Them the essential lesson Of such lives
as these. then. in sober truth. shall abide
forever in the hearts of grateful peo-
pie the quickcning memory OF the deeds
they wrought
FOR POSTERITY SAKE.
In a few years. DE said only a handful
Of the men and women who personally
remembered all the "ag0ny and glory Of
those eventful years would be left upon
earth" We could not expect this Me
mortal Day" 20 have the intimate per-
sonal meaning 10 our chiren that 70
must always have for MS. yet If We the
survivors. were faithful in tho years
left MS 10 the high ideal OF patriotism
and duty that informed tho lives Of these
men, then tho Observance OF this Me
mortal Day. should acquire a yet deeper
significance - those who come after rs
and prove "a perpetual inspiration 90 those
who must guide the future dcstlnies of
the State
slowly buN--r7sv." continued the ora
tor "Our old advorsaricA ~ the North
now our fellOw-cit.zens OF common coun-
try-have come 10 recognize that there is
nothing Of what they were wont 10 term
'dslOyalty' I'm tho Observance OF such
day as this. Nay so complete has been
the reversal at the bar OF public opinion
OF the Infamous judgment or treason
once Numbered from pulpit and IN hals
OF legislation. that we have seen withh
a twelve month the Chief Executive OF
the nation standing M before cheering
multitudcs and declaring his convection
That the time had come FOR the national
no
of caring for the graves OF our con-
federate dead
The recent war with Spain. and the
snlendid services Of OLD COnfedera'es in
tbat war no doubt accounted I'm some
measure for this change I'm public opin-
ION. but we had chiefly to thank the stern
and unhinching attitude ~ our Southor0
neonIe for more than thirty years. with
fbeir ready scorn for the fanatics who
sought 10 brand them as "rebels" and
TRAITORS"
AN ETERNAL DEFIANCE
From the very close OF the war we had
accented in good faith "the pitiless logic
Of the heavier bat-alions." but when
.cheap patriots" went further and ode
manded that we should confess the I'M
righteousness Of our contention" we rang
ont an eternal defiance 10 such insolent
demands and gave an answer for oil
fine In the bronze and marble - the
stately monuments erected In the midst OF
our poverty 10 the illustrious leaders Of
our Lost Cause"
Colonel McCabe then alluded in turn
10 the monuments erected here 10 Lee
Jackson a. ?. Hill. the Howitzers and
the Private Soldiers and Sailors of the
Confederacy."
Pausing the speaker said with deep
feeling: There Is yet another monument