The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-11
Observance of Memorial
Day in Raleigh.
COL. SAUNDERS SPOKE
The Citizens and SoIdiery of Raleigh
Pay Honors to the Memory OF the
Brave Men Who Fought For
the Cause Of the
South.

the events of MEMORIAL Day yesterday
were such as to instill into all a
deeper veneration for the men who
i'm the days of the Civil War wore
the grey.
The day itself till almost the last
exercises were concluded, was an ideal
one of the summer, but as the ladies
gathered at the cemetery to place
flowers on the graves of the Confed-
crates buried there a rain storm came
up. and this lasted into the night.
During the morning the Veterans
Association of Wake county met and
elected officers. At one o'clock the
veterans gathered at the Capitol
Square and enjoyed delightful din
ner served with an abundance of lem
onade This had been prepared by
the Ladies Memorial Association and
was served by the ladies. The veter-
ans marched to the Capitol behind
the famous Confederate Drum Corps,
the only one in existence, composed
of Messrs. A II. Haynes, Company
c, Third Alabama: j. j. Lewis Com
pany f. Fourteenth North Carolina;
w. T. Johnson, Company f, First
North Carolina, and w. ID. Smith,
Company C, Forty North
Carolina, ali now i'll Raleigh, who
made music with a vim. Major A.
Il. Stronach was in command.
After the dinner was served the vet
Grams fell into line, some forty or
fifty, and preceded by the Drum
Corps marched to the State Museum
where all the mementoes of Confed-
crate interest were examined. The
talk was of the days of the war.
At four o'clock in the afternoon
Metropolitan Hall was filled with a
splendid audience to take part in the
formal exercises CT the day. The va
riouS schools were represented, young
girls and boys, the mature citizen and
those of added years We're present TO
hear told again of the glorious valor
of Southern men. In the gathering
the band from the Blind Institution
rendered delightful music.
In charge of the exercises were:
Chief Marshal, Captain Samuel A.
Ashe.
Ushers: Messrs. Marshall Delaney
Haywood Dalen Stronach, Watkins
Robards.-. Thomas Densof1. Samuel
Hinsdale, James McKimmon Nicho-
las West Jr., Telfair Hall.
The stage was bright in it's Con-
federate coIors and flowers of red and
white. On the right was a picture
of Captain Basil Manly, this draped
with the company flag, while on the
left was the picture of 'Stonewall'
Jackson, about this many of the Stars
and Bars. Across the stage were the
L. OBJ. Branch Camp flag and the
Stars and Bars. There We're present.
among others on the stage Chief JUS
tice Clark, Associate Justices Platt
ID. Walker, H. G.. Common. w. A. Hoke
and Geo. Fl. Brown, Sat Treasurer
Lacy, superintendent of Public In
struction Joyner, Rev. NJ. M. Mar
shall, Rev. w. C. Tyree, Capt. S. A.
Ashe, DIR. Peter f. Hines, Prof. ID. III.
Hill State Librarian M. O. Sheriff.
and others, together with the orator
of the day. Col. w j. Saunders.
The exercises opened with the
singing of Maryland, My Maryland, >
as a quartette, by Mrs. Charles Nc
Kimmon, Mrs. ]. j. Thomas, Mr.. A.
C. Jackson, and Mr. Early Hughes.
Following this the audience was led
in prayer by Rev w. c. Tyree, follow
ing which God Save the South was
sung by Mr.. A. c.. Jackson and chorus.
Then came the presentation of
crosses of honor. these being pinned
upon the veterans by Miss Eugene
Clark. daughter of Chief Justice
clark. Capt. S. A. Ashe read the
names of the heroes entitled to these,
the list being Messrs. Thomas Badger.
~ n. Bunch, L. M. Green, w. B..
Register, j. A. Higgs G.. w Partin.
Next the quartette '"renting to
Night" was rendered most eharmingly
following which Capt S. A. Ashe in
troduced the orator, Col. w. ]. Saun-
ders.
In dong so Capt. Ashe declared
that of the $4,000 soldiers North
Carolina had sent to the front Wake
cot nty and Raleigh had given theii
full quota, and that none We're drawer
than the men who composed Manly S
Battery. raised in Raleigh which had
done valiant service under Lee and
was at Appomartox, though it had
never surrendered Hearing of the
surrender its equipment was de-
etroyed, its guns buried and on the
horses the men started off to join
General Johnston in North Carolina,
and they never surrendered. He spoke
of the joy given TO the people in hav-
ing the opportunity to honor these
men, and with eloquence referred to
the flag of Manly's Battery as a sa :
cred memento., He paid a tribute to
the gallantry of Colonel Saunders, the
first lieutenant of Manlys Battery,
foremost in raising the company, and
afterwards doing valiant service on
the lower Cape Fear and at Fort
Fisher and then presented him to the
audience.
COL w. j. Saunders Address.
As Col. Saunders arose he was
greeted with applause, following which
he began his address. His voice is
strong, sound and firm. his delivery
excellent Partly speaking md partly
reading his address he was heard with
great attention, and at periods there
came storms of applause, an ovation
being given him as he concluded.
His address, while devoted largely
TO a presentation of the history of
Manly's Battery. which went to the
front from Raleigh, abounded In :cnnv
illusions to the general features of the
life of the soldiers of the Con fedalacy
in fact the theme of his earIier re-
marks was found the Life Of the
Private Soldier of the Confcdera,,v. a
subject which he declared worthy the
pen of the greatest of historians.
Speaking from the view that in the
years since the war the angry pas
sions of men, aroused during the con-
fiict. are now allayed, he spoke elo