The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-06-16
HALLOWED
MEMORIES
REPORT OF DR.. J. J. SCOTT AT
THE RICHMOND REUNION.
GLORIFYING THE DEAD

of Loves Offering to Those Who
Bore the Immortal Banner of the
Southern Cross"
In referring sto DR.. ]. J. Scott of
Shreveport, the Richmond (Va.) Times
Dispatch says: DR.. J. ]. Scott, chairman
of the committee on monuments and
graves, submitted the usual report to the
convention, but it being too long to be
read, was accepted on the verbal state
ment of the doctor as to its salient feat
ures. In making his statement Dr. Scott
almost without knowing it made thrill
ing speech, commencing and encourag-
ing all the efforts to erect monuments to
the soldiers of the South. He said:
While this initial work may be incom-
plete owing to the difficulties attending
it in the inaugural gathering of these
statistics, so highly important and far
reaching, as the annex to truthful his
tory of the war; its conmemoration of
the brilliant achievements of the South
ern citizen soldiery; as token of the
undying love of their descendants to
those who have passed and are rapidly
disappearing beyond the shores of the
Silent River" not less of the enduring
affection of the self-sacri6cing devotion
and heroic patience of their wives,
daughters and grandchildren for the
thrice sacred cause and hallowed MEM
ories of those who bore the immortal
banner of the Southern Cross" OF al
verify
The bravest are the tenderest,
The loving are the daring
Thus lofty and inspiring is the work
of preserving from the fingers of decay
the names of the immortal dead and
rearing lofty monuments to their unpar-
allelled deeds of bravery and heroism
that they may
NEVER PERISH FROM THE
EARTH.
This has been and is still a work of
deep and enduring love, soul offering
to memory's most sacred treasures by
their sons, daughters and grandchildren
to be transmitted as precious heir
loom to their descendants down the un-
born centuries, and these monuments
shall stand the silent yet eloquent tribute
of devotion of this Southland's most
faithful, heroic and enthusiastic women;
a memorial signboard along the highway
of time to the men in gray, to endure
after the last survivor has answered the
roll call and is tenting on the camp
ground of the Great Beyond never
more among the bivouac' of the heroic
dead, but a living, beautiful giorihed
soul to ever keep green and unsullied
those brilliant deeds that shall stand
ever inscribed on the leaves of hal
lowed, cherished and eternal memory.
There is. always world of pathos in
these gatherings of the American Titans
of the nineteenth century. As time sets
its seal on their constantly thinning
ranks there is a closer entwining of their
descendants around their aged forms.
Song and story have immortalized them,
impassioned oratory has crowned them
with laurel wreaths of praise, beauty
pays tribute to their daring and their
valor with sweetest smile and the touch
of her soft hands. Sentiment has poured
forth from her inexhaustible urn the
wealth of her treasures as a gift offering
to their DEVOTION their patriotism, their
courage !; "a world has given tongue to its
admiration for the blood-libation; they
have poured upon the altar of constitu-
tional liberty for the preservation of the
matchless gift bequeathed to them by
their forefathers as
THE RICHEST HERITAGE ON
EARTH.
These monuments, the inscribed mar
bic headstones are Blu the tokens of the
compilation of facts that the historian
shall garner a the truth of mighty and
tremendous struggle for American free
dom. With the shadows of silence gath
ering about the echoing FOOTBALLS of the
last survivors of the great combat of the
sixties tere comes the respondent light
of truth to illumine their pathway into
the portals that ipen into the 'SGrea Be-.
yond, Today the same self-conscious,
self-radiant spirit that animated the vet
eran's bosom in the bivouac, on the
march, amid the battles storm, and
amid the tf1roes of deaths carnage has
remained with him amid the pursuits of
peace. In these latter he has written
a not less respondent record. He has
shown the world that when he shook a
continent with the volcanic upheaval OF
every higher trait of Anglo Saxon en-