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

ADDRESS OF WELCOME.
After the reading of the report
had been concluded, Captain d. c. Wa1-
dell, Sr., of Greensboro, then addressed
the assembled veterans, extending cor
di2l and an eloquent welcome, couched in
the following sublime sentiments:
1T becomes my pleasant duty. fellow
soldiers, to extend to you from the cti-
zens of Greensboro and GuiIford county,
g. welcome.
"Not an ordinary and formal welcome,
far otherwise. for it proceeds from the
love and affection of their people. They
wish you to feel that you are in the
home Of your friends, surrounded by fell
low soldiers and their descendants and
that you are not only camping upon their
soil, but in their hearts.
"They know that you are the battle
SCARED remnant, left from the magnifi-
cent regiments which North Carolina
furnished to the peerless army, whose
renown has extended to the utmost con-
fines of the earth That the flags of
these regiments could ever be seen wav-
ilg in the smoke of the fore front Of
every fight. That the great battle cry
of that army-the historic yell-origi-
mated with those regiments, born of the
battle where the fighting was most furi-
Gus, it rose to the heart and broke from
the lips, ringing through the roar and
storm of battle, carrying defiance and the
exultation of victory in it's mighty sound.
Your ears have heard it and your lips
have uttered it.
''It is true that you, fellow soldiers.
ever shook the earth, weary, ragged and
foot sore, to your beloved and impov-
erished State, to face another mighty
war, the battle against poverty, but your
wives and your daughters and all the
brave and lovely women of the land had
but words of kindness for you, and
smiling eyes, though they may have been
through tears. In your hearts you
raised again mighty yell of defiance
and went up against the enemy and over
came him, and you have been more than
conqUerors in this last great contest.
You have shed a lustre upon the fair
name of North Carolina, unequalled by
any who have preceded you, for none
have ever shown such devotion, none
have ever made such sacrifices, and her
memory will cherish you so long as
the ocean breaks upon her shores and
her blue mountains stand.
"All North Carolina loves you-you are
her jewels.
but what shall 1 say of her dead
soldiers who fell fighting upon the field
of battle amidst the scream of shells,
the ringing of rifles and the reno. 5eless
hiss of bullets sins nE a sa1 raquiem
over their untimely fate.
My prayer is "a, 3hcu free spirits
scared aloft to ba 1a la Tie cIysian dew
drors of the rainbow. to listen 10 the
voice of Israfael ming}iag with the melo-
dies of the golden Darps 10 snhale the
rel fume of hard anG cassia which the
spicy winds wait through The cedared
alleys of the PARADISE OF Iod and be-
holding the coHHtlp5s and endless arch
ways and cons teilattous Of blazing stars
that they felt and knew ahove and beyond
all that the everla ting arms were be-
meath then and ma sbe love of God was
eternal.
Il bid yo4 al. a loving welcome"
Captain Waddel was followed by Non.
=. b. " a,son. who, in few rousing
lnprom ,H remarks brought forth ap-
plause ahtlcent TO wake the dead and
to set the living on fire with enthusiasm.
Col. Paul B. Means then, in an extended
aid we'll received speech, in which he
earnestly and warmly praised General
Carr, testifying to his heroic valor on the
field of battle. he having seen him in
tie thick of shot and she'll, blood and
carnage fighting like a boy Turk,
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