Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1902-08-28
lay down their lives for you and me,

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in a cause that was yours and mine.
They were broken on the wheel of
war in the cause the State had made
its own: I ask the new leaders of the
New South to remember the old
soldiers of the Old South. Their
ranks are thinning fast. The last
every day. Soon there will not be a
single veteran left to need III grudg-
ing bounty; soon all will have passed
over the river to rest with Stone
wall jackson "beneath the shade of
the trees" where blossom only ''the
lilies of eternal peace, whose odors
haunt our Dreams"
"Remember the scant ration Of
parched corn and tepid branch wa
ter; remember the long, hard hot
marches beneath the blazing suns of
summer; remember the short nights
of troubled sleep upon the tentless
field and in the sultry thicket with
fence rails for a pillow and the dread
reveille of musketry and cannon for
their aWaking. Remember the win
ter camp upon the frozen ground; re-
menlh0r the letters from home that
told between lines of ~privatiOn, hard
ship and sickness, and barefoot chill
dren singing beside wan mothers,
"when this cruel war is over" re-
member the lonely hours upon the
cherries picket line, when they
s'thought of the two in the low trun-
die bed, far in the cot on the noun
tain"
"I confess to a keen sense of per-
sonal humiliation that L, who bore
no part in the war, should feel con-
strained to remind men of Southern
blood and birth of these things. Can
it be that these sacrifices are already
forgotten! And by Southern men!
Be sure, my friends, that the world
has not forgotten, and that our chill
dren will not forget, 'tfor as long as
the Southern struggle shall 1inger in
tradition and in song will their
memory be cherished by the descen
dants of the Southern race" OF
them Henry Ward Beecher truly
said, that stthey followed their dis
union flag to wounds and death as
simply and IS bravely as if it had
been the Banner of the Cross and
they the old Crusaders"
"History holds no page one-half
SO refulgent as the record of the Pri-
vate Soldier of the Southern Confed-
eracy. In neglecting him, we dis
honor ourselves and asperse the
memory of Davis, Jackson and Lee.
"When our children gather around
the winter hearthstone to hear the
wonder-tale of Chicamauga,, Chan
cellorsville, the Bloody Angle,
Gettysburg and Malvern Hill, what
shall we tell them was the measure
of our Gratitude to the men who
stood beneath the bat-winged pail
of Appomattox? What shall we say
we did for the tattered remnant that,
after returning to build up the waste
places of the South, found that they
must still for twenty years carry on
a warfare for civilization? What
shall we say we were doing for those
men who had done SO much for us,
when forty years after Malvern Hill,
they could do for themselves no
longer?!"
We do not believe this appeal will
be in vain. Already have we been
encouraged by liberal donations from
ex-Confederates and other good cit
liens Of the county, and we now ask
for contributions sufficieat to swell
the amount to $4,000, which amount
! we believe will be ample for the
purpose. Subscription lists will be
placed in the hands Of men i'll the
several sections of the county and we
bespeak for them liberal donations.
If any should be overlooked, your
contribution can be sent to the COM
mittee at Goldsboro or left at the
drug store of J. III. Hill & Son.
A. B. HoLLOWELL,
w. B. FORT,
/ M. T. JOHNSON,
JOHN t. DEEs,
Committee.