The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-06-05
TIE VETERANS IN GREY.
Convention Called to Order With q
Historic GaYel,

agee veterans, many from every State
IN the South. The city was profu5ely
decorated AID banners and flags, flying
from one ead Of the city to the other.
There we're thousands Of Confederate
vettrsus present. ThousaDds more are
arriving by every train snd soon the
city will be filed with veterans and
visitors.
General George W. Gordon, Of Mem.
phig, Tuesday morning cslled to order
the annual convention Of the United
Confederate veterans with gsvel made
from a tree which shaded the ta7orite
seat Of jefferson D.7ls at Beauvoir,
Miss. The Rev. }. William Jones, of
Richmond, Va, offered a touching
prayer, while the veterans stood bare
headed. Geaeral Gordon then introduc.
ed Governor Mcmillan, Of Tennessee.
Governor Mcmillan gave most
heary welcome to the visitors. Hs
omplimented toe men Of the South
On their glorious record in tbs war and
deplored the fact that so many had
passed away. Mayor Williams Of Mem
phis vas next introduced. He ex-
tended to the visitors a mcst cordial
welcome. Mayor Williams address Of
welcome Vas in part as follows:
''Mr. Chairman and Confederate Vet
ersns: Just forty years ago, you left
your peaceful homes and went out to
submit to the arbitrament Of the sword
great constitutional questions, which
craftsmanship had been unable to post
poae or decide. Imbued with the deep
conviction that you were in the right,
you fought with courage and heroism
which has been equslled in no country
and in no age. For four long years
you marched and fought over hill and
valley and field, leaving your blood and
your comrades strewn behind you, till
overwhelmed by numbers the S:ars and
Bars went down in glorious defeat.
when the dust Of battle hsd clear
ed away and the cause for which you
fought dies and your homes your ranks
decimsted, your fields desolated, your
beloved south turned and shattered by
the scourge Of war, but with true he
roism you set your hand to the work
of reconstruction. You gathered to-
gether your families, you rebuilt your
homes, you cleaned the rust from your
axe and ploW aud began again the de-
7elopment and cultivation Of your ma
tive land.
Veterans, it is fitting that you
should reunite in the city Of Memphis.
The men Of Memphis fought and died
on the fields Of Shilch and Franklin
and Murphreesboro and Chickamauga
and wherever the ight was hot and the
work hard. It is fitting that you should
meet in Memphis, becsuse here was the
home Of that great soldier and cavalry
msn whose daring deeds and daring in
war have won the admiration of mill
tsry critics in Europe and in America
Bedford Forrest
The most interesting address Of the
day was made by the famous Southern
veteran ana orator General John B.
Gordon. General Gordon said in part:
"Go7ernor, Mr.. Mayor, Bishop Gailor
End Representatives Of Memphis:
For the third time it is my duty and
high privilege to respond to Tennes.
SEES welcome to the United Uonfed-
crate Veterans. For the third time
since our organization this State EN-.
braces with maternal arms these i'm
mortal remnants Of South's matchless
armies, first, she welcomed US at Chat
;anooga, then at Nashville, now at
Memphis, and what place could be
more fitted for such a gathering than
this city, by the great river which was
once tie highway for ironc!ads, whose
waters were churned by torpedoes in
q seethirg cauldron and whose bluffs
were ramparts Of defense for strug-
g.ing people.
-Four thousand years ago the anci,
ent Memphis, built upon The banks Of
the Nile, was the homs Of the Gods,
the seat Of Eastern learning and Wor-
ship tie proudest metropolis Of the
Great Egyptian delta. Ia this Memphis
ia no ancient seat of sceptered mon
sccas, but it was for long time the
home OF Jefferson Davis, who, even in
his deepest humiliation and Woeful eZ-
perieacs lowered in moral grandeur
to far noble stature than the Egyptian
meGes or Persian monarchs or Greek
Or Roman invader ever attained IN all
their glitter Of royal equipage and
sphemeral glory.
Here in this Memphis no Alexander
the Great ever wolshipped in life OF
aid in state when dead, but here lived
here fought, here died and here rests
the honored ashes Of Nathan Bedford
Forrest the equal in native untutored
geaious Of the greatest caVallyneo OF
sny age.
1--WE are glad therefore to meet in
Memphis. 1t is appropriate because OF
it's graphical position and by the stead
fast adherence Of its people to the i'm
mortal memories Of the past, it IS IN
the very heart Of the lost but forever
loved Confederacy. 1t is appropriate
because it is built upon the bank Of
the great river which binds together
with its liquid links the distant Sec
tions Of our great common country,
for this city Of Memphis is one Of the
fountain heads Of that stream Of Amer
ican brotherhood and unity which
flows with ever increasing volume
through all liberty loving American
hearts,"
Committed for Arson.
A dispatch to The State from Flor
epca says R z. Wilkes was bound over
to court Wednesday evening charged