The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-05-20

u'nSaoe duu IIOSt Buu Datttc are the
high priest, are not to be numbered
among all those millions of earth who
die because they are not immortal
these are Hero Dead.
''For none the less heroes were they
that they wero obscure, for they will
have a monument that will outlast
granite and marble, grander than the
arch Of Titus or the brazen column Of
Napoleon-that holy, silent shrine in
the hearts Of the people inscribed TO
the Unknown Dead
"YeG the ashes in those graves are
rot always unknown, for sometimes q
little patch Of earth, slab of marble,
or spot Of flowers, is linked to o great
name.
"Some were national, some local,
some military, some civil names and
some both.
"Albert Sidney Johnson, Barks-
dale, Gill, Tilghman, Maxcy Gregg,
Zollicoffer, Barlow, Green, Thomas
L. Z. Cobb, Lomax, Stouewaii jack
son, GLADDEN., Stuart, Tracy, Pelham,
are some of the names that honor has
written plainly on her roll.
"But who has been present when
the angels Of God have called the roll
Of the dead-who saw the muster rolls
Of the spirit land-who witnessed the
grand review of the glorious slain as
their ranks stretch out along the banks
OF Deaths dark river, when the In
speotor General Of the Universe takes
His stand by the unfurled banners of
heaven? And yet for every grave or
bundle Of bleaching bones there has
gone soul to God
Various have been the plans to do
them honor. Some propose that a
vast artificial hill, like the HOMEGROWN
ed hill Of Waterloo, be erected.
"Some States gather their names
into book and place the roll Of honor
in the archives Of the State. Some
propose that grand temple be built
upon the heights Of Vicksburg, in
sight Of the river-which is the artery
OF world, and its blood, it's com
merce-that the status of the greatest
OF the fallen shall glorify the shrine
and shine in the deathless purity of
marble, while the walls shall bear
among their pilasters and wreaths vast
tablets covered with all the names of
all the dead. But how can human
endeavor do proper honor to the
dead?
"Stonewall jackson was the ma
tion's idol; but were Stone mountain
cut into statue of him, would the
grateful people say to the soul Of the
hero: See! we have done enoughYr
We think not.
Should we cut the Alleghauies
into catacombs, how save the sacred
dust from the spoilers Of thousand
years hence, from the fate of Egypt's
and Syria's and Rome's buried
kings !?
"Could we wrest the northern lakes
from the foe, and carving the names
Of the Hero Dead on the walls Of Mia
CARA, let the thunder Of the cataract
sound their eternal requiem, aud the
rainbow that spans its gulf tell in it's
sunbeams and tears Of their glory for
ever: still all the drops Of the ever
lasting flood could not weep away the
.widowhood and orphanage Of the land,
OF wash the sorrow from broken
hearts. -
$50 let1us remember them only.
The crests Of the Blue Ridge are the:
fittest monuments to the sentry whose
bleeding feet trod their virgin. SHOWS.
1.-THE long grass will stay the sun
beams that would too atdently kiss
their feet, the amber foods Of the
rivers will murmur to them, and in the
mysterious whisperings in the tops Of
bending pines, we may imagine the
angels to be talking low to each other,
and saying: There he fell and there
HE grave. "
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