The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-07-08
Arkansas Veteran camps.
Tennessee Veteran camps.
North Carolina Veteran camps.

Missouri Veteran camps.
Maryland Veteran camps.
District OF Columbia Veteran camps.
Sons OF Confederate Veterans.
! Veteran cavalry division.
The cadets of The High school from
i Washington, as wei! as the District
Veterans made an attractive feature
Of the parade, and we're pliuented
all along the route.
! SOUTHERN BEAUTY.
The lady sponsoIS and their maids
OF honor, rode in separate carriages
and made the brightest feature OF the
procession. Each sponsor waved the
aag OF the State she represented and
all Of them were royalty cheered as
they passed through the brilliantly
decorated streets. crowded with south
ern blooming womanhood and lowell
ness.
The Society Of fne Army and Navy
of the Confederate States in The State
OF Maryland, escorted by tire Fifth
Regiment Veterans corps, was in the
procession. The society is the only
organized body Of veterans in Town
which is not affiliated with the u nted
:! Confederate Veterans. Many Of its
members, however, are also mem bers
of Herbert and Buchanan camps. Col.
George r. Gather is in command Of
the veteran corps and Capt. George
W. Booth of the society. Gen. Brad
| ley 7. Johnson is president Of the SO
c!ety.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis rode in car
riage with the Hon. J. Taylor Eltyson
and Gen. Peylon Wise, and she was
everywhere recognized and cheered.
Miss Shelby, daughter OF Gen. Shell
by Of Tennessee rode fine horse
through the whole route of the process
sion and was greatly admired. The
procession reached Monroe park about
I o'clock. after very trying march to
some of the older veterans.
MASONIC FUNCTIONS.
Here the Grand Masonic lodge of
Virginia took charge of the ceremo-
MES, and escorted by the Knights
Templars, reached the site selected for
the Davis monument, where stand
for the orator and distinguished guests
had been erected When the privi-
legged crowd had been seated and the
Richmond Blues and other military
organizations placed as complement
ary escort to the Templars, the Masonic
ceremonies ia the laying OF a corner
stone took place, concluding with the
following proclamation oy the Grand
Marshall:
"Oyezl All within the sound Of the
gavel take due notice that the craft
has ceased from their labor and that
the corner stone Of the Jefferson Dlv-
is monument is now true, trusty, and
| well laid by the grand lodge OF Virgin
ia in its 10th year"
After this announcement Hon. j.
Taylor Ellyson, president Of the Davis
Monument Association, came forward
and called upon Bishop John G. Gran
berry of the Methodist Episcopal
church to offer prayer, and the emf
nent divine delivered most fervent
and appropriate appeal to the throne
Of the Almighty.
Alter this Gen. Stephen D. Lee, tue
orator OF the day was introduced and
spoke as follows:
GEN. LEES ADDRESS.
From a graceful exordium, explain
ing the purpose which had drawn his
vast audience together, Gan. Lee as
serted that it was fitting that Jefferson
Davis remains should rest in Vlr-
ginia, which ne characterized as the
greatest of all States, the battle-scar-
red producer of warriors and states
men. But for her generosity in cedlng
her vast territory to the Union, Kea.
lucky would have still been hers. and
be would have been born her son.
Many presidents, statesmen, soldiers
lie in Virginia's soil-from Washing
ton to the present tine-none greater
,, .nan Davis, bat more fortunate.
JEFFERSON DAVIS MoCRNED.
Throwing q glance backward, he
showed how, 81 years ago, the man
whose memory they had met today to
honor, lay manacled in easement OF
strongly garrisoned fortress, charged
with the most atrocious crime knowa
to man--.treason aud murder. And
yet," he continued. "he died, by mil.
lions more sincerely mourned and
deeply loved than any other man IL
the history OF the nation. II his enc
mics had succeed in putting him to
death he would have been the most
!conspicuous figure in American his.
tory.
WHEN THE N1srs CLEAR AWAY.
Gen. Lee expressed an abiding be-
lief that when the mists of passion and
prejudice have passed away, the calm
light Of justice will give the right
niche to each figure in history.
The descendants Of the men who
burned Joan of Arc, said he, now
regard her as a character of heroism
and beauty. The posterity OF the men
who hung witches in Salem as pious
duty, now hear the story with horror.
Tne descendants of the men who today
look on Jefferson Davis with unklnd
expression will see him as We do-the
stainless gentleman, the gallant sol
der, the devoted patriot, the pure and
gifted statesman.
| THE ISSUES SETTLED.
Gen. Lee declined to discuss the
causes leading to the war. The war
had settled that secession is impracti'
cable and the amendments TO the Con
sritution have adjusted all other diff
ferences. The Southern people have
fully accepted the results; tney accept
the present and Loyalty commit them
selves to the future.
Passing to the early days OF seces-
sion, he predicted tEat the future his
torian would note with astonlshment
that the Southern struggle for lnde.
pendence began, not with committee
of public safety, with declarations OF
the rights Of man, or enunclatlon OF
the nightly doctrine that governments
derive their ust po Ters from the con
sent of the governed, but 1t began with
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