The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-19
Unveiled by Daughters of
North and South.
PRESENT
Scenes of FraternaIism at Confederate
and National Cemeteries That Make
Eyes Glisten and Throat Swell.
Governors Glenn and Stokes
Capture All Hearts.
BY ANDREW JOINER.

New Bern, N. L., May lo,-ln du-
dition to two hundred members of the
Ninth Regiment of New Jersey troops
of the Civil War, lady visitors, the
Governor and other official represen-
North Carolinians headed by the Gov
ernor and his staff, the Lieutenant
Governor and nearly all of the North
Carolina State officers, participated in
the ceremonies attendant upon the
dedication of the monument erected
here by the State of New Jersey to
tn eighty New Jersey soldiers who
are buried in the National cemetery
here.
Governor Stokes arrived at ten
o'clock and the procession in charge
of the local marshals and members
of the New Jersey delegation, with
County Sheriff Biddle as chief mar
shall, proceeded at once to the Ma
tional Cemetery, two miles distant
The Governors of North Carolina and
New Jersey seated together in a car
riage drawn by four white horses,
headed the procession, followed by q
long line of vehicles containing other
officials of the two States and the In
vited guests of both governors When
the Confederate Cemetery was reach
ed on the way, Governors Glenn and
Stokes had the procession to halt,
and proceeding to the place where
the monument is erected in memory
of the Confederate dead, placed
thereon wreaths of magnoias and
lilies, and the widest enthusiasm
was displayed by the thousands of
people who lined the avenue at this
npremeditated and beautiful act of
the two Governors.
They were cheered all during the
line of march, the two hundred of the
Raleigh, GoldSboro and Kinston milf
tary companies present dipping the
National and State colors as the Off
Gals passed them, drawn up in line
at the entrance to the cemetery.
Arriving at the monument Rev. G..
t. Adams, of New Bern, in an ap-
proprfate and touching prayer deliv-
cred the invocation
Mrs James Stewart, Jr., and two
New Jersey ladies and two Of the
Daughters of the Confederacy unveil-
ed the statue. General James Stew
art, of New Jersey, delivered the for
NAL dedicatory address, which was q
summary of the actions of the Ninth
regiment in the war, containing much
valuable general war history and a
noble tribute to the valor of the regi-
regl-
0ent, which had died scattered i'm
every Southern State, began its first
and closed its last of the four years
battles in North Carolina, and had
hundreds of its dead in North Caro-
ma, 1t had been thought best by the
state of New Jersey in erecting q
monument to its brave dead in the
south to select New Bern as the most
appropriate place.
Referring to the burning Of New
bern. he said that any invading army
mad men who Wantonly committed pil-
iage and outrage, and some such mis-
creant fired the building which threat
ened the complete destruction of the
cltv. but the soldiers under command
and with equal effort with the citi-
zens suppressed the flames. He then
declared that in four years of ex-
perience in that war he never knew
OF but one open fragrant commission
OF an outrage. That was at Kinston.
where the Federal culprit was tried,
condemned and it devolved upon him
to execute the sentence.
lie then formally presented the
monument to Governor Stokes, intro
ducing him to the assemblage.
Governor Stokes captured the crowd
at once by saying that since coming to
North Carolina and tasting of ITS
Gus reception he was not surprised
that New Jersey troops were so fond
of the State forty years ago, or that
so many remained mere permanently.
He said that he would be tempted
when he reached home to have the
State Capitol searched to see if another
captured flag could not be found SO
that he and his constituents could
have a good cause for repeating their
visit. Turning to Governor Glenn, who
weighs two hundred and fifty pounds.
while he weighs only one hundred and
fifty, Governor Stokes raised a storm
of laughter and applause by SAYING:
"And / have observed that you raise
bigger governors down here than We
do, and if you think / will grow into
his statue ] will make arrangements
to come down here and board a while
anyhow"
His whole address breathed a spirit
of pride in the valor of New Jersey
troops and sacred memories Of their
dead. comparing them to North Caro-
lima troops in many respects and re-
ferring in eloquent terms to the record
of the two States in the War of the
Revolution side by side a. GuiIford
Court House and Moores Creek in the
one State, and at Princeton and Nor
ristown in the other. They fought
side by side at San Juan Hill. sat side
by side in the first Continental Con-
gress, and as North Carolina was
farthest at Gettysburg and last NJ
Appomattox New Jersey out of ninety
thousand qualified soldiers had eighty-
eight thousand to the front to fight