The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-07-27
skssN AT 1Ae REUNION.
gef Outline Of the Speech Of the
Wauanucka Mavor.


shc was on the program for an sd
ress to the Sons and Daughters Of
he Confederacy during the re
mion. spoke Of Ardmore and her
hrift. her schools. churches, happy
ZONES. noble women and fair maidens.
That It had been said her women
sere 30 good that they even madde
GOOD mothers.in.law and that one
maiden had said, "if you
lont believe 1t. try us.
that is was said that Columbus
rad discovered America as much as
,olumbus but under somewhat diff
erent circumstances over in North
Carolina. That North Carolina was
,ne OF the last states to enter the
Union and one OF the last TO secede.
she did not secede until Lincoln is
med his proclamation for 100000 sol
iiers, and demanded that each state
n the Union should furnish her quota
d men. When North Carolina was
,orced to choose between fighting
With or against her sister Southern
states she went out of the Union as
luick as a keg of powder would have
,one OFF, had II been rolled into hell.
lie then spoke of the first company
hat left Randolph county, N. c., TO
lght for the cause of the South and
a most affecting manner told OF
the soldiers, mothers, sisters, wives
'weethearts. Spoke of the rumor
hat developed into war itself. That
Jorth Carolina did not boast Of her
,reat generals but that she furnished
more soldiers than any other South
ern state. and left more of her sons
dead on the field of battle than any
other state in the Confederacy. He
then paid a glowing tribute to the
womanhood of the South, and said
that when he was small boy he rode
a mule while his mother held the
plow handles to raise bread to feed
the boys who were fighting the bat
ties of the South. Spoke Of the bat
ties in which men showed their valor
on the field by charging into the
very jaws of death, and when thrown
back over a sea of blood and the com
mand was given to charge again they
walked over the bodies of their dead
comrades and charged into the very
laws of hell.
He paid a tribute to General Grant
ana said that he had refused to take
the sword of General Lee, at the sur
render. That this one act showed the
nobility of his character and proved
that he was worthy TO become presi-
dent of the United States. He said
that there was no sting in the heart
OF the Confederate soldier against
the Federal soldier. That the speak
er would shed a tear over the grave
Of the soldier who wore the grey and
tear over the soldier who wore the
blue. but that there was a sting in
the hearts of the Southern people
against the carpet-bag element who
came South TO fatten on the distress
Of our people and who taught the ne
groes that they were entitled TO forty
acres and a mule. and that they
should place themselves on an equal
'lty with the white people. That ev-
cry one left his life imprinted on
snme one or something and that there
was not a yellow dog in North Car
olina but what had in him the nature
plnd disposition of a carpet-beggar.
That the Scalawag Of the South was
worse than the carpet-beggar; that
be sucked tand fattened upon the
blood which flowed from the open
wounds Of his country. He told the
story of the Southern girl who want
ed bread and was told by the Yankee
10 whom she applied that she must
take the oath of allegiance. The girl
y to swear but if she must swear to
get bread she would say damn the
yankees" The speaker then advoc.
ated the building of home for des.
titute Confederate soldiers and said
that he would give $4,000 towards
this noble movement and in the Ian.
guage of the girl who wanted bread
would say damn the undertaken who
would dare to bury any of our sons
who had worn the grey in the pot
ter's field"
The speaker tn n admonished the
old Confederates to live God fearing
lives so that when they passed from
this world of warfare they could say
at that trying moment Nearer, near
er My God to Thee" and when theil
spirits had taken flight and as they