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
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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
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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?<.
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Asheville. N. C.. May 27.-The ITnit
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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.
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