The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-01

gentleman had barely began to speak,
when a cheer broke forth from the far END
of The auditorium and the venerable form
of chat gallant old soldier, Gen. wade
Hampton, was seen limping up towards
the stand. His progress through the au-
dience was greeted by the widest cheers'
and when at last he reached the STAND Gen.
Gordon announced him as the DraVe COM
mander-in-chief of the confederacy which
called forth another round of cheers and
rebel yells."
order being restored Gov. O'Farrell was
re-introduced and welcomed the veterans
TO Virginia. Numerous Interruptions fol-
lowed caused by the arrival OF delegates
who were conducted to seats, but the
governor was warmly applauded through
out his speech, which was an eloquent trl-
butte to the bravery and fortitude OF the
confederate soldier. He asked Am l not
Voicing your sentiments comrades. ms
was Answered by rousing cheers.
The governor said: Veterans and com
rades. YOU were enlisted in those bands
who wrote their names in glorys skies
and carved them deep in the temple OF
fame: who made the cause OF the south
SO imperishable and the renown OF her
armies so fadeless. You endured harshlps
which no human imagination could PIC
ture and no mortal tongue could decribe.
Your exploits equalled those of the heroic
age in Grecian legends, and your deVo-
tion was not surpassed by Leonldas ana
his three hundred at Thermopylae. In
the path of duty no danger daunted you,
no suffering suboued you, no force APP
nailed YOU and no defeats disheartened
You True as the dial to the sun, firm as
fbe rock on the mountain crest, resolute
as the lion aroused in his lair, with un-
blanched cheek and steady nerve, you
obeved every command, however ralned
the missiles of death. The greater the
rSerU the stiffer were your sinews; the
fercer the battle, the hotter was your
b1ood No Grecian phalanX, no Roman
legion. were ever adorned with badges
more honorable than those you wear up
an vour manly breasts. 1t was neither
oonSuast nor power for which you fought;
a. ufas in defense of home and country.
The rights for which the founders OF this
renublic struck were no more sacred 10
them than the rights for which you
struck were dear to you. If you were
,rebeIs so we're the fathers of the consu-
+1tional liberty of a hundred and twenty
Years ago If you fought 10 sever your
connection with a union whose bonds
were CALLING, so did the men now nm
mortaiized in song and story when
tbev snapped the cord of British alegi-
arca in 1T76. If you had within you
enirft that would not submit tamely to
wrong and dared to assert itself in the
front of grim-visaged might It came to
~, nv ancestral inheritance; or, il for
sian born. you imbibed it from the air
you breahed. - - -
eaf5, .Just in front of US, astride his
noble war steed is the great captain of
me nineteenth century unsurpassed in
1eoend or tradition How thankful are
r5e that human hand has been gifted with
~ skill TO convert inanimate matter
into the living form of him, who, with
Washington shall ride immortal
And shall ride abreast of time;
Shall light up stately history
And blaze in epic rhyme,
Both patriots both southerners true
| Both reoels. both sublime.'f