Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-16
81 AND 'gI.
Eloquent and Glowing Tributes
of Bates and Marks.
List Of Contributors to the Monument
Fund -The Reunion Voted
Grand Success,

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proceedings of the Reunion.
The audience promptly re-assem-
bled after dinner while the bard
played a lively air. Though it was
late, nobody left. All wanted to hear
the grand old soldier-Senator Bate.
Gen. Quarles again introduced the
speaker, and as soon as the applause
subsidized, Gen. Bate said his heart
was in the cause and he congratulate
ed himself on having so large
crowd to return to the stand TO hear
him speak. He served four years in
the war, and made it rule never to
fire a gun after the battle was won,
and the battle had been beautifully
won here, alluding to the large sub
scription that had, been made to the
monument fund He had been thrice
honored by the people of Tennessee
by being twice elected Governor of
the State, and once to the United
States Senate, ana as much as he APP
preciated such hOnors, he would not
exchange the honor of having been
a Confederate soldier for all of it. He
had never made a speech in Congress
Or anywhere in which he acknoWl-
edged that he was wrong, 1t was
only by rebellion that independence
has been gained. The records show
that the COnlederates fought four
years against the odds Of five to one,
and now every man who was on the
Federal side who had sore eye or a
blistered toe was receiving a pension.
He grew eloquent as he proceeded,
recounting the history of the war,
aud the necessity of educating our
young on the causes of the war and
the principles of State sovereignty
and State rights involved. He spoke
Of Massachusetts as the first State to
declare the doctrine of sect ssion, and
tracing all of the history Of the poO-
pie of the South, ii could not be said
they were rebels but patriots. He
spoke of the ValOr OF the people, the
South furnishing the leaders III
statesmen in thu cOunsels of the ma
ton, and the best soldiers in the war.
The South had given the country
Thomas Jefferson, George Washing
ton, Patrick Henry and Jon. Sewer.
These were Southern men, and under
their leadership CORVALLIS was
captured, and peace and indepen,
dence established His eloquent re
ference to the old tattered, bullet
riddIed flags of the Fourteenth and
Fiitieth regiments brought rounds of
applause. He went on to speak Of
the Louisiana requirement under
Southern craftsmanship; also Cali.
f0rna and Texas were acquired I'M
der Polk, another Southern man, also
naming the territory brought in I'M
der Pierce. Alaska-cold enough tot
freeze the horns off a goat-was ne
gotiated for under Lincoln, hut final
ly, under the Providence OF God, the !
treaty was signed by Andrew John
son, another Southern man. III
another war were to come up the
South would be the first to go to the
defence Of the nation, TO fight for
principle and not for money. HeI
rccounted the ValOr Of the Southern
soldiers on various battlefields. He
paid a high tribute to the Tenth Ten
nos-ee, an Irish regiment that
showed up as one OF the brightest
jewels in the history of the war.
"Take care of your war songs as jew
els of inspiration," said he, referring
to the inspiring strains Of Southern
war songs rs sung by the Glee Club
and stirred the emotional nature Of
the vast audience, "They should be
preserved as jewels Of Southern COM
position which stirred mems souls
Hour people love their songs and
lovcthe stars aad stripes, why may
they not love the stars and bars that
our boys marched under" bespoke
of the importance of The Southern
people preserving a true history Of
the war, the deeds and the vaIor of
our generals and the gallant men
who did the fighting, as no true his.
tory had been or would he given by
the other side The speak er referred
to the terrific battle OF Franklin, in |
which Gen Quarles command par
ticipatcd and in the thickest Of the
tight, end OF the ferceness of the con-
tiict when the General himself fell |
dangerously wounded. "Let us
build monuments to our gallant
dead that viii be making history
Gen. Bate closed with a grand peror-
alton on the importanca Of preserv-
ing Southern war history.
GEN. QUARLEs THEN INTRODUCED
EX-GOVERNOR MARKS,
Who commenced his speech by read
ing and commenting on a most pa
thrtic letter from a lady, which bore
no name but enclosed a $40 bill. The
letter read: "This is from one who
buckled the armor on two brothers,
bidding them 90 in defence of the