The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-01-31
CONF: FEDER ATES
IN new ENGLAND.
A,P. Hill Camp Visits Viii
cox Post Springfield
"A ROYAL WELCOME.
Cannon Salute and Welcome by the
Mayer.
Or. BATTLES FINE ADDRESS.
The New South is His Theme and He
Tells Of Her March of Progress and
the Position She Now Occupies
in the Union, Having Come
Forth With no Apology
for the Past.

SPRINGFIELD, MASS, Jan. co.
| Special-The six Confederate veterans
! who left Petersburg last night reached
Springfield, Mass, shortly after O'Clock
! this afternoon. They received welcome
| from E. K. Wilcox Post, of that city, that
| they will not soon forget.
In receiving the fighters from DiS!e,s $
| land" Wilcox Pest was assisted by dcle-
CATION of fifty Northampton veterans,
and with red fire and the noise of cannon
the visitors were escorted to the City Hall
for the opening exercises of welcome
CANNON SALUTE.
The cannon feature was a great surprise
to the eX-ConfederateS. The committee
in charge had asked the City Council for
permission to take out their noisy. brass
cannon for the occasion and salutes were
fired in Court square.
Mr. James Anderson. of the post, chair
man of the general COMMITTEES, expressed
his disappointment in not finding Dr.
John H Claiborne. one OF the most preml-
nent citizens of Petersburg, among the
guests. DR.. Claiborne at the last moment
found it Impossible to leave on account OF
the serious condition of several OF his
patients.
From the station the visitors went to
their quarters in Cooley'S Hotel About
O'Clock the Wilcox Post members as
sembled in Court street building. and,
headed by a regiment band. marohed 70
the hotel where the Northampton men
also assembled. Then came the parade
to City Hall through Main street. which
was brilliantly Illuminated with red
lights.
SOUTHERNERS SPEAK
Tonight the visitors did most of the
speaking each being given n opportunity
to say something about himself. Mayor
! HAYES gave the addross=of welcome and a
! poem written for. the occasion by Co1nradc
| George B. Kilbon.F4 was s<yread. Rev. Dr
| NIoSom introduced the speakers. The nan
! was gay with handsome decorations
| A banquet will be held in Memorial Hall
| tomorrow evening This is expected 10
| be one of the pleasantest events OF the
| visit Mayor Hayes. always bright and
i keen, is best upon an occasion of TINS
! sort He will introduce the speakers.
| and Major S. B. Spooner will be toast
! master of the evening.
DIR. BATTLES SPEECH.
Among the speakers tonight was DR..
| this city, who was specially invited
/ Speaking of the New South in the
| midst of an address which thrilled the
vast audience, he said:
Much has been said of the New
! South I like the phrase or | do not
! like it, according to the nearing 1t IS
| intended to convey If the idea of a
! new creation IS intended. here and now
! declare the phrase both inaccurate and
! unjust Much of the old remains and
| God grant that 1t may never depart In
| stitutions rise and fall on the tides or
| the years: circumstances are wrought
! out by those vast. complicated and ever
| ipfa1 and moral forces
! which we cannot believe are left TO the
| domination of blind chance. But, sir,
| the genius of a great people remains eS-
| sentially the same amidst the wrecks
| which the ebb and flow Of the years
may pile about it. AS some statue OF
(! the drapery with which the fashion or
! fancy has invested it, stands forth in
| the purity of lustrous Whiteness, and
| the grace of matchless proportions. the
| pride of every heart and the perfection
! of every master, so the genius of my ma
| tive Southland. relieved of conditions
| which too long inlpeded her progress and
| concealed her beauty, comes forth from
the past with no blush on her cheek nor
! craven apology on her lip, to say: .Peo-
pie of the North, here am. as have
ever been; here I am: take me as am.
trust me. love me. as l love you.%tEen
whittier thou goest will go, and where
shall be my people. and thy God. my God:
| where thou dyest, will 1 die, and there
will l be buried
- LAND OF LIBERTY.
'sBut we shall not die! oh. Union.
strong and great and good. live forever.
! There is no other land like thee!
No dearer shore;
Thou are the shelter of the free;
The home. the port of liberty
Tou hast been, and shall ever be
Till time is Ger
t'Yet. as have intimated, the express
sion. New South. may be justly de-
scriptive. Great changes have coms to
us as they have come to you. We have
not yielded reluctant acquiescence to
the logic of events: we have accepted
it as the call of God to nobier living.
higher achievement and grander destiny.
I'm every tinsling nerve the South feels
the thrill OF new conditions born of vast.
and far reaching discoveries and the play
of mighty Notwithstanding forces. and she
is awakening to newness of life.
SHEER AT THE SOUTH.
Tho sneer ut the South, says great,
Northern daily 'as an inert. indulgent.
and indolent people Is heard mo more.
They turned out the toughest soldiers of
the centuries Tteir mild manners. aver
sien ito noisy display. and disgust at
idoiatry OF the dollar. was mistaken for
lack OIL purpose and nIgn TsSoise.#atFlH HfnK
I God some things have llappened since
that period OF nlisconception! and you.
generous reoTGe Of the North have gladly
recognized these facts carved with the
point OF the sword on an eternal monu-s
ments OF fame erected to an indissoluble
Union.
AT the beginning the majority R the
people OF the South were opposed to war
with Spain. but when the bugIe called to-
arms, and the stars ot .Old Glory flung.
to the breeze shons IN the national hrna
night. the blood which gave immortality.
to Kings Mountain. CoHpens and York
town answered with impetuous leap TO
the no4less heroic blood that stained the
s SHOWS OF Valley Forge and consecrated
tho heights of Bunker Hil and 10! the