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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General Beauregard 's report of the battle of Drury's Bluff . (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Our cause in history. (search)
Our cause in history. By Rev. H. Melville Jackson, of Richmond.
[The following eloquent response to a toast at the Howitzers's Banquet in Richmond, Dec. 13th 1882, takes a view of our cause in History that is hopeful, and well worthy of preservation.
It only needs to be emphasized, that we must see to it, that the facts are preserved.]
Toast-our cause in history.
Sentiment.—A land without ruins is a land without memories—a land without memories is a land without history.
A land that wears a laurel crown may be fair to see; but twine a few sad cypress leaves around the brow of any land, and be that land barren, beautiless and bleak, it becomes lovely in its consecrated coronet of sorrow, and it wins the sympathy of the heart and of history. * * * The triumphs of might are transient—they pass and are forgotten—the sufferings of right are graven deepest on the chronicle of nations.
Rev. H. M. Jackson responded as follows, amidst frequent applause:
Mr. Chairman and Gen
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Literary notices. (search)