Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-05-17

mage. and anxiety-deep ard un-
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS the heart of the
brave maiden at home. Other stories
follow fast md follow faster, and
day on day brings the comman der's
roll of the fallen Hopes voice sinks
to low whisper. Life is chilled in
finitely! At length, in the calm of the
Sabbath morning, perchance, there
comes the roll of all rolls. Each
name is hurriedly skanned, and the
cry is nO-no-no-no-on down the
long roster of the eternally resting
valliant:-Nay! not so! Near the
end is a name that burns and sears
as by fire! Heart strings are clutched
as by a vice of STEEL A loved life has
gone out under the Bonnie Blue
Flag where the fight ragged fercest.
The end of hope is come. The bur
den bends lower still on the brave at
home.
After awhile, there through
circuitous hands-to the stricken
maiden a poor little parcel-a Bible,
a picture-and some blossoms given
fresh plucked al. the gate, now faded
brown. These memorials of a sleep
ing soldier take their place with a
woman's dearest treasures.
And the years roll on!
From such homes and from such
hea~t went forth the Private Con-
| federate Soldier from homes of
| luxury and from humble hamlet
alike-to battle, to exquisite suffer
ing through avenues of sickness and
mental anguish in prisons and on
carnage fields. and to death:-Nay.
not to death! for to live in hearts we
| leave behind is not to die!
And love and reverence for the
Confederate Soldier will live in
Southern hearts forever. It is like
an inspiration, therefore, that the
figure which surmonnts this Memo
! rial mound is that of Private Con
federate Soldier. It stands an object
lesson to the passing generations
| through all the coming time, and on
| people gather here with the children
of the community, to pay the
tribute of public honor to the
memory of the Confederate
Dead, monument and memorial
will be intermingled and merged
into the minds of the young as en-
blematic of great principle which
all men revere-the heroic principle,
without which no people can ever
become truly great. Let the young
| garner here, through this object les
son-that monument, these ceremo-
| MES, this great outpouring of the
| beople-and let them be taught by
the f1eside at home, what it all
means. And as they come to gaze on
that statue, it's graceful pose, it's
reliant attitude, it's steady eye and
firm countenance, let them be trained
to measure up to the standard of
manhood for which it stands-a
! manhood of engaging grace, in chiv-
airy that was ever tempered with
dignity, in piety that gave endur
ance. in the cl arity that boasted not.
in the honor held above life, in the
heroism that neither paled in the
face of peril nor cringed in defeat, in
| the frankness and heartiness and
wholesome comradeship that won
the heart of tho world, and in the rev.
erence paid to womanhood that has
not been equalled since first the
world began. Teach them these
things. and they will hold their her.
i itage of blood from the men whose
fate was defeat and poverty at Ap-
pomattox more priceless than rich
acres and garnered wealth!
| After the address, the decota-
tons of the Confederate mound
With contribu Ell flowers was in
dulged in, IN go generous were
the offerings that the whole mound
was floral emine nee, breathing
| the perfume of natures sweetest
tribute-the breath of flowers
to the memory of the Heroe;
eight hundred of whom sleep be-
meath the perpetual watch of the
silent sentinel who guards their
last resting place.
The usual salutes were fred by
the military, as the great crowe
slowly and reverently dispersed
'canic EruptiOns