Brute Force

On Memorial Da y the people of Richniond, Ya., unveiled a monument erected to the memory of the private eoldiers amd eailors of the once proposed Southern Confederacy. There was considerable enthusiasm manifested, a big crowd present, and the condenination of the north run rampart. Among the noted southerners present were Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, Wade Haanpton, Gov. O'Ferrall, the Eev. yVnx. Jones and Gen. Rosser. They all appeared to approve of the sentlinents expressed by the speakers. Gen. Lee rade a hot speech against the pensions to north ern soldiers, and the orator of the day Rer. R. C. Cave, miado as violent au attaek upon ïlie IJ. S. government as any unrepentant rebel ever uttered. NOT A JUDGMENT OP GOD. In the course of his address, Mr. Cave said : "I am not one of those "wto, clinging to the oíd superstition that the will of heaven is revealed in the tmmediate results of 'trial by combat,' fancy that right must always be on tlie 6ide of inight, and speak of Appommattox as a judgmeiit of God. NOTABLE INSTAN'CES. "I do not forget fchat a Suwaroff triumphed and a Koschisko fell ; that a Nero wielded the scepter of empire and a Paul was beJieaded ; that a Herod was crowned and a Chriet vras cruciíied ; and, instead of acceptthe defeat of the eouth as a divine verdict agaiiist her, I regard it as but anoiher instnnce of 'truth on the ecaffold and wrong on the throne.' THE PHYSICALLY 8TRONQ TRIUMPIIED. "Appommattox was a triumph of tlie physically etronger in a conflict between the representathes of two essentially different civilizations and antagonistic ideas of governnients. Ou aiO side in tiu&t conflict was the south led by the descendant of the cavaliers, wilO, wlth nll their faults, had inherlted frora a long line of .uncestors a manly contempt for moral littleaiess, b high sense of honor, a lofty regard for plighted faith, a strong tendency to conservation, a profound respect for law and order, and unfalterimg Xoyalty to constitutional govenunent. Against the soutli was larrayed the power of the north, dominated by the spirit of puritanism, wMch, with uil its virtues, has ever been cliaracterized by the pharisaiam tJiat worshipe itself and is nnable to preceive any goodness apart Irom itBeli; and, fromi tüie time of Oliver Croon well to tlie time of Abraham Lincoln, has never hesitated to trample upon the rights of others in order to effect its own rignte. IT WAS THE BRUTAL YANKKE, SA1I ! "At Appommattox puritanism backed by overwhelming numbers and unlimited resources, prerailed. But brute force cannot settle questions of right &nd wi-ong. Thinking men do not judge the merite of a cause by the measure of its success, and I ve tne worw shan yet eecide, in truth's clear, far-off light, that the eouth. -wias In the riglit ; that the cauee was just ; that the mea who took up anus In her defense were patriota vrho had even better reason for ■vrh&t they did than had the men who fouglit at Concord, Lexington, and Bunker HUÍ ; and that her coerción whatever good may have resulted or inay hereafter resiüt from it, was an outrage om liberty," (Applause.) NOT REBELS, BÜT PATRIOTS. The speaker insisted t hat those ivho eerved under the baainer oí the Confederacy were not rebels, figliting against lawful authority and Beeklag to destroy the unlon formed by our fathers of American independence. Tïhat luiton was dear to the hearte of the southern people ; but when it beeanie evident tliat the union was to exLst in naime only, w-hen lts esscntial principies had been overthrown and traonpled in the dust, then (lid the Kouth fitaaid up and insist upon her rlghts, octing not as a pasSKMi-swept mol) in a mad rebeWon against instituted autfaority, but as in intelligent and orderly people, act3ng in aceordance with. due torma of Riw and withln the limit of what tliey believed to be tJxeir constitutional righ'ts. STATIC 80VEKEIGNTY OR BI Mr. Cave closed y eaybig tliat the epia-its of the Confedérate dead "glory crowned, hover over us, and l)eckon üs on the paths of patriotten and lionoi-. 'ilioir example bids us nobly live lor tlie principies of state sovereignty and homo rule on which their nieait was wisely founded by our fatliers, without whiah 110 vast territory like ours eau possibly remnia democratie, depnrture froin w.hicli ta r;ipiiliy lmri-yiiig' the ooinimny +o achoice lii'twccii tuiarcliy and imperialism and return to Avhich is e.ssential to the preervat:o:i of II13 life of the republie."