The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1903-05-12
MEMORIAL DAY.
The Memory Of the Heroic Confederate
Dead HonOred III Newberry
on Saturday.

OH SdtuIudJ.
Thirty-eight years have passed since
Lee and his shattered forces laid down
their arms amid the gloom of Appomat-
tox. The great majority of those wko
had borne the Southern Cross answered
not the musterr roll that day. They slept
in scattered graves OH the field of glory,
each in his camp-worn uniform Of gray,
now crimson shroul The great ma
Jority Of those who survived the terrible
conflict have since joined Lee and
jackson and Johnston and Beauregard
and Hampton and their other COM
rades on the other shore.
AS the years roll on and the great
conflict fades deeper and deeper into
the past, the love and reverence of the
southern people for the South ,rn soldic.'
and the Southern Cause but grow
deeper and stronger and more abiding.
Their most enduring monument is the
great Southern heart, which for them
and for their deeds and for their great
sacrifice, shall every retain its warmest
and most sacred spot.
Simply, but beautifully, Memorial
Day was observed in Newberry on Sat
urday-of all secular days the day in
the South most sacred. The veterans
were here-their carriage less straight
and their step less firm than in the days
gone by when they marched to the
strains of "Dixie." But as they listened
to the strains of their martial hymns
their eyes glowed with the same fires of
enthusiasm as lit them in the days of
'61. And as they beheld the true wo-
men of the South tenderly placing gar
lands upon the lowly mounds of their
former comrades-in-arms, they must
have felt that the memory of their deeds
would ever be cherished.
The exercises were held in the opera
house, beginning at II o'clock, and were
attended by a large and appreciative
audience.
The opera house was appropriately
decorated. On the right, entwined with
the sad cypress, was the portrait of
General Robert Edward Lee Above
hung the beautiful banner of John M.
Kinard Camp, Sons of Veterans On
the left was the portrait of General
Wade Hampton, beneath the folds of
the flag oi the James ID. Nance Camp
of Veteraps.
The address of the occasion was deiv- |
cred by the Rev. J. A. B. Scherer,
Ph. D., of Charleston who is one of the |
most brilliant thinkers and elt Juent |
orators in the Southern Lutheran
Church. In words which glowcd with |
the truth of the message they bore,
and which thrilled with their raging elo- |!
quence the inmost soul of every veteran |
and of every true Southern man and |
woman, and of every true American |
present, he told the lessons taught by |
the soldier in gray.
Thh meeting was called to order by |
Col. O. l.. Schumpert, Adjutant of the |
James D. Nance Camp.
The exercises were opened with prayer |
by the Rev. E. P. McClintock, chaplain
of the James D. Nance Camp. DR.. Nc
Clintock returned thanks for the forti-
tude and the heroism of the Southern
soldier, and prayed that the future |
might be worthy of the past posses
sing as great love for country and for |
State, for that which is right and tue
and noble and goc |, and that the surviv-
ing Confederate soldiers live worthily |
OF the cause with which they were once |
intimately associated
THE CHOIR
1.-The Bonnie Blue Flag was sung
by select choir composed of Daughters |
of the Confederacy, with piano accom-
paniment by Miss Bessie Simmons, violin |
by Misses Mamie Mclaughlin and |
Carrie Pool and Mr.. F. M. Boyd, and |
cornet by Prof. S. l.. Powell The fol- |
lowing composed the choir: Mesdames |
A. IT. Brown, II O. Stewart, Jack Davis,
of Clinton, Misses Carrie Mayes, Lola |
Lake, Winnie Mae Wilson, Bessie Car
Isle, Sara Pope, Belt tina Davidson, Ola |
Wilson, Nina Carlisle, Neville Pope,
Lizzie Glenn, Lizzie Salter.
DIR. CRoMER'S REMARKS.
DR.. Scherer was introduced by Dr.. |
George B. Cromer. DR.. Cromer said |
he esteemed it a very distinguished honor |
to be allowed to introduce the speaker,
or to take part in any way in an occa-