The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-10-22

ton, and it's committees. conspicuous
among these was his service in the pas
age of the act for the publication OF
the history Of our regiments during the
war, which has been referred to, and will
live in the memory Of this body.
1t was my melancholy privilege to Mt
tend the obsequies of the late MAJOR
General Harry Heth formerly in com
mand' of a division of North Carolina
troops, in the flower of the army OF
Northern Virginia. You will not forget
that he never ceased to express his adj
miration Of that superb body of soldiers
as the equal in soldierly courage and
dauntless resolution of the noblest he
roes i'll history. To represent you oil
that sad occasion was both Il duty ana
a privilege.
Permit me to suggest that a Commit
tee OH Neurology might we'll be appoint
ed at each annual meeting to compile
brief sketches of ConfederateS of dis
tinction who served in North Carolinian
organizations, and have died during the
current year Of the meeting. In the
expressive words Of Col. Bennett: Let
III gather up the fragments
\ MONUMENT TO THE WOMEN.
l cannot close this address, without
OBJ. Branch Camp. L. G.. ", Of Raj
eigh, under the enthusiasm of its
Commander, A. Il. Stronach, to
erect a monument in the city of Raj
eigh, in Nash Square or other suitable
site, to the women Of North Carolina
who were the first and last friends or
the Southern soldier and his cause. TAP
plause).
BY unofficial information, we learn
that the camp has not only determined
upon this step. but has set aside from
its funds a liberal gift with which TO
begin the subscription. 1t has often
been said among our men of the ranks
that it ought to be done, that posterity
might know something at least of the
everlasting gratitude of our hearts. Now
let us see that it is done (Applause).
Can it be necessary that formal
recommendation be made this body in
behalf of such recognition of the peer
less women of Sixty-One. and their
Successors? Cheering and cries of no.
MOI.
Gifted with the intuition of her sex,
intelligent and cultured, the women OF
the South understood well that the path
Of honor and duty was plain, and what
ever Of pain, horror, and sacrifice it in
yolved must be endured. (Applause).
With one hand she waved her lover, hus-
band. father or child a cheerful good
bye, to the tented field or the lannon's
mouth; with the other she clasped a
broken heart bleeding from the severed
ties Of her happy home forever de-
stroyed, and filled with the apprehen-
sion of evil Detailing the country she
was proud Of loud applause).
With all her pain and tears. she
never ceased to work, to inspire the
doubtful, to strengthen the weak, labor
for the needy, and cheer the gallant
boys of the trenches. (ApplauseJ. She
guided the farm, cared for the chill
dren. controlled the servants, and di-
rccted the crop-making. (Appausel.
She clothed the troops, knit their stock
ngs, made accoutrements, prepared
blankets from her carpets, and improvis-
ed substitute for the comforts OF
life cut off by remorseleSs blockade.
Often she actually ploughed the grow
ing fields, and sowed the grain. CHEERS
and appause).
In the hospitals she was the minister
ing angel. No matter how repulsive the
task, hers was the steady hand and
faithful touch, however. the heart might
falter within. All ministrations of med
zeal skill over. she prayed by the dying.
shrouded the dead and read the solemn
words of God over his coffin. His
grave has been watched and tended by
her loving care, and his memory en-
balmed III her breast. (Applause).
Fearless i'll danger, unmoved by in
suit and persecution, unaffected by fat
terry or subtle arts, scorning the threats
of military power, she was the life and
soul, and inmost spirit of the strug-
gle for Southern Independence. Gap
plause).
Let all our manhood rally to this de-
termination to leave before we pass
away, memorial to her devotion, as
solid and steadfast as her immovable
sense of duty; as graceful in its beauty
as the loneliness of her person and
character, as pure in its spOtIesS marble
as her stainless and exquisite life and
pointing forever upward to that home,
not made with hands. her everlasting
habitation. (Applause).
Permit me to close these remarks
by the expression Of my grateful APP
probation of your kind support and or
my belief that it lies in your power
through your concerted action, to do
much for the welfare of the aged vete-
ran, and for the preservation in history
Of the just record of those eventful years
that are the prOudest in our lives and
the most glorious in the annals of North
Carolina CHEERS and loud applause.)
Grocers are drawer than milkmen: the
former have sand but the latter take
Nyatpr