The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-27
THE MoNTGoMERY ADVERTISER.

adjourned out of respect to the mem- ory of this great man. Judge Emery Speer of the United States Court for the Southern District of Georgia. in ad- journing his court paid an eloquent tribute of respect to General Gordon from the bench. among other things | he said: Tn honor of such a noble and unselfish man, of such generous and broad minded American, no department of the government can do too much. This court exercises its Jurisdiction among the people. by whom he was lidolized, when 1t adjourns today, will stand adjourned until the mortal re- | mains of our illustrious countryman shall be committed to a ha1lowed rest in the soil of the State and country he loved and served so we'll"
 I have read and heard many eulo- gies and tributes of respect to Gen. eral Gordon, but for beauty of thought, elegance of language and sincerity of utterance the most beautiful aad | touching eulogy have read Or heard was delivered by Judge Thomas G. Jones when he adjourned the Federal court here in Montgomery out of re- spect to the memory of his own dead general.
 Judge Jones when mere youth was an Aide on General Gordon's stan, a member of his military family; he shared his tent and blanket. He loved Gordon with that intent passionate love that the boy has for his hero. This love grew and ripened, and until Cor don died they were the closest and most Intimate companions No won der that he spoke feelingly of his dead Chieftain. H
 Judge Jones on Gordon.
 Here Major Bricken read the eulogy of General Gordon by Judge Jones' Then he adjourned the Federal court out of respect to his memory as fol- lows: .5t
 "A great and noble spirit has recent ly gone from among us. In the terri ble strife which rent our land in 1861, and came to the generation of that day, as heritage from the ir- reconcilable differences of our fore fathers. the illustrious man of whom speak stood out pre-eminently as a warrior and fought with superb skill and va1or to the end. to make good the hopes of the South. In the closing hours of the struggle. next to Lee, it's people leaned on him as they leaned upon no other man. If his life had ended on his last battle field, and he had no other title to the affections of the people, his record as a soldier alone, would tell of va1or, skill and tender nobility of soul. which. as the mists and passions of the times clear away, may now be fitly claimed as common heritage of the people of all sections. though in those days he stood only for the South alone.
 Fate beckoned the South to new duties at Appomattox. On that field, ere the shattered legions of his de- sparing countrymen started to. their homes, he called them around him, and, in a speech which ought to live for ever. taught them that 1t was nobler to live for country than to leave it, or despair of it in its days of diversity and trial. That in coming times the warning sections would better under stand each other, and peace, liberty and happiness, rising on surer.- founda tions from the horrors and trials of war, would yet bless all our land. if the Confederate soldier and his children met with the fortitude and courage which he exhibited in war. the prob- lens which would come to him in peace.
 "A merciful providence spared him to the country for the life of gen. eration which has grown up since then. In all those years, he has rep
  noblest in American citizenship. He was all the while the conspicuous apos- tie of peace, and of a noble, self-re- specting reconciliation, unstained by unmanly concessions. He preached, all over this broad land of ours, in the North, East and West, as well as in the South, that 1t was higher, nobler and grander for the old soldiers to strive for some common. honorins ground for the past, so far as 1t con cerned the future, than to bequeath discords and hatreds to their children. He spoke and stood for the thought In dealing with the motives of the mill lions of his countrymen who engaged in the fratricidal struggle. that 1t was neither patriotic nor right to endeavor to mete out all the honor on one side, and all the dishonor on the other.
 He insitsed that the truth of his- tory would teach that the masses of the warning millions on both sides, fought, died and sacrificed, for high ideals of truth, liberty and right He taught that the valor, sacrifices and high emotions of those days, whether in the North or South. should not be forgotten, and that proper contempla- ton of them would ennoble American life, and furnish inspiration to future generations to do well their part in the coming days of the republic.
 He was inded a great American. If, therefore. we look only to his counsels and acts since the great war. 1t would be meet and fit that a United States Court, which in its sphere represents , a common country. should do honor to ] the memory of this illustrious Ameri- | can. But apart from this, his career l in war illustrated all that is highest and noblest in God-fearing manhood, | and typified a moral grandeur which | made him loved by the people of the | South at the hour of his death, beyond | all other men. In order therefore, to | do fitting homage to the memory of | General John B. Gordon. the illustri- | ous Southern soldier as well as a great l American, the court will now adjourn" |
 Continuing his remarks Major Brick | en said:
 Sorrow Was Universal.
 So universal was the admiration for | this great man while he lived, and so | great was the sorrow when he died, | that from all parts of these United ! States came to Mrs. Gordon telegrams | of coincidence. from his colleagues In | the United States Senate, from the de- | partments of the government, from | his own comrades in the late war. from l men and officers in the Union Army | who faced him on the fields of battle. | Even the President of these United |