Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1899-05-18
THE VETERANS REUNION.
THE NORTH CAROLINA FLAG
CHEERED ALI ALONG
THE LINE.
Southern Enthusiasm at Full
Flood = Charleston Thr0nged
General Gordon's Speech,

Charleston, S. G, May TO-
The parade to-day was perhap
the largest in the history of tn
survivors Of the Confederacy
North Carolina did herself proud
and well may she be congratulated
on her splendid showing.
The sponsors for the Old 1yortl
Estate, Miss Daisy Holt and Mis-
Addie Snow, occupied The same
carriage with the Virginia spon
sors, their flag, first at Bethel, last
at Appomattox, was cheered along
tie line of march. General Rob
erts, of Gates county, rode along
side of General Wade Hampton,
Miss Mamie Branch Ashe was
honored with a conspicuous place
in the line Of march,
The North Carolina veterans are
comfortably quartered at the Mills
House, under command of Gen
eral DeRossett. Charleston's hos
pitslity is extended on all sides,
and the reunion will be q great
success.
GENERAL GORDON S SPEECH:
"Goyerror, Gentlemen of the
Committee, My Fellow Country
men If South Carolina: The food
of emotions which stirs the sensi-
bitities of these veterans to-day is
their loving answer to your grac-
ious greeting. These emotions will
speak to you in language fa- more
impressive and eloquent than any
words that | could utter. The
ringing shouts from these thous-
ands Of Confederate throats are
veritable echoes of the inspiring
resolutions of welcome unani-
mously adopted By your General
Assembly. While those resolu-
tions have cheered and thrilled
every Southern soldiers heart,
they were not needed to tell US of
the reception that awaited US in
South Carolina. Her whole his
tory and that of her commercial
capital were the promise and
guarantee of this magnificent res
ality. For more than two hun
dred years, made memorable by
heroic struggles in war and bril-
liant achievements in peace, the
names Of South Carolina and OF
Charleston have been the sy non
yms of hospitality, Of chivalry, and
of valor.
"What else could be expected
Of a people in whose veins are
commingled the blood of the
proud English Cavaliers2 the blool
of those devoted and resolute men
who protested against the immor
alities and grinding exactions o:
the Stuarts; the blood Of the stall
wart Dissenters and of the heroi,
Highlanders of Scotland and O.
the sturdy democratic Presbyter.
ians of Ireland; tho blood of thos
| which this great Commonwealth
extends it's Glowing welcome
| were needed to assure these rem
nants of the South's immorta
armies that the s'freedom Of til,
/, / State" was theirs. and that ever,
!, heart within her borders was
, soldiers shrine. We had but t,
|, remember that South Carolin
, was the nursery Of heroes, a
well as Of statesmen and patriots
that no one State, except tina
she be endowed with an almos
boundless aff1uence Of greatness
could in one century have give
to the cause of liberty and th
republic such a splendid galax
, as South Carolina presents in be
Rutledge, her Sumter, her Moul
trie,- her McDuffie and her Ca.
hoan; IN her Butler, her Pinek
ney and her Pickens; her Hamil
: ton, her HayDe, and her believe
] Hampton
nIf We turn from this incon
: plete array Of her noble sons
the contemplation of the seal
defenders of freedom who came
your shores from the mountai
battlements of Switzerland, ar
lastly, but not less pure ar