Address of Hon. B. F. Jonas, at the Laying of the Corner Stone of the Monument
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Excerpt from Address of Hon. B. F. Jonas, at the Laying of the Corner Stone of the Monument: To the Memory of the Confederate Dead at Baton Rouge, February 22d, 1886 Ladies and Gentlemen - We are assembled here to-day on no sorrowful occasion, for no ceremony of mourning. We are not here to bury our heroes. Over twenty years have past since the last gun was fired in the civil war, and since the last soldier who gave his life to the cause which he espoused was gathered to his rest. The ground furrowed and torn by battle is smooth and grass grown and free from scars. The marks of fortifications and breastworks have passed away, and the thousands of graves of the unknown but not forgotten Confederate dead, which once dotted every battle-field of the South, are carpeted by nature and forever mingled with the soil. The dead are no longer a grief, but a sad and glorious memory. The coming of the lost one is no longer looked for. The parents who gave their sons to the cause have grown old and gray, or have gone to join their loved ones. The babes the young soldier left behind him, and parted with forever, have grown to manhood. The individual lost one lives only in the faded portrait or in the time-worn and carefully preserved newspaper, which tells of his departure for the war, full of patriotic resolve and hope, or chronicles his death in his country´s cause, or he lingers as a holy memory in the hearts of those who loved him. But the memory of the Confederate soldiers who gave their lives to the defense of the cause which they believed to be that of their country will be honored by those who survive them, and those who are to come after them, as long as patriotism, bravery and devotion shall be recognized as virtues among men. Individual and private grief has been soothed by the lapse of time, and we meet now to honor, not to mourn, over the Confederate dead. 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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