Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-05-23
ON TO RhLEIGH.
TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND
THE CITY:

THE CITY:
Not Since the Time That Sherman's Army
Invaded the City Has There Been Such
Crowd Seen in Raleigh: The Military
and Civic Parades: The Decoration
and Decorum: The Veterans in Line:
The and the Grafton.
Especial Telegram to THE ARGUS
RALEIGH, n. c., May 20.
Those who have been accus-
toned to visit Raleigh would not
recognize the city to-day did they
uot know that by the usual mode
of travel by Which they have
been accustomed to come to
Raleigh this must be the place.
But the long vistas of beautiful
decorations into which the
streets have been converted, and
thesurging thousands that throng
her wide and far-stretching
thoroughfares, the marching
military to drum and fife, the
bands of music and the huzzas OF
the northumberland does 1t all
mean to day? It means that the
love of country, the spirit OF
chivalry and the fragrance OF
gratitude are not dead in North
Carolina. 1t means that the peO-
pie Of this Grand old Common
wealth, from the mountains to
the sea, and from the Roanoke
to the Cape Fear, have come to-
gether to-day to attest by their
presence and these ceremonies
that the Confederate soldier and
the cause for which he fought
are reverenced by this people,
as the beautiful monument that
is to-day unveiled will teach to
all the coming generations the
story of our peoples fidelity to
conviction and their abiding re-
gard for valor.
For days the city has been
filing up with visitors looking to
he ceremonies Of to-day; and
while we thought that the crowd
would be great no one conceived
it would be so tremendous as is
realized tosday. They are here
from every hamlet and hillside,
from every valley and mountain
peak throughout the length and
breadth of the State, and while
the crowd is variously estimated
at from %, 900 to $4,000, every
one readily comedies that no such
gathering in point of numbers
has been seen in Raleigh since
Sherman's army passed through
though this crowd, OF course,
is altogether different.
The unwilling ceremonies pass
ed off without a hitch Or an acci.
dent, for which all credit is due
Chief Marshal o. J. Carroll anC
his splendid corps of assistants.
The grand parade of military
and civilians was simply sublime
but the Confederate Veterans il
lime, headed by Col. Julian S.
Carr, carried the day." as they
ibid SO often on the field of bat
tie.
The orator of the occasion,
lCol. A. M. Waddell. was grace
fully introduced by Capt. S. A.
Ash. It were useless to attempt
to give a synopsis of his spien.
did address. Like the monu
ment Itself. it was clear-cut
chaste, graceful. elegant-a thing
of beauty and sublimity,
The monument, which has al.
READY been fully described in
THE ARGUS, was unveiled amids'
the shout Of thousands, the roal
lof cannon and the rattle Of mus
kerry by little Miss Julia Jack
son Christian, a grand daughte.
of the immortal ''Stonewall
jackson,
From all directions we hea
of hundreds and even thousand
who intended coming and woul'
have been here to-day, to swell
the great multitude, but for in
sufficient railroad transportation
It is a pitiful fact that the rail
roaas of the State seem no
to be equal to the emergency o
moving great crowds of travel O
Occasions like this.
Pikeyille Letter,
DTEZEyrTT II Nav 81