The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1901-05-14

ing too much already, and, besides,
think that this presentation should
be made by ono who followed the
great cavalry loader Of South Caro-
lima all through those four years: l
have, therefore, selected Maj. Hart,
of Harts battery, to present you to
our great chieftain." (Choors.)
MAJ. HART.
Maj. Hart, Of Yorkvillo, Of the
celebrated Hart's battery then spoke
as follows:
Gen. Hampton: You havo hoard
that yell before, and you heard it
in days when it meant something
moro than a tribute Of love and af-
fection to you; whom it moant terror
to those who stood before it.
T. is my pleasing privilege to
present to you tho assembled survi-
vors Of two immortal Confederate
armies-the ono of Northern Vir-
gina, led by the immortal Loe, and
tho other the army of Tennessee,
which followed the peerless Joseph
Johnson. Those are the men who
stand before you this evening, and
who for four years carried on the
point of their bright bayonets the ar
gument for southern independence
and tho prayer for liberty. But
we'll did they perform their mission.
There arc standing before you this
evening men who stood before the
red mouthed cannon at Malvern Hill
and at Cemetery Ridge. Those
banners, somo Of which VIC saw this
morning, and some of which | think
ore here, have flashed upon scores
of battle6elds before you, the great
leader. I see men here who fol-
lowed Lees great line Of soldiery
that were nearly always invincible;
men who fought under Hill, and
Early, and Jackson and Beauregard.
| see before me mon who followed
Joseph e. Johnston at Franklin, and
who on a scoro Of battleiields from
Lookout Mountain to Atlanta fought
Sherman and nearly always repulsed
him.
, And, Gen. Hampton, there are
mon standing here who followed your
knightly blade upon hundred bat
tletields; wherever you led-for, sir,
you always led wherever there was
fighting to be done. (Applause. }
There are men here who were with
you when you took command of the
Confederate cavalry in 1864, and
whore at Hawes shop you planted it's
dismounted lines before the advanc-
ing corps Of Hardy and Sherman and
wrenched Richmond from their grasp
with an insignificant little body of
dismounted cavalry. The excuse of
these men then was that you had
been reinforced That was always
their excuse; but. si., there was moth
ing in it.
And so, sir, when Sherman mot
you at Trevalian Station, where the
Enfield rifle was in the grasp Of the
cavalrymen instead of the useless
sabre, Sherman as he rode away
from the field wrote to his chief that
he was met by Hampton's cavalry,
but that it was reinforced by Early's
division of infantry, and that their
combined forces we're too great for
him. But, Dir, you know that you,
with force less than half as great
as his own, had compelled him to re-
tire from the field in uttor disorder.
And now, comrades, l present to
you a chieftain worthy not only of
your admiration, for Gen. Hampton
has always had that; not only of your
love and affection, for he won that
long, long ago, but worthy Of the
highest need of praise that man can
bestow upon his fellow man. T pre-.
sent to you one who has done moro
for South Carolina in peace, in war,
and again in peace than all tho ora.
tors and all the statesmen that over
came before or after. When in the
dark days that followed disaster and
defeat to our arms it was he who
stands before you this evening, that
lent that hope and courage to the
hosts invincible manhood and woman
hOOd-lf t NAV pleaso sav it-of