“Resolved, That our admiration of the man is not the partial judgment of his adherents only; but so clear stand his greatness and his goodness, that even the bitterest of foes has not ventured to asperse him.  While the air has been filled with calumnies and revilings of his cause, none have been aimed at him.  If there are spirits so base that they cannot discover and reverence his greatness and his goodness, they have at least shrunk from encountering the certain indignation of mankind.  This day—­disfranchised by stupid power as he was; branded, as he was, in the perverted vocabulary of usurpers as rebel and traitor—­his death has even in distant lands moved more tongues and stirred more hearts than the siege of a mighty city and the triumphs of a great king.

“Resolved, That, while he died far too soon for his country, he had lived long enough for his fame.  This was complete, and the future could unfold nothing to add to it.  In this age of startling changes, imagination might have pictured him, even in the years which he yet lacked of the allotted period of human life, once more at the head of devoted armies and the conqueror of glorious fields; but none could have been more glorious than those he had already won.  Wrong, too, might again have triumphed over Right, and he have borne defeat with sublimest resignation; but this he had already done at Appomattox.  Unrelenting hate to his lost cause might have again consigned him to the walks of private life, and he have become an exemplar of all the virtues of a private station; but this he had already been in the shades of Lexington.  The contingencies of the future could only have revealed him greatest soldier, sublimest hero, best of men; and he was already all of these.  The years to come were barren of any thing which could add to his perfect name and fame.  He had nothing to lose; but, alas! we, his people, every thing by his departure from this world, which was unworthy of him, to that other where the good and the pure of all ages will welcome him.  Thither follow him the undying love of every true Southern man and woman, and the admiration of all the world.”

ADDRESS OF GENERAL A.R.  WRIGHT.

“Mr. Chairman:  I rise simply to move the adoption of the resolutions which have just been read to the meeting by Major Cumming.  You have heard, and the people here assembled have heard, these resolutions.  They are truthful, eloquent, and expressive.  Although announced as a speaker on this sad occasion, I had determined to forego any such attempt; but an allusion, a passing reference to one of the sublime virtues of the illustrious dead, made in the resolutions which have just been read in your hearing, has induced me to add a word or two.  Your resolutions speak of General Lee’s patience under the persecutions of power.  It was this virtue which ennobled the character, as it was one of the most prominent traits in the life, of him for whose death a whole nation, grief-stricken, mourns,