The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-05
PAID LOVING TRIBUTE
MEMORY OF CONFEDERATE DEAD IGNORED AT WASHINGTON.
Beautiful and Impressive Ceremonies are Enacted fin the Arlington
 National Cemetery-John GOOde'k Grafton.
Advertiser Bureau,
 1925 G St., N. w., yIT, sh t., ~t4@ T,,-A

AOVeTtlSer bufedu,
 1925 G St., N. w.,
 Washington, June 4.
 It Is doubtful if any more beautiful and impressive ceremonies attending and Confederate memorial have occur red this spring anywhere in the South land than those which graced the Ar lington National Cemetery this after noon.
 There were thousands of southerners and many hundreds of Northerners who thronged today about the graves of Confederate soldiers, gathered from the battlefelds of Manassas and other scenes of conflicts about Washington. There were about 1000 of these graves grouped in a large circular plot in the national cemetery. where are buried nearly 17,000 soldiers of the Union. When the noble oration of the day had been delivered by the Nestor of the Virginia bar, John Goode, soldier himself and ever loyal to his State and to the South, and other attendant ceremonies of pray CT and sacred music had been rendered. a beautiful scene occurred. Hundreds of fair women scattered about the greensward marked with white marble headstones and decked every grave with brilliant blossoms. There were venerable women in mourning, young matrons, girls and little children, who made lovely every tomb with fragrant, exquisite garlands. Even tiny little tots of humanity went to neighboring plots of fiower-starred verdue and came back with hands full of daisies which they placed on the grave of the Con- Ifederates here buried. The band of the 18th United States Cavalry from Fort Myer. furnished fine music and accom- panied the singing.
 Judge Goode's oration was finely commensurate with the occasion. Lack ing nothing in patriotic sentiment for reunited country and telling how the South had demonstrated her feaIty to the old flag, 1t abated nothing of de- yotion to the memory of the dear Con- federates whose heroism under the un- tarnished flag of the unstatned Con~ federacy was honored here today.
 Speaking as a survivor of the seces- sion convention of Virginia, and as member of the Confederate Congress, Judge Goode told of the devotion of Virginia and other Southern States to the Union of the Constitution as a compact of sovereign States. Virginia, he said, would never have seeded but for Lincoln's call for her to furnish her. quota of 75,000 men to coerce her sister Southern States. Then she chose to stand by her sisters in war, as she had in peace, and gave her whole might to resisting invasion. The time, he said would never come when 'traf- tor should be written on the brow of any man who had fought for the Con- federacy nor should 1t ever come when 1t might be said unrebuked over the grave of any Southern soldier.
 We know, he said, whatever men in this commercial age may be doing to get money, however oblivious they are likely to become of hallowed memo ries. our women will not let IS forget the blood and sacrifice of these mar tyrs who sleep here and all over our Southland, for every time they will lay the blooming seasons sweetest flowers on the graves of our departed heroes. K. H. Watkins.