The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-01-26

trees"
God forbid, that the day shall ever
come, when that majestic form standing
on yonder granite shall be a perpetual
satire upon a people who would honor
the bones of the dead, but leave the
living to starve.
Now, as / look about me, and see Il
thousand evidences of progress, and SO
many happy homes, and such an out
look in the future for us, and so h0np"cd
a name won in the arts of peace and
war. | feel that this people will be true
to itself. its grandest east, and its
noblest aspirations, for from my heart
believe that prayer was answered OF
the great Confederate Chlcrrain--who
lifted his cap and with swollen eyes and
tear swept face, looked uD2n the last
charge of Southern soldiers. in Tho face
CT despair, over the valley of corpseS:
the prayer that bit;st from the heart of
Robert Il. Lee, God bless North Caro-
lina!'
The Committee on Resolutions which
was appointed at the afternoon session.
to whom all resolutions were referred,
presented the following resolutions which
were adopted separately:
Resolved, That the Confederate Vet
Grams of North Carolina in State con-
vention assembled. desire to give express
sion to their cordial and sincere appre-
citation of the sympathetic and patriotic
utteranceS of the President of the
United States in reference to the care
of the Confederate dead. and to assure
nm that his generous language has not
been misconstrued by them.
Resolved. That our heartfelt thanks
are due and rendered to the women of
the South for their loving and unsclfish
care of the graves of Confederate sol
diers in the Southern States, and that
we earnestly trust that they and their
daughters after them, shall always be
the special guardians of these graves.
Resolved further, That we sincerely
thank those generous friends, citizens
of the Northern States, who have so
kindly watched and tended the graves
Of our Confederate heroes in Northern
cemeteries
Resolved, That the President appoint
a committee of those who, together with
himself as chairman, shall appear before
the proper committees of the General
Assembly and ask that tax of five
rents upon the 500, and of fifteen cents
upon the poll shall be levied and APP
propriated to pensions for wounded and
disabled Confederate soldiers and their
widows in the manner now provided by
law, instead Of the present tax Of three
and one-third cents and ten cents.
Resolved further, That this commit
tee ask an annual appropriation of So
600 for the support of inmates of the
Soldiers Home and special appropria-
sion of $4,000 for the construction and
repair of the buildings. (The present an
nual appropriation is $4,000
Resolved. That the President appoint
4 committee of three who shall enter into
correspondence with the authorities of
the various railroads in North Carolina.
n order to obtain if possible a rate of
0ne-half cent per mile for Confederate
Veterans who desire to attend the Re
inion, to lie held Mt Charleston in May;
and if any legislation is necessary in or
der to enable the railroads to grant
his request that the committee be au-
thorized to present the matter to the
Appropriate Committee of the General
Assembly.
Resolved. That, a committee of twb-
consisting of James B. Avirett and o.
w. BlacknaH, be appointed to devise
ways and means for raising $500, with
which TO meet a like amount offered by
our c0mrade. Charles Broadway RouSs,
of New York, for the purpose of raising
a monument at Winchester, Virginia,
commemorative of the valOr of the North
Carolina dead there buried"
The following memorial to be present
ed to the General Assembly, was adopt
ed:
TO the General Assembly of North
Carolina:
"Whercas, the General Assembly Of
North Carolina, at its session of 1889,
enacted Il law whereby pensions were to
be paid 10 certain soldiers and sailors
injured in the war between the States,
according to the degree of disability as
certained by the grade or schedule in
said act set forth. and to the widows of
certain soldiers and sailors, and
Whereas, by the incorporation Of the
Confederate Veterans Association of
North Carolina, Mt the same session and
the amendments to the said pension act
by the Legislature of 1891, chapter 334,
ample provision was made for car
ryng into effect the bcneficent purposes
for which the pension law was enacted,
and
whereas. by such enactment of the
General Assembly of North Carolina,
every application is carefully considered
by those presumably in position to know
whether or not the petitioner is within
the puryiew of the said law, and to
which of the four classes he rightfully
belongs:
''And, whereas, at the various sessions
of the Legislature subsequent to 1889
and 1891, by special act, certain soldiers
or sailors, or their widows have been
placed upon the pension roll in the vari-
GUS counties in the State, or advanced
in class on said rolls, without conform
ing to the requirements of the General
Law.
Now. ( therefore,, without any word of
unfair comment upon the action of those
so applying, and without criticism of
your Honorable Body, but that the uni
formity of grades which has been es-
tablished may be preserved, and that
the fund may he most prudently dis
burscd;
"Wc would respectfully ask that your