Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1900-06-06

build monument 20 our Southern women.
The difficulty in the case will not be To raise
the money; for when the time comes 70 do
the work the money will be furnished. The
trouble will begin when we come to look for
the man with skill enough, with perception,
bold, brave and high enough TO put on paper
and afterwards 20 mould into bronze or carve
into marble our ideal of Southern woman
hood
The object IF such gathering as this is two
fold First, to do honor 70 fallen heroes. 20
keep alive all that was good and truein the
great struggle of the war. The bitterness We
may bury with the past, but the manliness.
the courage, the deeds of valOr-these should
never be allowed 20 perish. Another object
Is 20 bring together the few that remain Of
the veterans that the young might see who
were soldiers in the days gone by.
Ian McLaren. the Scotch writer, tells Us
how the farmers met on Sabbath morning
70 tall over their work in the the church
yard before the service. They tod Of their
hopes and fears in regard 10 their crops. On
one Sabbath q story was told OF a wrong
about u be done 10 a member of the com
munity. farmer and renter was % lose
his land because the manager wished him
TO change his church which ne was unwil-
ling 70 do As the story began 70 be told
these men were plain farmers. but as they
realized the wrong about 70 De done 10 one
of their neighbors, that II was persecution
and religious persecution at that. They stood
two inches higher in their shoes fire flash ed
from their eyes and they were again Scotch
soldiers who i'm days gone by. had done bat
tie for the right and woe betide the army
which stood in their way. 80 the meetings
Of Confederate Camps, these mem rial DAYS
are intended tO teach the younger generation.
t. teach our children that these men. old
men many 0fthem. or laid aside for their
work and, Only ting till the shadows
q little longer grown We're the heroes Of a
great war for the right in tins our Southland.
But / must not speak of that which Is dark
and gloomy. Need tell YOU that out Ofthat
great struggle came race OF men who have
gone 10 the front and have welded and are
welding telay an influence for good in all
the dcra rtmcnts Of church and state
Last Monday we had the eclipse ofthe sun.
10 was only partial where ! was Ia was a
depressing period The earth had a weird
appearance. the face OF men were ghostv 10
look upOn. ! could not help thinking what
the world would be ifthc sun remained like
this always. But the sun battlcd through
the shadow and came forth and shone with
ali his power ana glory - the South was
ec'lpsed in l~,5. but through the energy and
courage If her people she has come forth
from that shadow amt stands today I'm pow
cr and beauty.
! therefore would not speak regretfully or
reliningiv of the Lost Cause"
We have nothing Co apologize for. nothing
Co regret We accept the result -.Of human
hopes defeated DER thrown Accept ir.
/ say. as coming from the hand Of the -rca,
and good Father IN Heaven.
Some time when all ifc's lessons have been
learned.
And sun and stars for evermorc have set.
The things which our weak Judgment here
have spurneG
The things Ger which we gricvei with
lashes wet
Will flash before Us out of LIES dark NIGHT
A stars shine most in deeper tint> of blue
And we shall see how all Gods plans We're
right
And how what seemed reproof was love
most true.