The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1916-04-13
KENDRICK CHAMPIONS SHILOH
MONUMENT.

burg Landing, Tenn, to the Con
federate soldiers of Mississippi
who fell on the battlefield of Shilo
Mr.. Observation-Disclosures
ing the adverse report of tn
finance committee, trust the Sen
ate will hcar me on the motion I,
pass this bill, which appropriate
only thousand dollars to aid il
the building of monument {,
Mississippi soldiers who lie il
unknown graves on the battlefield
OF Shiloh; ; and | promise to de
tain you but a little while.
The brave, noble and patriotic
ladies of the United Daughters ol
the Confederacy are behind This
movement, and they are going to
build this monument whether you
help them or not but they come
before you asking this small ap-
preparation because they want to
be able to say to the world that
] the great State of Mississippi
helped in this noble and patriotic
cause. Almost all other states
have erected monuments to their
dead-to those who fell in the
bloody battle of Shiloh. Only a
few years ago the State of Ala
bama, through the efforts of her
noble women, erected a monu
ment to her dead, which is an
honor to this, our sister state.
On the bloodiest spot on Shiloh,
where Tennessee's soldiers lay
piled in great heaps, where blood
ran like water in the brooks and
rillS, Tennessee has erected
monument 10 her soldiers, and on
it are carved these words Go,
stranger, tell Tennessee that here
we died for her. When | visit the
Shiloh Park, and am asked for
the Mississippi monument, | have
to hang my head in shame.
One brave, true senator, Hon.
c. Is. Greaves, has said that if the
Senate did not pass this bill he
will be one of ten men to give one
hundred dollars out of his own
pocket to this patriotic cause. /
will be one to do the same.
Gust here Senator E. S. Rich
ardson asked if The speaker would
pardon an interruption, saying he
would make the third man who
would give 300 if the Senate
would not pass the bill.)
God bless you, Senator Rich
ardson, you have a noble heart.
If this Senate fails to pass this
bill I'm gong to ask for seven
more men to give like amount,
and the noble ladies will have
carved on that monument words
showing that the Senate of Miss
issippi was willing to contribute
to monument in honor of our
dead heroes.
Flfty-tive years ago, when the
southern boys were marching
away to battle under the folds of
the Stars and marching full
of hope, full of love for their coun-
try, marching to the music of the
fife and drum, suppose some pro
phetic voice had said, Stop young
men, do you know that SIS years
from now the great State of Miss
issippi will forget you, the sons
and grandsons will refuse to ap-
propriate the small sum of 81 900
to erect a monument to your mem
ory your services will not be ap-
preciated, and many of you will
sleep on far away battlehelds un-
honored, in Unknown graves?"
Suppose some prophetic voice had
said this, do you suppose those
brave boys would have believed
ii? If they had, they would not
have gone on, full of hope and pa
triotism as they did, to victory or
to soldiers grave. | have nc
relatives buried there, but there
is a senator on this floor who hal
brother sleeping in all unknown
grave. In the name of that Sen.
! ator, in the name of all others who
have loved ones buried there, ir
the name of Mrs. Inge, of Cor
inth, Miss, at whose house the
body of Gen. johnson lay after
he was killed in that great battle
| ask you to pass this bill. 1t was
: she who folded his hands acros,
} his breast, and it was she who wa:
5 the last to look on his dead face.
In the name of Mrs. Rober
} Henderson, of Corinth, and he
5 associates in the Daughters of tn,
5 Confederacy, who have donates
} much for this noble cause, | asl
) you to vote for this bill. In TIL
( name of the dead heroes who Ii
: in unknown graves and for th
5 honor of our grand old state,
s ask you to vote for this bill.
Ri There are thousands of goo
5 men and women who have rela
: tives sleeping there. Shall w
9 say to them and to the world, b
5 refusing to pass this bill, that W
= have forgotten them, that we d
o MT anpreciate their services fhs