The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1901-05-15

of you who were in the cavalry will
join me whom 1 say We were always
glad when we knew Gen. Gordon was
leading his men (Applause.) He is
hero and j, for you, thank him for the
honor he does.
Now, my friends, 1 can say nothing
moro to you. 1 have come from a sick
bed that | might meet you, and tell
you have never forgotten the old lang
syne, when we cAmped together. can
never forget those days. They say our
cause has been lost; but just cause
never dies. 1t will live forever, and l
paay to God that in the hearts Of all
the men who fought 80 bravely they
will remember that though the cause
on earth is lost, it will long go down
the pages of history as one of the
noblest and greatest struggles and made
by the noblest army that ever trod this
green earth.
AT the conclusion OF G en-. Hampton's
brief speech there WAS an outburt of
applause.
Commander Startling gracefully pre-.
sented Gen q. Irvine Walker, and
there was an outburst Of applause for
Gen. Walker, for he is the man above
all who has made such a Reunion nos
sible. Gen Walker said:
Gen. Walker, commander Of the
division, responded to the address Of
welcome. He spoke strong and clear
and could be generally heard. He re-
turned sincere thanks for the splendid
Tel,omo and magnificent hospitality ex-
tend ed the veterans. He spoke Of Co
lumbis's devotion to the cause and con.
graduated her citizens that they had
builded from her ruins city whose pros
perity was gratifying and whose con.
tinued growth would eventually make
her the metropolis Of the state. He re-
ferred to the fact that Columbia was the
birth place Of the division. At the first
meeting there were fifteen camps repre-
sented by twenty nine delegates Now
there are l3o camps with hundreds OF
gray haired delegates.
Gen. Walker then read the tribute to
the dead and to the women Of South
Carolina, which was responded to by
the sssemblsge.
LADY ORATOR
In few appropriate words, he intro
duced Miss Elizabeth Lumpkin, who
delivered the address Of we come to the
Georgia veterans.
MISS Lumpkin took the crowd by
storm and her reception was seemingly
Cine hesrtiest ovation of the evening.
Her remarks were we'll timed and nlete
with noble sentiments. She SPOKE sith
clear strong voice, and her deliysry
was f~uitlees. In her address directly
to the veterans, after declaring that she
loved them all, the whole assembl.ge
rose en- mssse and ohsered her 10 the
echo. When she declared, with sreat
dramatic foIos, that it might be the
sons of veterans would forget the vet
Grams and their cause, but their daugh.
tors never would, the enthusiasm was
A"ut bounds. Though daughter Of
r2aii q glowing tribute to
ma, and in closing, called
the cavaliers Of the earth.
sycd hnr sdi.-s Gs1.a- >l..-,,
tlly congratulated her ON
he veterans cheered and
Miss Lumpkin bowed hei
Soxiedgments.
Among those who extended their con-
gratulations was General Gordon. On
his appearance he was received with vo-
ciferous cheers and there were loud calls
for him.
GEN. JOHN B GORDON
finally rose and said:
II am not q Carolinisn, but I'm a
Georgian, and can prove it by this en-
tire audience" Much applause and
cheering going on, he said: I'm stand
ing tonight on South Carolina soil, and
in the very heart Of hearts Of Southern
chivalry. More than that, l am stand
ing In the presence Of the very create st
man that 1t has ever produced in all
time, (great applause,) and l mean no
vain tattery. L use no unmeaning words
when l say that, taking him ss a private
citizen, as a soldier upon q hundred
bloody fields, as the hero of Reconstruc.
tion, worse than war and the CORY field,
standing to-day in his might like the
mountains on your own northern border,
with the very clouds around his head
and dust of the past at his feet, without
one stain in his life, without the posi-.
bility of doubt, pronounce Wade
Hampton the chief of men, and now my
Uonfe derate brothers, | want to say
that 1t has been my fortune to stand be
fore some great armies in this country
and in foreign lands, but as God is my
judge, L believe that o Convention o.
Confederate Veterans is the nobles
gathering that evermet beneath the star
and 1t requires no piercing vision tt
read upon the brow of every man her,
present the four letters, II, Z, h, o."
(lAn Hnr1nn ranasuaI l,kkIo -
an ovation, and for the few moment
that he spoke threw his whole soul int
what he had to say.
Gen. Walker then presented
GEN A. J. WEST, OF ATLANTA,
who delivered the formal response o
welcome on the part of the G eorgia V ct
Grams. 1t was q fine speech. Gen
Vests running retrospect and revisV
of the great battles and leaders of tn
war was eloquent and forceful, and i
spite of it's wealth OF detail was listene
TO with breathless attention. HIS re
view of the life and services of Pres
dent Davis. the hero of Buena Visit
under the Stars and Stripes, the ma
who watched by the cradle and grave G
the Confederscy, who was chained in
dungeon for his loyalty to constitution
right, and who wrote the epitsph of tn
storm. Graded nation that FELL" ws
heard with enthusiasm. The leadin
thought in his peroTation was that tn
: South's tremendous loss of blood an
treasure had not been In vain, but hs
? secured an honorable peace and splel
did heritage for future generations. :"
is better to have fought and lost ths
9 never to have fought at all"