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AN ELOQUENT TRIBUTE.Paid to the Late Lieutenant William E.Shipp By J Cober O. Burton, Esq.Certain friends of tin* late Lieutenant William E. Shipp who did not hear the tribute paid to him by 1C. O. Burton. Esq., during the recent, argument before the North Carolina Railroad Commission urgently requested him to reproduet* the language as nearly as possible, which he kindly consented to do:“We are at the parting of the ways. The traditions of the fathers are forgotten and the spirit of imperialism is rife in the land. Our hearts are quickened hy stories of conquest oil laud and sea. We feel with unspeakable pride thei glory of American citizenship. The deeds ( of American arms have taught us a re-newed love of country. Men of New, York and Carolina marched shoulder to( shoulder, in a blaze of glory, up those, heights of Santiago, and the last embers of sectional bitterness died out as the sweet women of the North and the South together weep for fallen heroes,1 and are drawn together in the immortal memories of those terrible days. 1( much fear we shall pay too dearly for our new vision of conquest On every hand are darkened homes. Mourning and desolation are spread over the land. J Who shall toll what the end shall hoV | “As 1 speak there comes to me the image of one (‘very inch a soldier, a man from tin* crown of his head to the soles of his feet. tall, shapely, erect as an In-, dian. with a head like a Orecian god a man with all the faculties of his nature rounded into a symmetry that shed a glory on human nature—the immortal Shipp- In* that would have made our ideal Brigadier! Yet “There he lies with his him* eyes dim “And his beautiful manly lips apart! “All that is left of him here is the priceless memory of a lofty life- tin* lieri-l tage bettor than gold,of a proud hero that passed unstained through tin* world; that lilessed with his influence while he lived, and passed away in the supreme mo-; ment of earthly honor, with the eon-, sciousness of duty well *doiio. amid flu*, admiration of the world which recog-, nizes that the glory of English heroism at Dargai pales before tin* rt*cord of • those fearless men of the New World. ! “While victory shines on life’s last eb-i bing sands “Ah! who would not rest with the brave?”
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The News And Observer
Raleigh, North Carolina, US
Sun, Jul 24, 1898
Page 5
Full Page
Clipped by
Frank C.
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