The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-01-22
LEGISLATURE SO ORDERS
4 NORTH CAROLINA HISTORY
OF THE WAR.
WRITTEN BY .N0RrH CAROLINA SOLDIERS
The Sketches Have Been Collected and Edited
by Judge Walter Clark quenI
Speeches in The House
Yesterday.

Lord God OF Hosts, be with MS yet,
Lest we forget, lest we forget"
1t was with these words, from Kip
ling's Recessional, that Mr.. H. c. WALL
of Richmond county, yesterday closed
one Of the most eloquent speeches that
has been hear1 in the House during this
session Of the Geueral Assembly.
He was pleading for the publication,
by the State, of history of North Car
olina's soldiers in the Civil War.
Straight rs an Indian and vigorous as
man of twenty summers stood this
gray-haired veteran of many hard
fought batte-asking perpetuation of
the deeds of his comrades during that
terrible four years of civil strife. His
words were eloquent, his sentiments
were lofty, his argument convincing.
Time and again his speech was inter-
rupted by applause from his fellow
members. while fair-faced women smiled
approval from the crowded gallery.
No less generous was the applause
that greeted Capt Caraway, Of Lenoir,
during the delivery of his speech-6lIed
as it was with lofty sentiment and pa
triotic uttarance.
The debate was brought to a fitting
close by Mr.. Dan Hugh Mclean, OF
Harnett Though his speech was short
consisting Of hardly dozen sentences
he has never uttered anything more
truly beautiful. more entirely apprOp-
riate. He hoped his rising TO say word
would not be construed into an appre-
hension ON his part that this bill would
not pass He knew it would pass-with-
out a word from him, without word
from anybody.
I'VE would dishonor ourselves, dis
honor the State, if we failed to pass
it. The dead and living soldier in that
memorable strife we cannot dishonor.
They have glory enough, hewn out with
their own hands. 1t is the perpetuatiOn
Of this record that is asked by this
bill.
'The youth of the future will read
it with pride They viii find recorded
there the dees of their fathers. We need
Il Southern history of this conflict. for
] had rather the stars be blotted from
the skies than that any son Of Con-
federate veteran should ever think his
father had worn a traitors uniform"
Referring to Senator Buffers bill to
uension Confederate soldiers by the
United States government, Mr. Mclean
said
This man does not represent the &C.
nius and sentiment Of the South-the
soldier who has written his name in
imperishable letters on the scroll of
fame. No wonder they have spurned
it and trampled it under foot. They
ask no aims, they ask only simple JUS
tice."
The sketches Mr.. Wall said, had been
written by a survivor of each command
and collected and edited by Justice Wal
ter Clark. of North Carolina. He had
secured sketches Of about three-fourths
of the 40 regiments sent into the war
by North Carolina.
1T has been great work, hard
work, but it has been labor of love,
and lie will continue to bend his energies
to this task until the whole story Of
North Carolina's devotion to the cause
of the South is told. North Carolina Is
great in peace, but she is greatest in
war. Never has she seemed so great rs
when she sent her 125,000 soldiers to
the front to follow the Stars and Bars.
IF YOU had seen the Fifth North
Carolina regiment as | saw it, dash to
the charge of Williamsburg. on the
LAtiAibIUDlt sftu bl 4At}Iiis lt1b-f II Nbu
had seen North Cardinals soldiers there
following the leadership Of the gallant
Duncan MacRae, his plume waving al
ways where the fight was the thickest.
YOU, too, would have said the Old North
State had cause to be proud of her boys
in gray
This. sir, is an important bill. 1t is
measure intended to record forever and
preserve to posterity the heroism Of
their forefathers.
Another Legislature, with no unstint-
ed hand and with cOmmendable generGsi-
ty, has erected yonder monument. let
us erect this monument. 1t takes but n
paltry sum to do it, but this record will
be more enduring than yonder.
4 congratulate my brothers on the re-
cent utterance of the President that all
the country should scatter flowers on
the graves of the Confederate dead. II
is the death blow to sectionalisn. For
those utterances, | thank President Nc.
kinley, but | beg to be excused. I.et
us care for our own dead. Let them
care for theirs. AS for the living let
us be brothers. The idea of asking for
pensions, though, is preposterous ana
I'm glad to see that the Confederate ye,.
Grams all over the State, and the entire
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