The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-06-04
repeated to those out of hearing.
Senator Car1nack's speech was

repeated to those out Oh nearing.
Senator Carmack's speech was in
part as follows:
at is my privilege to appear in the
exercises of this great occasion as the
represen tative OF the United Daughters
of the Confederacy, whose roble partI
It is and has ever been to keep thel
gold Let me add that this monument
to the Souths great leader is no less q
monument to the .South's great women,
who have wrought into it all their
wealth'o devotion to the memory Of
his heroic services and his stainlessl
life.sas we'll as to the cause Of which
he was alike the foremost champion
and the most iIlustrious victim.
Greatness of Davis.
sit Is no part of my task to justify
this monument. Let me only say that
IL the unsclhsh devotion OF all the
powers OF great mind. patient self
a grateful remembrance. no man ever
builded more surely than ] efferson
Davis the foundations s Of his fame.
Great in all the yearsiof hissactive life.
he was surprisingly great in tn ose last
years in which mistaken; malice laid
on his devoted head all the supposed
sins OF his people. With the serenity
OF q great and uncomfortable soul he
bore the fury of persecution and OPP
posed mighty and magnanimous con-
tempt to the crawling scalumnies of his
defamers. These have lived their sum-
mer day and died: while the fame Of
Jefferson Davis gathers new splendor
with each passing year.
| Hero let me say that there is no
Southern soldier pusillanlmous enough
to accept that lenient Judgment some
critics-thnt he was the innocent, de-
luded victim OF wicked leadership.
No soldier of the South, howevc J ruin
ed In fortune or broken with wounds,
mother bereft of her son, hes ever
raised an accusing voice against the
leaders of the South. The Southern
people are not OF that coward breed
| that seeks vicarious sufferer for Its
own deeds. Let no man mistake US.
| the South, the whole South, gave both
heart and hand to the War of Secession;
and as history shall judge Jefferson
fought beneath the flag Of the confed-
eracy. Yea, and so let It Judge us OF a
new generation who ask for ourselves
i no higher honor and no prouder fate
than that by their deeds w. may ne DC.
| is that the sons of these heroes may
be worthy of their sires. No, my coun-
trymen, it Is not as a trembling peni-
tent that the south approaches cs'ts the the
! Judgment bar of history
standing in the presence of this no.
! BILE and Impressive monument. we
1 proudly front the world and proclaim
1 to, the present ana tHe Ioi1iins 'i !u.e
ours Whether for 'chieftain or for
/ private, we make no confession OF
wrong, we plead for no forgtveness
i Of error, we ask no tendernes s OF th he
| enlightened Judgment Of mankind. II
! there are those who are shocked by
/ such sentiments, let me ADD that tnls
reunited country Will not be best It, de-
\ Fo,i otH VfCtOr'S feet.
Measure of Loyalty.
mrhoughtless people have sometimes
reproached us for such scenes as this,
and have demanded as pledge OF our
i loyalty to n reunited country that we
give the memory OIL o ~ ms merofs da ~
4 ness They know not what they ask.
They would have us prove our loyalty
i to the Union by proving ourselves
recrennt to the noblest sehtlll'en ~. nv.
patriot say that the yalor Of our
4 Southern soldiers, the fortituda OF our
i Southern women. the fidelity with
which we cherish tho memory q tneir
4 measure Of our loyalty to q reunited
4 country and to the flag that floats over
1 it from the Lakes to the Gulf and from
1 sea to sea. - ,oo,
i forget. IL they were SO ilclle and incon-
i start that they could learn to despise
4 tho cause for which they gave tho, best
! blood Of their veins, II they could be
ashamed Of n record that Is the wonder
4 and admiration of the world. then, In
deed might they be dospised as de-
\ generate and ignoble race, who could
y not he loyal to any country or faithful
to to- any flag He is foolish, indeed. who
4 holds that the southerner, must surren-
j der. not only his arms. but his man
,lhood and self-respcct, before he can
!, become q faithful soldier ora worthy
4 citizen of tho republic. No, my coun-
! trymen, tho world respects us for what
we are doing this day. y Viii despise
q glorious history.
"hIys countrymen. this monument Is
Z also commemorative Of the soldiers and