Newspaper Page Text
y*\ .; "Ji'- •.• I / ** '^2."'•''' "*“' 4 '"
S - /^S^fZT * EL > Gto ‘^viA - '■ Z^SS^SsßS^f,
I i-AjST' J iU-' - __
VOL. 111.
For the Banner of the South.
After Years.
*
BY S. K. PHILLIPS.
Here you shall rest your feet
Where we were wont to meet,
Where life was rosy as the month of June;
And all its borders were,
As golden as your hair,
Tho' like your hair they lost their color
soon.
Here as the evening drew,
Around the sky's pale blue,
1 Her amber curtains to enfold the day,
You us'd to watch and wait,
Beside the rustic gate,
j Half angry at me for my long delay.
You were so full ol life
And eagerness. Such strife
Too oft, I told you, held your peace at bay;
Then you would laughing sing,
“I am the bounding Spring,
And you (’twas true.) the quiet Summer’s
day.”
I read it then, but knew
Some day that thro’ and thro’
Your inmost soul, this love you laid aside,
Would be the one great law,
Os life to you.—'twould draw
You to its heights of calm above the tide.
You do not talk. What now,
To you and me, if brow
And cheek alike are furrow’d o’er and o’er?
All vain the thought -within, —
This thought: “It might have been,”
We both are wiser than we were before.
Life's wine is spiff'd, you say.
So I once said, —to-day,
I look abroad upon my garden, place,
And where the vineyard grew,
We planted—ine and you—
Empurpl’d fruitage looks me in the face.
i
What doth it promise—Wine ?
Perhaps—so yours and mine ;
Shall this new wine be truer than the old?
Shall it to heart and brain,
Give peace and strength again—
Cleanse out the dross and leave hut
purest gold?
So I believe and rest
Content, supremely blest.
That to my life a sob'rer love is given ;
As steadfast as the stars,
Bright as the glowing bars,
That loom above the pearly crest of
Heaven.
Washington Light Infantry
Monument.
Dedication Services—A Monster As
sembly—The City Deserted—Un
veiling THE Mox un:ENT —REV. Dr.
Winkler’s Poem— Speech of Gen.
Hampton.
[From the Charleston Courier.]
Yesterday afternoon the Anniversary
of the Battle of Seccssienvifle, was se
lect*, and as an occasion appropriate for the
Dedication of the Monument erected to
the memory of the fallen members of
the Washington Light Infantry. Al
though the weather was lowering and
the rain fell, these did net deter the citi
zens of Charleston from turning out cn
mosso to do honor to the memory of the
breve men who had fought in their be
half. At an early hour in the afternoon
the principal stores were closed, and the
people began to flock towards the City
of the Dead, and by live o’clock the
Greets of Charleston seemed deserted of
the population. The various Masonic
Lodges in the City marched to the depot
in procession, and. were joined there by
the various Fire Companies (in citizen’s
dress), the Carolina Rifle Club, the va
rious German Socieres, and the Hiber
nian Society. A long train of thirteen
ears, loaded with human freight, carried
j the crowds who flocked thither. Arrived
on the ground the crowd soon augmented
to over 6,000; and the ceremonies began.
On the platform were the ( dicers of
the Grand Lodge of Freemasons, Odd
' Fellows, and some of the officers of the
Suivivors’ Association, General Wade
Hampton, Col. Simonton, Gen. Conner,
Maj. Barker, and others. •
The proceedings were opened with a
feeling
PRAYER BY REV. E. C. EDGERTON.
0 Lord God ! Our Heavenly Father!
we have assembled here to-day, in Thy
presence, to dedicate to the sacred mem
ory of our brethren and comrades-in
arms who have lost their lives in our be
half this imperfect monument and me
morial of our affectionate gratitude.
Standing, as it were, by the side of their
graves, we lift our eyes and hearts to
Thee.
We thank Thee, 0 Lord, that we have
been able to bring our work of love to
this successful completion*, and that this
monument is standing to-day as an evi
dence that their patriotic devotion and
unselfish sacrifice, however vain and fruit
less they may seem to have been, are not,
and shall not be, forgotten, or unappre
ciated by us for whom they died.
And we beseech Thee, 0 Lord, to
hear our prayer. Let Thy kindly bene
diction descend upon us and upon this
our work. Grant that this stone may
long remain a testimonial to departed
virtue and valor. Grant that it may long
incite us, and our children after us, to
imitate that example of devotion to our
country’s service, in good report and
evil; and that it may* ever appeal to us,
by the tenderest emotions of our hearts
and the warmest associations of memory,
to follow in the path of duty and honest
conviction, with the same unshaken fideli
ty aud unfaltering tread, through the
darkest experiences we ...ay meet in life.
And we beseech Thee, 0 Lord, that,
as we stand among the graves of those
who, like our fallen brethren, have passed
into that world where all the mysteries of
Thy Providence are revealed, these these
may be impressed upon our hearts. Let us
feel that we, too, shall soon see Thee face to
lace ; Thy ways shall soon be known to
us, also, and Thy just dealing be clear as
the noonday; the mists of error, igno
rance and prejudice shall forever flee, and
the possibility of honest differences of
opinion shall ferever cease. Let us learn,
therefore, to hold fast to conviction with
the calmness and consistency of princi
ple, and not with the rancor of partisan
zeal —knowing that this bitterness aud
hate can never make what is false true,
nor what is true false, Let us learn to
be just and gentle to those who honestly
oppose or honestly differ from us, remem
bering how soon lor us, as for those whose
bodies sleep around us, the differences of
time will be settled by the infallible arbi
trament of eternity. Let us learn to abhor
pretension and deceit, knowing this, that
falsehood in principle and hypocrisy in
heart, however they may flourish for a
season, shall triumph only for a little while,
And let us always remember that the
best offerings we can lay upon the altar
of truth and right, are presented in trie
hour of their humiliation and trial, and
at the cost of sacrifice.
And now, O Lord, Thy ways are in
the seas, Thy paths are in the great
waters, and thy footsteps are not known.
We desire to acknowledge Thee the
high and mighiv Ruler of the universe,
who dost from Thv throne behold all the
dweliers upon earth. Thou doest accord
ing to Thy will in the army of heaven,
and among the inhabitants of the earth,
and none can stay Thy hand, or say un
to Thee, what doest thou ?
We be lievc Thou art seated on the
throne, judging right, and though
ciouds and darkness be about Thee,
nevertheless we know that righteousness
and judgment are the habitation of Thy
seat.
We believe that all Thy doimrs are
beneficient; and though Thy thoughts be
not as our thoughts, and Thy ways not
as our ways, st.ll we desire to follow
with patient and j >yful faith where Thou
dost lead; and to stand in our lot, under
Thy hand and covenanted care, until the
end shall come. Us fold Thy purposes,
AUGUSTA, GT-A.., JULY 2, 1870.
0 Lord! Still, according to Thy cus
tom, out of evil bring forth good. Look
with compassion upon the afflictions of
Thy praying people. Sanctify thy father
ly visitations to them. Turn Thee again
and let the light of Thy countenance
shine upon us. Comfort us after the
time that Thou hast plagued us, aud for
the years wherein we have suffered ad
versity.
And to Thy service we devote our
selves in heart and soul and body; and
to Thy glorious name we ascribe (as is
our bounden duty), all might, majesty,
praise, power, and dominion, henceforth
and forevermore. Amen.
dr. winki.er’s poem.
Rev. E. T. Winkler then recited the
following beautiful Poem, written by
himself for the occasion:
A graceful pillar in the waste,
A shrine to love and memory dear,
With arts and arms, and trophies traced ;
The Eutaw guardians proudly rear:
They bring the tender tribune here—
The sculptured spoil, the laurelled prize,
Which to the noblest of her name, —
Her foremost on the lists of fame, —
The conquered State denies.
For death may come, but duty lives,
And reverence and love remain :
The sacrifice.that nature gives,
When dust must sink to earth again,
Is not the rending of the chain
That bound us to the valiant shade:
But Honor claims the immortal urn,
For lamps that languish as they burn,
And flowers that bloom to fade —
All, was it not a knightly thought,
That gathered from her fields of pride,
And here our country’s relics brought,
And laid her heroes side by side —
So none their ashes might divide,
Os break their brotherhood of soul ?
As one, the sleeping hosts below
Shall hear the final trumpet blow,
And answer to the roll.
As one, the gathered hosts above
Renew the commerce of the free,
And watch till resting Life and Love
Awake at morning’s reveille.
And face its kindred face shall see—
The slumberers front, upon the sod
Reclining now—so wan and marred !
The sentry’s, bronzed and battle-scarred,
Flushed with the light of God.
«•
Around this templed monument
1 What memories gather, proud and grand,
From Snmter's bastions brown and rent;
From Wagner's dunes of billowy sand;
From lines where Johnson’s beacons
stand ;
Where Pinckney sways His realm of blue ;
Where every palm and every wave
Recal the triumphs of our brave,
W here Moultrie’s eagles flew.
But 0 thou cynosure of eyes,
Thou sceptered city by the sea!
From other lands where trophies rise.
Thy children bring their spoils to thee !
Accept the offerings of the free:—
From Fisher, ’mid the thundering fleet,
From Petersburg’s embattled lines.
From Richmond’s plume of Sabbath
pines
Falls homage at thy feet.
Thy sons beheld the invader fly
Across Manassas crimson ford,
And, when to battle was to die,
At Avery met his countless horde ;
For thee that priceless blood was
poured?
0 mother! crown their Spartan martli,
And lay them at its high ascent,
Beneath no funeral monument
But a triumphal arch !
They did not agree, but they fought.
When the dear State said : “Fight for
me!
From death-struck hand to hand they
caught.
And bore aloft her palmy tree
Through storms that never smote the
Stra —
Content its grand device to show :
’Mid thunder-clouds of wrath and hate,
Burned quenchless “virtue” for the
State,
And ‘•valor’’ for the foe.
When ail the sea swo- -ped white with sails;
With spouts of fire the harvests bled;
When valor pent in frozen jails,
With wormy dust and ashes fed ;
Drew life and courage from the dead ;
Still, on our decimiated ranks
Os Titans were the mountains hurled,
The mercenaries of the world
'Smote front and rear and flanks,
0 hearts that only sought the right,
’Mid howling, haunted wildernesses ;
O hands that bore the unequal fight
With legioned perils and distresses ;
O names that Love, that Glory blesses;
From hoary sage to college tyro, *
Each at his country's call a hero :
Your legend then, Dura spiro spero ,
Now, Sp>e.ro dura expiro.
Beyond the tomb extend your lives,
And we that sacred trust may shield—
The spotless honor that survives
And blooms upon the battle-field.
Whate’er those gory acres yield
Os private worth or public good,
A warring world cannot subdue;
The virtues of the leal and true
Are canonized in blood.
To shift and veer with changing time,
To cringe and fawn to frowning power,
Is to our buried dead a crime,
An insult so the living hour!
Let martial Friendship guard her dower
And place as pledges on the grave
The gleaming stones, the shafts that
tower
With name and wreath, and sculptured
flower,
In honor of tiie brave.
In silence now sleep all t]ie isles,
That once the booming battle stirred,
Save where benignant Summer smiles,
As flutes and trills her mocking bird,
Amid the moss-clad forest heard:
The Morning’s bugles are unblown,
Relieved is Evening’s restless tramp,
Grey Memory sentinels the camp,
Bland Nature claims her own.
Her own the trunks of prostrate pine,
Thronged nightly when the ‘‘church
call” blew ;
Her own the grasses of the line
Once gemmed with blood instead of dew;
Her own the century oaks that threw
Their shelter o’er the Jasmine flowers:—
But the sweetest genius of the place,
Its joy, its beauty audits grace—
Its noblest life—are ours.
Resume, soft Nature, thy domain ;
ileal bleeding hearts with balms of peace,
But keep within thy gentle reign
The magic token we release,
Nor let that native virtue cease,
To which this altar pile is given—
Its base aglow with fields of fume,
Its slabs that guard each shining name,
Its spire that flames to heaven.
UNVEILING TIIE MONUMENT.
At this stage <t»f the proceedings the
monument, which was enshrouded in the
folds of a white veil, was unveiled, the
old Eutaw Band playing the prayer
from “Moses in Egypt.” As soon as
the cover had been removed, a member
of the FEtna Fire Company hung upon
one of the cornices a handsome laurel
wreath with the name of the company
inscribed. Oilier floral contributions,
(all magnolias) followed, and the monu
ment was soon covered with magnolia
wreaths.
THE DEAD.
We have already presented our rea
ders with a description of the monument,
which stands upon an eminence near the
centre of the graunds It is of Ten
nessee marble and contains the following
inscriptions :
NORTH SIDE.
Company A. Washington Light Infantry,
Hampton Legion.
LIEUTENANTS.
Theo, K. Klinck. W. A. Henning.
SERGEANT-MAJOR.
F. Forcher Hughes.
SERGEANTS.
E. F. Coachman. J. W. McGee.
CORPORALS.
0. E. Stroheeker. K. Yeadon Smith.
PRIVATES.
Atkinson, C. S. Middleton, H. A.
Brantley, B. B. McDonald, A. G.
Blankensel, TI. Meyers, J. S. B.
Bedault, J. A. Phelps, Geo. L.
Blum, Juo A. Roux, H. S.
Coxe, C. E. Sweet, Robert A. *
Chapin, J. R. Smith, T. H.
Cay, Thad. L. Smith. J. S.
Ferrell, H. C. Sterling, C. M.
Hughes, W. L. Suggs, Arthur.
Jones, J. 0. Seaford, M. 11.
Jenkins, Thos. Taylor, H. C.
Jervey, J. C. Todd, W. H.
Kennedy, H. E. Verdier, H. E.
Leiber, 0. M. Wharton Jno.
Wid. Whittcmore.
EAST SIDE.
(Transferred to other Commands:)
BRIGADIER-GENERAL.
J. Johnson Pettigrew.
LIEUTENANT-COLONELS.
B. J. Johnston. Robert DeTreville.
CAPTAIN.
H. R. Lesesne.
LIEUTENANTS.
Allston, J. J. P. Gbver, W. E.
Bee, J. S. Glover, Leslie
Dibble, Samuel W. Gregg, J. B.
Fuller, Jr., G, N. Ragin, C. 11.
Gardner, J. B. Seabrook, C. P.
PRIVATES.
Schmidt, J. M. Fleming, W. H.
Graham, G. C.
SOUTH SIDE.
Company B, Washington Light Infantry,
25th Regiment, S. C. V.
LIEUTENANTS.
Robt. A. Blum, R,obt. M. Taft.
Richard W. Greer, J. E. Bomar.
SERGEANTS.
Fleetwood Lanneau Jr., J. F. Marion.
Win. Whitaker.
PRIVATES.
Burns, L. T. Gray, Alfred
Bleakley, R. Oliver, T. P.
Caldwell, J. ShapterO’Hara, W. P.
Gadsden, Jr.tT. N. Saltus, Samuel
Grady, E. Silcox, J.
Gibbes, J. B. Tavener J. H.
Gilliland, E. R. Tharin, E. B.
WEST SIDE.
Company A., Washington Light Infan
try, 25th Regiment, S. C. Y.
LIEUTENANTS.
Jas. A. Ross.
SERGENTS.
N. Capers Owens. J. Adger Stevens.
Alfred L. Olney, J.K. Dickmson.
CORPORALS.
J. G. Newcomen. J. F. Kellers.
PRIVATES.
Anderson, S. W. Jervey, Wm. C.
Ballot, F. F. Klinck, Jr., John
Breese, S. V. V. Lee, LS.
Blackwood, J. C. Locke, F. 0.
Beaseley, E. B. Muckeufuss, W. C.
Burrows, S. I;. Mahoney, 1). A.
Burrows, F. M. Mcdlichamp, J. W.
Burn, 0. J McCabe, J. W.
i Baker. H. G. Pritchard, Wm.
! Calder, James Patterson, W. N.
| Dotterer. W. A. Proctor, H. G.
Dooly, Wm. Petit, J. J.
| Gibson, Walter E. Robinson, S. A.
i Hall, John Small, Joseph J.
| Jones, J. Walker Shepperd. I>. T.
On the V» est panel facing the Avenue—-
“The Washington Light Infantry Chari
table Association, to their Fallen
Comrades
On wli e South panel—
“DU.M SPIRO SPERO.”
On the East panel—
“dedicated, may, 1*70.”
On the North panel—
VIRTUS KT VALOR.”
ADDRESS OF GEN. WADE HAMPTON.
After the unveiling of the monument
! Col. Simonton introduced Gen. Wade
* Hampton, who was received with loud
A
No. 16.