Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1904-01-16
OVER GORDON'S BElR.
JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES IN THE CAPITOL.

The and the requiem dies captain camps
The euloges
consignment its kindred The buge taps waiting
the soderczen wrapped the mantle his peoples praises
gathered his last repose
is well worth living well dying say
this.
AS pusng tenderness of this inspiring
listen here to the tributes touching paid
by noble gentlemen to this chvarc here where the mued
drums throb and the
Where the hronged ases fearful and the flowers deyng
winter, breathe their perfumed
there comes noble heart the aspirations May die the
death of the patriot and may my last end be like hist"
think that Georgia has funeral like this
and solemn of today 1t is the tribute
from people who under their crust of maersm
are as great and noble himself The capacity appreciate
high things and the love good things somewhere
within the possession of those great qualities
in death.
think Georgans known how much they loved
and honored JOHN GORDON until he stately capitol
with the all human smtten by his Silence
high and heroic qualities made glorious the majesty
In this hour separate the dro from the fine gold of
his great and in this uplifting within
us rises to claim kinship with lustrious dead.
1t the Better Georgia which today c1asped
beside the Greater GORDON in the WORTH
His martial comrades have told gallant story
life On the living of their loving speech
service mned in all his great We him
his at Seven Pines We have thrilled with his splendid dash
lat Malvern HILL We have watched him, bullet bleed
ng ride with five wounds the Sharpsburg trenches
heroic Hepmeet followed him. unnchng
the slain We his ring through the death
of Charlottesville We have him Twelfth May
seize the brdeen of ROBERT LEE gallant pledge
commander rush that glorious
We have followed him through the tangled cets THE Wilder
ness and the carnage blasted heghts Gettysburg
that final tragedy Appomaox where having charge
the lost Confederacy, stainless
sword his place history ideal soldier the beau
sabreur of Dixthe last knighest of
His civil colleagues have told civic years
the statesman whose word in his bond
hands clean of trckery whose
the state In his strong day of national service the
the tranquil unnchng of Southern right and
Southern character The economic problems
open strife And in the senate of his
when John Gordon professions and the
South desires his feow-senatos feowcens listened
always with respect to dauntess gentleman who
against his convictions to them crowned with the
boundless love and confidence of all his state.
1t privilege tell personal association in kin
ded lines that General Gordon closing
vice Of reunited His last days benedcon The
soldier hero had of antagonsm foes
shot out all his bitterness 10 battle like his Great
his final energies the healing his shining
sword had made He the fraternity the
apostle OF good WILL There other spoke
perhaps eoqueny But the messages that
this funeral chamber laden with tenderness of the
Northern that the potential and the uniting
words from the Reconstructed Soldier record of
dauness integrity IN his life and epic written by
saber on his cheek.
And surely where Robert spoken peace ard John
Gordon has fraternity broken host of the Cnd
veterans and the company Veterans Sons
rebuke the spirit capous relentless that protests
Reunited Land
speak for the Sons of Texas to the virginia
line We the egatees of memory We inheritor
heroism We the children of today. deahess LOYALTY
fathers due deahess our children too
We thank God for the pusng earlier chiva1r into
rents of material We touch of Gordon in
the trends of trade We pageant the hour
which gives promise that the sentiment of This dear
Dixie is not dead Aud ervent eanesness
Tor that Vaor Virtue Country and
eloquent Defense may be F'orifed upon the earth
For ourselves and for child wish and abors
of the soldier citizen shrine broaze monument to great
[ hJhl
youth. 1t daily monitor that will our child how
they make their lives sublime Let write in Gordons
statute the noble lesson from children MAY
ish service to the state.
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