The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-11
TO THE HEROES Of
THE LOST CAUSE
For the Quick, Crosses j;
for the Dead, Flowers.
IT'S A LABOR OF LOVE
And Carolina Declares by the Flo.
quence of Deeds that She is in
No Danger of Forgetting.
Speeches of Mclean
and Stedman.
Especial to News and Observer

Especial to News and Observer.)
Greensboro, n. c., May 10.-The
Memorial day. ceremonies here today
were beautifully observed, and very
| largely attended. The large Banner
warehouse was filled with people to
hear the splendid address by Hon
| Dan Hugh Mclean, of Hanett. The
| exercises were opened by Adjutant
| General w. w. Wood Chaplain l.. NJ
| Crawford offering prayer. When Gen
| eral Cullen H. Battle was conducted to
| the rostrum, q great ovation was given
| the aged hero. In answer to repeat
| ed demands he made an eloquent
greeting to the assembled veterans in
| which he said that one of the secrets
| of North Cardinals greatness was
because of the honor of it's men, the
purity and strength of it's women and
| the sanctfty of it's religious truths.
Rev. Sam Jones preached an appro-
pirate and impressive sermon to the
| old soldiers, and gave them fine
| flashes of humor, delightful touches
| of pathos and lasting illustrations of
| the importance of religious as well
as patriotic conservation. The ora
! ton by Mr.. Mclean was the most elo-
quent ever delivered on a like occa-
sion here.
Mr.. Mclean said in part:
The Tenth Of May is the forty
| first anniversary of the death of
! Stonewall jackson, that marvellous
genius Of war 5zi2 mPersonation of
| Southern chivalry The anniversary
of this great Confederate leader and
| martyr has been dedicated by the
Ladies' Memorial Association and
Daughters of the Confederacy to the
memory of our hero dead. On each
| Al l.
| of the State are wont to turn their
backs upon the affairs and concerns
! of everyday life, and to repair to
| our silent cities of the dead, peopled
| by the fire and storm of battle with
the best and bravest of our North
| Carolina manhood, to laden their
graves with our tears, and to garland
| their tombS with WreathS of our
| sweetest flowers
Continuing he said that the War
Between the States was inevitable;
/ that the issues involved could have
| been settled by no other methods than
! by wager of battle, but now that they
| had been so settled, they were set
! tied forever.
That the right of secession was a
constitutional right reserved by each
State to the original compact of con-
| federation to be exercised by such
! State whenever in the judgment of her
| people its exercise was to advantage,
and that nothing had been settled by
| the war except that secession was in
| expedient and dangerous TO the safety
of the other States of the Union.
| That it was now absurd for any ra
tional men to call a Confederate SOL
dior a traitor; that school histories
that so characterized our soldiers eth
er living or dead, should be driven
| from our school houses and homes
as we would deadly pestilence.
Slavery, he said, was not the cause
of secession on the part of the South
nor was it abolition the motive that
inspired the soldiers of the North
The right to secede had been taught to
the Southern people by the precepts
and traditions of the past and our
soldiers were willing to maintain that
right at the point of the bayonet. The
preservation of the Union in the
opinion of the Northern soldiery wa
essential to the safety of all, and
they were wiling to MAINTAIN 1t at all
hazards. The original black Republi-
cans. or abolitionists of the North,
aid not defeat the South, for they
took little part in the fight, but it
wac tho vaIor and numbers of the con-
seryative element of the North and
West and especially the West that
caused our flag to be furled and our
arms to be grouilueu.
Mr.. Mclean said that the Confed-
crate soldier of 1861 represented the
highest type CT manhood that the
world has ever seen. A manhood that
wae tho result of political and social
| conditions that existed in the South
| before the war, that existed nowhere
else and does not exist anywhere now.
He smoke of the fortitude of the wo-
mon of the South, whose smiles and
nravers were the inspiration and sup
nort of our soldiers when contending
for fosr wears against odds that would
have discouraged and appalled, any
otber soldier than a Confederate.
He said that the Confederate SOL
diar was greater in defeat than in
,,io+or,,. that he returned to his desc
,atod l,to home after Appomattox, brs
bo Ala not sit down midst the ruins
nf his once beautiful country, in de-
- - 80 MI acat to work to return what
9be''i ttoa ,,,igbting hand Of war had taken
ore pi9 TIa brought order out of
.ns'S ohaos nrosperity out of desolation.
o,l5 o,,f,'5' 80 70 ont of despair. The South
ta,a az, ~ - the most prosperous country
;ooay a1 y Tho world. Her people are
ha,,,y ~ ,,,, and as the sun goes down upon
tiapps, t,I os,t,,,v AN, pilgrimage of the Confed-
e,le ~ raidier. he feels that he has
sla,e s ,,ie so duty and is content
uo1le ne ne ,,ame of his dead and living
~ ~ he thanked the daughters
coiil[aueI GO ira uCeIonfederacy for their labor of
or efle Inreserving the memory of the
ioNe n ~ "a "a for their care or the hvlng.
dead; a,,,tiful al,u dinner was provided by
lr,,ters pou,ts of the Confederacy and