The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-05-15

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leading bis men (Applause.) He il
here and I, for you, thank him for the
honor be does.
Now, my friends, I can say nothing
more to you. I have come from sick
bed that I might meet you, and tell
you l have never forgotten the old lang
syne, when We csmpsd together. I car
never forget those days. They say oul
cause has been lost; but a just cause
never dies. It will live forever, and ]
paay to God that in the hearts Of all
the men who fought so bravely they
will remember that though the cause
on earth is lost, it will long 90 down
the pages Of history as one Of the
noblest audgreasest struggles and made
by the noblest army that ever trod this
green earth.
At the conclusion OF Gen. Hampton's s
brief speech there WAS an ousburt Of
applause.
Commander Starting gracefully pre-,
sented Gen e. Irvine Walker, and
there was an outburst Of applause for
Gen. Walker, for he is the man above
all who has made such a Rsuaion pos.
sible. Gen. Walker said:
Gen. Walker, commander Of the
division, responded to the address Of
welcome. He spoke strong and clear
and could bs generally heard. He re-
turned sincere thanks for the splendid
welcome and magnificent hospitality ez-
tended the veterans. He spoke Of Co.
lunbia's devotion to the cause and con-
erAtulsted her citizens that they had
Euilded from herruins city whose pros
perity was gratifying and whose coz
tirued growth would eventually make
her the metropolis Of the state. BE re-
ferred to the fact that Coluubia was the
b:rth. place ofshe division. At the first
meeting there we're fifteen camps repre-
selted by twenty nine delegates. Now
there are l35 camps with hundreds Of
gray. haired delegates.
Gen. Walker then read the tribute to
the dead and to the women Ct Sou:h
Carolina, which was responded to By
the assemblsge.
A LADY ORATOR.
In few appropriate words, he intro,
ducsd Miss Elizabeth Lumpkin, who
delivered the address Of welcome to the
Georgia veterans.
Miss Lumpkin took the crowd by
storm and her reception was seemingly
the heartiest ovation Of the evening.
Her remarks were well timed and replets
with noble sentiments. She spoke with
> clear strong voice, and her delivery
Was fSultless. In her sddress directly
to the veterans, after dcclsring-that she
loved them all, the whole assemblsge
rose en nasss and ehccrsd her 10 the
echo. When she declared, with great
cramstic forc,, that it might be the
suns of veterans would forget III. vet
srsns and taeir csuee, but their daugh
terS never would, the eutEusiasm wa
without b0uuds. Though daughter Of
Geo.g.s, she paid a glowing triOute to
S1u<n Carolina, and IL clo-ing, called
tie veterans the cAVa.lsfs OF Ihe esrCb.
When she b3R%d ger ad,tu, those abous
tie stago hea,tiiy c5pgi a:u ated her on
her efforts. The 7eserAGs chszr:d and
cheerea, and Miss Lunpkin bowed he.
Acknowledgements
Among those who extended their con-
graLuls:lons Was General Gordon. On
has appearances ne vas received with 70
c,frreus cheers and there were loud calls
for him.
GEN. JOHN 3. GORDON
finally rose and sald:
81 am not Carolinian, but I'm a
Georgisn, and can prove it by this en-
tire au4isnce." Much applause and
cheering going on, be said: I'm stand
ing tonight Oh South Carolina soil, and
in the very hssrt Of hearts Of Southern
chivalry. More than that, I am stand
ing in the presence Of the very greatest
man that 1t has ever produced in all
time, (2reat applause and I mean no
vain Asttery. luse no unmeaning words
when I say that, taking him as private
citizen, as soldier upon a 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, I pronounce Wade
Hampton the chief of men, and noWmy
Confederate brothers, I want to say
that it has been my fortune to stand be.
fore some great armies in this country
and in foreign lands, but as God,is my
Judge, / believe that Convention Of
Confederate Veterans is the noblest
gathering that eVerpet beneath the stars
and it requires no piercing vision to
read upon the brow Of evary. man here
present the four letters, Il, E, R, o."
Gen. Gordon received little less than
I'd ovation, and for the few moments
that he spoke threw his whole soul into
what he had to say.
N6Q. W A1AS1 IAO0 kAVIO0LON
GEN. A. J. WEST, OF ATLANTA,
who delivered the forma! response Of
welcome on the part Of the Georgia Vet.
erans. 1t vas q fine speech. Gen.
Vests running retrospect and review
Of the great battles aud leaders Of the
war was eloquent and foroeful, and IL
spite Of its wealth Of detail was listened
to with breathless attention. HIS re-
7ieT of the life and services Of Pfesi-
dent Davis. the hero OF Buena Vista
under the Stsrs and Stripes, the man
who watched By the cradle and grave Of
the Confederacy, who was chained in
dungeon for his loyalty to constitutional
right, and who wrote the epitaph of the
storm. Graded nation that fell," was
heard with enthusiasm. The leading
thought in his perorstion WAS that the
Soutn's tremendous lo:s Of blood and
treasure had lot been in vain, but had