The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1907-10-31
MONUMENT
UNWILLING.
Large Crowd, Excellent Address
es and Appropriate Music.
Memory and Patriotism Hand in
Hand.

One OF the most impressive OCCd'
sions ever witnessed in Port Gibson
was the unveiling, last Thursday,
of the monument erected to the
memory of the Claiborne county
soldiers of the Lost Cause"
A good crowd of people were
present from all parts of the coun-
ty, besides a number from various
points from a distance.
Capt. R. A. Owen, commander
of the local camp of Veterans, was
master of ceremonies, and Rev. S.
r. Young, the only veteran minis
ter in the county, was chaplain of
the day.
Hon. Stephen Thrasher intro
duced DR.. H. N. Spencer of St.
Louis, a former Port Gibsonian,
who delivered the address. 1t was
an able effort and was heartily EN-
joyed by all who were fortunate
enough to hear it. DR.. Spencer is
a deep thinker and at the same
time broad and patriotic.
Mrs. Jennie M. Berry presented
the monument to the county in
graceful manner. On account of
the brevity of her speech it is the
only one we are enabled to publish.
1t follows:
To the Honorable Board of Super
visors of Claiborne County and
to Mr.. Martin, Your Representa- |
tive Here OH This Occasion
GENTLEMEN This is indeed a
happy Gay for the Claiborne Coun-
ty Chapter, United Daughters of
the Confederacy, for at last we see
the consummation of our hopes in
the completion of this beautiful
monument, erected to commemo-
rate the valor of Claiborne county's
sons in that awful unequal struggle,
the war between the states"
For the Confederate soldiers dis
PLAYED a valor and daring unequaled
since the days of little Greece. bat
tling for her liberty, as were they.
We call it a "lost cause" we
speak of a conquered people"
but was there ever victory more
glorious than the defeat of the Con-
federacy? Which general that fig
ured i'll that awful tragedy at Ap-
pomattox, now occupies the first
place in that magnificent Hall of
Fame, the gift of a noble woman
to the government ? Not the vic
tor, but the vanquisiled, not Ulysses
S. Grant, but our own matchless
Robert E. Lee To the study of
the methods of which generals, the
victor or the vanquished, do the
leaders who have made the arms of :
England feared and honored during II
the last three decades, lin India /
and South America-attribute their |
!? Not the victor, but the {
not Meade, Mcclellan q
and Grant, but to Lee, Jackson and c
StuatE. And many of Claiborne
county's soldiers followed these i'm c
mortal leaders, and helped them i
perform the miracles of war that a
have astonished the world. O
The Claiborne County Chapter
1as here erected this monument q
o attest their valor, and to show b
:orth its love and appreciation, as Il
long as time and tide shall last" 4
To be an everlasting tribute to P
hem, wherever they rest wheth-
.r in some cemetery, where loving n
hearts have marked their graves c
With that proud epitaph, "Cohfed- d
.rate States of America, and low Il
ng hands every recurring spring b
;trew beautiful flowers over them, b
,r whether. they sleep in unknown b
and unmarked graves where only S
he signing OF the southern pines o
sing their eternal requiem, or the o
bird chants their everlast.
ng praise I They sleep their last F
sleep on a hundred battlehelds, a
from the Potomac to the Mexic S
Gulf, but they are no longer un- I
marked, for this monument tells of ;
heir bravery, their daring, and :
heir sacrifices. {
Tt has been said that "It Is only t