The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-08-06
Words That Awakened
Memories of the War.
HEARD BY A CROWD
Oates. of Fayetteville, Made an inter
csting Speecil-TScnty-Fiye Hun
dred People Present from
Surrounding Country--Hos-
pitaiity on Grand Scale.
lsneclal 10 News and DECEIVED

Especial to News and Observer
Kenansville, y. c. Aug. Twenty
Eve hundred people here today were
delighted to hear 4 brilliant patriotic
address by Hon Locke Craig, OF Bun
combe county. The speaker has been
heard IN Duplin before and he has
many friends in the county who were
ligh to give him a cordial wei
come.
Another address that was heard
with pleasure was that delivered py
Mr.. John A. Oates, OF FayetleVlie
who is a favorite with our people
After the speaking a dinner was
served by the ladies TO the immense
throng, exemplifying in a d~eIlSht1uliy
patriotlc way, the hospitality Of ola
Duplin.
me Confederate Veterans, in whose
honor the celebration was arranged,
received special attentions and every
one of the old soldiers was MADE .
feel that he is held in special hohor
by the younger generation.
Mr.. Craig began his peech by dis
GUESSING the meaning of these reunion
occasions of the Co~nfederacy.
ION this day the people Of Duplin
meet to celebrate the deeds of an IL
lustrious past, and the sons of DupNn
have come in memorial of thelr ne
roic fathers"
He said that it was q day of PRIDE
and Thanksgiving when the b~ouyancy
and 10Y and faith were mingled with
the pathos of long ago. He told OF
the times when amid tears and ever
lasting fareWellS the cavalcadeS flled
off and the boys marched away to
the wild band music of the bugles-
He discussed at some length the
conditions of the Old South and the
Ma" CnI1th and the relations of the
old and the new, and continuing said:
The civilization of the Old South
was picturesque and ch1valrlc. 1t was
one Of individualism and individual
development. The Southern men OF
that day were cultivated, intellectual
and knightly. They were broad-mind-
ed. and understood the policies of
government and the duties of citizen
ship. They were the finest type or
manhood. They conceived and form
ulated, fought for and died for the
ideals which are today the hope of
the world-States Rights or. which
is the same thing, local self-goVern-
ment. The struggle of the men of the
South was not in vain. No sacrifice
for q righteous cause is ever lost.
1hermopyhae is everlastingly triumph
ant. 1t brought imperishable blory
to Greece. 1t TRANSPORTED every Gre
clan youth into a hero. After twenty
five centuries it eXalts men and in
spires them TO dare and to do. Get
tvsturg and A~npomattox were not
lost. They were our baptism in blood
to a hio her and drawer life
He then stated the question that
presented itself to North Carolina in
1861. 1t was a question a sto whether
she should desert her sister States,
in that great hour contending for their
constitutional rights, or do her duty
rega .dIess of He took
tho nnCitinn that North ~ rn1inn
meant something as a State and a
people because IN 1861 she did her
duty regardless of consequences. He
said that he believed that the men of
the New South were the incarnation
of the spirit of the Old South.
I'm the contest with the railroads
North Carolina has again placed her
self foremost in the struggle for the
solution Of the greatest governmental
problem of the age. She has asserted
and maintained the dignity and SOW
ereignty of this State and of all the
States of the Union. h did it in de-
fiance of the decree of a Federal
Judge, and in disregard of his threat
Of Federal force. She did this not
by any threat of force or violence, not
in any spirit of lawlessness. She
stood for the rights of the people.
She stood for the law. She demanded
obedience to the law. There was no
compromise with the law-breaker'
Behind that demand was the irresisti-
BILE moral force of two millions of
people. There is no court in this
country whose decree is powerful
enough to perpetually obstruct this
we'll considered judgment of the peo-
pie. The time had come for the peo-
pie to teach the judges that they
could go so far and 10 farther. One
of the basic principles of the Union
has been restored in its vigor. The
{o4A~ n~I I'll 1T
W affairs. Mr.. Root to the contrary
Notwithstanding.
TT is one of the greatest accomp-
lishments in the history of this coun-
try since the war. 1t marks an era.
1t would be well that all should real
ize its meaning.
Our Governor and they who ad-
ministered the law measured w to
the highest requirement of duty, and
they have and merit the esteem and
plaudi-s of the people of his State,
and Of other States. The editors of
North Carolina were the veritable
triDunes of the people,"
He said that 1t was no longer neces-
sarv for the Southern people to de-
vote their intellectual energies to the
solution of sectional questions. that
the men of the South would assert
themselves in the formation of Ma
tionai policies and that her ideals
would be impressed upon the Nation.
Mr.. Craig told of the heroism of
he Southern Armies and especially
OF the men who went from Duplin.
Every company he declared that
went from this county was in nearly
every great battle that immortalized
the Army of Northern Virginia.. Ev-
cry p was at Coal Harbor.
Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Sharps-
burg and Appomattox. Company B
of the 3rd regiment lost seventy-five
per cent of its men at Gettysburg.
Company 1 of the 9th Regiment, the
Duplin Grays of the goth Regiment,
the Spartan Band of the 3Sth Reg
ment, the Duplin Rifles of the Ard
Regiment were foremost in every
fight from Manassas to Appamattox.
The Duplin Grays, as stated by
their gallant Captain, afterwards Col
onel, Thomas S. kenan, had ~fifty-six
men on the roll at the close of the
war, thirty-five OF whom were either
in prison on parole or detail, and no
deserter from the through
+f2c entire war. Twenty-one of these
heroes surrendered at ~Appamattox."
The speaker said that he most