Funeral Oration, Pronounced in the Opera House in Augusta Georgia
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Excerpt from Funeral Oration, Pronounced in the Opera House in Augusta Georgia: December 11th, 1889, Upon the Occasion of the Memorial Services in Honour of President Jefferson Davis Ladies and Gentlemen: In yielding to the solicitation of my brethren of the Confederate Survivors´ Association to address you on this memorial occasion, I was appalled at the shortness of the period allotted for preparation, and at the magnitude of the theme suggested for our contemplation. I am painfully aware that under the most favorable circumstances in any attempt to remind you of the virtues and the services of the illustrious dead in whose honor we are assembled, everything I could say would be anticipated by your thoughts, and I would suffer the reproach of falling far below them. Nevertheless, answering the call of an Association whose lightest request is to me a command, with all the traditions of a consecrated past thrilling through my veins, and cherishing an admiration most profound for the character and acts of him who but yesterday was the noblest living embodiment of Confederate manhood, I respond, as best I may, to the needs of this occasion, craving your generous indulgence if I fulfill not the expectation of the hour. When Wilkie was in the Escurial studying those famous pictures which have so long attracted the notice of all lovers of art, an old Jeronymite said to him; I have sat daily in sight of those paintings for nearly four score years. During that time all who were more aged than myself have passed away. My contemporaries are gone. Many younger than myself are in their graves; and still the figures upon those canvasses remain unchanged. I look at them until I sometimes think they are the realities and we but the shadows. 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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