The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1904-01-22
DOLLAR A YEAR
GENERAL BULLock's oRATIoH.


dedicated a beautiful Confederate
monument. Orlando's gifted orator,
Hon. w. l.. Palmer, WAS hOnOred by
the Chapter TO present the monument
and in doing so acquitted himself
proudly.
General Bullock of this city accept
ed the monument and did so in q
most wOrIhily manner.
The following is the generals
speech:
In receiving this monument erected
10 the memory Of the Confederate
dead at Gainesville, q gift evolved
upon the love and labor Of our
matches women, whose purity,
whose patriotism and whose courage
strengthened our arms and invigora-
ted our hopes in the darkest hour OF
the bloody struggle, and whose love
and help, when the carnage ceased,
aided the exhausted, emaciated and
heartbrOken soldier to rebuild anew
the homes Invested and destroyed I'm
the cOnfagratiOn of war, has furnish.
ed the best example and sweetest in-
SEPARATION to men aud women Of our
southland, and, ladies, in the uame
of the Confederate Veterans, thank
you; and in my own behalf / would
that had the words to convey to
you all that feel. A participant Ia
that great conflict, every act, every
attention, to the Confederate soldier,
deceased or alive, is to me personal
favor.
A great majority Of the southern
men have passed over the river, and
the few who are left must soon join
their departed comrades. Already
life's sunset is reflected upon my fad
ing vision, and the heart that beats
in sympathy ana love for you will
soon be stilIed forever. Here the
general broke down for q momenGl
All that will remain visible of those
heroes will be monuments erected by
your loving hands to their memories.
In every land and in every age rlonu-
ments have been erected to perpet-
uste the fame Of departed heroes.
The pyramids that have stood for
thousands Of years have not, cannot,
outlive the fame of those who fash
Toned them, and long after the mon
uments we have built have erumbled
into dust, will the names OF our
heroes be remembered.
The women Of the south, produced
by conditions such as the world never
knew before and will never know
again, will be an inspiration for
thousand generations yet to emerge
from the stream of time.
Nearly forty years have passed
since the war ended, and q great
majority of those who survived the
war have stood before the tribunaIO
their God, and in . few more years,
We who remain must answer the last
roll call. 1t is consolation to know
that those generations that are to
come after US will keep alive our
memory and extol our patriotic deeds.
Rest in peace, my beloved comrades;
your fame on earth Is secure, and
your seat in heaven won. No word
of mine can add to your glory, for
that is written on ImperishabIe
scrolls, and embossed in everlasting
tradition. So long as the world can
support human inhabitants you will
make one of the brightest spots In our
history.
In conclusion, fellow comrades,
God grant that your remaining days
on earth may be peaceful, prosperous
and happy, and when the last roll II
sounded, may you be ready, as you
always were in the days Of the sixties,
to respond to the final summons in
such way that your heavenly Faith
or will take you for his own forever.
Isaac Story, Ava, Mo-, writes Sept.
10th, 1900: II was in bod health, I
had stomach trouble for twelve
also dumb chills. DR.. j. w.
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