The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-11-27
WHAT THEY GAVE
The Disabled Veterans Make Col. J. S
Carr Present.
They Appreciate His Services and Show
Their Appreciation.
The RESPONSE OF COLONEL CARR
He Says That He Cannot Sail Under False
Colors and Much Credit for the
Home Is Due to Others

Colors and Much Credit for the
Home Is Due to Others.
Col. J. S. Carr, being largely irstru
mental in establishing the soldiers home,
, the disabled soldiers living there yester-
day presented him with beautiful um
brella. In responding to the presenta-
ton speech, Colonel Carr said:
SERGEANT HAMILToN-I thank you,
sir, for the very handsome words which
you have spoken to me to day. They
were like apples of gold in pictures of
silver. And to you, my dear comrades,
to say that l am overwhelmed with de-
light but poorly expresses the pleasure
that this occasion brings to me, and |
shall always bless the memory of the dear
old cOmrade with sightless eyes, tribute
to the cause we all loved, but which was
lost, whose kind heart gave birth to the
movement that has brought US together
here. And if it were not happiness
enough to meet and mingle with you
dear old comrades, you have added to the
pleasure of this day by a kindness that
shall be treasured and appreciated while
memory lasts. How good of you to have
remembered one so unworthy. In ap-
probation of your handsome testimonial,
which l shall ever treasure as an evil
dence Of your esteem, let me declare
here in this grand honorable presence
that if ever in the future fail of Oppor-
tunity to do all that a loyal sympathizing
comrade can do to protect and promote
the interest of the confederate veterans
in North Carolina, may my right hand
forget its cunning and my tongue cleave
to the roof of my mouth. | accept with
brella, and shall value it beyond the
golden gonfalOns Of Cortez, or the teoka-
lis Of the Montezumas
But my dear comrades, it is foreign to
my nature to masquerade in borrowed
plumage so here and now | desire to
give credit to whom credit is due The
confederate veteran is due more thanks
for the establishment Of the Confederate
Veterans Home to Capt. w. G. Stronach
that magnanimous, untiring friend of
the old veteran-than to any other citi-
zen of this commonwealth, and this like
many other of his noble deeds shall
live to his memory long after the chem
istry of the grave has sucked his cheek.
1t has been a quarter of century
my comrades since we beat our swords
| into plough shares and ours spears into
pruning hooks and turned our backs
| upon the bloody battle field Of Virginia,
baptized so freely with the blood of
many of North Carolina's proudest and
best sons, your neighbors and mine, who
rallied at their country's call and who
| now sleep the dreamless sleep of death
many Of them in unknown graves. Only
those of us who have faced the leaden
hail Of death in the bloody carnival of
battle can appreciate what sad recollec-
tions come trooping back from the great
storehOuse Of memory, stirred by these
associations. Defeated though we were,
driven back by an army which employed
the whole world as recruiting station,
the confederate army gave to the world
heroes as distinguished for bravery and
deeds of daring and of valor as are re-
corded upon the fadeless page of history,
and won victories as renowned as any
accomplished by the victorious legions
of Cesar.
Charlottesville will live as long as Chep-
ultapec and Cerro Gordo, and Manassas
and Bull Run will deserve honorable
mention while Thermopolp or Auster-
fact the history of the 10Th century that
does not do justice to the skill and bra
very of the confederate ar is a dis
graceful sham and an unmittigated fraud,
l am fully persuaded that the historian
of posterity will record upon the eternal
roll of fame the names of Davis, Lee,
Jackson and the two Johnstons, Petit
grew, Ramseur, Pender and a score of
Quiet COulSueIdlc uCIOCc
which time fails me to mention, with as
much honor and renown as any of earth 5
proudest heroes. These were the poets
idea when he wrote:
IN the worlds bread field of battle
| In the bivouac of life.
Be not like dumb driven cattle,
Be hero in the strife
But, my dear comrades, one of the sad
est thoughts that comes TO me to-day is
that soon the old confederate veteran
will live only in name. Year by year our
procession shortens; year by year our
organization is weakened BY the angel
of death; year by year we step closer
and closer to the foot Of the hill. There
can be no process nor evolution by which
our ranks can be replenished. No sub
stitution or process of conscription avail
anvfhinp The dial uDOn the clock OF