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THE LIVING AND THE DEAD,
Memorial Address Delivered at Mar
sh allvi Lie, tia , April 26th. 1901,
by Hon. J. P. Duncan of
Perry, Ga.
Ladies and Gentlemen; and Ladies
oy the Memorial Association of Mae
SHALLVILLE, Ga:
I thank you for the honor you have
conferred upon me, and the privilege
you thus give the son of a Confeder
ate soldier of expressing in simple
but heartfelt words his pride in such
a priceless heritage and his love for
the cause to which we are here to do
reverence.
To he youth of co-day the term
“States’ Rights” has practically no
significance, but to those who found
ed our government and their imme
diate successors it was of the great
est importance. In the formation of
our government the states acted as
independent sovereignties, and vol
uatarily united themselves into
general government, with restricted
and limited powers.
This government had hardly been
formed before contentions arose as
to its powers, and the force and ef
fect of its laws, in the several states
Threats of secession were first heard
from the northern states, and in
few years the idea of nullification
was advanced by one of the south
ern. Concessions and compro
mises we.e made from time to time,
but disruption and conflict vjere in
evitable.
It is not my purpose, Dor do I con
sider it proper to present to you up
on this occasion, an argument in be
half of the cause for which so many
of our bravest and best gave their
property, their lives, their all. Their
bodies lie buried from the Potomac
to the Rio Grande—from the Pacif
ic to the Atlantic.
Thousands perished in the prisons
of the far north, and lie buried there
The cause for which they suffered
and died needs no defense or apolo
gy. But we are graciously permitted
on occasions like this to do ourselves
the honor of showing our reverence
for their memory. And of all the
seasons of the year, this is the most
appropriate, for spring now stands
smiling in our midst, and while with
one hand she holds out to us Gar
lands of beautiful flowers,with which
to crown our heroes’ graves, with
the other she holds forth to the
coming glorious summer the burst
ing buds of prom'se, which she
seems to see with prophetic eye, al
ready ripening into a glorious har
vest of such rich fruitage as our
southland has never seen before.
Emblematic in her attitude may
she be to us, of the future which
awaits our noble land.
Yet even while we stand in the
dawning roseate light of a new cen
tury, with spring .holding wide its
portals and'bidding us take to our
Jiearts the optimistic views which
^siie reveals to us, a remembrance of
the past sweeps over us as we think
with grief-stricken hearts of the he
roes whose memory we are here to
day to crown.
But as from their memory has ris
en a chorus of praise, a paean of
glory, whfbh has a charm e’en for
angels’ ears, so from out the winter
of desolation, which the war be
queathed to us, has sprung a gener
ation of which any nation might well
be proud. And ’tis through the
presence of the living we feel so sen
sibly the virtues which have sprung
from every lowly soldier’s mound.
Wherever a monument is erected
to the brave Confederate dead an
altar should be raised beside it, on
which to bum incense to the memo
ry of those who, surviving the war,
rescued us from a political despot
ism worse than death: Then no man
sought preferment; but each strove
for the public good. _
It was a time when men broaden
ed their shoulders, for the burdens
of others. And those who, reared
ih the lap of luxury, had in the time
past dispensed with lavish hospitali
ty all the luxuries which their homes
afforded, now shared with each oth
er what sometimes meant the chil
dren’s bread. And to-dav, if it were
in my power, I would see those who,
through their labors in the Mays oi
reconstruction, made it possible for
their children and their children’s
children to claim as their birthright
the high positions in their land?'giv
en the greatest gifts of office and
crowned with highest honors
arms. , save Rome. A crew of Confederate
The sacred rights of home and j mariners went down in a torpedo
fireside had been invaded. And nev- ; boat off Charleston to sink a war-
er was braver defense put up for, ship of the enemy, knowing that
them than when our brave-hearted 1 success was death and to fail was to
Confederate soldiers marched forth die. But a lifetime would not suffice
to battle. ' me to mention the many heroes of
Thinking on these truths, the ques-j our gallant army of Confederate sol-
tion comes home to us to-day: Are f diers.
we of this generation seeking to in- To the women of the south I
still into the minds and hearts of | would pay a separate tribute of ho-
the coming the principles' mage and devotion. It was their
for which our fathers gave them
selves a willing sacrifice? As the
true metal sounded on its touch
stone in the troublous times of war,
so must we ring true in time of
peace, and at the fireside let the lit
tle ones listen as to a fairy tale of
loyalty, their constancy, which ran
like a bright golden thread through
all the vicissitudes of war, making
its horrors bearable and its dark
night of final loss supportable.. Iu
the days before the war how regally
did our womanhood look forth upon
'the true stories of unparalleled valor | the world and claim it as her foot-
God’s 'touch-stone for his nations
is in their,, hearthstones. Never did
gold Ting: truer than when the man
hood of pur. dear southland “shot to
the core” with valor and heroism,
responded to the country’s' cali to
and heroism. When old enough to
lisp their earliest prayer at mother’s
knee,teach them to hallow Lee’s im
mortal name, fit synonym for all that
is truest and best.
Let your hall of fame be in your own
home, and on its walls the first pic
ture must hang that 6f a Confederate
private, and in the salf-same frame
that of our high-souled, pure-heart
ed Robert E. Lee. This eulogy from
the pen of the illustrious Ben Hill
should/be engraven in the heart of
every true southerner: “He was a
foe without hate, a friend without
treachery, a soldier without cruelty,
a victor without oppression. He was
a public officer without vices. A pri
vate citizen without wrong, a neigh
bor without reproach, a Christian
without hipocrisy and a man with
out guile. He was Caesar without
his ambition, Frederick without Jais
tyranny, Napoleon without his sel
fishness and Washington without his
reward. He was obedient to author
ity as a servant, and royal in author
ity as a true king. He was gentle
as a woman in life and modest and
pure as a virgin in thought. Watch
ful as a Roman vestal in duty, sub
missive to law as Socrates and grand
in battle as Achilles.”
And from your schools spurn as
you would a viper from your path
the book which in one slight word
reflects on the glory of our lost
cause. Nay, say not lost. A great
cause, a just cause, as ours most
surely was, is never lost, but caught
aloft and held in Heaven’s High
Chancery until when, mellowed and
perfected by the sorrow with which
the seeming loss has wrung our
hearts and anguished our brows,
God, iu His own good time, will re
veal to all that those who fought in
so great a cause could never fail.
Mere statistics, which as a rule
are so many dry facts to be skipped
in the reading,in our history are a ro
mance in themselves which would fill
the minds of the youth of our coun
try with reverential awe. ‘ The re
markable achievements of Generals
Jackson and Forest will furnish
thought for the pen of the historian
and romanticist for ages to come,
The heroic resistance of our army to
that of General Grant in the battles
from that of the Wilderness to Ap
pomattox against the assaults of five
times their number, will ever be held
in military history as the most re
markable and brilliant achievement
recorded in any war. With a slender
line meeting and hurling back fresh
columns, always on the firing line,
they stood like the phalanxes of Al
exander, the legions of Caesar, the
roundheads'of Cromwell, ever ready
to obey their commander, and die, if
need be,for their country. How well
they fought, we have only to refer
to the million of names on the pen
sion rolls of the government, even at
this late day.
It is to the memory of such he
roes that we are here to-day to p^y
our tribute of respect. We need not
go from home to find them. The
deeds of bravery, and gallantry of
the beloved Gen. Phil Cook are too
numerous to men tionVf frotn lack of
time. The neighbors who survive
remember the gallant McMillan, who
was killed at the head of his com
pany in the bloody battle of Mc
Dowell. I can stretch my arm across
the Flint and almost in the sound of
my voice call up^the spirit of Captain
Carson, who, with 200 men, made a
midnight attack on Fort Steadman,
returning jo. our lines bringing the
dead body of his brother on hisshoul-
deijs. Not a day’s journey from where
I .stand there lived less than a score
of gallant spirits who charged and
captured a regiment of 700 federals
on the WUliamburg road near Rich
mond and brought them into our
lines. Turner Ashby, the chevalier
Bayard of the south, slew' with his
sword four of the enemy to save a
private of his command. Marcus
Curtius cast himself into a chasm to
stool, where her admirers might
kneel and do her homage. When
adversity came, slipping her warm
and tender hand into the soldier’s,
she exclaimed, like Ruth of old:
“Whither thou goest I will go. Thy
people shall be my people, thy God
my God.” Nobly did she redeem
her promise—how nobly mere words
cannot recall. "Untiringly, unceas
ingly, with never-wearying hands,
the worked on garments for the
brave soldiers at the front. Over the
wounded, the dying, she knelt and
ministered to them with such tender
love, such pitying hands.
“O, woman! in our .hours of ease
Uncertain, coy and hard to please,
When pain and anguish wring the brow
A ministering angel, thou.”
And as she> bound the suffering
wounds, so when the war was over
she stood heart to heart with the
brave survivors and helped to bind
together the few poor remains of
their shattered fortunes.
To those who are here to-day who
have descended from such noble
parentage, I would say in all your
thoughts of our Civil war “Remern
ber to so honor thy father and thy
mother that thy days may be lcng
upon the land which the Lord thy
God giveth thee.” God-given, may
it always be as holy kept as when
our boys in gray through four long
years fought with such intrepid val
or for it, and so preserved to us
spotless name, an untarnished sword
and a memory which, God grant, we
may preserve inviolate.
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