The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-08-13
THE OLD CONFEDS.
Remnants of the Thin Gray Line"
Meet at Greenville.
Sponsors AND MAIDS THERE.

Made by Gov. MaulUln ana
Responded TO by Gen.
Carwiie.
The Greenville correspondent Of
The State says under date Of Aug. &,
the annual reunion Of Confederate
veterans is in full blast here. The
stores and offices on Main street are
prettily decorated and the side walks
are crowded with men who wore tile
gray.
Two thousand five hundred veterans
have registered their name and it is
safely estimated that there arc four
thousand five hundred veterans and
visitors in the city. Homes have been
provided for all and at late hour to-
night the streets are deserted. The
number is augmented by the arrival OF
every train ard tomorrow it is pre-
dicted the city will! be crowded.
The first session Of the South Caro-
lima division OF Confederate veterans
was held this morning in the auditor
ium of Chicora college with several
thousand delegates and veterans in at
tendance. Every seaton the lower floor
of the building was occupied by veter-
ans, while several hundred occupied
seats in the balcony.
The speakers Of the occasion occu-
pied seats on the rostrum together
with the following: General thinner
man Davis, DR.. +. II. league OF
Aiken, Jas. Armstrong, Mayor G. G.
Jones, Col. Jas. y. Hoyt, P. T. Hayne,
S. S. Crittenden, Senator A. Fl. Dean,
and Rev. A. P. Taylor of Greenville.
The following sponsors and maids of
honor were also seated on the rear OF
the stage: Misses Agnes Miller, maid
of honor; Miss Annie Muller, sponsor
for Camp y. Burnett Rhett, Charles
ton, Misses Alma Gordon and Nellie
maids of honnor for Camp
Presley, kingstreet; Miss Daisy Lide,
sponsor, and Misses Virginia Norris
and Lila Stribling, maids of honor for
Camp Tally Simpson, Pendieton; Miss
Travis Stanley, sponsor, and Miss Will
lie Goddard, maid Of honor for Camp
Marion, Marion; Miss Eula Lee Izler,
division sponsor, and Miss Helene Nc
Gee, division maid Of honor; Hiss
Elsie Rhett Lewis, sponsor, and Miss
Martha Marshal Buist, maid OF honor,
for the First brigade; Miss Carrie
Gresham, sponsor, and Miss Bessie
maid of honor for Camp
Manning, Austin; Miss Edith Lyles,
sponsor: Miss Gertrude D. Epperson,
sponsor, and Misses Aida E. Winn
and Christine Mckagen, made Of hon
Or for Sumter camp: Miss Eulah Lane
Roper, sponsor, and Miss Mary Hamp-
ton Mcmillan, maid Of honor for
Camp Henegan, Marlboro county;
Miss Catherine Deal, sponsor for
regiment.
After the convention was called to
order an earnest and feryent prayer
was delivered by Rev. E. S. Taylor,
pastor Of the Buncombe Street Metho-
dist church.
General Carwile then introduced
Hon. W. L. Mauldin, who delivered an
address Of welcome on the part of the
local veterans.
ADDRESS OF WELCOME.
''Mr. Chairman" Gov. Mauldin
said in part, veterans of the army:
Representing the reunion committee
and Camp Pulliam and the Confederate
veterans of that community am here
to greet you in their name, to extend
to you their warmest SalutationS and
TO welcome you to their hearts and
homes. There could not stand upon
the soil of this mountain country men
representing any cause or any interest
who would be more gladly received or
whose presence would appeal more
to our affections, our SYM
oatheties and our admiration, than the
soldier. He stands un-
equal in the history CT the world and
by his heroic conduct in war and in
peace he challenges the criticism and
admiration of all time and all ages.
His was an unseltiSh and patriotic
war. lie fought not for aggression or
but for the God-given right
of freedom and civilization. Because
he knew he was right he contended
for five long years again the northern
armies and the mixed hordeS of Eu-
rope. when our armies were fought to
a frazzle and our resources exhausted
he laid down his arms and resumed IN
a manly spirit his obligations to
union restored by force rather than in
volve his country in guerrilla warfare
with all its attendant horrors. He did
not surrender his honor. He never
admitted that he was a rebel, but
then and contends yet that
he was obeying the action of his State,
the sovereign. Since last you met
here the thin gray line has grown
thinner and thinner. We obtain no
recruits; they have gone to join that
ever increasing army on the other
shore of eternity. But few years
and we, too, will have joined that
army and pass away in the evening
shades. Let us, therefore, draw closer
and closer together. Cherish the
morn OF the past and unite in all
laudable efforts to promote the COM
fort Of our comrades. Representing
the government Of this picturesque
spot OF earth. where the rigors of
winter are never known and the balmy
spring zephyrS are seemingly always
ours:
| come this morning bearing to you
and through you to every member OF
YOUR command a message from more