Goldsboro weekly argus., 1908-10-22

short order The First Regiment of
North Carolina Cavalry was equal to
any regiment of horse in our service.
The material composing the compan-
les was the very best of our youth.
The Colonel who gave the command,
coherent in drill, in camp, on the
march, in the clash and stroke of
swords, the vehemence of shots, the
delivery of weight of collision, was
probably the best disciplinarian in
our service. So insistent was he, upon
Taps, Tattoo and every call of discip-
line, that now and again his command
murmured. But he was right, in the
outset of our war, to harden the raw
material into coherent bodies.
He was a graceful man in person
and step, mounting his horse with
flexibility of body and limb, very rare
ly seen.
We are proud Of him and it is fitting
now to pay the reward to honesty OF
purpose and clear Intelligence. The
artist has caught the inspiration of his
handsome features.
To the Daughters of the Confed-
officer seems especially near and dear,
for we feel the gallant Father lives
again in his gallant daughter, precious
to us all.
The presiding officer then presented
Col. Jos. e. Robinson, editor Of the
Goldsboro Argus, selected to present
Col. Tatess portrait, and he spoke as
follows:
Madam President and members of
the North Carolina Division, United
Daughters of the Confederacy:-The
peculiar honor that brings me before
you at this hour lis so distinctive and
distinguishing that I am utterly at a
loss for words to give expression to
my deep appreciation of the favor be-
slowed upon me in selecting me for
the duty with which I am commission
ed. And while you, Daughters of the
Confederacy, with heroic perseverance
and a patriotism that is sublime, are
devoting the years of your passing to
treasuring the sacred memories Of the
Lost Cause, commemorating it's immor-
tai heroes and teaching the children
| of our Southland the truths of history,
| let me say to you and of you, here and
now, that while the valor of the men
| who wore the Gray has Wreathed
around in halo of glory ''the storm
Graded nation that fell" the women
| of the Southern Confederacy, who
| stamped the coin of character upon
the souls of it's soldiers, have shed a
Isuster on it's history which time can
never dim, and
3~'On brightest pages penned by poets
and by SageS
Will go sounding down the ages
till .Lfle llzast syllable Of recorded time -
Aid as | -sta-.d liz our presence this
lliomeat a--d he nsllowed memories to
which all these services relate como
trooping back across the years, bring
ing tears with them, as old memories
will when they come back withered''
words are inadequate to give express
sion to the sentiments that swell at
my breast; for I do say this, that if
ever lowe and admiration for sublime
courage and heroic endurance burned
pure and hright in the heart of man,
it burns in my heart ever for the un-
approachably glorious womanhood of
the Southern Confederacy, who in the
suspensefnl solicitude of their desola-
ted homes sustained the crucible of
| wars rnde alarms and heart-crushing
fatalities with more than Spartan en-
durance.
The memory Of wife or mothers
heroic benedfction may have made
Leonidas, fearlessly facing the Per
sian hosts in the pass of Thermopylae
immortal, where and of whom it is
chiseled in the face of the rocks of
| that 1owly pass:
"Go stranger, and to Lacedoemon tell,
That here, obeying her behest, we fell
| That many hero of the Lost Cause,
when all else seemed falling, was CIV
en- renewed courage and peerless dar-
ing by the meory of wife or moth
er's parting kiss and enshrining bless
ing we are proud to believe.
This is not the language of extrav-
agance nor the feverish vaporings Of
grief. It. is the tribute of Truth to a
heroism that was sublime in fealty to
cause that was eternally right. The
highest tribunals of our Jurisprudence
have vindicated the theory of govern
ment for which the Confederate sol
diers fought. The maturer wisdom of
these latter years wins even from our
former foes Of intelligence and honor
the frank confession that we interpre-
ted the constitution in accordance
| with the teachings of the fathers Of
the Republic. The whole world bears
willing tribute to the splendor with
which that unequal contest was waged
| through all those stormy years, that