The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1901-06-07
THE VETERANS IN GREY.
Convention Called to Order With q
Historic Gavel.

Tuesday Of last wook was a gala day
in Memphis. On evory hand were
aged veterans, many from evory State
in tho South. Tho city was profusely
decorated and banners and flags, flying
from ono ond Of tho city to tho other.
Thero woro Thousands Of Confederate
veterans present. Thousands moro arc
arriving by evory train and eooA the
oity will bo filled with veterans al 4
visitors. e
Genoral George w. Gordoo, Of Nom.
phis, Tuesday morning called to order
tho annual convention of the United
Confederate veterans with gavol made
from q trco which shaded tho fayorito
scat Of Jefferson Davis at Boauvoir.
Miss. Tho Rov. J. William Jones, OF
Richmond, Va, offered touching
prayer, while tho Veterans stood bare
headed. General Gordon then introduc
cd Governor Mcmillan, of Tennessee.
Governor Mcmillan gave a most
hcarsy Welcome to tho visitors. He
comp,imontod tho men Of the South
on their glorious record in tho war and
deplored tho fact that SO many had
passed away. Mayor Williams Of Nom
phis Vas next introduced. lie ex.
tended to the visitors mcst cordial
welcome. Mayor Williams address Of
wcloowo was in part as follows:
nr. CHARM IN and Confederate Vet.
GRADS: Just forty years ago, you loft
your peaceful homes and wont out to
anbmit to tho arbitrament of tho sword
great constitutional questions, Which
craftsmanship had boon unable to post
popo or doodle. Imbued with the deep
ojnvictlon that you wofa in the right,
you fought with courage and heroism
Which has boon cquallod in no country
and in no age. For four long years
you marched and fought ovcr hill and
valley end field, leaving your blood and
your comrades strewn behind you, till
overwhelmed by numbers the Stars and
Bars went down in glorious defeat.
Whom tho dust Of battlo had oloar-
cd away and the cause for which you
fought dies and your homes your ranks
dooimated, your folds desolatod, your
beloved south turned and shattered by
tho scourgo of war, but with tue he.
roism you set your hand to the work
OF reconstruction. You gsthored to.
gothor your families, you rebuilt your
homos, you cleaned the rust from your
axe and plow and began again the de-
velopmont and cultivation of your ma
tive land. '
Veterans, it is fitting that you
should reunito in tho city Of Memphis.
Tho mon Of Momphis fought aud died
on the fields Of Shiloh and Franklin
and Murphroesboro and Ohiokamauge
and wherever the fight was hot and tho
work hard. 1t is fitting that you should
meot in Memphis, because here was the
homo Of that great soldier and cavalry
man whose daring deeds and daring in
war have won the admiration Of mill.
tary oritics in Europe and in America
- Nathan Bedford Forrest" IA
Tho most interesting address Of the
day WAS mado by the famous Southern
victorian and orator General John B.
Gordon. General Gordon said in part:
Governor, Mr.. Mayor, Bishop Gailor
and Representatives of \ Memphis:
For tho third time sitS Is my duty and
high privilege toreBpond to Tonnes. ].
aoe's Welcome to tho United UonPad.
orate VeteranB. For the third limo
since our ganiaasion Sc.
mortal M g 6 ainants ! Of South q matchless.
armies, 6rst, she Welcomed us at Chat.
tanooga, then sat Nashville, now at,
Momphis, and what place could bo
moro fitted for such gathering than
this oity, by tho great river which was
once the highway for ironolads, whose
waters were churned by torpedooa in
soothing oauldron and whose bluffs
were ramparts of defense fora strug-
Cling people.
Pour thousand years ago the anoi-
ont Momphis, built upon the banks Of
the Milo, was tho homo Of the Gods,
tho scat Of Eastern learning and wor-
ship the proudost metropolis Of the
Grcat Egyptian dolta. In this Memphis
is no ancient scat of sceptered mon
arohg, but it was for long time tho
home Of Jefferson Davis, who, oven in
his deepest humiliation and woeful ex-
pericnco lowered in moral grandeur
to far noble stature than the Egyptian
modes or Persian monarchs or Crock
or Roman invader ovor attained in all
their glitter Of royal equipago and
ephomoral glory.
Here in this Memphis no Alexander
tho Great ever woIshipped in life or
laid In state when dead, but here liv cd
here fought, here died and here rests
tho honored ashes OF Nathan Bedford
Forrest tho equal in nativo untutored
gcaious Of tho greatest cavalrymen Of
aDy age.
"Mo are glad therefore to moot in
Momphis. 1t 10 appropriate because Of
its graphical position and by the stead.
fast adhoronoo of it's people to tho i'm
mortal memories Of tho past, it is in
tho vory heart of the lost but forever
loved Oonfoderaoy. It's appropriate
because it is built upon the bank Of
tho great river which binds together
with lis liquid links the distant sex
tons of our great common country,
Tor this city of Memphis is ono Of the
fountain'hoads Of that s.rosm Of Amer.
loan brotherhood and unity which
flows with ever increasing volume
through sll liberty loving American
hearts,"
Committed for Arson.
A dispatch to Tho State from Flor
onoo says II. H. Wilkes was bound over
to court Wednesday evening charged
with arann Nha ,,roI;,n;n.rn n.ou,,;