The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1898-05-03
The Confederate Veterans in Charleston
A WARM GREETING TO THE
OLD SOLDIERS.
Charleston is True to the Glori-
Gus Past and Hon0rS
It's Heroes.
Gen. Wade Hampton the
Recipient Of a Great
Ovation.

'ou 'e'e'"'' do 'nc.
rcachtd Charleston on ot lated trains
but there was warmth and sunshine il
the hcurtv weIcomc accorded to theu
nv the citiZcns GENERALLY whom the,
met in thn German Artiilprv Hail
which was profouse and npproDriut,.ly =
dnror.tpd fn,, thn orrasion Coj nm
m,rman Davis rnIlrd tho ronvcntion +,
order Wpdnes1nv morninp and after
nroyrr nv no chonlain Dr. EiwoII -,
cordial Welcome was uivnn nv Col
Davis nm hnh.if If tie vn,rrnns nj
CHnrinstnn AND hn was foIInw"d hv
Mr. Welsh NJ thr Ynnnp Mons Rnsi.
moss I,a4oue
Han 7 Aduar Smvth. the n,avor of
Charleston th,n dniivare1 the fnlIow.
lny address.
Conrades. No words arc needed
to omnbosIz, Char,eston's weicome to
Confeaarntn Veterans
We're M hands extended to yon in
warm friend .hiu's clnsp. the very U,t, ~
of This old civ wouId swinp wide oDen
of their own accord at the tramn If
vnurnnnro.rbinrn nnrct rid mn vnic, 9
litter hcartfrIt urrs.tinrs tho vc,y
bricks in Tho val. of her dwnliinT:
the very stones which nave hcr
streets, wou'd ring out sbouts of well
come.
LAS she gazes TODAY upon vour
emptv sleeves, AS she notes vour halt
inc pait, as She sees the marks Of snG.
feriSo and cvno>urc wi hich ,nn hear
The memories of those cays mat law
between December. lS6( and Anrii
1863 crowd in uuon b.r nea,l and III
il niph tu bnrstiny.
Ks she thinks OF Secessionville, OF
Morris Island. of Battery Waun,r, of
Fort Sumter, how the scenes omen
nm from tho walls ot memory's nictrre
gallery
How we'll she remembers vour
prom pt and gallantrally from All parts
of our State when the first tocsin of
war had sounded and the roar of The
opeLing cannon that beautiful AprII
morning summoned Won TO her aid
Never can she forget the courage, the
self-sacrltice with which ,ou barred
your breasts to the foe and stood shout
der to shoulder in defence of this old
City by the Sea, Such memories can
never die. Thev are immortal. Ana
our gratitude is as eternal as our
memory.
"As long as battle. Scared old Sum.
ter guards with grim defiance the por-
tails of our harbor against the hostile
approach of foes ulon old oceans waves
so long will Charleston cherish the
in her defence
"Eurpet those.whOdi d led for US and the
Southern COnfeueracy Forget them
our comrades, whose blood was she'd
on ever" batJlctield-she where the
Mississippi rolls It's allucnt flood TO
the dancing waters Of the Gult--shed
where the gentle rolling Tennessee
laps peacefully those grand and silent
mountnius-shed on Georgia's old red
hilis-on South Carolina's ea. .girt
coast-on North Carolipa's plains
shed where tho Shenandoah and the
Rappahannock sing with ceaseless
voices through the valleys lovely
scenes.
Forget them. Why there's scarcely
a blade of grass on these Southern
hills that does not carry in its present
life the remembrance that its ances-
tral roots were viviird with patriotic
blood. There's scarcely Hover that
blooms and Glls the soft Southern air
with the incense Uf is glorious life but
takes its beauty from their hallowed
dust. Let the rlmorselcss hand OF
time sweep from our recollection
every thought that Joy or gladness may
have traced, but strip Us of our mem.
ories-take from our hearts and hopes
our dead.-wc do but wander purpose
thought that makes men brave and
women tender.
What though the cause we loved so
well has failed The triumph of the
conquerOr may dazzle the narrow vision
of tue unthinking worlu, but in Gods
great commonwealth Of noble minds
the cause Of the defeated takes its ap-
peal to the unbiased decision OF the vlr-
tuous and the brave.
Looking out into the future we can
see, as with prophe tic vision, this same
Southern people prominent in the
struggles OF the world for the develop
ment and furthcrance OF ali tnat is
great and all that is noble.
And there, above all, more endur-
ing than bronz, or marble, in guard
eternal over their fame and history,
see yon silent sentincl, the Confederate
soldier, from out their historic past
worn from hundred battles, wasted
with weary march and anxious watch
ragged and torn and SCARED, but reso
lutte, standing with brave, defiant look
awaiting with certainty the applauding
judgment Of making.
AT the dreadful close OF that weary
scruel war, overwhelmed, well-nigt
crushed with the agony OF despair, ;
desolate and stricken people, will
bleeding hearts and vacant hearths
with longlngs Tor the touch OF the van