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ELOQUENT ADDRESS IO ll. C. V. BY GEN. A. J. Tells ot thc South In Her Great Struggle-Gallant Wilkes of Anderson Fell At Manassas-A Tribute To Jefferson Davis My Friend? and Confederate ,Com- tm a balmier breath, a jotter >woo( rades: . noes, a rloher cul ur i nj;, and a mure ex ND higher compliment, eau come tv quisitc purity Arbon 'woven Into gnt any mau than that of peing accorded lam?n of respect and honor, for our the privllcdge and pleasure, of par- Confederate Soldiers: ticipating today in these sacred, in- Whit! Truth Will Write toreating exo?reteos. When truth prei??pied Justice tb South Carolina, cooling her brow tktT world, the munificent gift was in Hie pure air of her lofty mountain*!, adorned with flower? of love and s?n and laving her feet in the warm wu- timmi. Since that period patriotic tera of tho At iantje, and Utilizing the sentiment has been the ruling spirit brains nf her sons 'and daughters, with tho llbcrul-loviug people of, all will yet real ire,the dream of her nita- tho nations? Sentiment waa tho force terlal greatness! thut directed tho liberated bird of the And tho splondld people of this urk to return with a tender sprig in beautiful growing eity of Anderson, witness uf a receding flood, giving and of thia historic old county, toll notice to tho long imprisoned family us In unmistakable tones that In (hat tho Ump was at hand for the honoring tho presence of Confederate tremendous work of rehabiltatlon. Holdiers here today, no token of es- Sentiment provided a shield of bull teem can bes too profuse, no mark of rusher for the babe of destiny, and renpeet. can bo.too emphatic, and no gavo to MOHO:?, tho deliverer, the vend t,?>u ai ..naur can be too con- magic power to save his people spicou.s. through tho divided waters of the Tho baud upon the dial cannot bc Red Sea. Sentiment gavo to Camon neon au il moves, but lt does move his unyielding devotion for pythias, nevertheless and so rurely. as it and lcd Joan of Are to sacrifice thc koopa pace with the circling sun, sb life of a 'heroine On tip! altjer of her nurdy Is (ho fame and glory of these country's love; sentiment nerved thc Confederate Soldiers safe in tho hands noble manhood of tho South to sacrl of these patriotic daughters of the fico lifo and fortune in defense of a Confederacy. cause righteous as heaven is just! It All good people respect and admire nerved lao noble womanhood of the South Carolina for her glorious mein- Soutli to suffer untold privations In orles, hor gallant BOOS and her fair encoring on to battle and to carnage daughters. W*. love South Carolina soldiery whoso honor was the halo of too, for her fertile holds, and her thc home, and whoso patriotism waq desolate hattie scarred old hills; we tho erected glory. of the fireside; it love Smith Carolina for tho rights is the perfumed essence of thc mea sho baa maintained, and for thc suffer- dow that comes wafted to us from the tng she has endured; we love her for fields of clpver, mingled with the all of hor bravo mon whose*'* blood music of lowing cattle and tinkling i,tallied almost every baale field, but bolls; it is. the note of nature that we love her bent of all for the sacred sounds thc advent ot Spring, through dust sh? holds of General Wade tho innocent chirp of tho wren, and Hampton, and thousands of others anthems a rich hosanna of praise to who suffered and endured for us. a season in bloom through tho train Keverts to Stirring Days. ed throat of the mocking bird. It is Reverting today to that period in tho saffron robe, woven from angelic -your country's history when this fair tears, that is thrown around thc land was submerged in war and wasting form of old age, as a protec bloodshed and recalling tut dangers tion against the cold blasts of winter; and discomforts, and its toils and its lt causes the heart-springs to play trutls, oftentime with naught in haver- hide and seek around the sweet mem sack save porched corn, we would orien of the old oaken bucket, and not, if we could/ blot out one day's sentiment, coupled with the pleasant record from the memory. Over Hs duty, quickens our footsteps In hasten somber shadows fell then, and falls lng to accept the kind Invitation to be now, that light that comes to every here today, enables us again to look heart In th? path: of ' .duty. There into the eyes of these brave men comes, too, across the waste of years, whoso rifles rung alike on the green n vision of that knightly soldier, hills of Kentucky and the historic Samuel M. Wilkes, adjutant of the heights of Gettysberg! These men 4th South Carolina. Regiment, who here, my friends, wearing the Con yielded up hts young and promising federate crosses, and their associates. life on the altar of hts country In the are tho men who stood between your first battle . of Manasaa. Methinks homes and the emmy at a time when we seo him now as he rode the lines the same hunger that clutched at their with tho light of hattie In his eyes and tl> t oats plunged its* dagger into their tbe thunderous charge upon his Ups. ? hi^\^T"kttHfrt/y thought of loved ones He rode Into our hearts, the Imper- famishing at homo! sonatlon o! chivalry, and be rides tirin Token of War. there still. These cuff buttons in my Memory turns backward today to cuffs, with tho palmetto tree and thc that period in your country's history coat of arms of South Carolina on when the tocsin of war first sounded their face, ar^ valued far beyond the lis dread' alarm! And when your computation -f dollars and cents be- fathers and brother*, buckled on their casie they are the buttons that were armor, bade loved ones goodbye, re taken from the Confederate grey coat celved a mother's blessing, or a wife's worn by Adjutant Wilke*. His deeds warm kiss, and unwound, porhaps, and virtues are being perpetuated and tiny arms from around necks, closed sacredly guarded by hts worthy son, the doors of their homes behind Colonel Samuel W. Wilkes of Atlanta, them and reported to their corni irv 1 The body of Adjutant Wilkes was for duty. buried in your cemetery hore, and Soon opened the carnival of gore! resta today beside that of his beloved First, the picket's signal gun was wife, one of the sweetest and noblest heard, then the rattle of muskets women I have over kp,owu. along tho lines, followed by the boom As long as lookout Mountain rears lng cannon, and tho great Southern Hi- head :above the bloody. plains of yell/ which yon, and you so well re Chlck?m?uga like the Chlmbaraeo of member, and which ru Toeman will the Andes, BO ;ong will the sacrifices over forget! Shall de doods and of auch men remain bright upon the victories of. euch rn? n over be neg pagos of history. looted- or. forgotten ? Go out all over Conti-?er?i?e Army Superior ihia land and ask that dear oid moth The world's histories fail to give. or. who has tolled day In and day but, an acount of any army under and with sore banda and bleeding heart gcnoral. on any field, vhat equals thc lo raino to houorablo manhood and Confederate Army. It waa tqat army w^htanhood her war-made orphans, whose llrst shot, fired at Fort Sum- ano ?ho wli; tell you, no! Ask that ?.er, tn your State. In 1861. that cchped Ppp* .old wouiap. who has lived In pov afthc throne u? royalty the world orly and sorro/v for the want of a over! mid wns muffled into freedom's father, or broth or who. fell at tho cong, in every household where the bp- front, aud woo Js weary and' bnxiqu.i prcrnor'a hopis wge felt, npd, you. my to Join the loved oneu at real, and she comrade, i. who composed that army, wj'll tell you. t\rs\ A*,k that decrepit ypu gave JBabasaaa to Beauregard; ?ld s.oidjprw^io alts upon the. shore of you wove tho niupic br tho battle of time, and is anxious to crosn xUc rlycr Soven' Pinea Into laurel wreaths for und rest with Jackson in the! shade'of Joseph E. Johnston, and you caused the treen, and, aa Ujo. tears trinkle the water.* o? the Chtcamaugu to down pk" .wrinkled tbcp, he will tell murmur- eternally the nanio ot Brax- yob, no! 4<ook up. and unk the spirits ton Bragg. It ls' beyond the"reach <>' Bee. and Harlow, and Bragg! and ot either broth or chisel to rod.oem to Lrecke^rldgo. and Leo and_Johptjspn. the. Imagination ouch oconpa and such ann< thousands ot olheru who died for men aa rhino forth In the history' of us, and Heaven Itrelf will tremble the 2500 battles aqd combats of the with a responsive NO! Southern war, and not until some Honor for the Brave, now-born Homer shall touch the harp Como then, today. Confederate Sol can mankind be penetrated by a dlorr. with your wounds and your senre ot their heroic deeds, and then orara; come fair ladles, with your alone In the;grand majestic minis- smiles and your flowers; come young trelsy of epic song! men and fair maldons from every. In my imagination I have seen Na- nook and corner in this grand old1 polcon putting down the mob In County ot Anderson, and honor your Parlu; ? have seen him at tho head solves in honoring the presence ortho of his army in Italy; I havo econ him men who carried tholr country'* flag on tho Alps, mingling tho eagles of ?mid tho earthquake throes of Shiloh. Franco with tho eagles or the crag; whero Albert Sidney Johnson dmd! 1 havo seen him at Marengo and Aus- Wo honor ourselves tn honoring the strains; I hare seen him In the shad- men who held aloft tho stars and bars ow of the pyramids, when he told hie amid the floods of living tiro at Chao Boldlcrs forty centuries would .look? eollornyllio, where Stonewall Jackson down upon them; I hate seen him foll. I speak today for the men crossing tho bridge at Lodi with a tri- whc*o lips are sealed in death, hut color In hin hand.; I hare ssss him who uaw tho southern cross flutter builditiK up an eroplro out of tho in tho gloom or tho wilderness where ruins of Europe/by. Wann or his own tfto angry divisions and corp? rushed ingenuity, but, with nil that, I would upon each other, clinched and foll, rather have the recoi-d pf my ,lovable and rolled In tho bloody mirth! I friend. General C. A. Reed, who left speak for the men who sustained his right arm in Virginia fighting tor tbo immortal Leo, who for four long Hie Southern, people-I repeat, I years aud ?toed as a wr.il of living Oro . would rather have the record ot Gen. between1 the ranOfti of ?he Confedera Reed as a Confederate Sr.Idier, than cy and the mighty lesions nf th? to have that of Napoleon, with his North: I speak for the men who sefish, vaulting ambition! fought and flanked and manoenvered Surely then, my friends, there is no and marched with that thunderbolt flower to fair; , no lUy^M;-*^^ Jackson, who, In white, no ivy i . oi.n ?Onth> ajjne.defeated and drove . sayty.sw^lgMI'Mlr^.tovo^lc dlaorier the vast F?d?ral army ty-red. and.no festoon, plucked from from the Valley of Virginia! I apeak the garden pr woodland, but takes for the mea who followed their coun try's flag until its fad'd rotors . flaunted defiance for th?; Inst time at Appomutox and Greensboro, whore lt '.'..m down amid a flood of tears for?'ver! x Do our people in this day of an xiety to faro the mighty dollar ever stop to consider the condition of this country ut the end of that struggle? Your fields*-were laid .waatp; your] wealth consumed, your cities buttered, burned and ruined; your thousands of iiiiic happy homes were made de colatc and mournful by thc rage and wratli of armies and the cruelties of war. Thc Angel of death had crossed almost ?.-very household. More than .'lOo.ooo of the flower of this land were tilling blopdy graves; every sighing 'breeze that swept over the waste,places, from thc bloody grounds or thc wild<;rocHs. to the smouldering p?nbors of the ruined Columbia and Atlanta, boto upon its wings thc walis of weeping women! This was ut that lime n laud filled wit li griefs sharper than sword that mad?' them; it was a country filled Willi h?;n rt broken, mothers, widows and orphan children. Our people sal dj? tom "lute upon the newmade graven i of all that wu? sweetest and dearest ! un earth, ami there, in silence and In leurs. expressed a sorrow too mighty tor the poverty of words. It was at that 11 UK- that these splendid mothers and sisterp came again to our rcrcuu, illustrating then, as sh?> does now. the highest type of self sacrifice ?nd patriotism. Uo to thc sacred temple* of worship all over this land, and you will find her bent In adoration there. Go to thc Sabbath SCIIOOIB of your hamlets und villages, and you will hear her saintly voice there; go to:thc cottages of the poor and newly, and you will find" her precious gifts lhere; go to the dis cpnrulate and troubled fand you will find her chcerlpg smiles there; go to the altar of liberty, and you will find hor sacrifice thcro. See the babe In tho manager and. Its honored mother ls there; sec him in the troubles of lifo, und she follows him there; see him at thc court of Pilate and her troubled heart is theie; pee hts lomb after ho had left it in, triumph, and woman was thc first there, and first to proclaim thc glad tidings. Woman Is ccarccly ever wrong, my friends, when she has an even chance with reason. That rho was with u.i in that great struggle is doubly con vincing that your cause was just. Sho inspired a new hope, and these big, brave, brawny armed, bronzed veterans, of a hundred battles saw it did not become a brave people to thus yield up their courage, ami passively await tho (finishing stroke of adverse fate. It was then, my comrades, that you exclaimed "the storm la passed and we srvive; as long as life lasts we will not give up the fiar of hope, though oftentimes obscured by tho passing shadow.-." j V??*B Thc Clouds Roll by. 1 You brushed away tho tears or our weeping women, and promised them a brighter day. when the shadows should vaniah- and the clouds roll by. < You have no cause to rogret for the j part that you took In xthat rtruggle, and no stain attached to those who conducted it. But.it ls beet for .all : that the war was fought to a finish I that gave finality to its result. and . came ndar extinguishing the combat- I ante therein. No drop of blood from j Fort Donaldson to Appomattox and . Greensboro-not one in the last charge Was abed In vain! Peace with honor must pay its price, oven though that price should be life itself, and lt is because the South paid that price I wit ?j . no miser's hand, that her sur- ' vlrinj? gomera brought home wi'h them ?ne . conscienceless of duty faithfully " performed-. ' !?-?eat Doesat ii.ngrnce Defeat always implies disaster, but need not imply disgrace. Leonidas, and bis th re-, hundred, have been rock .... >jq?d?.>tt tu?-?ti?n ?' lilt?' Vera Cruz Wat?rv ?W -'<??n i* Photos copyright, isla, by Amati/fen P^|H HPV Complications nrlslmr from ICrux by the American forces '< dent Huerta to threaten to atti control of the waterworks, bj perta ne*, ?stated that es^M^fV?|||WH tratiob shows th* main pumping static or American In fan try caso guarding t tried to poison the water supply a* {hs tiring ila* and figure a the waterworks' The ?????rsori intelligencer SBEMEt WaUonVandiver Building ANDERSON, S. C. Telephone 693-L / " - ' i s ?_ BOOK AND J OB PRINTING BANK AND COTTON MILL WORK COMMERCIAL PRINTING ALL KINDS OF LEGAL WORK Loose Leaf Ledger .Work, and All Other Ruled Forms BEST EQUIPPED BINDERY IN UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA oned u. a ni.ltd wboAt of t'ao herpes, bul tho gallant nun who fought and foll In tho Confederate Array, and thone who fought and ruflercd and returned, aie aa immortal as the In vincible 10th legion of R-man history, or the victorious Iron: ?lea of Crom well. In war no d?. ger daunted them, no force appalled them, and no defeat disheartened them, and no auf feriug subdued them. Poland was wiped from the roll of nations by the iron hand of dcrpotisru. but freedom did not die with Cosolusco. Kinmett died ni cn the rcaffold, but his name lc enshrined In the hearts, woven'"in the songs of all true Irishmen. The3e young people stibu'.d b? taught tb' re member tbe historical fact that when Jefferson Davis was lighting and bleeding under the stars and stripes at Molino dc Hey and Cerro Gordo. Abraham Lincoln wan denouncing the war with Mexico as unconstitutional; when Jefferson Cavis was leading the gallant Mississippians in the bloody charge of -Buera Vista, thc:Northern multitudes. wara*.yet..applauding .the cloquenco of thc Statesman from Ohio, who had de'laTed In the halls ot the Congress of thc United States that the Mexicans should receive thc Ameri cans wita bloody handB, and welcome them to hospitable graves. ;> Jefferson Davis was thc hero of Buena Vi-ta. and Buena Vista made General Taylor president. Disfran chised, and in chains. Jefferson. Davis wat. nobler than Caesar, with a senate at his heelF He cleated a nation: ! .> followed Hairier; he wrote its epi taph, and dieu,?4? ?U?I ol ms people. But wc. rejoice today .that: time has smelted the hostile guns and furled tho hettie fing?; wt rejoice, too. thsit time has torn down the forts and leveled tho trenches on the bloody nenia or glory. We arc thankful to an all-wise Providence that time hath adorned thr, ruined South, and robed bot* fields in riche>Nbarvcat, and gilded /orks, a Storm ur Men on Guard ??g^J?. M?fy^4aMi? ii Mr ? I \^i^MHH '; JM?a Association. th^ ^**?-- er *bc Vstir^orts 'at Ter* .aused the federal troop? loyal to Prest irk our army. The Mexicans demanded ri** woeWWyiehl ?hem. The trtus >n at the waterworks und ?detach asset hem. lt ts stated that. the. Mexicans American soldiers. Pleuro .1 show? tbs her skies with brighter stars of hope!* The smoke from the chimneys of these increasing factories will con ti ?mo to blacken the skies; these great railroads, whose trains go rushing through this prosperous country, will continue to bear their burdens bf freight and precious lives; the hills and valleys in old South Carolina will glow in thc garniture of a richer har vest. The remnant of lives Spared from the battle have been inter-woven in tho texture of the Union. New stars are clustering upon the flag, and the sono of South Carolina are bear ing it in th far off Phillippine Islands, ae their fathers bore it at Vera Cruz and the city of Mexico, that the bounds of freedom may be wider still il Our great race will meet and solve every question, horever dark, that confronts it and a mighty people, strong and reconciled, will stretch forth their arms to stay those of the oppressor! But no grander spirits will rise than those who'found rest beneath the Southern Sod from Sumter's battered walls, to the trailing vines and ivy leaves of. Hollywoood ! Dixie Still Hood to Live In. I rejoice to day that your homes have been cast beneath these 'soft southern skies, where summer pours out,her floods of sunshine and show ers, and where the grateful earth smiles with plenty. I congratulate you too, that your lots have been cast in this southland of Dixie, where the cotton fields wave back their banners of gold! I am glad that you live in this land of song and story, where tho mocking birds, flutter and sing in the shadowy coves, ?nd where t&e bright waters ripple in eternal melody thru the fields wher our heroes are bur ied, l rejoice with you that we live in this favored land, where every breath of air that reaches us comes Altered through Jungles of roses, and where every truo man is king, and every good woman a queen! I bring you glad greetings today from your comrades in thc capital ' City of Georgia; that City whose household ornamenta and utensils ' were broken and moulded into mis rules of war; that City whose church bells that called her people to the sacred temples of worship, were melted, and resounded in . the grim thunder of artillery; that City where Hood fought, and Sharman contended; that City on whore fields McPherson foll, and William Henry T. Walker died ; that City lu whose trenches your fathom and brothers died, and tripling* from tho play-ground rush ed'to take their places; that City nh whone Acids* fate decrood' that I should .light, Vide" by .Side by thc gallant 10th South Carolina Regiment, command ed by that bravo hero, General C. Ir vine Walker. I ir inc; yon greetings from that City on whoao battle Aol da children still rah o off bullets as they pluck borriec, twlth tho assurance that the South ia standing today; proudly erect, with tno .flush of prosperity upon her checks, and thc light bf hope in her eyes; with the oats and stripes in ' bor right hand, an emblem ot un invisible Union, waving a friendly notice lo our brethren in the east, and west, and north, that we chal lenge them to a friend!;-, but deter mined rivalry in building up the're source? of this great country! We'haVe mucV to be thahfcful for; we have a country that arches 3ig* continent, and against ''whose -tides the waves of both oceans beat, and on whose dome rosir the clouds, and be neath whose canopies is to be found this great State or South Carolina. Whore sons '/at. the outbreak of the war, answerta-HBer?". "Xca, ls the i?nsrna*ra or IHA great Ben H ni--we bah say to g?n?rations yet unborn-"come on' and be glad; there is room enough for alt. Thia vast domain, from the ocean that Is wild to the ocean inst ?leene. with the State? all equal, th? people ali free, tho homes ali peaceful, Shalt be yours, and yours foye?<. Care fer S ts ssa ch Disorder*. Disorders of the stomach may be avoided hy the ase of Chamberlain's Tablets. Many vefy remarkable cures hath been: affected hy these - tablet*. SoI<| by Evanp' Pba^ftcy. MILITARY INSTRUCTION HAMP rilli Be Held nt Asheville This Sum mer-Exceptional opportunity to Young Men. Asheville. N. C.. May 27.-The ITnit ed States Government Student's Mili tary Instruction Camp, which is to bc held at Asheville July 6th to August 7th, is expected to draw a largo num ber of young men to Asheville this summer to take advantage of this ex ceptional opportunity to get a month's vacation in the mountains of North Carolina with the added nd van ta gea of practical military instruction under D, S. army officers. Only three of these camps are to be established'and Asheville was1 chosen on account of its cool and healthy Cli mate and excellent transportation fac ulties. The camp Bite is* on a spur or Sunset mountain, closely adjacent to the Grove Park'lpn and at the termi nus of a stret car Une giving frequent service to all other hotels. Asheville people are much interested in the suc cess of camp and intend to da1 every thing possible to make thc stay of thc student soldiers as pleasant os possi ble as we?i as instructive. The cltj has contributed city water connections and electric lights to the .camp ana both the Greater Western North Caro lina Association and the Asheville Board of Trade are. lending every as sistance and will furnish any infor mation desired. The camp will fcc in charge of IT. S. a nay officers who wHi confect, all drills and instruction work and wil: give their personal attention ai ?.ii times. The government will furnlsn tents, bedding, cooking utensils, and necessary equipment and all meats will be prepared hy army cooks under the supervision of officers. For the purpose of explaining the advantages of the camp to students in Southern colleges and universities. Col. Sanford H. Cohen, manager of the Greater Western North Carolina Association, is now making a tour of the leading institutions, making addresses to Sta den,- at each. ALL CAN P Auiopiano or Mil The low price will suri your old Piat Gall and let how well j on the Aut< Ce A. Reed Pim Estabiis Steinway, Knabe, Iver* Disc Phc Anderson? $10 Cash No Taxes . $10Month No Interest West End Lots These lots arc going fatter than we expected and wc may not get to see you unlesB you phone 474, seo or write E. R. Horton, YV. F. Marshall L. S. Horton F. E. Alexandr! Thoa. F. Cartwright ANDERSON REAL ESTATE AND INVESTMENT CO, Condensed Passenger -Schedule (?KEEN VILLE,' SPARTAN BC KG & ANDERSON RAILWAY CO. 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