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The Daily Dispatch: January 14, 1865., [Electronic resource], Eloquent extract. (search)
ttom, and is as inseparable as that which separated Dives from Lazarus. The mute objects of nature; our desecrated churches and altars; our sweet valleys, drenched in blood and charred by fire, forbid it. The dead would cry out against it from their gory beds. The blood of my own sons, yet unavenged, cries to Heaven from the ground for vengeance. The thousands who are resting red in their graves would awake and utter their solemn protest.--Stonewall Jackson, Polk, Stuart, Rhodes, Morgan, Preston, Smith, and thousands over whose remains a monument to the unknown dead shall be raised, are speaking in tones of thunder against it; and can it be the living only will be dumb? Sir, those who have died in this war are not dead to us. "'E'en in their ashes live their wonted fires.' "They are, in the light of their example, more valuable than the living.--Their spirits walk abroad and stir the hearts of living men to do or die in the cause of liberty. We cherish their memory. W