The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1903-05-23
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN;


1AD1Es AND GENTLEMEN:
Never before did thoroughly appreciate t asIs u
a.. 81 the inspiration of the old minstrel wnen AZ "
% 1BSa ssSst t9 &c S u%i9 hath said
, Mis- is my own my native land"
native here and to the manner born since SIM:
the earliest days of my life have oeen DI attachment for
borne County still yield 10 nIe literally pitched tents be-
the Constitution of the United states was cted the
her sturdy neghbofs they ded the first school
st barbinper of Civilizations voice na of nv an
the wilderness Beneath her soil three Il was here
cestors bdhood when this life dream Ieca as
youth when the skies were bright Is b and time has
hung IN my ts freshness land that my Fancy mas
tuTed as far away from the material .nis h heard its
Plc'uiei W South is from the New nave neai 70
taI ps when meowng time had shorn II
81 ;fs mnerectons 1t the story OF Ine CIV tb old south
it lost nothing the recital here my my and fair women whose
has it's setting a1picture OF brave men @ and story as
noble virtues and heroic vaor viii i've N sors 10 virtue
Ing as mankind read OF gallant deeus b CabuTne County
The history OF the on 0ou'A' "
holds portion, Will pe wv .s borce
Pow i tIe noet Will catch the inspiration for MS eplc
from it the novelist will fch the scheme lot lbs the
~ COW this idv nor because 1T doth a. Ill ho
40 to Int as we Judge the future by the past THIS WI" O0
true boon invited here today to speak on behalf OF tne
nave oeen veterans In all ages of the world men
ons an honest and commendabe pride IN tne ueeuS
of their fathers and held themselves dn name made
could manu- M @ ancestor Certainly generation OF men
ever had ulster be proud OF te ueeoS u ''
49, bove the Sons of Confederate veterans .oa b
tnan a m secession was the exercise of right reserved 70
the States and to the people when the fathers
VIC no &c we believe it was; or wheher our laneis
;;J he the example Of Washington, ana 0e1er7oni e
pv had caught the spirit of Lexington ana eohcou'
repeled aga d their lives Alright if from their heroic
Ior and frphtful sacrifices catch that ihspa' Pa
rosm which rises like fe AN we're offered up then indeed
viii we have learned the true lessons OF tnelr Ve b.
deed will Antietam, Gettysburg o No. shall behold The
~ rons victories and through our tears we Snai oon VIC
dawn Of better and brighter day for the hepuo +b
It is not my intention today to dwell at ehgtn upon t
record our fathers made upon the 3attene' M 1865 tho
80 ia that story is written in letters OF hight across me
heavens and it cannot be bloted out Inc sons OF
County who went out in ol IN answer " ~ ~ "
oorvod her name upon the rock OF ages , : ald
ne thew marched out death the sanguna he
Malvern Hill Gen Lee the necs of creased machinery
When stonewall Jackson stole through th9 WIZ @
fall on Hooker at Charlottesville was Se'
M ~ 81 holding Sedgwick in check at Frederlcksoug 70
m @ b rossng the river and attacking in the rear lhlnk
II one brigade to hold corps OF thirty
ea ed the passage of the river with that tremendous
rmv With such unyeding purpose and such neoIc
that % on the planet as he called it, was we'll nigh
tL of the planet 1t the Twenty -hlrst Mlsslsspp
Regiment that bore the Stars and bars 10 the pun
roachend on Gettysburg bloody heId. -. 80. 49, 49,
The Seventeenth United States Regulars lost sz5Wo PEI
cent in killed and wounded IN me has erected
inefficient monument to mark the spot where Blgeow Bat
go ae annihated There is stone there 10 ei inc slor
x Was fact remains that the regiment that swept through
that Peach Orchard up the heights beyond moving do%
the Seventeenth Infantry and destroying that battery was lee
When captain Of S Fdsa f5mss ogoa
slowly tho surely II. P gssn Earl sl Van Dom Mhe7
Mauy best sT GU1F from the the Ss 5e
WIN nrs Unon Grants rear his capture
trains DESTROYED than tF0 1as to a6sndo
OF his stores az rn1 chaenned beyond the connfe of M'
spp and his hghsoundng declaration u viii f hghs 1t gu
on ;t season Thus by consummate strategy was &C
sheer lack Of 2s could not 4y
anu 50 INC nav leave the deeds of Claibornes sons unto
men NJ Honor u~1 is the subject of his story.
But as we gather here today to scatter mowers On eE