The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-27
WITH SPEECHES AND SONGS.
Tributes TO CoNFEDERATEs
DEAD AND LIVING WERE PAID.

Many Gathered Last Night at Guards
Hall for the Continuation of the
Memorial Day Exercises The
Speaker Was Col. 4. II. LavvtOn and
Was Introduced by Judge Robert
FaIIigant-SHr :. b. Adams speech
in Behalf of the Daughters of the
Confederacy. Presenting Veterans
with the Southern Cross of Honor.
songs of the south Touched the
Hearts That Love Them.
Glowing tributes to the Confederate dead
and honor to Confederates living were
paid a; the Guards Han last night. Me-
mortal day was observed with songs and
addresses. while survivors were presented
with the Southern Cross of Honor in COM
memoration of their deeds of bravery on
the field of battle and their support of the
Confederate cause through the triumphant
first years and their yet more heroic 10y
altv when great odds were making them
selves felt and the Confederacy was daily
becoming weaker through withstanding the
mighty blows that were dealt it.
Everey Memorial day veterans gather
at the hall with loving members of their
families, all ardent in love for the cause
for which fathers or husbands gave the
best of bravery, patriotism aud hardihood
that was in them. This last gathering was
signalzed by the presentation by the
United Daughters of the Confederacy of
the bronze crosses of honor for which l20
of the veterans of Savannah made appA-
cation.
Col. A R. Lawton was the orator Of
iaf
Judge Robert Falligant, who presided over
the assembly, after a beautiful rendition
by Mr. w f. Blois, Mrs Wickenberg ac-
companying him, of "All quiet Along the
Potomac To-nght" As an encore Mr..
Blois sang Maryland, My Maryland"
Judge Falligant, with a touching elo-
Quence that made sadder and yet sweeter
the commentator of the great dead of
the Confederacy, lauded the grand senti-
ment that bids the people pay yearly tri-
butte of love, esteem and admiration to
those who have answered the last roll call
and praise those great deeds that have
made the soldiers of the Confederacy sec
ond to none the world has known for mar
tfaI proves and indOmitable courage. The
allegiance which this city so gladly pays
to the memory of its brave was COM
nended.
Civil War, Judge Fallgant mentioned
some of the great Georgians who led their
men to victory, the names of Lawton,
Cobb, McLaws and other elieiting great
applause. Closing, Judge FaNigant be-
fore presenting Col. Lawton, said he wish
ed to impress upon the boys Of Savannah
that there is nothing 10 be so guarded by
them as noblesse oblige, and he exhorted
them to seek 10 be worthy Of the great
heritage that has come down TO them
through the records of fathers who fought
for the South and for great-grandfathe
-ba fArf "a dom Of THAR
try in the struggle with Great Britain.
"Amen" was fervently spoken by some
veteran to this exhortation.
Col Lawton, when the applause THAI fol-
lowed his Introduction and a compliment
airy allusion by Judge FalEgant 10 the gall
liant First Georgia commanded by the
sneaker of the evening, had subsidized, adj
dressed his audience as follows, his words
being frequently interrupted with ap-
plause:
i is well that on certain annually re
curing days a whole community should
lay aside It's daily avocation and SURF nd r
fteolf 10 sentiment whether the thoughts
thus brought forward be those of reioic
ing OF mourning. or, as I'm the day we
now observe the combination OF COM
rnemoration Of great deeds and mourning
for those who wroUg ht them at the sacri-
fee of their lives.
Usually these recurring anniversaries
represent some one great event. or the
birth Of one of those heroes whose fame
shall last as long as the morning stars
shall sing together, a constant reminder
10 coming genera lions that not even re-
publics are always ungrateful to those
who do great deeds in the service of their
country and their God. When these days
recur, the mind naturally rests upon the
one event or the one man, and there can
be no doubt as 40 what should be the
subject Of our discourses. But to what
great event, to what great man do our
thoughts travel on Confederate Memorial
day? Shall I ask you TO accompany me
TO the fields wherein were fought the
fights chat make the American Civil War
the greatest war of history, exhibiting
on the part of the Confederate soldier
more courage, endurance, energy and UNI
complaining fortitude in woeful suffering
than has even been seen before or since?
Then must we tramp together over the
green fields and forests Of sixteen states
of this Union nearly all, alas, being of
our beloved Southland, a journey which
neither your strength nor your patience
could bear. Shall I ask you to dwell with
me for a while on the memories of the
day on which the fame of the Confed-
eracy was planted as a perennial bios
som in the garden of great deeds? Then
must we take up the calendar for four
long bloody years. neglecting neither the
days when summer suns beat down upon
the head, nor those when icy blasts
chilled the starved and foot-sore soldier
as he YEARLY tramped over the roads in
unparalleled marches or manfully fought
not only d powerful and resourceful enc
my but all the elements of nature and
of industry besides.
Shall l ask you to recall abe name oil
the man whose life and valor We cele
brate, whose loss we mourn, whose mem
DRY we honor? Then would the thoughts
of those who had no part in the struggle
turn solely to Lee, and Jackson, anC
Stuart and Longstreet. and Forest, ant
the Johnstone. and many Others whom
military critics recognize as among IN,
great captains OF history. But tn,
mother would picture her boy who cam,
back not with his shield, but on It
the wife her husband. whom she 81
tearfully and so nobly gave TO his coun
try: the soldier the comrade who tough
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