The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1899-04-19

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later at Fredericksburg and Chancel-
louisville and at Groveton won greater
renown than did Ney at the head OF
the Old Guard of the Grand Army.
Cardigan, with his brave six hundred,
has been immortalized in song and
story, yet the Light Brigade at Bala-
klava we're not more chivalric-never
more courageous than tie splendid
squadrons of Stuart and Wheeler and
Fitzhugh Lee, and you, my friends,
will never suffer to perish the fame
won by your own comrades in their
glorious young manhood, whose
strong arms and stout hearts rem
dered illustrious your Hamptions and
Hagoods and Buffers and B~rattons,
your McGowans and Jinkin's and
Wallace and Garys and Corners and
Kershaws, and your own honored
Steadman. Living ever in u mem.
DRY the faces of the comrades of our
earlier days rise before us even now:
The throng the silence of the breast
We see them as of you're,
The kind, the true, the brave, the best,
Who walk with US no more"
They have gone on before, leaving
behind them the pathway of duty
and of honor splendidly illumined, by
the brilliancy of their deeds and the
splendor of their lives, inspiring US to
higher aims and purer purposes,
ever beckening US upward and on
ward.
How strange it seems with 50 much gone,
Of life aud love-to still on
Yet love will dream and faith will trust
,Since be who knows our need is just)
That somehow, somewhere. meet we must.
The ceremonies of an occasion like
this would have been incomplete
without and effort to pay a slight
tribute to the gallant men whose
elbow touch you constantly felt in
your young manhood, where duty
summoned you to the field of honor
and of danger.
I should have failed to merit the
approval of those for whom I speak
today, nor would l have reflected the
sentiments of their loving hearts if
I had neglected to lay a simple gar
land on the graves of our sainted
comrades. All along down the CEN
turtles, since Mary Magdalene and
Joanna and Mary the mother Of
James, with their ointments and
costly spices were first at the sepul-
chre on the third day morning, till
now, in war and in peace, in sunshine
and in shadow, in Joy and in sorrow,
noble women, pure and patriotic,
loving and tender, have labored to
tighten the burdens and increase the
pleasures of the sons of men. words
of cheer came from their loving lips,
when in the enthusiasm of your
young manhood, you marched away
sto the wild grand music of war"
Her prayers sheltered you or the
CORY field, and when you kept watch
and ward in the wild storm or under
the quiet midnight stars. When
torn by shells and pierced by balls Gin
the trenches of forts or in the wild
whirlwind of the charge" her tender
hands blinded your wounds, minis
tered to your wants in the hospitals
Of pain, and tenderly nursed you
back to life. Alb! more, yonder shaft
pointing heavenward, bearing in
scribed on its marble faces the i'm
perishable names of your departed
comrades is but and added testi.
monial to her devotion to the memory
of her conntrys defenders woman
tribute to valors worth"
She comes again today with a new
manifestation of her thoughtful con,
sideration and bids me place in your
keeping the lovely banner I now up
furl in your presence.
1t is not the fiery cross which in
your younger days you followed tc
honor and to victory. You are not
expected to unfurl it in the forefront
of battle. It is not intened that il
shall beckon you onward, iuttering
between contending hosts, to the
ramparts of the foe. You have passed
the half century mile post in the
roadway of life. You are nearing the
time when you must answer the last
roll call. You are to receive this
rather as an emblem of peace, s
tribute from loving hands to loya
hearts. Beneath it's lovely folds yor
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