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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 21. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Monument to the Confederate dead at the University of Virginia. (search)
umental oration, delivered on the field of Gettysburg, on the 3d day of July, 1888, by the Rev. Thomas K. Beecher, younger brother of the famous Henry Ward, at the dedication of a monument to the Broosembodied spirit clean escaped from the distorting atmosphere and relations of earth. Says Mr. Beecher: The facts recited shall be as colorless as the items of a bookkeeper's balance-sheet.s and for these, as I, in his great name and stead, now speak for these graves and for those, Mr. Beecher continued: It is not known what those dead men think of the battle of Gettysburg, at whose Insurrection? How? Against what? These to quell insurrection—these to repel invasion. Mr. Beecher probably intended by these phrases merely to indicate the conflicting views of the combatantseir blood. For all these, with all our heart and soul, we lift to heaven the noble prayer of Mr. Beecher's matchless oration: Thy judgments, O God, are true and righteous altogether. Let it be unt