The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-31
STORY OF SOUTH'S
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the great principle which was first an
nounced and established among men by
the Fathers of the Republican, all gov
eminent derives its just powers from the
consent of the governed principle con-
firmed by written constitution, and
which its founders thought would at last,
among all peoples, supplant the brutal old
world law of force and conquest.
1t is the noble cause of selfgovernment
for which these men in gray laid down
their lives, a cause as just and ennobldng
now as in the days of &c, when it was
successful. in the days of '6l-65, when
it met defeat.
LIVING INSPIRATION.
1t is the undying devotion of the South
to that cause and to that principle that
leads her children in every recurring sea-
son of bud and blossom to bring their
tributes of love and affection to the
graves of her Confederate dead.
1t is the living inspiration OF that
cause which is deathless that keeps in
loving remembrance the martyrs, who
died for it. Their heroic statue WIFI grow
ever grander as the centuries sweep by:
"a king once said of a prince struck down,
Taller he seems in death"
And this speech holds truth, for now, as
then,
It's after death that we measure men.
And as mists of the past are rolled away
Our heroes, who died in their tattered
gray,
Grow taller" and greater in all their
TIL they fill our minds as they ill our
hearts,
And for those who lament them there's
this relief
That glory sits by the side of grief;
Yes, they grow taller" as the years
pass by
And the world learns how they could do
and die.
In all the great possibilities OF the future,
which may affect us as a people, in all
that may come to us of greatness and Of
glory, whatever of splendid success. what
ever Of sorrow and defeat fate may have
in store for us, there will be nothing in
our annals that can ever thrill the South
as did the days of 81, nor ausht more
bitter with ineffable regret than the mem
DRY of the failure of her struggle for in
dependence. No promptings of cringing
policy, no weak suggestions of Difference
to changed conditions, will ever make the
South dishonor the sons who gave their
blood for her by admitting that it is
better that the cause for which these
noble heroes died did not reach the real
iZatiOn of success.
On the contrary, we pelIeve now as we
did a generation ago, that our cause was
just, that no greater evil than unjust defeat
can befalI a people, and that al the coming
years can bring no compensation for its
overthrow. Our consolation is that the
world will yet come to recognize that the
purest hbation ever poured on libertys
ALTAR came from the veins of the South.
THE PROUD RECORD.
Fellow-ctizens. it is the duty of US with
whom the twilight of those pulsing days
still fingers to see to it that the proud
record our fathers and brothers made,
shall abate no lot or little in fact or SEN
tment as we pass it on to our children.
Let them know that the men who fell
with jackson, Hill and Stuart are worthy
of continual remembrance, not only be-
cause of their magnificent courage and
fortitude, but for the enduring principles
of civil freedom, for which they COM
hatted Let them remember that every
grave of a Confederate soldier whether
he sleeps among his comrades, tenderly
cared for by loving hands as in this beau
tiful place, here, near the citys central
roar, or rests in deserted solitude, where
only the eternal stars keep vigil above
him is a sacred spot. where spectral
nation weeps over her dead, but where
the spirit of liberty loves, too, to lingeT.
Let them be taught the great truth tha,
these men died for no mere abstraction,
but for a principle, indestructlbie, perpet-
ual as true and as worthy to-day or deEoton
and sacrifice as were given it more than
a century ago by Virginia and her sister
colonies, and less than forty years ago
by Virginia and the Confederate South.
If we wish to teach our children the
s,,bIimest lesson of human devotion TO
duty. of love of country and OF loyalty TO
the right: if we would inspire them to
noble living with the story or Valor anu
splendid daring; If we would instruct
them IN the duties that new and ever
changing conditions place upon theH, we
need go no further IN history than 10
that brilliant page which chronicles the
deeds of the men VINO slumper III ILLS
consecrated ground.
IMMORTAL CITIZENS.
How fortunate above all cities is Rich
rnond To have within her walls the maus-
ola,rm of the. skeleton legions, who, in
strenuous life, encircled her with steer
and fire, and in death are her suardlans
still her Immortal citizens whose potent
influence will forever mould her aestlnE
and defend her against all that Is base
and dishonoring Precious is this heroic
dust To her. more valuable than all the
wealth that commerce shall pour into her
marts through centuries TO come and that
makes her richer than If her streets were
paved with gold. her walls of jasper and
her gates of pearl
But my friends, While we honor the.
hero of the battlefield. let us not forget
the homage due those Statesmen and
patriots who in the cabinet and legista-=
tive halls guided the infant nation IN
Its brief and stormy course. Tremendous
was the task they had to perform. and
molly did they perform II. They cemented
the Fedora ton Of Independent States with
a Government Of constitutional Limitations
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