The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-10-19

Last Memorial DayaI spoke in Brook
lyn, at the unveiling OF the statue OF
"a Northern general, under the au
spices Of the Grand Army of the Re-
public, and that great audience
cheered every allusion to the valor
and self-devotion Of the men who fol-
lowed Lee MS heartily as they chcered
every allusion to the valor and self
devotion of the men who followed
Grant. The wounds left by the great
. Civil War have long healed, but its
memories remain. Think Of IT. oh.
my countrymen, think OF the good
fortune that Is ours! That whereas
every other war OF modern times has
S left feelings of rancor and bitter
ness to keep 8asunder the combatants.
our great war has left to the SONS and
which ever side they fought, the
same right to feel the keenest pride
+ iii the great deeds alike of the men
who fought on one side and of the
men who fought on the other. The
proud self sacrifice, the rcsolute and
daring. courage, the high and stead
fast devotion to the right as each
man saw it, whether Northerner or
Southerner, these qualities render all 5
Americans forever the debtors of
those who in the dark days from
S6l to '65 proved their truth byS their
lteuuedVOI-4Rii1 dTUuUu
here in your own State, there lies
battlefield after battlefield, rendered
forever memorable by the men who
+ counted death as but little thing
when weighed In the balance against
doing their duty as 1t was given them
to see it. These men have left. us Of
&the younger generation not merely
the memory of what they did in war,
but OF what they did in peace. For
eign observers predicted that when
such a great war closed 1t would be
impossible for the hundreds of thou
sands of combatants to return to the
paths Of peace. They predicted cease +
less disorder, wild turbulence, the al
ternation of anarchy and despotism. y
r But the good sense and self-restraint
Of the average American citizen fall
sifed these prophecies. The great
the ranks, like the officer who had
commanded him, went back to take
up the threads OF his life where he
had dropped them when the call to
arms came. It was wonderful,
marvellous thing. in a country con-
secrated to peace with but an infini-
tesmal regular army, to develop SO
quickly the huge hosts which frontcd
one another between the James and
the Potomac and along the Mississippi
and It's tributaries. But 1t was an
even more wonderful an even more
y
hosts, once their work done, resolved
themselves into the general fabric Of
the nation {l g.
Noble Struggle Since War.
Great though the need of praise is
(which is due the South for the SOL
dierly valor her sons displayed during
the four years OF war, think that
even greater praise Is due to her for
what her people have accomplished in
the forty years of peace which fol-
lowed For forty years the South has
made not merely q courageous, but at
times desperate struggle, as she has
strivcn for moral and material we'll
being. Her SUCCESS has been extra
ordinary, and all citizens of our COM 4
mon country should feel joy and pride
4 in IT.; for any rgeat deed done, or any J.
fine qualities shown, by one group OF
Americans, OF necessity reflects credit ,
upon all Americans. Only heroic
people could have battled successfully
against the conditions with which tho
people OF the South found themselves
face to face mt the end of the Civil
War, There had been utter destruc-
ation and di5aster and wholly new
business and social problems had TO
be faced with the scantiest means,
The economic and political fabric had
to be readjusted in the midst OF dire
want, of grinding poverty. The future
of the broken. War-sweDt South
seemed beyond hope, and 1f her sons
and daughters had been of weaker
fiber there would III very truth have
been no hope. But the men and the
sons Of the men who had faced with
funfaltering front every alienation of
good and evil fortune from MANASSAS
to AppOmattOX, and the women. their
wives and mothers, whose courage
and endurance had reached an even
higher heroic level-theseg men and
these women set themselves UNI
them, For twenty years the struggle
was hard and at times douhtful.t Then
the splendid qualities of your man
hood and Womanhnod told, MS they
We're bound to tell, and the wealth OF
your extraordinary natural resources
began to be shown. Now the tenn
Ing riches of.mIne and field and fac.
Who are all the stronger because OF
the trials and struggles through which
this pros nerlty has come. You, stand
loyalty to your, traditions and memo
.ries; you also stand loyalty for. our
great common country Of to- day and
for our common flag. which symbol
Ices all that Is brightest. and most
YOU face the new age IN tho spirit OF
the age Alike In your material and
In your spiritual and intellectual de-
velopment you stand abreast OF the
foremost In the worlds progress.
But to Present Problems.
And now, my ow-cltizens, my
fellow Americans. exactly as all OF
us, whether we live IN the East or
the West In the North Or the South,
have the right merely ms Americans
to feel pride IN every great deed done
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