Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1909-06-08
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valor and courage.

COntlnu6Q from rage 1.
valor and courage.
Great as was the American rev.
olution in it's effe its on the desti.
ny of mankind IN establishing
this continent q republic; import
ant az was the vars of 1912 and
the Mexican war, on the perpetuity
and expansion of this nation they
have never elected from the Amer.
lean people the same reverence,
love and devotion which the civil
war aroused in the hearts of the
South. Forty-four years have
passed since the war ended. Hun
dreds of monuments have been
bu1lded and more still will arise
year by year until I believe and
and predict that in SO years from
now every progressive and self-re-
specting community in the South
land will have some memorial to
declare in ages to folle W, what if
not who, the Confederate soldiers
was. Now this county, 80 rich in
the chlvalry and conservation of
her sons has through the agency
of its glorious daughters unveiled
this superb structure to evince the
gratitude OF It's people for the
sublime sacrifices it's children,
mon and women, made in that
stupendous conflict, the South
made in defense of its homes, its
liberties and it's rights.
COMMON INHERITANCE.
This monument, my friends, Is
local in one sense, but in another
it is as broad as the Confederacy.
1t represents a great deep, wide
sentiment that pervades all our
Southern people and embraces in
it's witness all the soldiers who
fought and the women who suf.
fered for the independence of the
South. Your glory is a common
inheritance in which we all claim
a part. The splendor Of the
achievements of the sons of North
Carolina shed q glorious lustre on
the Confederate name and that
name with all the splendor and
granduer it carries is a part and
parcel Of the inheritance of every
man who wore the gray and
every woman who suffered in the
great war.
So when in years to come, the
passerby shall enquire what means
those letters G. S. A those who
explain their significance and wi
not speak alone Of the sons of
Rowan county, but will declare
they represent the men who made
history at Shiloh; who charged up
Malvern Hill who swept along the
valley Of the Chickamauga; who
defended Atlanta in the matches
contest of eighty days, and who
at Franklin-that terrible and
awful holocaust-rushed upon the
ramparts of the enemy, which
could only be reached by climbing
over platforms made by dead and
wounded comrades.
They tell of men who quailed
not at the destruction of Sharpes-
burg; who held the Angle at
Cold Harbor, who marched with
jackson around Chancellors' lille ;
who charged up the rocky side Of
Gettysburg, and imprinted Oh it's
cold and pittyless stones, it letters
of blood, the story of Southern
chl7alry aud courage.
They speak of men here who at
Manassas refused to advance un-
til the immortal Lee rode away
from danger, and then with wild
and resistless dash forced an ap-
parently uncouquerable foe from
an almost impregnable position.
They recall the men here who
stood at the Petersburg Crater and
yielded at Appomattox because
they we're starved into a feeble
ness which emaclated their bodies,
but could not destroy their un'
conquerable will.
They tell of men here who won
renown at Red river, Baton Rouge.
Corinth, Springfield and Elkhon
MAGNIFICENT MEMORIES
My friends what magnificent
memories [ invoke and what mar
velous records l recall, what su
peru pages of human history
read over again in these magic
words, which uplift Southern