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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 20. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Reunion of Company D. First regiment Virginia Cavalry, C. S. A. (search)
give you this banner, and in an unfaltering voice, we bid you bear it on to victory or death. We would bid you in the day of the battle look upon it—think of your mountain homes, and remember 'tis for them you strike. Think of the mothers, the sisters, the wives you have left behind, and remember 'tis for them you draw the sword. Tamely, and for years have we submitted to insult and oppression, and shall we longer bow our necks, like slaves, to the yoke? Shall the descended of the men of 1776 hear the clanking of their chains and fear to break them? God forbid! what though you perish in the attempt? The coward died a thousand deaths, The brave man dies but one! Then men of Virginia, show yourselves worthy of the name you bear! From the women of your native mountains, take this flag beneath its fold, go forth to meet the oppressor, and fear not to die! After Miss Hardin concluded, Lieutenant R. B. Edmondson, on behalf of the troop, responded in a short but spirited spe
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 20. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Unveiling of the monument to the Richmond Howitzers (search)
invective: They sold us these slaves—they assumed a vendor's responsibility—and it is not for them to question the validity of our title. And it was equally relevant to say to some others: Your position involves the right of a grantor to revoke a grant without the consent of the grantee for value and the right of one party to a compact to retain the whole consideration moving to him while repudiating every other. A scheme of gradual emancipation had been proposed by Jefferson as early as 1776 and the general scheme of it approved by the convention which framed Virginia's Constitution in that year, but no action was taken, because the public mind would not bear it. Nothing, wrote Jefferson, is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free, nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion, have drawn indelible lines of distinction between them. Here plainly was a difficult air fo
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 20. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Unveiling of the statue of General Ambrose Powell Hill at Richmond, Virginia, May 30, 1892. (search)
and accomplished soldier, the chivalric Virginia gentleman, the devoted patriot, the martyr hero of our dying cause, gallant and glorious Little Powell Hill. I am only to introduce the fitly-chosen orator of the day, and I shall not, of course, be guilty of the gross impropriety of attempting a speech myself, but I am sure that you will pardon me if I say just this: Richmond is fast becoming the Monumental City. Her peerless Washington, surrounded by his compatriots of the Revolution of 1776—her Lee—her Jackson—her Wickham—her monument to the true hero of the war, the private soldier, now being erected—her monument to the flower of cavaliers, dashing, glorious Jeb Stuart, which is to be erected in the near future—and the projected grand monument to our noble Christian President, soldier, statesman, orator, patriot—Jefferson Davis—all these will teach our children's children that these men were not rebels, and not traitors, but as true patriots as the world ever saw.