The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1911-06-09
FLAGS AND FLOWERS
STREWN UPON GRAVES
Of SOUTHERN HEROES
DAUGHTERS OF CONFEDERACY
AND THE SOLDIERS HONOR
THE DEAD.
SPLENpI SPtfCH Or. ANDRE VS.
Pays Glowing Tribute to the Cour-
age and Honor and ChivaIry of the
Gentlemen of the Old South
Crosses of Honor Awarded.

Splendid tributes Of love and de-
votion were laid upon the graves OF
Confederate soldiers who rest in hose
Hill cemtery SATURDAY afternoon by
the surviving heroes Of the great
war between the States. They were
assisted in the services by the Maui
ry Chapter and the Winnie Davis
Chapter of the Daughters of the Con.
federacy, while a number of little
children scattered flowers on the last
resting place Of the immortal heroes
who lie there in their final resting
place.
The splendid GRAFTON Of Rev. Ed
ward B. Andrews on the soldiers of
the South was a beautiful tribue to
the courage and bravery of the men
who fought the battles of the Confed-
eracy. He said in part:
II have neither the time nor the
inclination to recount to you the
events of that conflict; nor have l
j the time to relate to you the heroic
deeds of any single hero. But we
have met here for another purpose.
We have met to decorate the sod set
apart as a covering for the last rest
| ing place of our beloved dead.
Everything which can be said to
honor these men has already been
we'll and nobly spoken; but l want
to add another tribute to their cour-
age and honor.
THE greatest thing which the new
South can learn from the old South
is their high and noble sense of hon
or. Not in any other period Of his
tory of the world had men reached
such a high conception Of honor.
The old Southern gentleman was
patriot; the nation and his country
could trust him to the full. You
might take away his goods, you might
take away his life, you might take
away all of his worldly possessions,
but you could not take away his hon
or. The public could trust them;
they were leaders, not demagogues;
thye were patriots, and not the tool
of corrupt machines.
THE spirit of the old South is call
ing through the years of half a cen
fury for US to be patriots and not par
tisans No period in the history of
the entire world points to such lead
ers as flourished in the old South.
II cannot pass this occasion with
out mentioning the names of two men
who were prominent in the affairs
of the war One, who was first a
citizen and then soldier, then a citi-
zen again, and finally an educator,
but through all his life splendid
Christian gentleman, is known to the
world, and is revered by all-Robert
E. Lee. The other, who was the first
and the last president of that wonder
full cause, we cannot think of with
out shedding tear Of supreme graft
tude to Jefferson Davis.
Il want to speak a word Of the
unnamed heroes Of the old South
for the men who fought the battles,
for the men who performed heroic
acts of which the world knew nothing.
We Of the present day take off our
hats to such men as lived in the army
Of the South.
But honor and chivalry cannot
give first place in our praise to the
leaders; honor and chivalry cannot
give first place in our praises to the
soldiers, but it must 90 to the noble
women of the South. She could not
forget herself in the excitement of
the battle; her place was at home,
her duty was to soothe the burning
wounds sustained by the men OIL the
bloodstained battlefield and through
it all she showed her wonderful love
and fidelity for the men who wore the
gray.
Without them it would not have
been possible for the soldiers to re-
main at their post of duty; without
them the old South could not nave
been. The one thing apart from
their faith in God which enabled the
men to again pick up their bloken
lives at the close of the war was the
love and the faithfulness of those no.
BILE women.
And in closing | want to speak a
few words to the Confederate SOL
diers. 1t is a great thing to have
been a Confederate soldier they
have made for themselves a name
which the world reveres. 1t is a
great thing to be courageous, to
bear in patience the heavy burdens
which you have borne. Your cour-
age after the war was over, when you