The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-02-28

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thrpngh these swainps md along these
Nater.ctlrses he led his VII gininnsS as In
/ later DAYS HAMPTON led bis legion 81 Caro-.
Eiinsans. Tfemendo us applause. s. 81 s2
Ant. gsrit lenaep. Carolina did not forget
| that debt of gratitude. ia q later struggle,
when the war.clou1 arose on her horizon,
/ Old Virginia, always tudiclous aud consers
vattve, ever thoughtful before she acts, did
what she could TO preserve the peace pc
tween her sister SsAtes. But when sne
found ts:at war was inevitable, she did not
hesitate on which side 10 draw her sword.
She sounded her bugie-note and gathered
her hrnye sons around her standard, and
| / recoIlect how the SONS OF South Carolina
bore themselves. In the front rank OF
those who rushed to the banks OF the Po-
fomac came the boys OF the old Palmetto
State. They said to us !: I'VE owe you a
debt of gratitude. We remember the part
YOU PLAYED la our early history, and we in
tend to pay it! We have led you. possibly
against your Judgment, into this war, but we
saw that It was inevitable. and the sooner it
came the better. Now place US in The fore
front of the battle; let us ever lead the adj
vance; give us the picket-line, and we will
make good with our iives our protestations
OF devotion to the cause OF southern inde-
Fpendence." And during all that period,
when the tide of war ebbed and flowed
over old Virginia's soil, they maintained
themselves like men. They have left In the
green Virginia valleys those silent mounds
which speak to us more eloquently than
monuments OF brass or pyramids OF stone.
| We are now bound by bonds Of common
| sympathy. In the hospital, filed with dead
and wounded, Carolinians and Virginians
have lain side by side. They have stood
| together in every period Of their history,
and for all time to come may our children
and children's children consider themselves
az brothers and as brethren to the end
| lCheering.]
Poor Old Virginia. now so weak, once so
powerful in this land Giving to that Gov
eminent with which she had so much to do
| in making with lavish hand ell that great
| territory west of the Ohio, rightly styled the
granary Of the world, she has lived to realize
the truth of what the immortal Shakespeare
wrote, g How sharper than serpenfS tooth
| it is to have thankless child!"
And, gentlemen, for one, although with
you was present on that final day at APP
pomattox when Virginia closed the proud.
est chapter In her heroic history, do not
despair OF her future. II her sons prove
themselves worthy of their sires her future
History cannot and will not be less glorious
than her past. 1t will be on different fields.
We must now devote ourselves to the mate
rial prosperity OF our States. We must settle
these broad lands, cut down these forests,
and have their places filled with thronging
towns and villages. BY every watercourse
| let the clank OF the anvil make sweet music
with the sounds OF the barvesters. The
| fields which we have seen giistening with
tayonet- blades must rustic with waving
corn Leaves. On her meadows, once trod.
den by the iron heels Of the trampling wa:.
horses, must henceforth Craze peaceful
herds, and trust that all will be peace,
and that we shall yet see the time when ouI
southern land will be settled and powerful.
Before my departure from this beautiful
City by the Sea, the last opportunity shall
that I speak the sentiments OF every Vir-
ginian here tonight when / say that we have
been perfectly overwhelmed by your kind
ness. Ipheers of assent from the Virgfnians]
and that we will ever treasure in our hearts
the recollection of this visit rs q sweet me-
;mente of Carolina and Of Charleston.
The following is General Logan's speech:
Mr.. Chairman, Friends. and Comrades
esteem it privilege to be here tonight
when Carolina soldiers have assembled to
welcome their Virginia guests, and take
peculiar pleasure in responding to the toast
=. Charleston and Richmond"
A Carolinian by birth, Virginian by
tadoption-a native of Charleston, citizen
Of Richmond-to me, sir, Charleston and
Richmond are equally endeared by the
strongest local attachments To me, sir,
there is no place like Charleston, except
Richmond; there is no place like Rich.
mond, except Charleston"
The poet sings Of love Of country spring.
ing equally from the bond of nativity, and
from the ties Of home:
Man through all ages Of revolving time,
Unehapgipg man in every varying CLINE,
Deems his own land of every land the pride.
Beloved by Heaven DER all The world beside;
His home the spot of cath snpremely oles,,
deaIer, sweeter spot than all the Iestl"
Charleston, endeared by the bonds OF ma.
tivity and all the associations OF early youth
is still to me that
"land of every land the pride,
Beloved by Heaven DER all the world beside"
Richmond, endeared by the ties of home
and all the associations Of later life, is now
to me that
= spot Of earth supremacy hlest,
| A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.'
Mr.. Chairman, a better day is dawning
for cities in the South. While elsewhere
great cities have arisen-the centres of life,
energy, and enterprise in the South ad-
verse causes have hitherto retarded their
growth. State legislation is still somewhat
unfriendly, but the prime obstructing
causes have now ceased to exist, and our
people begin to realize the value to sur
rounding territory OF large centres of con-
sumption and distribution, and they will