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JUDGE SPEER ON THE CONFEDERATE SOLDIER-ELOQUENT ADDRESS
ON DEDICATION OF STONE MOUNTAIN FOR SCULPTURE MEMORIAL
Stone Mountain, Ga. Judge Kmory
Speer,of Macon, in speaking on the
dedication of Stone Mountain for the
sculpture memorial of the Confederate
soldier, in an eloquent address deliv
ered Saturday, said:
"Through the noble beneficence of
an American and Georgia family, this
gathering is called to dedicate to the
loftiest purpose this mark and marvel
inf Almighty power. Truly doth the
Isolated mountain speak the might of
(iod. A biographer of Bonaparte,
Itourienne, tells us that on his famed
expedition to Kgypl, one starlit night
the brilliant soldiers and Savans
around him on deck were busily occu
pied In arguing that there could be
no God. It was an age of Infidelity.
Booking up into the stars, Napoleon
answered. "Very ingenious messieurs,
but wlto made all that" Such mighty
facts, the firmament, the ocean, tlie
mountains, declare the glory of God.
und this mighty rocks a milestone of
God's eternity, known to millions who
who live, and countless millions dead,
hard by the steel highway doubtless
for centuries to come to bear other and
innumerable millions, through the
benefaction of the patriot and the phi
lanthropist and the realtor's genius
guided chisel will perpetuate to mil
lions yet unborn, the heroism, the for
titude, tic glory of the men who wore
the gray.
In all this there is deep philosophy,
ll is a philosophy ennobling; a philos
ophy essential to the life, to the dura
tion of tlie nation, and to perpetuate
that liberty for which the nation was
formed. It Is to commemorate Ameri
can valor. Hlnue valor and value have
tlie same dcriviativc anti In a sense
Ihe same Import, It is to signify tile
value to onr country of the valor of
Its sons Whatever Ids vocation, a
man's value in tils time and Ids laud
may lie measured by the completeness
of Ids victory over fear. At; the chas
tity of woman, so the valor of man Is
essential to national Ihe. Here we
make enduring proof' that he are con -
vlnced of out manhood's valor, of onr
manhood's value and worth In llie na
tion's life. The <'onfetb iale hern, blood
of our blood, I tone of Oitr lasic. might
with truth have :,tld. with the B/ltiali
sea king. Horatio Nelson, "fear, what
is It? 1 know it not."
Worship of mich heroes Is then at
once u sola e and the salvation of the
nation, li is inexpressibly precious.
There ia everlasting hope in it. what
ever the cataclysm for the land we love
end of tIIOM We leave behind. Sm ll
hero Worship, and such hope in Ihe
hero l» old hh man. as universal an
history. That eternal process, that
uwful thing men , all "lime.” which
carries ua along forever on its ever
reaistlcss. ever sweeping, never turn
ing flood, our heroes cannot hoar away
m engulf wllli ill! remorseless tide,
Immovable then, as this mountain. Is
the fame of lhost simple, unpreten
tious heroes we commemorate today,
it will uutlaat tie vicissitudes of time.
will mingle with the grandeur and
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share the duration of eternity.
"As, some tall cliff thut lifts its awful
form,
Swells from the vale and midway
leaves the storm,
Thougli round its breast the rolling
clouds are spread,
Kternal sunshine settles on its head."
The history of the southern hero
has been written only In part, but
this much is known to all. Bike his In
trepid focman, he was not trained In
arms. This training came to him
through experience most deadly and
destructive. The first two years of the
brothers’ war, horribly Indecisive, were
marked by battles, bloody, heroic, ever
desperate, but which were termed by
Von Moltlci ac the "Conflict of armed
■nobs." Never In war was there such
prodigal waste of noble life. Never
such a lesson of that iinpreparedneix,
that fatuous unpreparedness which ev
en, now Is, of all others, the most omi
nous portent of our country's fate. The
i outhern soldiers were of the people,
home keeping, home loving; not rich
| as the world believed; of blood, Anglo
Saxon, Scotch, Irish und Hugenot. For
'centuries, to them thralldom had been
unknown. A temperate and God-feur
-1 Ing rare, men deeply religious, fuithful
to home und wife
la so than 1-2 of one per cent of any
other save the old Colonial strain. The
roster of their armies was but the en
largement of that of Washington's
tagged continentals, "fearing not." In
their ranks were men's faces which
might have been seen at Ivry where
lei tlie helmet of Navarre; of yeo
manry marshalled against the dread
Infantry of Spain, shouting greetings
to their Virgin Queen; of tin- fierce
seamen of Brake, of Kroblshar und
Haleigh whose deadly fire sank or
shattered the great Artnada; the Iron
sides who spurred against his foe
when Cromwell shouted his battle cry,
"Get (iod arise, let his enemies b» scat
tered!" <>f Highland men who, on
Georgia soil under Oglethorpe, the
da tint less, routed the Spaniard and left
North America to Americanism to tol
ernneo and freedom Such were Ihe
men who rallied to Ihe Bed Cross flag.
Their rlogan. He only sentient words
of tlml martial lyric, In the dread
years to come, heard above Ihe crash
of tlie rifles and the swift thudding of
guns. "lii Dixie Band I'll take my
stand and live and die for Dixie,"
Thai the war was one of Ihe fiercest
of which history lias account Is also
known. Foreign military critics have
declared that for hard and continuous
fighting Americans hold the record,
ii was common for certain stay-at
home strategists to declare that the
"Yankees would not fight." Much a
remark was made to General Gee. The
foremost general of the English speak
ing race replied, "You forget we are
Xmirlcaii all." Hut there was little
bitterness between the rank and file
of the opposing armies.
(in a forced march late In Novem
ber tit, the Orphan Brigade of Ken
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tuckians approached a stream in flood.
The foot logs had been swept away,
the water was freezing. A party of
Confederates, who from the plumpness
of the lads, and the comfortable ro
tundity of the elders, must have be
longed to that excellent command
known as “Joe Brown's Bets," were at
tempting to make a number of I'nion
prisoners in their charge wade the Icy
stream. The hoys in blue did not seem
to think the water was fine; at least
they stood shivering and would not go.
Without a word of command from the
officers, the leading companies of the
veteran Kentuckians spurred through
the water and to the hank, Each man
pulled a prisoner up on his horse lie
hind him and ail crossed dry shod. I
regret to say that this kindly conduct
was accompanied by some language,
which Ihe Daughters of the Confeder
acy shall never hear from me; but if
anybody got wet crossing, ft was not
the prisoners.
hope to do, was to capture some less
valuable prize within tile next few
days, turn the passengers of the Ariel
on hoard of her, and destroy the
steamer. Our capture, however, was
not without useful results. The offi
cers and soldier mentioned as being
on hoard of her, were a battalion of
marines, going out to the Pacific, to
supply the enemy's ships of war on
that station. There were also some
naval officers on hoard, for the same
purpose. These were all paroled, and
deprived of their armu. The rank and
file numbered 140.
"When my boarding-officer returned
he reported to me that there was a
great state of alarm among the pas
sengers on board. They had been
reading the accounts which a • * •
northern press had been giving of ns,
and took us to lie no better than the
"plunderers" and "robbers" we had
been represented to he. The women,
In particular, he said, were, many of
them, in hysterics, and apprehensive
of the worst consequences. I had very
little sympathy for the terrors of the
males, but the tear of a woman has
always unmanned me. And as I knew
something of the weakness of Ihe sex.
us well as its fears, 1 resorted to the
following st rate gem to calm the dear
creatures. I sent for rny handsomest
An incident not less suggestive oc
curred later. When the war was over,
the hero chieftain, Robert E. Bee, was
offered a fortune fur tlie simple use of
his name.
His reply was, “It is all I have left,
and is not for sale." He, himself, was
president of what was then a small
Virginia college. In the evening,
friends sitting on the veranda of ills
simple home saw him at his gale give
a part of the contents of his purse to
an applicant therefor who at once took
himself off. His friends knew how
slender were the means of the General,
and to their remonstrances at his un
wise liberality he quietly replied, "He
was one of our old soldiers, lie fought
on the other side, but 1 could not re
fuse him.”
Nor should we forgot the heroism
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and magnanimity of the Confederate
Navy. The ships were few, but from
every ocean they swept the great mari
time commerce of their foe. Nor, In
four years, do 1 recall that a woman or
child v.-as put to death in its opera
tion, or that a man lost his life save in
honorable battk; and yet, to the prize#
of the Confederate cruisers not a port
on ail the seas was open. Again and
again justification no ltxs ( >uld have
been made had the naval officers an
ticipated the horrors of the Busitania,
the Arabic, the Sussex and many an
other which have imparted to modern
warfare a cruel atxocity which might
have paled an Attila or a Genghio
Kahn.
The blockade of the Confederacy
was absolute. Not one article was ad
mitted which the modern blockade ex
cludes now from the ports of the Cen
tral Bowers. Cotton was the chief oc
casion for prize money to the Union
Navy. Medicines of every character
were contraband of war. Not one ar
ticle of food or clothing for the south
ern people or southern troops could
pass the cordon of the blockading
•fleet. No Confederate port was open
to a Confederate cruiser. In every for
eign port they would he promptly in
terned. The condition as the enemies'
ships were then as now precisely the
same. Bet Admiral Homines himself
tell how he treated his Busitania. It
was the 7th of December, 1862. The
scene was the Carrlbean ocean, with
Cuba, Jamaica and San Domingo in
sight. The Alabama was cruising for
a California steamer.
Finally she came. Bet the admiral
tell the story:
"We could now see that she was
fast, and from the absence of
guns at her sides, a packet-ship.
I now put my ship in motion, with
a view to lay her across the stran
ger's path, as though i would speak
her. But I missed doing this by a
couple of ship's lengths, the stran
ger passing just ahead of me. A
beautiful spectacle presented itself
as I passed under the stern of that
monster steamship. The weather
was charming, there being a bright,
clear sky, with only a few fleecy
trade-clouds passing. There was
just enough of the balmiest and
gentlest of winds, to ruffle, with
outroughening the surface of the
sea. The Islands of Cuba, St. Do
mingo and Jamaica- the two lat
ter, in the blue and hazy distance,
and the former robed in the gor
eous green known only to the troll
ies- were In sight. The great
packet-steamer had all her awn
ings set, and under these awnings,
on the upper deck, was a crowd of
passengers, male and female. Mix
ed with lln- male passengers were
several officers in uniform, and
on the forward deck, there were
groups of soldiers to he seen. This
crowd presented a charming pic
ture, especially the ladise, most of
whom were gayly dressed, with tlie
streamers from their bonnets, their
veils, and Iheir waste ribbons flirt
ing with Ihe morning breeze. We
were sufficiently close to see tlie
pression of their countenances.
Many of them were viewing us
with opera glasses, evidently ad
miring the beautiful proportions,
fine trim, and general comeliness
of one of their own gun-boats for
reader will recollect, we were
wearing still the United States
flag.
"As I passed the wake of the
steamer, I wheeled in pursuit, fired
a blank cartridge, and hauling
hauling down the Federal, threw
tiie Confederate flag to the breeze.
It was amusing to see the panic
which ensued. If that old bucca
neer, Blue Beard, himself, had ap
peared, the consternation could not
huve been greater. The ladles
screamed one of those delightfql,
dramatic screams, half fear, half
acting, which can only ascend from
female voices and scampered off
the deck in a trice; the men run
ning after them, and making quite
as good, if not better time. The.
effect of my gun. and change of
flags on the steamer herself, seem
ed to he scarcely less electric. She
had no intention, whatever, of
obeying my command to Halt. On
the contrary, I could see front the
increased impetus with which she
sprang forward, and the dense vol
umes of black sntoke that now
came rushing, and whirling from
her smoke-stack, that she was
making every possible effort to es
cape. She had gotten a little the
start of me, as I was wheeling to
pursue her, and might be now,
some three or four hundred yards
distant.
"The reader has been on the
race-course, and seen two fleet
horses, with necks and tails
straightened, and running about
"neck and neck." This will give
him a pretty good idea of the race
which is now going on. We had
stretched a mile, when it became
quite evident that tile stranger hail
the heels of me, and that, if 1 would
capture her, 1 must resort to force.
I ordered my "persuader," as the
sailors called my rifled bow-gun,
to he cleared away, and sent orders
to the officer, to take aim at the
fugitive's foremast, being careful
to throw hts shot high enough
above the deck not to take life.
When the gun Was ready to be
fired, 1 yawed the ship a little,
though the effect of this was to
lose ground, to enable the officer
the better to take Ills aim. A flash,
a curl of white smoke, and a fly
ing off large pieces of timber from
the steamer's mast, were simultan
eous occurrences. It was sufficient.
The mast had not been cut quite
away, but enough had been done to
satisfy the hmster of the steamer
that he was entirely within our
power and that prudence would
be the better part of valor. In a
moment after, we could see a per
ceptible diminution in the motion
of the “walking-beam." and pret
ty soon the great wheels of the
steamer ceased to revolve, and she
lay motionless on the water.
"We "slowed down" our own engine,
and begun to blow off steam at once,
and ranging up alongside of the prize,
sent a bout on hoard of her. It was
thus we captured the steamer Ariel,
instead of going to muster, on Sunday,
the Ttli of December. 1862. Bat For
tune, after all, hud played us a scur
vy trick. Tlie Ariel was indeed a Cal
ifornia steamer, but instead of being
a homeward-bound steamer, with a
million of gold In her safe, 1 had cap
tured an outward-bound steamer, with
i live hundred women and children* >n
board! This was an elephant I had
I not bargained for. and I was seriously
: embarrassed to know what to do with
it. 1 could not take her into any neu
tral port, even for landing the ous
sengers. as this was forbidden by those
unfriendly orders in council i have
more than once spoken of. and I had
no room for the pa-monger on b «rd
the Alabama. The most that I could
young lieutenant and I had some very
handsome young fellows on board the
i Alabama and when he had come to
j me. 1 told him to go below and array
I himself in his newest ami handsomest
uniform, buckle on the heat sword
there was In the ward-room, ask of
Bartelli the loan of my brightest
I sword-knot, and conic up to me for his
orders. Sailors ure rapid dressers,
and in a few mtnutec. my lieutenant
was again by my side, looking as be
| w itching as 1 could possibly desire. 1
I gave him my own boat, a beautiful gig.
■ hat lad been newly painted, anil
which my coxswain, who was a bit of
la si a-dandy, had furnished with scar
let cushions, and fan -y yoke and stcer
i ing ropes, and directed him to go op
board the Ariel and coax the ladies out
of their hysterics. “Oh! I'll lie sure to
| do that, sir." said he, with a charming
air of coxcombry. "I never knew a fair
I creature who could resist me more
than fifteen in nute " As he shoved
off from the side, in my beautiful lit -
jtle cockle-shell of a boat, with Us fine-
looking, lithe and active oarsmen,
bending with the strength of athletes
to their asben blades, j. could but pause
a moment, myself, in admiration of
the picture.
"A few strokes of his oars put lii#i
alongside of the steamer, and asking
to be shown to the ladies' cabin, he
entered the scene of dismay and con
fusion. So many were the signs of
distress, and so numerous the wailers,
that lie war abashed, for a moment, as
he afterward told me, with ail his as
surance. But summoning courage, he
ipoke to them about as follows:
“Badies! The captain of the Ala
bama has heard of your distress,
and sent me on board to calm your
fears, by assuring you, that you
have fallen into the hands of
southern gentlemen, under whose
protection you are entirely safe.
We are by no means the ruffians
and outlaws that we have been
represented by your people, and
you have nothing whatever to
fear.” The sobs ceased as he pro
ceded, lint they eyed him askance
for the first few minutes. As he
advanced in their midst, however,
they took a second, and more fav
orable glance at him. A second
glance begat a third, more favor
able still, and when he entered in
to conversation with some of the
ladies nearest him —picking out
the youngest and prettiest, as the
rogue admitted —he found no re
luctance on their part to answer
him. In short, he was fast becom
ing a favorite. The ice being once
broken, a perfect avalanche of
loveliness soon surrounded him,
the eyes of the fair creatures look
ing all the brighter for the tears
that had recently dimmed them.
"Bresrntly a young lady, step
ping up to him, took hold of one of
the bright buttons that were glit
tering on the breast of his coat,
and asked him if he would not
permit her to cut it off, as me
mento of her adventure with the
Alabama. He assented. A pair of
scissors was produced, and away
went the button! This embolden
ed another lady to make the same
request, and away went another
button; and so the process
went on, until when r got my
handsome lieutenant back, he. was
like a plucked peacock—he had
scarcely a button to his coat!
There were no more Hebes drown
ed in tears, on board the Ariel.”
Cruising for several days to capture
a steamer to whom he might transfer
the passengers, and failing in this,
Capl. Semraes released the Ariel on
bond. Every passenger was released,
not a dollar or an article of their be
longings was taken, it is not without
interest to reflect that the Ariel be
longed to that famous Vanderbilt
whose grandson, without a moment’s
warning, with two thousand others,
men, women and little children, more
than one hundred of them Americans,
were sent to the bottom in the Busi
tania a year just gone, by the cruel
explosion of a torpedo. In every arm,
then, the heroism, the magnanimity,
the gentleness and the sincerity of
souther men is now no longer ques
tioned. In his memoirs penned with
tthe clearsightedness of the dying,
their greatest focman, General Grant,
declared that they were as sincere in
their devotion to the cause for which
they fought as were his own gallant
armies to the flag of the Union. One
other has stated that they had the
most hearty faith in the justice of
their cause, and added, “He is but a
poor American whose veins do not
thrill with with pride when he reads
of the deeds of desperate valor done
by tlie Confederate armies. That other
was Theodore Roosevelt. And her on
Georgia soil exclaimed the gentle Mc-
Kinley, “What an army of * sleeping
sentinels we have, and with what lov
ing care their graves are kept! Every
soldiers’ grave made during our un
fortunate Civil War is a tribute to
American valor; and, while, when
those graves were made, we differed
widely about the future of the govern
ment, those difference were long since
settled by the arbitrament of arms,
and the time has now come in the
evolution of sentiment, under the
Brovidence of God, when in a spirit of
fraternity we should share with you in
the care of the graves of the Confed
erate dc.ark”_ This ennobling sentiment
has touched and softened the hearts of
millions of his southern countrymen.
Every Confederate soldier’s grave,
whether he sleeps where the Mississip
pi pours its turbid volume to the'Gulf,
or by Shenandoah’s crystal flow, or
by Chickamauga’s sullen flood, will be
the trust immortal of the nation. And
may not the nation soon need all the
military prowess, all the military vir
tues their sons inherit? Are we sure
that the prows of hostile fleets, con
veying transports loaded with millions
of veteran enemies, may not soon tra
verse the ocean, find our country, and
land there safely on our soil? Are we
sure that the happy homes of more
than one hundred millions of people,
the gentle idols of our hearts, our very
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existence, may not at any moment be
in deadly hazard? Can we not realiae
that every strong power on earth, save
ours, is in that furious warfare, whose
cost can only be requitted by the
wealth and the lands of the opulent
and the helpless? Have not the sub
marines of a mighty power already
traversed, all unseen, a greater dis
tance than chat which separates it
from our shores? But if the dread
iiour must come, here in these south
ern states of our Union are the richest
treasures of old American stock. Did
nut the Sons of Confederate Veterans,
but a day aga, from their great re
union, convey to the president the as
surance that they are ready to protect
the land they love, and pledge them
selves and their kindred to rally to its
fiag, with their lives, their fortunes
and their sacred honor? Not unmean
ing is that pledge; they are worthy
sons of noble sires. To such sires we
gather today to make proud recom
pense.
“We give in charge their names to the
sweet lyre,
“The historic Muse, proud of the sac
red treasure,
"Marches with its down to the latest
times,
“And Sculpture, in her turn, gives
bond in every weeping stone,
“To guard and to Immortalize the
trust.”
HON. ALVIN GOLUCKE TO
SPEAK 10TH DIS’T SCHOOL
Granite Hill, Ga. —Prof. James T.
McGee, principal of the 10th Dist. A.
_& M,. School announced the program
for the commencement exercises to
day.
The literary address this year will
be delivered by Hon. Alvin G. Golucke,
of Ctawfordville, who is considered
a very earnest and magnetic speaker,
as well as a broad thinker.
The graduating exercises will be
hold at ten o’clock, Monday, May 22.
The annual meeting of the board of
trustees will be held Tuesday follow
ing. The school has experienced one
of the most successful years in its his
tory.
Phene 3197.