The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-09-25
ANOTHER MONUMENT TO THE
CONFEDERATE DEAD.
SENATOR cARMAcK's SPEECH.

which occurred at Gallatin Satur-
- day, we're witnessed by thousands
~ rom all over that section of the
snator 3, AZ. carmack, the
crimson cregsEd giant Of Tennessee
bolitics, was the orator of the day,
and his speech is reproduced be-
dow. We print it because we ad
mire the man who made it; be-
cause we were born in the South
Just about the time the Ku-Klux
we're in flower and because we
have never ceased to love even the
memory of an old Confederate
soldier. And, then, our readers
will want to read it.
Senator Cornack said:
Mr.. Chairman, ladies and gentle
! men: am always pleased when L
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\ daughters and the stalwart sons of
Sumner County; but | am douhly
pleased to meet you on an occasion at
once so solemn and so inspiring as
this; so full OF sorrowful memories of
thepast, and yet of hope and inspira-
lion for the future If we cannot
8hink with sorrow of the noble dead
whom we here commemorate, neither
cam we recall their glorious deeds
without a thrill of pride and a re-
n&wal of hope for country whose
womb is so fruitful Of heroic sons.
b I am glad to meet you nere on this
sacred spot, which one of the noblest
of our Southern women has dedicated
in love and tears to the memory OF the
Confederate soldier. And so long as
this monument shall stand, and even
after it's fragments have mingled with
the dust at it's foot, her name will be
loved and honored, linked with that
Of one who belonged to "the knight
liest of a knightly race" whose sweet
and unsullied life in time of peace
/ was in vivid contrast with the record
of his valor in time of war; for, ladies
and gentlemen, believe that Ten
+ nessee lost one of the noblest and
most stainless of her chiyalry when
the gentle and heroic spirit of julius
A. Trousdale passed over to the other
N side of the river to rest in the shade
Of the trees.
/ rejoice, ladies and gentlemen, that
/, as one of those whose cradles were
rocked Yn the storm of war, am per-
mitted to testify for new generation
our fidelity to the memory of our hero
dead, our love and admiration for
those, broken with time as with
wounds, who will soon have gone to
join their loved companions on the
farther shore. In the course of nature
they will soon have passed into the
shadow of that solemn and inevitable
hour and over their silvery heads the
dark river will roll. Ladies and
gentlemen, | trust that no one of them
will go to the grave broken hearted
by the ingratitude of his countrymen,
his dying hour embittered by the
thought that his wounds and suffer-
ings are forgotten. This monument,
let me say, is raised not simply to tell
the world of the valor and fortitude of
the Confederate soldier. They have
builded for themselves monument
more lasting than brass and higher
than the regal summit of the pyra-
mids; a monument broad based on the |
universal admiration of mankind, and
which will tower to Heaven when the
I statelieSt memorials of princes shall
be trampled into formless and I'M
hallowed dust. No, my friends, this
monument is not to perpetuate their |
glory. Its chief purpose is to proclaim
that you, my countrymen, are proud
to honor their deeds, and to claim
them as the noblest heritage of your
selves and your children forever. If |
you shall ever cease to do so, this !
monument to their glory will be a
monument to your shame.
| know that no such dishonor will |
ever brand the laureled brow of this
proud and historic old county-a
county which gave three thousand of
her best and bravest to the cause of
the South; whose valor was tried and
tested in the blaze and thunder of the
greatest war that ever shook the
earth, who stood with the suffering
South through four stormy years on
the red edge of battle until every field |
was drenched and every river ran red
with the blood of her sons. And suf-
fer me here to pay my humble tribute
to one of the many hero sons of Sum-
ner County, one whose name will be
ever glorious in the records of fame,
who, thank God, is still spared to be /
the shepherd of his people, a shining