Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-01-14
The C. Cos. Testimonial TO Capt.
H HU EEnxvarh

The C. Cos. Testimonial TO Capt.
Il. M. Howard.
On last Tuesday evening Capt. E.
M. Howard OF the @. @. Cps, was
presented by the company with
unique and beautiful silver tea serv-
ice, as a slight memento of the
high respect and esteem in which
he was held by the company, over
which he had been Captain since
its first organization. The boys as
sembied at their armory in full
dress uniform promptly at Z: 80
O'Clock under the command of 1st
Lieut.. r. n. Rhodes. After a little
preliminary drilling the company
was drawn up in the shape of the
letter V, and facing the entrance to
the armory. Capt. Howard was
sent for and notified eff the object of
the meeting. AS he entered the ar
mory Lieut. Rhodes stepped forward
and presented him the offering of
his comrades with few neat re-
marks, a mere outline of which
we are only able togive. Lieut..
Rhodes said:
Capt. Hoa0ard Our secretary
has informed us that you have
placed in his hands your resigna-
ton both as commanding officer and
member of the GAINESVILLE City
Guards. | cannot trust myself 10
speak of nay own feelings at this
moment, you know them without
the speaking and you know the
sentiments of affection and esteem
in which you are held by every
member OF our company. Since our
organization you have been our
Captain; in triumph and in defeat,
in pleasure and in toll, in ali other
troubles, financial and otherwise,
you have always been our strongest
support, as our chiefest ornament.
And now you go from us. The
wholesOul regret and the spontane-
Gus desire to have you carry with
you to your distant home some me-
mento of those you have command
ed, has found feeble expression in
what we are now to present. And
let me say, eandidly to you, we had
some difficulty in making selec-
ton. Some suggested a medal
which you might wear with pride
amid the busy haunts Of men, 9th
ers thought most suitable Il hand
some gun, typical of our military
life, and others something else.
Decision has~at last perched upon
that which is nearer to your pri-
vate life, whose use is devoted to
your house and home, for we have
hoped to be remembered not alone
with pride and pleasure, but with
those purer thoughts and tender SEN
timents, which bud and blossom
and bear fruit by the fireside of
man. VS. have selected that which
will bring you back again to those
dear old days in camp, where we
ate out of tin plates and drank from
tin cups, where we slept and worked
and sang and drilled together,
where we learned each others faults,
and loved each others virtues and
forgave and forgot all things, save
kindness and goodwill, for we
were all young and in love with life
and raptured with the world.
now, in behalf of the members
of the @. G. Cps, present to you this
simple, though unique service of
silver, in testimony of our affection
and esteem for you, to evidence our
confidence in you as a soldier, an
officer, citizen, and above all
chivalric gentleman.
To which Capt. Howard made an
eloquent and telling response. He
was very much affected, as was the
company and the spectators. He
said that he was about to leave the
home of his youth, which was en-
deared to him by every association
and tie, and recoilectio MS which
rendered friends and home precious
and beloved; that his interests ne
cessitated his departure, which was
the saddest event of his life; that
he could not express the satisfaction
and the pleasure which it gave him
at this time, when sorrow and mis-
fortune were round about him, to
know and to feel that he was es-
teemed and loved by his intimate
friends and associates. He then re-
viewed the history of the company,
its camp life, its struggles under
debt, its payment of its liabilities,
the contests for the plume, its sus-
cessful bazaar, for which we had to
thank the ladies of GAINESVILLE, its
trips from home, its defects, its
pleasures and joys, and concluded
by thanking them from his heart of
hearts for their uniform kindness
and respect, and expressly for their
handsome present to him.
Private Campbell then offered a
resolution expressive of the regret
and respect of the company, which
was unanimously adopted.
Capt. Towards resignation was
then read, which, upon motion of
Lieut.. Munford, was accepted with
regret"
After the company was dismissed
the rest of the evening was passed
in songs and "reminiscences of the
company. The pleasure and hilar-
ity of the evening was only tenn
pered by the thought of the occasion
which brought the company to-
gether.
"HOIsT by their own petard" is
the universal Tennessee judgement
on the prosecution and enquiry set
on foot by the loW-tax-fifty-fOur
combination, The SQuealing of the