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lieCONFEDERATE MEMORIAL BAY*;hebe-rilliks amirs, the irly lat-ion i atbyfordeli a-ati-mdago*estmdchillytheofteseth-be3tlyap-lersvhoareofon-)me rehare dis-3 in hatlcu-aart .ele-the nti-not ofsay,ad-ven-vis-3 beeralI at 3 onOrel vy[ to The nds the fac-5, at ally mry i it.7\ngeartA Large Turnout Tuesday Evening* and an Eloquent Address by J.N. Liggett, Esq.edticcope1XU-lbiaivor»rac-ites,ten-emermy30Utoastr inanyinch2007.90oast800-Confedorate Memorial Day was observed in Harrisonburg Tuesday evening under the auspices of the Ladies’ Memorial Association. The observance was of a purely local nature and no effort had been made to attract a crowd from elsewhere. The turnout of our own people was large, however, and they seemed thoroughly imbued with the spirit of reverence and affection for the dead.Capt. B. G. Patterson was marshal of the procession, which included the Harrisonburg Guards, members of the Me” morial Association, Daughters of the Confederacy, Confederate Veterans, and citizens and children bearing flowers— all led by the “Kid” Band.The exercises at the cemetery were opened with an eloquent prayer by Rev. Geo. E. Shuey, after which Mr. J. N. Liggett, the orator of the day, was introduced. His address was a model of literary excellence and abounded in evidences of scholarly culture, appealing alike to the finer intellectual perception and the emotions of his audience. We take pleasure in reproducing it in full.— He said:Ladies of the Memorial Association,Soldier8) Ladies and Gentlemen—Patriotism, just as religion, has its fanes, its sanctuaries, and its altars, and the same principle of sympathy which constrains the Christian pilgrim to traverse burning desert sands and elimb rugged. mounttain passes to prostrate himself at the Mount of Crucifixion, to wander about Bethany and all the sacred spots hallowed by the footprints of our Savior, animates the surviving comrades, kinsmen and friends of the Confederate hero, to gather around his grave and consecrate a day to his memory. This emotional sentiment constitutes the poetry of man’s moral nature, vibrating through all the avenues of his .soul, filling his mind with the richestNpictures of loveliness, and lifting his as-pirati(5n from the probations of earth to the beatific visions of immortality.This occasion suggests an epoch in the history of our country fraught with momentous events, wherein was enacted a most startling and picturesque tragedy. A continent the stage; three millions of combatants, with flashing swords, whizzing minnies and booming cannon, the actors; the catastrophe death and the fall of the most stately political edifices ever erected by the wisdom of man.— We are here to lay our offerings on the graves of our heroes in that strife, and in the contemplation of their lives of sacrifice and deaths of glory, study lessons of patriotic duty, and catch inspiration to^the performance of the obligations which devolve on us as citizenB of a Commonwealth which from the day when Washington took command of the continental army until Lee tendered hisfesnviHw.wwfrrisword in defence of his native State, stood pre-eminent in sagacious states-o]limanship and military prowess among the colonies and States of the American Union. To maintain this prestige and preserve untarnished the principles ofinstien on which free institutions areWkmtlsiliwdt(tlotlbcS't:bwadtonsnbfcFchtcfai:c1;rctIc1cIIIcJlt;
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Harrisonburg Rockingham Register
Harrisonburg, Virginia, US
Fri, Jun 04, 1897
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