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The Jasper Centennial Oration
of Gen. John B. Gordon, Dee
livered October 9,1879. .
Gentlemen of the Jasper Monumental
Association and Fellow-citizens:
Your request that I should represent
you in the imposing ceremonies of this
iiour came to me with the force of an
authoritative command. _ Other en
gagements were relinquished that this
duty might be discharged. The novel
ty, as well as thejelevated and patriotic
purposes of the occasion, must invest it
with a peculiar attraction.: to us all.
What is it that brings together this vast
concourse of people from this and sis
ter States? It is not to celebrate . the
triumphs of genius in civil life, nor to
do honor to some great military chief-
lain. To no philosopher or sage; to no
lawgiver like Lycurgus, or Solon or Al
fred; to no conqueror like Bonaparte, or
tear or Wellington, to no founder of a
State like Romulus or Washington, but
to a modest private in the ranks of the
colonial army do we pay tribute to
day. It is not your purpose, however,
by this ceremonial, to mar in any de
gree the refrain which now fills the
world with the deeds of her titled chief
tains, and which makes the names of
such mon as Washington and Andrew
Jackson and Lee the true echoes of the
world’s highest glory. But you propose
for once to descend to the ranks, and
ignoring tlio insignia of place and pow
er, to rear a shaft which shall com-
j memorate the courage, the patriotism,
i and the virtuo that invest with a pecu
liar charm and dignity the life sacri
fices of a private soldier.
In this connection I wish again to in
quire why, on this spot and upon this
day there is assembled with a common
impulse tliis almost countless multi
tude? Why this universal tribute to
bergeant Jasper? It 1b true that in his
life and death he illustrated all those
I excellencies which sparkle brightest in
I the crown of virtue; but thousands of
I your own countrymen in the late war
hud in the wars which preceded it have
I lived as devoted lives and met. as heroic
I deaths. It cannot therefore be solely
I “lie to the fact that he so nobly dis-
I “ ar B e u his duty, nor because he re-
I on 1“ 6 ""mraission tendered by Gov.
I '"hedge and uttered those immortal
I words; “Adversity has been my school-
I 48tw > Liberty my schoolmistress; let
L . tW country as an humble and
L V ‘o ] aboror * n the cause of free-
I , u ni ' cannot be because he leaped
kl, ra “l )art9 an( I saved the flag 1 of
|„ j C ari) lina when shot from its
|.> nt]iird| not because he died upon the
lhnrn r cM 0t ! this city, where he had
I wb ! 0 Weeding, the colors of his
Il!l-o i r - y for d'hers, though rarely, have
I llt !’> re fuBed the honor of rank and
IH b . llltl68 of offi ce, preferring to
lutliPM • ei .L C0Untry ' n private station;
lino ? 18same wa r and other wars
Ifarwi ,k’? tton "elf, braved dangers,
| a. ( * ea ffi unblanched, torn flags from
IiiDon 8 Lands, planted their own
lat tho!.°i Stl 0 brea stworks or gone down
Imonnm . ’ C0rae nting with blood the
■with tt. er u S ,. w bicli patriotism builds
■ «*‘be bodies of her slain,
lineni therefore, as are the prom
I on. r c te ln Jasper’s life to command
|inotU? eCl i at ffi homage, we must find
I tion. lt, and tnora Philosophic coneidera-
l 1 inivi'r,V- euSona ffir this profound and
Itionnf i-.‘cterest in the commemora-
I °Tlofo 19 lfu a *ffi services.
|geneni\ 8eem to be three causes .for the
I'bis iini • ? la ° e P a ffi to the memory of
IteZ & t0 , wh . ioh 1 invite your at-
I rate 16 lrs *‘ is that he was a pri-
■Wouj ,J 0r ’ an< i one of the most illus-
l s Wof m 1>reseu , t ?tives the world ever
I>n all n,.„?- 30 fi e]I'8acrificing men, who
Iterest n ,.? ll< l 8 ® it* ranks, suffer its bit-
Ithe va ‘ 10nH and bear the brunt of
■ ®anitv »ni 6 heart of universal hu
ll; an ' . l * respond to this day’s work
■ hiiuJir , justice, not only to Jasper
■ whotn i’w, mt t° all private soldiers
laming ii,: 80 eiuispiouously represents,
■"here To,.. 8 ‘"Huron rises on the spot
Ifutu re a „i ICr it will proclaim to
■>elf.'abn(>3„r appreciation of the
like unhnfi^'u?’ 1,0 faring courage and
l«tmy ofS ,patriotism of that vast
8 "titled soldiery who, with no
incentive to aotion but devotion to duty,
no prospect of distinction above the
mass of their comrades, no hope of re
ward save the approval of conscience,
their country and their God, have gone
down in the orach and carnage of war
to fill unlettered graves.
I rejoice that Georgia is to build such
,20 ° a monument, and I thank you, my
countrymen, that you have thought me
worthy to represent you in such a cause.
The truest heroes of this earth are the
men who, in any sphere, serve and suf
fer, labor and endure, in the cause of
humanity, or justice or truth, without
the hope of worldly glory. The men
who, for truth’s sake, endure persecu
tion are heroes; the men who for hu
manity’s sake brave pestilence are he
roes, and the men who for liberty’s sake
face death, aB it thunders in artillery or
12 00 speeds on the bullet’s.wing, are grand
heroes, and the less prompted by the
pride of office or the hope of distinc
tion, the grander that heroism becomes.
God in His Providence mingles good
with all the ills which befall man. Per
secutions and pestilence are evils, but
not wholly evils, for they furnish the
theatre for the exhibition of the loftiest
Courage and demonstrate how grand a
being man may become when forgetful
of self and consecrated to duty. War
is an evil, but not wholly an evil, for it
arouseB and inspires; it awakes from
slumber the mightiest energies and
manliest virtues; just as the storm,
which while it lashes the ocean into
rage, shivers tho masts and submerges
navies, yet purifies the waters which
would become foul with stagnation and
reek with corruption; or to use a trite
but perhaps more expressive figure, war
is a furnnneo in which men are tried,
and of all of those who are tested by its
fireB the private soldier must endure its
hottest and fiercest flames. How sub
limely unselfish is such a man. In all
this universe there is not one spectacle
which surpasses in moral grandeur the
self-abnegation of the private soldier;
his courage inspired by no hope of dis
tinction, bis life devoted to the service
of his country or his death made glori
ous as a sacrifice to freedom, and no
monumentul pile built by human hands,
though it should bear upon its summit
the visible seal of Jehovah’s approval
can tower too high nor endure too
long to adequately measure the honors
which freemen should pay to their un-
epauletted martyrs of liberty.
Another source of the peculiar inter
est which invests the name of Jasper is
to be found in the fact that he was an
Irishman, that he did not permit the
mournful state inflicted by Great Britain
upon his own coun'ry and its people to
deter him from enlisting in the cause
of the feeble oolonies against the same
dominating and apparently invincible
power.
As the chosen organ of the Jasper
Monumental Association, I invite the
Irish-Americans and the patriots of
Ireland everywhere to regard the col
umn which shall here be erected to Jas
per as a monument also to the spirit
of resistance to tyrants, which though
baffled in Ireland and victorious in
America, is still older and as enduring
in Irish as in American hearts. Ireland
and Irishmen in every quarter of the
globe, wherever they breathe the vital
air, will rise up with one acccrd to do
honor to the principles of freedom for
whioh that people battled through cen
turies of defeat; for which Jasper fell
and to which this monument is to be
reared. Few nations that have lived
in history deserve more richly than Ire
land the tribute whioh you are about
to pay to one of her sons. Her history
running back to the regions of fablo
and descending with an unbroken cur
rent through ten centuries, Ireland,
prior to her conquest by a foreign pow
er, can boast of a civilization and na
tional independence of greater duration
thatvany nation of any age. Even the
tides of foreign conquest which have
rolled in successive waves over Ireland
have not sufficed to obliterate the re
cord of her learning, to obscure the
manifestations of her wonderful genius,
to crush the spirit of her inextinguish
able nationality, nor to quench the fires
of freedom that glow in the breasts of
her people. Even Alfred, the . 9 1 ?’
hearted monarch and idol of — ritish
history, the Washington of England,
who blended in one character tho charm
of romance and the power of philoso-
phy, who combined the fire and chival-
ry of David, with almost tho calm
wisdom of Solomon, was educated in
Irish halls of learning and drew from
Irish polity his maximB and institu
tions of political wisdom. Edmund
Bnrke and Curran and Sheridan were
Irishmen. What country, what age,
can boast of such a trio. Burke, the
fearless friend of American freedom,
unrivalled in the profusion pi
hU°gifts, whose oollossal form rises in
peerless height above his fellowmon;
who, from the platform of. politics
swept with his intellectual vision the
vast field of philosophy, of science, of
the frosts of years had blighted s&ny of
those flowers of fancy, which bloomed
with perennial beauty, drew ^“Mad
ame de Stael the declaration that he
was the most gifted man she had ever
known, who was the Shakespeare of the
bar, the true son of genius, and h ° ir
its highest inspiration. Sheridan, whos
eloquence Byrpn declared
■*W*« ike thundor- -tbs o venglu*. rod I
-*
“ShM
What does England not owe to Ire
land for the gift of suoh men as these?
What does France not owe to Ireland
for Cavaignao, who was oalled in our
day to the head of the Frenoh Republic
and. whose popularity never yielded
till it bame in contuot with that of a
Bonaparte—a name that holds the
hearts and imaginations of Frenchmen
with a spell more potent than the wiz
ard’s wand? What does Amerioa not
owe to Ireland for the monuments of
Irish industry in her railroads and
canals, and for Irish contributions to
bar and bench and battlefield; for Jas
per and Montgomery, martyrs to Amer
ican independence; for Shields and the
Irish born soldiers who in every war
followed the flag of this Republic ?
What does the South not owe to Ire
land for enriching her soil with the
blocd of Cleburne, and her literature
with the genius of Ryan, that gifted
Irishman who is at once the thunder
bolt of oratory and rainbow of poesy;
whose thoughts breathe with the very
life of truth, and whoss words like
Bparks from holy altars burn in our
bosoms with immortal fire ? What does
liberty not owe to Ireland for Fitzger
ald, for Wplf Tone, for John Mitchell,
for Francis Meagher, for O’Brian,
O’Connell and Robert Emmet ? Though
heroes of a lost cause, the names of
these patriots are forever associated with
the names of Hampden, of Sidney, of
Brutus, and of Washington.
It is fitting that America thould build
a monument to a son of Ireland. It is
especially appropriate that it should be
built by Georgians to Jasper; that it
should stand here among the people for
whose freedom he died; here on the soil
that drank his blood; here by the ocean
whose waters wash either shore, and
whose ceaseless throbs symbolize the
beating of the great heart of the two
peoples, pulsating in common and
deathless sympathies.
The third and last reason whioh I
shall mention, is the devotion of the
people to the cause whioh Jasper so
gloriously served. It is not only an
impressive testimonial of the gratitude
of the country to JaBper, but a sponta
neous manifestation of the peculiar
sympathy felt by the South with the
oauso of constitutional and local gov
ernment for which he fought and fell.
It cannot be successfully denied that at
the South th9 cause of local govern
ment has a champion in almost every
citizen. The peculiar institutions which
for half a century before the late war
had isolated her from sympathies of
other sections, apd the mournful factB
of her history since that war, have
served to wed the South in indissoluble
bonds to this doctrine of local govern
ment—a doctrine which all the colo
nies anterior to the establishment of
our independence, and all the States for
a long period subsequent to that event,
held to be essential to the freedom of
the people. But the unhappy conflict
between the Southern States and the
General Government has had the un
fortunate tendecy to bring this cardinal
doctrine of free government into tem
porary disrepute. I say temporary, for
it must again successfully assert itself
in every State of the Union, uuleBs pas
sion and prejudice, apprehension, and
the false presumption of a necessity for
a stronger government shall blind the
American people to the experience of
the colonies, and to the clearest lessons
taught by the history and the philoso
phy of government. Temporary it
must be unless the Constitution is to be
disregarded, the States to be disorgan
ized and liberty cease to be regarded as
a heritage of American 'citizens. It is
true that the opposing theories—the na
tional and the local or State govern
ment theories, ns in this connection
they may be termed—have been in
conflict for nearly a century. The con
troversy might continue forever without
involving any serious change of the
Government or imperilling the liberties
of the people, if waged in the spirit and
with tho same moderation that marked
its progress for the first seventy years of
our national existence; for never until
tl ese latter years was the integrity or
independence or sovereignty of the
States called in question.*' But so rad
ical and revolutionary are the changes
now demanded; so far advanced from
former positions are the advocates of a
great consolidated and imperial repub
lic; so fixed seems the purpose to sub
ordinate the States to the will of a ma
jority of Congress, irrespective of the
Constitution, thatthe ability of the peo
ple to preserve their rights of local gov
ernment becomes a question of mo
mentous consequence. I say moment
ous because there never has been, there
never will be, a question submitted, the
relations of the immortal spirit to eter
nity excepted, in which is involved'so
much of weal or woe to these fifty mill
ions of freemen. . .
‘ On this Centennial occasion, and in,
connection with the question of local
government, it cannot be inappropriate,
nor without profit, to remind you of the
three prime causes which led first to
the colonial conflict with Great.Bntain;
then to the permanent separation and
independence of the colonies; and final
ly, to the formation of a confederated
Republic on this continent, One of the
complaints of our fathers was the asser
tion of the mother country of the right
to tax without aooording to the oolonies
the right of representation. Another
was the persistency of the mother coun
try in stationing armies in our midst
in time of peace The third was—and
to thin I ask your especial attention—
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HUMOR OFTHE SCALP
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