The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-04-27

Under clouds that banked and
lowered, and amid a sullen atmOs-
phere, which, try as it might, could
not quel the Dixie" spirit in the
hearts of the grand old men who wore
the gray, nor lag their bouyant foot
steps as they marched up PalafoX
street to the stirring music of the
band, Pensacola duly and fittingIy OBJ
Rerved the Confederate Memorial day
yesterday, the services throughout
having been impressive, as they should
Isase been, and Infinitely touching
and true.
Raindrops threatened persistently
to tumble from heavy, lowering sky,
but on they came, marching, march
ing, marching in fine fettle and martial
array, until, together with those who
had gathered in the parade, Lee
square was reached, where the cere-
monials were to be held.
Lee square never looked more i'm
pFessiVe than it did yesterday.
The noble features OF the fine statue
wore a new look of triumph when you
gazed aloft, the patriotic trappings
which uuttered in the April breezes
having told a world of stories in a
single touch-and worth telling-tOo
Garlanded with the fairest flowers OF
a spring day, and with manners which
sentiment, the monument stood proud
Nly and just apart from all the world
so7did things!
Program at Lee Square.
very patriotic and altogether sat
asfStory little grandstand had been
ereted IN the southwest corner OF
lee Square, where the speakers OF
the W were assembled. The ladies
OF IN Memorial Association, the
Daugilrs of the Confederacy all were
depressed. crowds of local citizens
1nteresA and curious, having also
tnToh isoS}e park.
master 1tS Of General Thompson was was
mart of the & ,lt,,t S,-I4il ~ 49, H.
ability Gnu spatch, doubtless, which
80 q iisi- in the early sixties
-A1ty after bed, the ser
Miss on ;, ,,alais-Ea z. IL "a a y my
guHss- E9Tcer which a quartette sang
Tenting on the Old Camp Ground"
The Grafton.
The orator of the day. Cavet WvIie
HHmphries, was introduced nv Mr.
VIM. c. Monroe, and spoke in part
as follows:
My acceptance of your kind invita-
lion TO address you on the present oc-
casion was from no sense of personal
nness for the task but from love of
the cause your noble association rem
resents
There were two classes of suffer-
ers during the sixties-the heroes ot
the battlefield and the silent MARTYR
herolnes of our homes. The lovely
sister of seventeen who went out on
me Dattleheid at Winchester. Va.
and falling on the lifeless body of her
Drotner bathed his face with fears
and kisses suffered more than fbe
brave boy that had fallen at his own /
door.
When we returned home after the
war we found that our mothers had
aged many years in a few, that thew
were prematurely gray and that much
OF the light, and vivacity of life and
nope was gone; and as we saw them
frequently sitting sad and silent by
the old hreSide, looking wtstfully. long
ingfy, into the distance. we know
tney were suffering from the absence
OF those who had gone out never TO
return, and hike Rachel of old would !
not De comforted because their chill
dren were not. We could read much
Of their sufferings in their faces. but I
not all; that was known only TO them.
and to God. Dear mothers of the I
sunny South, as long as you have I
sons and daughters worthy of their
mothers your labors and sufferiugs [
viii not go unsung. and the grateful
remembrance of posterity will be vour
'eWard,
Daughters of the Confederacv. vours T
$ noble heritage-neither silver nor g
old nor diamonds; but the record T,
I mothers who in tears or silent grief A
eunted no sacrifice too great to be 81
aade FOR their country. But we can ri
OF rest on the honors of the past in