Year: 1877




habitually bestow upon their memories.
No, not ''in the estimation of a hair,
nor sin the twentieth part of one poor
scruple." No matter what men may
now say upon the subject of the war !;
no matter what the world may think of
those engaged in it, We will care for
our dead and never cease to honor their
memories.


One thing is certain beyond all con-
troyersy in reference to our Southern
soldiers, whatever may be thought and
said on any occasion or in any quarter
as to their being right or wrong, no
one doubts the fact, which is conceded
by their most prejudiced and unrelent-
ing foes, that they most unquestionably
believed that they were right, and can
not be classed with those ''who knew
the right and yet the wrong pursued.


Never were there better or braver
soldiers then were to be found in the
armies of the South, especially in the
army of Northern Virginia, and more
particularly in that portion of it known
and honored throughout the world as
the "Stoncwall Brigade" Our own in
comparable brigade, whose name and
fame will be cherished here at least as
those blue mountains stand on their
firm foundations, looking down on this
fair, this fertile and famous valley, with
which it is so gloriously associated, and
,,,bor,, 10 frs+ or1 r,oSt iliuct rinus loo IL
er rests-rests .'over the riYer-under
the trees,


And what memories came marching
before the minds eye from the buried
past at the mere mention Of that leader,
who, together with his loved brigade,
were baptized in blood on the field OF
battle with the significant sOubriquet
which has made them forever memora-
bic. Is it any wonder then that we
love the memory of that brigade of ours
-Jackson's own brigade?


Is it any wonder that we revere the
memory of It's great leader,no less great
than good? All! my friends, when we
remember how unselfshly he devoted
himself to the cause he espoused-how
successfully he defended it-how calmly
he encountered danger-how resolutely
! he over came difliculties-how consis-
tently he maintained his Christian
character, and how singularly free he
was from The ordinary trailties of hui
manity,it would be strange indeed if the
! people of this valley, with whom he
lived and for whom he died-and pass
ing stranger if the people OF this dear
old, battle-scarred city of Winchester
with whom he was so intimately asso
cated under circumstances Of such eX
traordinary interest and whom he loved
so well-had not enshrned his memory
! in their he.rt of hearts.


And those two glorious brothers
par Mobile frafrum-lying yonder
They who, like Saul and Jonathan, were
'switter than eagles and stronger thar
Ions who were so lovely and pleasan
in their lives, and in their death are no
divided" who now sleep side by sid,
together under that simple soddeC
mound in this silent city of the dead
can we ever forget them! No, my friend
for the name Of Ashby is one of the few
immoral names that were not born t
die.


And these fallen braves Of humble
fame and those without name, The
''unkuown dead beneath that mounc
"whose swords were thousand anC
whose bosoms but one" Are they evel
to be forgotten? forgotten by those with
whom and for whom they fought? Coo
forbid that we-especially those of u.
who followed Jackson from the first anC
Lee to the last-who were associated
with those poor boys-who shared theil
sufferings-who participated in then
perils aud sympathized in their cause
no! We at least can never be 50 forget
ful Of them, so faithless to ourselves anG
to every manly sentiment as to refrain
from testifying on all proper occasions
and in all appropriate ways our undi
minished and undying regard for their
memories. All honor, then, to the
memory Of our fallen heroes!


What more? One word only. Let us
here resolve that on returning to our
respective homes to resume the daily
duties of our life, whilst cheriShing in
our hearts the sacred memories OF our
dead bretherG, we will bauish from our
minds whatever may remain of bitter
ness born of the strife in which they fell
Let the hostile feelings OF that saddest
of all sad episodes in our conntry's his
tory, sleeping the sleep that knows no
waking" be forever buried out otsight,
and let each and all of US do what we
can to uphold and strengthen the hearts
Of good men throughout the land who
are striving under encouraging auspices
TO re-establish on the firm foundations
of mutual respect, mutual confidence,
mutual forberance and mutual forgive
ness that earnest, honest, old-fashioned
feeling of faternity and good fellowship
which formerly existed between the cit
izeus of every section and all the
States.


CONSTRUCTION OF AN OLD Will
The Baltimore .7merican of Tuesday
says, there was in progress last week,