The Confederate Dead
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Breckinridge, William C. P.) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from The Confederate Dead: Two Addresses In this lovely and sacred city of the dead are buried the beautiful, the learned, the wise, and the loved. Around you on every side are holy graves in which lie until the resurrection morn the bodies of the mourned, and over which have been placed memorials of love and grief. Among these dead are men who gave honor to the great city whose spires and ascending smoke, the rising incense of profitable industry, are in our sight; men whose virtues were living epistles read of all who came in contact with them, and whose lives were fit exemplars for your children to imitate. And still more precious, scattered every where, are graves of pious mothers, idolized wives, of children whose death broke your hearts, of friends still mourned. And yet, all these honored and loved graves are passed by to-day, and this multitudinous throng of women and men, turning from grave of father and mother, of husband and wife, of child and sister and friend, of statesman, philanthropist, and sage, turning from the family group where the heart-pangs of the living can be read in the names of the dead, is gathered around these rows of mounds, and upon them have strewn fragrant flowers, and in honor of them have left home and the duties of arduous life. Why this unusual honor? Why this resounding music, these exquisite flowers, this more significant gathering? Whose graves are these to which this mournful but beautiful homage is rendered? Some stranger in our midst - another Anacharsis - a modern Herodotus, having just reached this city in his pilgrimage, turns to some grave gray-headed man bearing flowers, and asks with eager but restrained curiosity, "What is the meaning of this striking scene?" What answer will you give, middle-aged man of business and care? Or, if he should chance to ask you, fair matron, what reply would you return? What reply can we to-day return to such question, when not another but our own hearts ask it? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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