The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1903-02-24

committee IL actively At work. Ample
preparations are making to receive
he hosts Of ex. x.Confsderates that will
soon converge upon New Orleans
from every section Of the Union.
The people of this city hope and OK.
pect that the grim men in gray who
forty years ago imperiled all for their
oountry-and regretted not that they
imperiled twill come, in large
numbers, to this hospltable old city
OF ours and receive here the welcome
and bcnedictiou of their grateful
countrymen. The date act for the
reunion draws near. We want the
venerable and venersted beroes-the
thin gray line that IL growing. thin
ner every year-to move with mar
tial tread once more through the
streets of the metropolis of the South.
From Louisiana and her neiehbor.
ing States of Mississippi, Alabama,
Texas and Arkansas; from far away
Tennessee and Florida; from farth
away Virginia, the Carolinas, Geor.
gla, Kentucky and Maryland, and
from the more distant Northern and
Eastern Staten in which Southerners
have, since the war, found congenial
homes and won enduring reputation
from every point in the Union, we
desire that ok Confederates and the
SONS and daughters Of ex-Confeder-
ates shall come to New Orleans.
"ln the impressive procession will
be men who represent the splendid
soldiery OF the South that was ready
at the call Of dnty-- aud is ready still
Ito fight valiantly and to die with.
out murmur. Meu who fought not
for fame, not for empire, not (thank
God) for money, but for friends and
k'nsmen, for home aud countryl In
rejecting upon what the Confeder-
ate soldier WAS, as we'll as upon what
he did, the people of New Orleans
have highly resolved that the reunion
of this year .hsll be the most inter
estlng, the most impr, ssive and the
most successful Of all that have leen
held by the heroes in gray. The Or
ganlzation Of United Confederate
Veterans, has, it is true, reached, il
it has not passed, its zenith. Its
meridian splendor-the force aud the
fire that once inhered to it-has
waned with the quick going years.
Against it all the fierce gales of neces.
sity, and the fiercer gales Of time it.
self, have blown pitilessly Numerl.
call,y its power is necessarily fast
diminishing; morally, its energy for
good is strengthening every hour.
The memories awakened by it and
the pride stirred by sight of the
Confederate Veterans as they pass
in annual review on the occasion OF
these rennions-are forever conse-
Grated and hallowed in the hearts Of
the Southern people. We need not
recount ell the names on the sacred
list, nor tell the aad, brave story over
in all its desolate grandeur of ideal
and starving suffering; but the pic.
ture, sketched or finished, is now,
and will always be, mirrowed in the
eyes Of every beholder. If it is only
for moment the people of the South
will, on these occasions Of Confeder
ate reunions, lift the lobby pathetic
picture and reverahtly uncover be-
fore it; for spite the eff4"ing infu-
enoe OF tim", it may never be forgot
ten that what William Of Oranges
followers were to Holland, what the
mon who fought with B~uca and
Wallace we're to Scotland, what Mar
athcn's "ten thousand" were che
Greece, what, indsel. Tbermnpylae's
three bundred' vera to Sparts.
the Confederate soldiers wore. ARE.
and will be-alweys--to Americans
OF the Southern Stntes
''It is to the Cnnfaderata soldiar-
to his high example il courage, in
fortitudp, in patience and in the
capacity to suffer and to be s,iII--
that the younger generation of the
South owes whatever is worthy in
it's civilization. This debt may never
be paid, certainly not. within the
lifetime Of the Confederate eoldier;
but the heroic sacrifice and the in.
spring example can live again in our
remembrance and in the renem-
brance of our chlldren Tho ronD;o,