The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-05

IN abundance. There is limit to human
endurance, and after four years of daring,
skill and privation, never equaied, that
limit was reached. and Appomattox wit
messed the fall Of the Southern cause.
and the little band of patriots still left
saw with fearful eyes the flag that had
rustled its silken folds over them on SO
many fields of victory furIed forever,
feeling in the depths of their anguish
On. It's hard for US TO fold ii,
Hard TO think there's none Ito hold it.
Hard that those who once unrolled if.
Must furl it with a sigh
But my comrades, while we lost, there
has never been an instant when ::c
doubted the justice of our cause. The
Confederate soldier surrendered his
musket, but not his manhood, and never
since the dismal day when his great COM
lnander determined that no more precious
lives should be sacrificed, and no more
widows and orphans made In continuing
hopeless struggle, has ne felt aught but
the flush OF pride He has reclnted no.
thing, apoiogized for nothing. but in his
soul he has embalmedNt the memories of
that conflict more and more as ne has
put the years behind him and looked for
ward to the hour when earth to earth
and dust to dust shall be said.
NAME OF JACKSON.
t'Kingdoms crunlble, governments perish
and men pass away, but grand acmeEe-
inents and great names live on forever
The seat of the capital OF the Roman En-
pireis only ma rl<ed by her ruins: her
seven hills still rear their heads, but
Rome.s power, nationality, even her lam
suagc have been dead for centuries upon
centuries, yet the deeds and name of her
Caesar are as mighty now as when she
was queen of land and sea. The Napo-
leonic Empire vanished after her legions
had carried her eagles in triumph from
Madrid to Moscow, yet the deeds and
name Of Napoleon are as bright now as
they were at Austerlitz and Wagra1n. Our
young republic, which sprung Minerva
like full armored into the arena to com
bat oppression and wrong. has been
sleeping the sleep that knows no waking
since her death kneM sounded at ApDo-
tnattox yet the deeds and name of her
Jackson Shine with the same lustre as
when at Manassas, Kernstown, Middle
town. Mcdowell, Winchester, Strasburg,
Harrisonburg. Cross Keys, Port Republic,
Mechanicsville, Cold Harbor, Malvern
Hill, Cedar Mountain, Bull Run, Harper $
Ferry, Antetann, Fredericksburg and
-Chancellorsville he either stood like a
stonewall.' or like rushing torrent he
swept everything before him, or like a
thunsierbost he struck dismav into the
ranks of the enemy. and made the very
eartl, tramble under their feet.
RESTS IN BEAUTIFUL VALLEY.
..He Jackson> rests under the sod of
his States beautiful valley, where in
thirty days he yanquished four armies,
and then, sweeping eastward he struck
another army a stunning blow which
sent it reeling, in panic and disorder, to
final cover. under its own gunboats.
there SleoS, and
:. Neither wreck nor change, nor winters
flight,
Nor times remorseless doom,
Shall dim one ray of glory light.
That gilds his deathless tomb
Commander and members of Lee
Camp. an artist and a Confederate vet
eran, with his Hrush, has reproduced on
canvass the living, breathing form, the
majestic figure and battle blazing eyes
of the unconquerabie warrior and un-
surpassed hero of whom / have been
speal1ing-FStonewall Jackson-from its
easel ife-3I;rs1-tss. .lye1l=iit, by his aus