Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1904-06-04

,,ot oen,us OF railroad organizing,
Thomas Alexander Scott. 1t Is a very
grave question whether U. ). Gran'
yould not have been deposed from MS
command and sent back home IN us
,,roco had II not been for Charles A.
mana who. as the personal representa-
five of Lincoln, went to the front anu
exposed and denounced the false scan
dols which were being circulated ABOUT /
tho "silent warrior of the west. IL
% a very grave question whether sal
mon p. Chase could have ever SUCCESS
fully financiered the United STATES
honds which paid the running expenses
Of tho war government, costing al thhI
time millions upon millions or dollars
each month, unless he had been packeu
nm by Jay Cooke, the Phlladeiphla cap
ita,ist who was to Lincoln what ROD
ert Norris was to George Washington
In the Revolution. SO today Impair
tIolly praise the patriotic soldier tle
notriotic railroad man, the patriouc
editor the patriotic financier, the pa
triotic ontractor-McClure ana Dana
and Scott and Jay Cooke, as weii as
Grant and Sherman and Sheridan anu
90 and Longstreet and John b. uor'
don. ,, ,,,o
In this Memorial day address we
would not omit the need OF recosni
tion due to the ministers OF the NOME
churches as well as the chaplains VINO
lohored in the field hospital and Dy the
,vounded and moaning men VINO hau
the pallor of death upon their cheens
the night after the battle. we "ouiu
nraise men like Henry Ward Beecher
Of Brooklyn and Moses ID. Hoge oi
Richmond and DR.. Palmer OF New vi
leans. These men were never ldehti
fed with any one particular regiment
or brigade, yet in their utterances VI
insniration. in the divine comlor'
which they carried to the bereft homes
IN their words of faith and love, whicl
through the printed page went 10 tn'
boys in the camp, they became mighty
evangelists of light, mighty gospe
messengers for God and their nauV'
: land. -,
, We have all read about the noDi
services of Dwight L. Moody 10 III
/ soldier boys at the front We know
; that many a dying soldier boy wa
! ahle to answer "Here! to the roll ca
|. NJ heaven because some faithful chal
4 lain ON earth had prepared him 10
- that Fall in" on the other side OF III
J. grave. We know that many and man
r a diving message sent to the motler
o the wife at home was penned Dy u
l. faithful chaplains who looked aIt'
d the boys of their regiments as ratn'
might care for the children about u
r own fireside. But what about Uni
e gray haired old minister OF the Viiias
le church? Did he not serve any patrlo
ID ic purpose?
le JacLson,s Advice to Minister.
lg We cannot today too much praise u
le WORK of the gospel minister during u
u agonies Of Americas four years
IN carnage. One day q man applied
ne General Jackson for position I'D
le army. What is your business
v. osked Jackson. IL am q minister
al the gospel" was the reply. Then Ja'
of SON the Christian soldier, said: =
nd friend, can give you no position
ne high as that which God has given
Won. Go back to your own church.
the name Of Jesus Christ, give comt'
by TO the widows whose husbands I'D
no haan shot: to the children wh'
l fathers. on account of this bloody W
II will never come back; to the you
,at maidens who can never again see III
he sweethearts. Go back and preacn
ng pospel of sacrifice to the young IL
EN- who must be enlisted from your to'
er- Go back! In Gods name, go pac
to Ave the duty which Thomas j. ia
or. son assigned to the ministers OF Je
be- was grandly and nobly rulnlieu
los hundreds of consecrated clergyn
Did both in the north and the south'
~, dav I honor the memories OF the n'
20 ~ mon of God who at home were
roo ond firm TO their Lord and their pe'
Il
but during the awful conflict.
old But I have still another long lis
and unpraised heroisms. wouiu
mn. nraise the boy In blue or the DO.
am. gray for what he did in 1901 anu
+oIk more than I would praise him for v
her he did after peace had Deeh
90 claimed. 1t was a spectacle that
. at tonished the world, spectacle uhpl
we're dented in history, that OF the sol.
me? of those two huge armies laying q
! so their muskets and taking up
hold nlowshare. To their honor be II
. Of that they were ready to turn
mo, hacks upon strife and, side by
+ to work together in the yocauoh'
mo naace The vast armies OF Am
had going forth to battle is not near
had ;mnressive, from a historic stanul
,,od 20 tbe student of sociology, as
hovs armies almost instantly melting
hnt and then and there their eX-men
old fraternizing with one another
.iotic striving to the uttermost 10 DUH
tt,o9 tho countrv with as much earnes
his as they had shown in nghting
,s OF other to the death.
If us without any doubt, Robert H.
'ome' WAS one of the finest characters A
rage ca ever produced. Would you IL
q en- know what was to me the creates
thah of that grand life? I find 1t not
actions before the war. ma
you'd in his wonderful equipoise ana g
coun- ness and marvellous powers durin
fur- war. But after Appomattox the
ana nobility of that life glowed befo
guns fellow countrymen as a single
men, might outshine all the other st' SC
10 dio the heavenly armament. A1ter III
g the was over a rich financial compa
Itions' New York city, in order 10 cat'
er ed southern trade through Robert n
on SO popularity, offered Lee $2o'oo