CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY:  Speech by HON. CHAMP CLARK  - Smith County, TX 
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Submitted by Peggy Brannon - peggybrannon@hotmail.com
23 October 2001
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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson

Speech by HON. CHAMP CLARK

Hon. Champ Clark, in his great speech at the unveiling of the monument 
at Oak Hill, said:

"Peace hath her victories no less renowned than war, and I thank God 
that the people of the South, crushed and bleeding at every pore, still 
possessed the wisdom and the nerve to grapple with the difficulties 
which confronted them; that in the peaceful walks of life they have 
eclipsed the crimson glories of Cold Harbor, Stone River and the 
Wilderness; that from the ashes of their former splendor they have 
builded a prosperity wondrous as the tale of Alroy or Monte Christo. 
The day of her rehabilitated glory is but in its rosy dawn. Every 
furnace that flames against the Southern sky, every mine that yields 
up its treasures for the enrichment of mankind, every forest that bows 
its stately head beneath the woodman's axe, every school and church 
that lifts its spires to Heaven is but a prophecy of the golden 
future of 'The Land We Love.'"