The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-08-26

Parker, Of Halifax; Brigadier General Of
Fourth Brigade, Colonel lance " paw
of Buncombe.
a resolution or thanks to Judge Walter
clark ana MS assistants for their snlen-
olu WORK OF editing and collecting the
leSllhehIdl histories, was under rules. re-
ieleo 70 the committee. Enquiry as to
why the address delivered by General
carr at the last reunion had not bnen
published in pamphlet form as ordered
brought out the statement from General
Carr, that as delivered. the address was
incomplete, and he hoped to be able 20
nave II completed and published this fall.
DESERTER BILL DENOUNCED.
The Committee on Resolutions ranor+es
1aVorably On resolution denouncine the
act OF Congress in rewarding perfdy and
desertion, and it was adopted by a unani-
nous rising vote. Resolutions Of thanks
10 Judge Clark; of communication of re-
cent pension legislation of the State
legislatures; of coincidence for Major Fl
a. LONDON; of thanks to citizens ana
Falrlotlc organization of Greensboro and
dulilorc county and to railroads for
cheap rates and free transportation OF
ordnance, etc, were adopted.
MT. flnckney Groome, of Greensboro,
feclted amid great applause an original
Ioem dedicated to the Men of the Con-
federacy." A resolution of thanks to
Mr.. Groomc ard an order to publish the
excellent poem was then adopted. A
rising vote of thanks was next rendered
Capt. A.. B. Stronach for his unselfsh de-
Notlon to the interests of the old Soldiers
Home.
ADDRESS OF WELCOME.
After the reading of the report
had been concluded, Captain d. c Wal
dell, ST., of Greensboro, then addressed
the assembled veterans, extending a cor
dial and an eloquent welcome, couched in
the following sublime sentiments:
1t becomes my pleasant duty. fellow
soldiers. to extend to you from the citi-
zens of Greensboro and Guilford county,
q 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 fel-
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 magnif-
cent regiments which North Carolina
furnished to the peerless army, whose
renown has extended to the utmost con-
lines Of the earth. That the flags OF
these regiments could ever be seen wav-
i,g 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 nave heard it and your lips
have uttered it. x x
1T is true that you, fellow soldiers,
returned from the mightiest conflict that
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, bat 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 a mighty yell of defiance
and went up against the enemy and over
came him, and you have been more than
conqucrors in this last great contest.
You have shed a lustre upon TIE fair
name of North Carolina, unequallec by
any who have preceded you, for none
have ever how 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.
| North Carolina loves you-you are
her jewels.
But what shall 1 say of her dead
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Of battle amidst the scream of shells,
the ringing Of rifles and the remorseless
hiss of bullets singing a sad requiem
over their untimely fate.
My prayer is that their free spirits
scared aloft to battle in the elysian dew
Grons of the rainbow, to listen 20 the
voice of IsrafaeI mingling with the melo-
dies of the golden harps, to enhale the
Iclfume of hard and cassia, which the
spicy winds watt through the cedared
alleys of the Paradise of God and be-
holding the countless and endless arch
ways and considerations of blazing stars
that they felt and knew above and beyond
all that the everlasting arm were be-
ncath them and that the love of God was
eternal.
Il bid you all a loving welcome"
Captain Waddell was followed by ZION.
g.. B. Watson, who. in a few rousing
imprOmptu remarks brought forth APP
DlauSc sufficient to wake the dead and
20 set the living on fire witt enthusiasm.
Col. Paul b. Means then, in an extended
AID we'll received speech, in whicb he
earnestly and warmly praised General
Carr, tcstifying to his heroic valor on the
field Of battle. he having seen him in
the thick of shot and she'll, blood and
carnage fighting like a boy Turk,
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-
cnond, and the first few sentences OF his
carefully prepared address captured MS
audience. Mr.. Crump took for his sub
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