The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-05-18
MEETING 0 IE VETERANS.
Immense 1frOngs Gather in Secession's Birth
place in Annual Reunion.
ADDRESSED By GEMS. GORDON and WHEELER.
Idea Weather Conditions Prevailing Immense Crowds, and Widest
Enhusasmfve Thousand Persons Participate in the Parade
The Veterans Invited to Meet in Buffalo, N Y,
Next Year.

century hive given to the cause Of lib
erty and the republic such splendid
galaxy as South Carolina presents in
her RutledGe, her Sumter, her Moul-
trle, her Middleton, and her Marion:
in her Butler, her Pinckney, and her
Pickens; III her McDutlie and her Cal |
houu; IN her Hamiltol, her Hayne and |
her beloved Hampton.
''if We turn from this incomplete ar
ray Of her noble sons to the contempla-
tion OF the scars upon her bosom, re-
ceived in her battles for American
freedom at Cowpens, at Camden and
Charleston; at Eutaw Springs. Fort
Moultrio and Kings Mountain, while
her Swamp Fox, with his ragged
brigade, roasted their rations of sweet
potatoes in her forests at night, and by
their sudden sallles, now from the
mountains and now from the marshes,
amazed and bewildered the British in
yaders; if we add to this survey of her
past tho record of her princely liberal
ity in the douation of bor .soll to the
general government, We shall gain g.
still better conception of the lofty
characteristics and unchallenged patri-
otism of her people.
tions with South Carolinians through
the civil war and the still more CALLING
period of reconstruction and Tehabill-
tation, gave q clearer insight into thoir
motives and future aims, it proud
privilege youchsafed to me to-day to
stand i'll your presence as the represen-
tatives of these battle bruised veterans
and tell this people how fully we recog-
nize their worth and how gratefully We
acknowledge our Indebtedness to
them.
Il feel empowered hy your conf
dence to send every patron in every
section and State the fraternal greet
ings of this convention, and of tho
whole people to pledge in the name OF
every Confederate, son and daughter
of Confederate, the South's eternal
loyalty to every cause for the npllftin g
of American manhood, the perpetuity
Of American freedom, the unity of the
American people, that, by all the agen-
cIes, we may accelerate the onward
march Of the republic in its beginnin g
mission to humanity"
/ General Lee introduced the follow
ing resolutions, which were read, anc
after some discussion referred to the
committee on resolutions:
"Whereas, In Atlanta, Ga, on De
cember the 14th, 1893, the President o
America gave utterance to the senti
ment: That the time has come wher
the United States should share in car
ing for the graves of the Confederate
dead. aud,
"Whereas, This utterance of the chic
executive of the nation demands from
us, the survivors of our dead comrade.
in arms, frank and generous respons'
to so lofty and magnanimouss sentiment
therefore, be it
"Resolved, By the United Confeder
ate Veterans, in annual convocation as
sembled, that in this act of Preslden
Mckinley, and in its reception by ou
brethren of the North. we recognize au
thorita,ive evidence that We are agai
a united people, and one in determine a
tion to exhibit to the world the gentle
as we'll as the sterner traits Of America
character; and that we accept tn
statement of our chief executive IN tn
, spirit in which it was made, believin
that such legislation by the genera
government as he suggested woul
show clearly the advance that tn
. American people have achieved in thos
higher virtues that adorn a great na
ton.
, The parade of the veterans occurre
in the afternoon and they marche
through a dense crowd OF cheering PEI
pie. Led by Gems. Gordon and Wac
1 Hampton, long line of the grizzle
8 men who had followed these leade
Q and the other captains of the Confede
ate armies through four years o. har
p ship and battle marched sturdily v und
v the blazing Southern sun to the inspi
: ing st, aims of ''Dixie," of the 'Bonn
: Blue Flag" and the irr elevant but irr
pressible "There Will Be Hot Tin
!. in the Old Town Tonight. At inte
e walls along the line the futtering fl
n called forth cheers, while many hea
d were barred us the frayed emblems
the dead cause cleaned over some {
canization whose name is househo
# word in the South. Here and there
o camp appearee in gray jeans uniforl
}. black slouch hats, and crrrying mu
q kets of the old pattern, and all the W
20 paraphernalia of the ''sixty-one. Hel
!. again, Hampto and Gordon we
cheered vociferously at every step a
D.. rode almost the entire route with bar
le heads. The absence of Gen. Wheel
)! in the line was o source of consid'
-. able disappointment. He reached t
of city early IN tho day, but did I
rt participate in the parade. Includi
d. the kindred organizations and dist
d guished guests and committees, th'
40 were probably 1000 persons in the lii
~ m probably 5000 of them Veterans.
d, The parade was dismissed at the
d, ditorium, where the memorial exerci
IT'S were held. This being South Carol
~ ~, Memorial Day, tho occasion was one
of double significance. The ceremon
b. were very impressive and the audi
rum was again filled to its capaci
ch The memorial address was delivered
us Adjutant General moorman, who sp
mo- No. eloquently of the hero dead of
he South and paid high tribute to its ,
art men. Chaplain Jones in his open
RS prayer, made an indirect allusion
lat TO the Lee resolusions, by express
- 40 the hope that tho women OF the So
nat would keep up the noble work OF ,
Id. ing fer the graves OF the South
no dead, spd that - ous would tAke !,