The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-21

elegantly introduced the orator of the
day, Hon. S. A. Crump, of Macon, solicit
tor general of the State of Georgia.
HON. S. A. CRUMP's GRAFTON.
Three cheers were given the handsome
Georgian when he at length arose to re-
spond, and the first few sentences of his
carefully prepared address captured his
audience Mr.. Crump took for his sub
Ject the political history of the war be-
tween the States, beginning at the for
NATIVE period of the government and
step by step tracing the threads o. his
tory up to the time of the bloody con-
hlct and the events succeeding it's cessa-
tlon. 1t was an original and valuable
contribution to the history of the sub
Ject and was listened to with rapt at
tention.
MAJOR Crump is of North Carolina
stock, and the veterans of the Old North
State were proud of him Yesterday.
lie said many things very eloquently
OF the history of which North Carolinians
are justly SO proud.
After magnificent encomium upon
liberty, a careful tracing of the causes
that led up to the Civil War, and a
masterful presentation of the slavery
question and dispute, the speaker said of
the heroes of the Lost Cause:
1T is not my purpose to discuss the
barbarity Of this new struggle for liberty.
nor essay to paint a glowing tribute to
the heroes and men who repealed this
tyranny with the life-bood OF the most
gallant soldiery human history ever
transmitted and sacrificed treasury of
money unequalled in the annals of war
To undertake this would be like walking
into a vast flower garden to garner
bouquet from the rarest and choicest
of Gods creation. On every field of bat
tie their matchless gallantry and dar-
ing bravery carried aloft their flag to vic
tory. But let it be said of the Southern
soldier of rank or file Wherever he
was, liberty abided, faith was made more
enduring, courage was exalted and devo-
ton to friend and country immortal
lied. If flowers could spring from his
deeds of virtue of sacrificial allie glance
to the highest forms of human duty, and
bloom upon his grave, his last resting
place would present a gem to earth, to
consecrate it with it's best possession,
a body of a brave man.
THE effort of resistance was sponta-
of earth was conceived in a day, and
the grandest army that ever bore arms
was born in a night.
with about 100000 men, all told
without arms or ordinance, without COM
missary or quartermaster, blockaded by
sea and walled in on land by force of
about 100000 of the best armed best
equipped and best drilled soldiers money
II
and wounded more than three times as
many Of your enemies as you had en-
listed mon on your rolls"
Speaking of the period following the
war, Major Crumn said:
"But N.Y. when the camp followers
found us out. Carpet baggers,' bitter
weed, itch. nut-grass, wooden nutmegs,
poplar hams, and all the parent evils
swarmed over the once beautiful South
land like locusts of old they found a
congenial welcome in the arms of the
.scalawags.' buck negroes, and Yankee
soldiers stationed in every county with
'Freedman's Bureau, forty acres of land
and mule all intruded to outrage COM
mon decency."
He closed as follows:
''You feel justly proud of your good
name, sung in song and story; the typical
American Democracy you gave the first
blood for independence; you were first
at Bethel and last at Appomattcx. You
sent more boys to the front than any
other State in the Confederacy and left
more dead on the field.
God bless North Cardinal
On the conclusion of Mr.. Crump's &C.
dress the benediction was pronounced by
Chaplain Crawford AMI adjournment was
had. Dinner was served to seventeen
hundred veterans at camp and was
bountiful and varied.
AN IMPOSING PARADE.
The afternoon parade was imposing,
there being two thirds of the thirty-ilve
hundred veterans present in line, one
hundred cavalry and many .arridges
conveying crippled ana infirm and the
sponsors and maids Of h0nors. Immense
throngs of people witnessed the parade,
clouds and a fine breeze making the
weather pleasant.
Tonight union services were held IN
West Market church, being largely at
tended. Great numbers are at the Park,
some to attend the theatrical perform
ances, many others taking part in dance
complimentary to the maids of honors'
sponsors and visiting ladies, over seven
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