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2 IN HONOR OF THE GRAY 4<IEN. HAMPTON’S ORATION AT THE UNVEILING OF THE BEN TONSVILLE MON I MENT. THE LIST BATTLE OF THE WAR. Though the Cause Tor Which the South ern Soldier Oied Was Unsuccessful The Principles for Which h-* Fought Still Lives—To the State Which Sells Her Birthright no Day of Redemption Can Ever Dawn—ln Honoring its Dead North Carolina Honors Herself. Mr. Ch'tirtniiu, Mj, Comrades and Friends: You meet here to-day to perform one of the most pious aud sacred duties which human hearts can feel, and hu man hanus can discharge, that of doing honor to our noble dead who fell m de fense of a lost, but, to us, a patriotic and just cause. In thus honoring the mem ory of these brave martyrs, you do honor to yourselves, but the dedication of this noble monument will be a mere id'e cer emony if it has not a deeper significance than the mere consecration of it by pray er implies. With its spire pointing to heaven, and its foundation laid deep in the earth th it ho'ds the ashes of out dead comrades, it may defy the tempest and the corroding touch of time, to tell to future generations that th- brave sons and noble daughters of North Carolina erected it to mirk the spot where Con federate soldiers ■“For faith and for freedom, Lay slaughtered in vaint” It may accomplish all theao worthy ob jeers, telling at the same time of th love and veneration ia which you hold the m m try of our her >ie dead, but it seems to me that the solemn ceremo nies ot this (occasion should typify fir more than all the*e things. They should impress on our minds, and we should teach our ehildreu that the men resting here, and the thousands of their com rades who are sleeping on the fi ‘lds their valor won, were neither retails nor trai tors; that they w-re freeman, who be lievtkl, as firmly asthev did in tne ex istence of their Cod, that their cause was right: th it they were the sons of the men who gave to establish the liberty of America; that thev had oontribufed their full share to the glory, the genius, the fame and the pr wperity of the great Republic founded by heir fathers; that they were the equals of the proud-st in that Republic, and t'-at, whatever miy be the verdict of History, the men who wore the gray have noth ing to be ashamed of. It m ikes sm ill difference here, audit will make none at the last great day. when the ac ions of all men are weighed in the scales held by the mpartial hand of the Almighty Ruler of the universe whether our cause was successful or un successful. God does not judge hs na - judges, and we are nowhere told in toe j revelations of His Holy Word, that the j just are to be rewarded in this w >rid and the unjust punished; that truth is to prevail here over falsehood; or that right is to overcome might. On the c rafrary, we are expressly taught by the wnole plan of Christian redemption, that this world is only one of probation *o fit u* for another and a better one. and history is full of melancholy extnaptes to show that many of the noblest causes that ever inspired a people's hopes, or nerved their arms, have been allowed to sink, apparently forever, under the iron j rule wielded by despotic power Do not allow yourselves, my friends, to be misled by that false doctrine—: false to your faith, to your country and to your God— wh ch tells you that as your case has failed, the principles f--r which you contended are forevar obli'e rated. * Any haann undertaking how ever just it'rasy be, may fail; bu f the ever living principles of rig it and oi justice cm never be buried. A great truth like the Gol head whence 1 it etna nates is eterud. and it will live ’till 'he “last syllable of recorded time” You are often told that, as our cause was submitted to the arbitrament of the sword, no apoeal li* s from the verdict wh eh was rendered against us This doctrine is as pernicious as it ¥ false, and if we accept it, we shall brand our heroic deal, as well as the liv ng. > s traitors, branding all alike with des* rved infamy Will the living soldiers wh > fol lowed the starry cross through the storm of war, who looked so proudly as that banner “ brave the battle and the breeze,” ev-r consent to denounce th* ir dead comrades? Will the sons of these men forget the sufferings, the sacrifices, the heroism of the r fathers? Will the women of the 8 ruth, who for a quarter of a century have so tenderly and rever ently cheri-hed the memory of our dead, -ever be wiping to brand them as trait ors? Ah, N-! Tnese things can never happen as long as tru-h, patriotism, honor, virtue and its synonym, courage, are respected, -<s long as the sane of the men in gray robs sounding down the age*, as long as the pige of History is made lustrous by the names of Lee, ol Johnston and of Jackson! Let me not be understood as wishing to reawaken sectional animosity, no* happily dying out, nor as counseling one act of disloyalty to the restored Union. I recognize, as every true Confederate soldier should do, the supremacy of the Constitution, the integrity of the Union, and all the obligations we assumed when our arms were laid down. The South is aow au integral part of this great Re public, the flag of the latter waves un challenged from the rock ribbed e-ad of Maine to the golden ga’e of the bright Pacific and far-off Alaska, from the •now crowned mountains of the North to the orange groves of Florida; aud it is the duty of every patriot to make this country of ours the fit ab >de of freemen for all time to come, but i appeal earn -estly and reverently for justice to rn\ Ooufe I rate comrades, living and dead. They discharged their duties as they *aw them bravely aud heroically, and G d al we can and will julg whether they we-e right or w o ig. 1 would certainly ill become us to a line tha' neither j isticj nor right was on our Pi-, and every brave man who me lts ia battle would juit'y despise u were wo to do so. No earthly tribunal has the right to pronounce judgment upon the' merits or the justice of the cause which was submitted to the stern | a bitrsment of war. The failure of a cm use d es not prove that it was an un | just one, nor can the denial of a truth ! establish a falsehood When the tort j ure wrung a recantation of the truth from Galilee, did ihe earth cease to re I volve on its axis? Did the river which ! swept the ashes of Muss to the sea bury in its waves forever the truths he had proclaimed? When our Divine Master perished on the Cross, did the grand truths for which he died, die with Him? We acknowledge that the irrevocable verdict pronounced by war was against us; we recognize the supremacy of the Constitution, amended; we claim to be loyal and honest citizens; and we are bound in honor, the stainless honor <>! Southern soldiers, by a law more bind ing than any on the statute books, to ob serve inviolate the terms of our parole. But while recognizing all these nbliga tions, we are not called on to abjure the settled convictions of a life time, to turn our backs on all the honorable, glorious memories and traditions of the just, and to cover ourselves with shame by defam ing the memory of our patriotic dead We have lost much;let us. at least, main tain ourself nspect and preserve our honor. But we are told that we must forget the past and all it holds sacred Ah! my friends, this is the hardest task that could be imposed on us, lor 1 k >ow not where that Lethean stream can be found on earth, whose waters could bring to us that sweet-, obliviou* antidote which can give to us blesre I forgetfulness of our sufferings, our sor row - ' and our wrongs. What are we to f <rgei ? Can we forget as we look upon the graves of our kindred that gorv sea of blood which has deluged our land? Can the mother forget the daring boy who fills now perhaps some unknown grav* ? Can the father forget lrs son, ' str ick down by his sale, m all the pride of manly strength and youthful! beauty? Can the wife forget the bus j boid who was the stay and joy of her life? Yet all these sid and sacred ! m-morits must Ik* forgotten if we prove f l*e to our faith and turn our backs on all which made our past glorious. Time may teach us to forgive, but it can never i make us forget. But we should not indulge in vain re gret. nor in uamaniy recrimination, for to do this won d be inconsistent w ith our renewed allegiance to the restored Un ion. Whatever faith his been kept with us, and it has not been an untarnished one, no blot must re*tonour ’scutcheon, no charge of Punic faith must stain our reeor . If we can leave nothing else to our children, let us, at least, bequeath to them a fair name aud an unblemished honor. But while we accept all the re sults legitimately following our d f* at, we claim the right to justify our c »use, to vindicate our motives and to honor our dead. To do f his is not ouly our r’ght bit our sicred duty We owe it to o -elves, to our children, to those who d 1 for us that we should cling with u soaken fidelity to wn-t we believe to b true. By nooth-r means under heaven c .u we preserve our own respect or gain that of rnaukin i. Bv no other means can we escape the do >m which awaits the people who sacrifice principle to sub serve ut expediency, who aboudon their ancient virtues to adopt the vices <r th- ir conquerors, and who are cement to bar t r freedom for g filed servitude. To trie B'ate which sells her Dirth r ght no day of redemption can ever da* n. “She shall be bought And sold, and b; an appendage to tbo-e Wno shall despise her, She shall stoop to be A promise ’or an empire: Petty town. In lieu of capital -with slaves forSen ate-, Beggars for nobles, pand-rs for a peo ple: Her sons are in the lowest scale of being, SUves turned over to the vanquished by the victors, Desp-sed by cowards for their greater cowardice.” If we hope to escape this fate, which surely e -mes to every p *<-pi *w ho prove unworthy of Pb -r y. vv ■ must show- our selves worthy of that freedom for wh eh we pray. If our faun in the justice of oir ch-- was 8 * strong that wh risked lif-, a; d all that made life desirable, on the dread issue ot war. surely we should strive to justify ourselves in the eyes of the world. Will nisi ry vindicate us if we condemn ourselv*s ? But if we cling steadfastly ro the fdth taught by our f«>r-fathers; if we prove worthy of that faith, we shall not have fought in vain; for though we ein no longer defend <-ur cause with our swo ds, we can jus ifv it r *efore the great tribunal of history, and posterity will do us justice. To our noble worn n, the real martyrs of the war, as they are its saddest vie titns, the prospect of future justification of our conduct brings, I know, but little c >rnp- nsasion for what they have suffer* d and lot But by a merciful dis amsation of Providence, nature offers some com pensation for nearly every sorrow, and this blessed law will give to them many arid rich mercies for the g'icf they have home. The t-nder care with which th- y soothed the sufferings of our wounded and ill sol Here is remembered iri many a grateful heart from which daily prayers ascend to rhe Throne of Grace, invoking ->n them every blessing which a merciful God can bestow. The consciousness of duty nobly performed to the living and dead will bring to than p-ace, if not happiness. Many ot th-m, alas! throughout all the bor ders of our stricken land, Pk*- Rachel, weep for their children, a <1 “refused to be comforted b cause th-y -re not;” but let them rem-ruber the proud boast of a bereaved mother, who ven over the body of her dead son ex claimed, “I would not give my dead on for any living son in Christen dom ” Nor is the death of a lov- d me who gave his life n >bly in a just eau-e a source of unalloyed sorrow. \mong the beautiful legends which me to us from classic Greece, there is one which always struck me as pe*u latly touching, and which might teach * b-.oson to many a mournful mother in he South. It was a cust >m at th "•eat f s’ival in hot or of Juno, th * the priestess, drawn in a chariot by two The News and Observer, Friday, flarcn 22, INOS. white oxen, should go, accompanied by a solemn procession, to (lie temple to offer the usual saerifloes It is related that on one occasion ttio oxen for the chariot wen* wanting, when the two sons Os the prieste-s, yoking thentsolvc to the chariot, drew their mother in triumph to the temple, amid tin* plaudits of the fiopul ice. Tim priest- s**, in the pride of a mother’s heart at this act, of iilial devotion, supplicated the gods t<- bostow on her sons the greatest bless ing which could be granted to mortals. Her prayers were answered; her son sank into gentle sleep in trie temple it self, and thus passed from life to death, as if to show that tin- greatest boon ii the gift of the gods was linearly death for man. ♦ * m * * In tin* early annals of the Saracens, >■ story is told of the heroic conduct ot one ot the Caliphs, who was heseiged in Mecca “When he perceived hi seif forsaken on all sides,” says the bis torian, “he went to his mother, and said to her, ‘Oh, mother, the people and even my own children have deserted me , Mv enemies are willing to give me, if I will stibmit. what ver 1 can d-sire in this world. What do you advise ni-* to d- ?, ‘Sou’, said sim, ‘judge for yourself. II as you pretend to be, you know that you are in the right, persevere, for y*>ur friends have died for the sake o’ it But if thou cboosest the present world, alas, bad servant, thou hast de stroyed yourself and those who were killed for thee! And if thou siyest. !i stood to the truth, but. when my friend j declined I was weakened, this is neuh er the jxrt of an ingenuous nor a tel g ious man. And ho v long can you j continue in this world ! D ath s mor< eligible.” He took the adv c- of his mother, and leaving off his armor, s<- as to meet death the more surely, he sillied forth and gave hi- life for th*- cause he believed to he true. Centuries i have railed by since the brave word* i uttered by that noble woman were spoken, but they are a* true and appli ( cable now as they were a thousand years ago. “Judge for yourself If as y-»u pretend to bo, you know that you are in the right, persevere it it, f-r your friends hive died for the sike of it.” Sublime sentim- nts, cloth -d in noble words, inculcating ale-s n to th<* women of the s- u'h for all g-n-rations to come ! Let them teach their children that their f ith-rs fought for what the} honestly believed to be their right; tin*t they were actuated by a* strong faith it our cause as ever fir- d the he*rt o nerv ed the arms of patriots, and th ts 'hougi their cause has gone down in disast-r. in blood, in ruin, t-or me s ain of dishonor rests upou it. If the sentiments I have express'd meet a response in tour heart.*: if you believe that the men butied he-e and the tens of thoi sands of iheir com rades who gave their live* for the South, are worthy of honor or reverence, then this stately monument is a fit tribute to th*- memory of rh--se whose foth’u! ser vices it is iuteuded to commemorate. In all ag*s, in nearly every country, civilized or savage. pagan and Christian alike have striven to per petuate the memory of their dead, and to manifest their affec’i >n by hon oring the graves tha* hold the du*t of 'hose whom they loved, or who di> d in def-nse of the r coun»rv. The sever mus-of history has not thought it below h*-r digtiitv to record the fat that the world itself, d*s< rip’iv- of a magnificent monument, owes its or gin to that noble pile which the aff*c-t-n of a pagan; widow dedicated to her husband Vlhu-o lus, and whil*t most of the proud tem pi-s and migh’y public works of haughty Rome have crumbled into dust, tl a‘ Absolutely Pure found stone lower of otherdays, on the Appian way, that tills of trie love her i-usband bore his dead Metella, yet stands tocotnmand the respect and ad miration of the world May yonder monument stand as long as that to Me o-lla has done, and may all the true and brave of North Carolina hold it In p*-r pot uni veneration ! It marks fittingly the spot where gallant and brave men died; men worthy ot the epitaph of Spartans who fell at Thermopy la;, _ “Go, stranger, and at Lacediemon tell , Twas in obedience to her laws wo fell.” These men who sleep under the sod, otiee maintained by tneir life-blood, in obedience to the call of their States, and obeying the command of "Duty, that *teru daughter of the voice of (J »d ” left their peaceful homes to strike for th*- faith taught them by their fa'hers, and for iheir native land. They have sealed th- ir devotion by the sacrifice of iheir | lives, and the feeling which inspired them was the same which has been so i n-ddy expressed by a heroic votary and . martyr of liberty in these words, which should bo engraved on every heart de | sirous or worthy of freedom: “That 1 I simply offer my life is of simple import; but that I offer it, crowned as it is with II Ihe Ho • ery wr-aths of love, of friend : ship and of joy this is indeed a sacrifice ! w hich can only be offered for such prize, i our country's freedom.” Such were our ; heroes who wore the gray, aud time does j not dim, but adds only lustre to their ! d- eds. | A king om e sai 1 of a I’rince struck down: | “Taller t e -e.mis in death.” And th s speech holds truth for us now as then, i It is afu-r death we measure men. i And ; s the rni-ts of tin past have rolled away, I Our heroes who died in their tattered ; Grow taller aud greater in all their par's. ! Till they fill our minds as they fill our hearts; i \rd f »r those who lament there is this relief, That glory stands by the side of grief. Y*-s, they grow ta 1 r as ih** yeais go by And the world lean s how they could do and die. l i e nation res e ts t etn. The East and Wes-: The far off slope of the Golden Coist, ! The stru k m South aud the North agre rhaf the heroes who died tor you au for me — Each valiant man, in his own degree, Whether he fed on the nhore or sea, Did deeds of * hich Tt-is land, though rich In histories may b »a*t. A: d the sage's book and the poet's lay Are full ot the deeds of the men in gray. No lion cleft from the rock is ours. Such as Lucerne displays. Our only weabh is in tears and flowers, Aral words of rev- r..-nt praise. And the ros*s brought to this silent yard j Are Red and White. 8 hold! They tell how wars for a kingly crown. In the blood of England's best wiit down, Left Britain a story whose moral old i L* fit to be graven in text of gold: The moral is, that when battle-4 (case The ramparts tmile iu the Hoorn of peace. * * * ¥ * The pe.*t is now like an 8 a, Where the living currents have ceased to run, i Bur over that past the fame of Lee Shines -ut ltKe the "Midnight Sun;” Aud that glorious orb, iu its march sublime, Shall gild our graves till the end of time. My comrades, the grateful duty im posed on me by your kindness, of speak ing to you to day, for our dead, is dis charged all inadequately, lam aware, but 1 tmo assure you, that I appreciate highly ;he honor done me by my friends of the Old North State. Many of h*r I brave 80« is were with me during the war, and 1 rake pleasure ia repeatii g ' hi r r what 1 have said, that no let* j ter soldiers than they ever wore the | Gray. While my theme to day was J’o Ido ho ior t** the memory of our dead j comrades another duty is mine, that ( f ! paying -t heat i leu tunite to the living, iTo siy that they were worthy of ihe : fame won i>y the r dead comrades does the highest ho or that could be paid to them, and whoever the survivors may b-», let them rest assured that their glorious deads, their unflinching cour-I age, rheir devoted loyalty to duty, shall I never b * forgotten by myself. They have my b-sf wishes for their welfare j ! and happiness, and 1 trust that a merci- i fui O-d will bless them and their State I with Hi.s richest mercies. REM VUK ABLE CATCH OF FISH. Nearly HS.OOO Pounds of Halebut Caught by 2ft Men Within 7 Hours. Gen. W. P Roberts, of Gates county, ex Stale Auditor, ami who is now Con sul Gen* ral to Victoria, sends us, from ! t ie advance sheets of his report to the state Department, the following acc< uut j of a very remarkable catch of fi-h which 1 | occurred recently off the coar>t of that i Province: , “It may be a matter of some interns to the department to be informed of tne enormous catch of Halibut reported to | rne, wh ch occurred a few days ago off j the coa*t of this Province, near Queen ! Charlotte Islands. “The catch was mad*|by the Victoria F-shing and Trad ng Company, which has ouly been recently organized, for the put pose of opening up a fi.-h trade with i the Etstern States Only twenty-six men were employed, and within the j sp ice of 8-v* n hours, 1,200 Halibut were ! caug it, averaging 70 (rounds each and aggregating 84,641 pounds alter being dressed. This is said to be the largist ; catch ever made oi this c »ast iu one d-y, and when it is con-ideml 1 t at it *as made entirely with book and j j line (irolling; it is indeed wonderful and j well jusnfi s the many comments that j nave l een made up>t> it. The Victoiia F s’ling and Trading Company is strong aud reliable, and has s'arted upou this enterprise under the mos favorable cir cucoistances. Tne ouLook now is that an exteusive business from this point will be established by this company with j our eastern cities and wirh most tavora ; ble results. Nearly the entire catch re | ported in th s di patch was shipped to ' New York and Boston. W'lven the busi ; j MHhs g ts more advanced it will b- my ! j pleasure to make a fu 1 and comprehen- I -ive report of it.” Johnson’s Magnetic Oil. horse brand is a p -wvrful liniment especially pre- I pared for f xtert al u-e for persons and a'l diseases of h* r-es and cattle. $1 size Aft c-t't*; sc* size 25 c-nts For sale by- John Y. 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