Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-01-20

is 50 intense. and ceaseleSs pursuit af-
ter wealth is often the pace that kills l
sometimes fear that we leave our child
rem to learn from governcss or teacher
| many OF the lessons that ought TO be
taught around the family flreside. and
impressed upon their young minds by
some memorial OF our own love and
admiration.
And yet / have no disposition to de-
| cry the present. We have reaped from
the lives of our ancestors harvests of
richest blessings: we enjoy advantages
and opportunities OF the fullest devel-
| opment of the truest manhood. and we
sun have heroes as the natural pro-
ducts or our civilization and yet none
greater than composed that body of in
comparable infantry, the Army of
Northern Virginia, which. vital in all
It's parts, died only in its annihlla-
ton.
The present merciless. position seek
ing. money making, spirit of the Amer
| lean people has not as was supposed
by our late enemies. the Spanlards.
driven from our shores the patriot and
the soldier
The orator reviewed briefly the
Spanish American war, sketched in
short the principal points in Lees
| biography, and repeated Ben Hills
touching eulogy on Lee, which has been
| printed in these columns.
I'VE can declare to the Union SOL
| der that We claim the memory of his
gallant chieftain, in the depths of
whose great soul. on the field of Apo
mattoX. the faults OF the American SOL
| der We're lost and his virtues found,
as common heritage OF the American
people. We can say to him that we now
hail the Stars and Stripes as the ban
ner under which the great Southern
general. Washington. led our fathers to
| victory and to independence. and as
| lnn doc g
II stood last summer on Cemetery
| HILL Gettysburg. near the spot where
the brave and gallant Armistead fell
| Beside me stood a Confederate veteran
whose eyes filled with tears as he spoke
of his fallen friends and comrades.
looked with him down into the bloody
angle. out upon the still open wheat
field. and saw the slope up which
| Pickets gallant Nirginians fought.
broke through the Federal lines and.
with shouts of victory. planted their
banners on the captured Federal guns.
| realized then, possibly as never be-
fore. how the Confederate soldier.
breasting the pitiless storm of shot and
shell. offered his life as n willing sac
riiice for the cause he loved so we'll
But you We're outnumbered. You
were lighting the Federals at their own
hearthstones. almost in hearing dis
| " wv Pi'N Vi . VI NHclI WIVES anu
children for victory. and no wonder you
could not hold the positions gained and
were forced with saddened hearts to
leave the field unwon.
.
The grand life OF the grand old
chiettain was nearing it's close, the sum-
mons from his Creator had already been
issued; on the 18th day of October. 1870
1t reached his home and found him who
had lived through all these years wear
ing the white flower of q blameless life
at peace with his own conscience and
with his God. To the grave. the
worlds sweet inn from pain and weari-
some turmoil his body was committed.
but his freed spirit crossed over the
river and found rest under the shade OF
the trees planted around that home not
| made with hands eternal and in the
| heavens, and rest undisturbed by war
or rumorS of war, free from care, sor-
row and pain, and there with the an
gelic hosts gone on before he shall for
ever sing praises around the heavenly
throne and forever hereafterwards jon
In sweetest welcome to the Christian
soldiery of the world
THE matchless soldier the Deerloss
Christian gentleman. great in war
greater in peace and greatest of all I'm
death. worthy OF our love in life is
still more worthy of our memorial to-
day"