The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-05-17
SPEECH FOR PENSIONS.
senator Browns Appeal for Flor
ida's Aid for COnfederates.

senator Browns Appeal for Flor
ida's Aid for COnfederates.
Tallahassee, Fla, May 16.-In the de-
bate over the passage of the bill to
tension Confederate soldiers and sail
ors and the widows of Confederate SOL
diers and sailors, Senator c. NJ. Brown
of the Twentieth District made a
speech that thrilled all who heard it.
He said, in part:
Mr.. President: The subject matter
leading to the Introduction of this bill
is OF profound interest to every mem
Der of the Legislature. But to those
WAC participated in the great struggle,
ii is tarther reaching and full of ten
derness, and the half has never been
told.
Your speaker had the honor to be a
member of the great Southern army
from the first day to the last, and we
had revealed to US in reality that vi
sion pictured to the Christian exile
John, while on the rocky shores of
Patmos, for there we saw Death
mounted upon his pale horse. and he
was CHASTITY, feshless, cadaverous,
awful and for four long years leaning
10 his flight and t1inging from his rat
ting fingers his fatal darts
-AilNA VIC saw tic 1OO VI w dI SEedINe
his dripping sword while the sun-god
o. peace arose upon the crimson wing
oil morning, and threw out from the
disk of his burning shield lovely beams
of light athWart the bloody landscape.
We saw the soldiers return to ruined
homes heard the Wailings of orphans
and widows disconsolate, and mothers
VT coping for their dead.
But this has all passed. Now go
with me. Let US draw aside the cur
tam of the future and look with the
eyes of our imaginative energies, out
across the nebuIistic fields of i'm
mensity, that we may catch a glimpse
of the shadowy forms of our heroes,
marching in the sable gloom of the
misty beyond-no clank OF armor, no
tap of drum-in deathless silence, two
and two. At the head of the column
we see Lee and jackson, Beauregard
and Johnson, Hill and Clayborne.
Breckenridge and Hampton, Forest and
Morgan, Barlow and Bee. officers,
commissioned and non-c commissioned.
and still they come.
And who are these? Companies,
battalions, regiments, legions, brlgades
divisions, corps, armies, soldiers in
gray Marching amid the arches and
columns of heavens grand reception
halls, until Times old chronometer in
eternity's high steeple shall strike off
the last dying cycle, and then, revivi-
fed, we shall stand with the heroes of
Troy and Thermopylae, Talavera and
Marriage, Austerlitz and Waterloo,
Mara thon and Missoloughi, the worlds
heroes, and be received, l trust, into a
blessed forever, amid the splendor of
angelic applause, and the bursting
chorus of heavens orchestral thunders.
Il plead, now, Mr.. President and
brother senators, for our needy heroes,
not for aid in proportion to merit, but
in proportion to the states ability to
assist her needy soldier yet spared, and
the widows of those departed.
Mercy, the sweetest and most beau
tiful maiden in the family of heavens
magnificent hierarchy, will garland the
brows of those who await us.
I-Sask your liberal considerati of
this bill, not that we may have honor,
but that my needy comrades may be
upheld by the brawny arms of Justice
For they did string our country's
Tyre,
To deeds of fame, in notes of fire.
And, now, concluding, 1 pray you
pull off your shoes and tread lightly
on these graves to-day, for theirs is
hallowed Dust"