[I]t is sometimes asked, why we should stir the ashes of that ancient feud, why we should not bury the past in its own grave, and turn to the living issues of the present and the future. To this question, comrades, we return the answer, with a voice loud as seven thunders, because it is history, because it is our history, and the history of our dead heroes who shall not go without their fame.Seven thunders: Revelation 10:3-4.
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Friday, June 23, 2023
Our History
Benjamin Morgan Palmer, in Minutes of the Ninth Annual Meeting and Reunion of the United Confederate Veterans, Held at Charleston, South Carolina ... 1899 (New Orleans: Hopkins Printing Office, 1900), p. 27: