The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-08-22

some style and reflected credit upon thu
young metropolis over which he presides
both as to matter and manner. Sedalia may
feel justly proud of her young chief execu
tive
General Marmaduke was introduced afteI
Mayor Messerly's speech of welcome, AND
was received with an
OLD TINE CONFEDERATE YELL.
The generals speech was frequently ap
plauded, and especially so when he paid {
glowing compliment to Sedalia-
General Marmaduke introduced the ora
tor of the day, Judge Valiant, of st
Louis, ga soldier of the Ex-Confederacy
from Mississippi, and a Missonrian by
residence" who is speaking as the BAzOf
goes to press.
At the conclusion of Judge Valiant:
address, yesterday afternoon, at the park
he was loudly applauded, alter which the
band struck up Dixie" which brought
the vast audience TO their feet-men
women and children vieing with each
other in paying tribute to this distinctive
iy southern air. Old men. who had heard
il ON the battle field, were made young
again and danced their delight malrons
and maids waved their handkerchiefs
tears dimmed eyes long strangers to such
signs of emotion, as memory took each
follower of the stars and bars back to the
DAYS when they met the foe in bloody
strife.
After the music, Gen. Marmaduke
stepped to the front and called for Col.
Norton, of Texas. There being 10 re.
Spouse, the general read the following res
lutions sent sfrom the Texas assOcia-
ton of Missouri Ex-Confederates
THE RESOLUTIONS.
Resolved, Tha. this association now ex-
tends to our noble and gallant comrades OF
Missouri our hearts warmest greetings,
and assure them that their memories are
cherished ana kept by US in perpetual re-
membrance. Their joys are Outs
their SORROWS we share, and We
hope that We may be . per-
miited to meet in the grand reunion of the
great hereafter, when time shall be un.
yelled By eternity.
Resolved, That Gen. S. ID. Jackson, Col
n. S. Norton, Gel. J. V. Cockrell and Col
+. III. Murray be requested to present this
greeting TO the Missouri Elk Confederate
association, at Sedalia, on the 10th inst.
ID. A. WILLIAMS,
souri,, in Texas.
At the conclusion of the reading of the
resolutions there were
LOUD CRIES FOR VEST,
which were continued until the crowd was
told that Missouri's eloquent senator was
not present. When quiet had been restored
Gen Marmaduke called Col. Claiborne, OF
St. Louis, to the stand to read a circular
letter prepared by the Southern Historical
and Benevolent association, of that city
Before the reading the letter, Col. Clai-
borne said:
FELLOW CoNFEDERATEs-Tw years
ago, as a soldier In the army OF Virginia, /
could see a minnie ball three hundred yards
off aughter. For foar years l sue
ceeded i'm lodging every enc but one. That
caught me. l lodged the wrong way, be-
cause i had gotten my eyes full OF dust;
but since l have been feastiDg on the fat
cattle and good things of this grand state,
/ am now SO fat as to require the
use of glasses in reading the
Lords PRAYER. So, BY your permission, /
will put them on and read the following
communication from the Ex-Confederate
association of ST. Louis:
THE CIRCULAR LETTER.
ST. LOUIS, August 10, 1882.
To the Elk Confederates assembling at Sc
dalia, August Is, 1882.
COMRADES I'm the name and on behalf
of the Southern Historical and Benevolent
association of St. Louis, / have the honor
and pleasure TO extend to you our fraternai
greetings, our hearty sympathy, with the
purposes OF your meeting, and our earnest
desire that your assembling will be pleas
ant and profitable to all concerned in il.
Unable from our numbers and other
causes to be present in body, our associa-
ton has appointed and accredited a COM
mittee of its members to represent il at
your reunion.
Our association has been incorporated
under the general laws of Missouri for the
purpose OF collecting, preserving and pub
fishing authentic records and Information
showing the true history and action OF the
south in
THE LATE CIVIL WAR,
and indicating the motives and character
of our. people in that contest
Party hatreds and personal prejudices
have, in most of the so-called histories of
that war, so distorted facts, and so grossly
misrepresented the character, motives and
actions of our people, and of many of our
purest and ablest generals and statesmen,
that self respect and justice to the memo
ries of illuslrious dead, imperatively de-
mand of the survivors of that struggle the
exertion of every effort to vindicate the
truth of history by the preservation of rec
ords and Information now accessible, but
which the lapse of time nay place he ond
the reach of those who are hereafter to
write for posterity that impartial history
Of the war which has not yet been written
Among other efforts in this direction we
have negotiations pending with Col. Thos
l.. Snead, of New York, for the publica-
ton. under the auspices of this association,
of his forthcoming
HISTORY OF THE WAR WEST OF THE Mis-