The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1907-05-02
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ADDRESS BY COL. JAMES il. HOYT,

cells the possession Of colossal for
tunes gained at the expense of toiling
millions.
Amid the labors and sacrifices of
all these years, the precious dust of
our fallen heroes Is not forgotten.
The inspiration which came to
Southern woman almost Identical
with the close of hostilities has been
perpetuated every season with the
coming of the flowers that tell of
their resurrection. 1t is this which
has called US together, and as the
graves are bedecked with the en-
blems of purity and innocence, the
mind goes back with unerring In
stinct to the days when shot and shell
fell thick and fast among the young
men of the South, whose libations
were freely offered in defense of what
they believed to be right. o, that it
were in my power to depict what
death meant to those youthful heroes
at whose graves we linger with fond
est memories. They rocked not that
danger was nigh when duty called.
1t was theirs to leave a heritage of
valor and conservation far better than
glittering gold and more precious
than diamonds.
Are these memories to be brushed
aside, and must the glory Of splendid
achievement in noble cause be> for
ever stifed? To the South belongs
the pathos, the poetry, the romance
of the great struggle, let who will en-
| JOY the triumph. The distinction is
material and everlasting. 1t is won
| derful that an eminent civilian of
| New England soon after the war pro-
posed to obliterate all recollectiOns
of the strife by putting out of sight
all the relics that savored Of battle
| and carnage. He desired not to pre-
serve the torn and tattered flags that
epitomized the glories of Gettysburg
and Shiloh, and he would not erect
monuments to the men who scaled
Missionary Ridge or planted the Stars
and Stripes upon Vicksburg embat-
Elements. His conviction was that
the sections would be reunited more
speedily by complete oblivion OF the
past. In this he was surely mistaken
4 nation that would stifle the impulse
to honor the heroic dead and bury out
of view the glorious achievements OF
its sons deserves itself to perish from
the face of the earth. War with 1t:
inevitable horrors is to be deplored
but the nations of antiquity no les:
than those of modern times are more
renowned through their warriors thar
exalted in their statesmen who were
purely civilians, as general rule. It'll
lamentable that peace has not pre-
vailed throughout the ages, when W.
i look upon the cruelties and oppres
sions that are inseparable from grim
visaged war, but blood has flowed
where freedom ever gained foot
, hold, and crimson is the royal color
In the language of another: Eng
land was redeemed by blood; ltal
: was united by blood; Switzerland be
came free through blood; German
, was emancipated by blood: Americ
J secured it's liberty through blood
! and it is even so that the great hop
: which lifts US up to things tnvislol
; and eternal came to US by blood" I
{ erase the remembrance of cruss wa
) we must blot out the history OF ever
. people who have wrought nobly /
behalf of the freedom and enlighter
| ment of the human race. Sad as
g is in many respects, the heart of mar
s kind is ever touched with the stor
t Of conflict and conquest and Gallon
e must be the soul whose inmost II
4 cesses are not stirred by the struggle
: Of patriots for the boon OF freedol