Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-05-08
Portraits of Davis and Lee
Now AdOrn Graded
School, Library.
Unusually Fine Patriotic and ApprO.
pirate Address BY Capt. 7. W.
SlOcumb In Presenting and
Superintendent W0Etz
Receiving These
Pictures.
From Thursdays Daily.

From Thursdays Daily.
In the presence of Thos. Ruffil
Chapter Daughters of the Confedera
cy, who purchased the pictures fOI
the school, number of the board o
trustees of the school and citizens
and the entire school, drawn up il
an imposing body in front of the cen
tral building, the presentation of the
splendid pictures of Jefferson Davis
and Robert e. Lee to the school was
made at noon today, and the exercises
were most interesting, impressive and
edifying.
The exercises were opened with a
beautiful prayer by Rev. E. II. Davis
pastor of ST. Paul Methodist Church
The school then sang in a body
1.-THE Old North State" after which
Capt T. w. Slocumb, a veteran of the
Gray, who had been chosen by Thos.
Ruffin Chapter Daughters of the Con-
federacy to present the pictures, was
introduced.
In clear and impressive voice and
difinifiedly composed manner Captain
SlOcumb spoke as follows:
'tThe territory comprising the
southern portion of the United States
is a great history making country,
but people remiss and neglectful of
writing and publishing to the world
their great and glorious deeds.
There is hardly a school child in
the United States who is not familiar
with Lexington and Bunker Hill,
while comparatively few know any
thing of the battles of A1amance,
Moore's Creek or Guilford Court
House. Why the difference? Massa-
chusetts magnifies and exploits her
deeds, while North Carolina is con-
tent to do and say nothing of hers.
$50 eminent a man as the late Sen
atOr HOar, of Massachusetts, only a
short while before his death, during
discussion of proposition to make an
appropriation for the reclamation of
the Moore's Greek Battle Ground, said
Surely there must be some mistake
about this. never heard of such a
battle. Where did it occur?" Was this
ignorance on the part of the great
0cNGALOI VI w DIS II OW1uS u Tile
perfect dissemination of our histori-
cal data? 1t is a duty we owe to our
selves, to posterity and our country to
change these conditions and be more
alive to our own interest
General Lee used to say that the
greatest word in the language was du-
ty, and based upon this foundation,
what a symmetrical character he
builded-spolished after the simiItude
Of palace In private life pure and
gentle as a woman, with the simplic-
lty OF child-in war easily the first
soldier OF America, towering above all
contemporaries on either side like a
giant mountain peak the foothills at
its base. Recognized as one of the
great captains of the ages, the peer
OF Wellington and Marlborough
4Mr- Jefferson Davis, the first and
only President of our storm-cradled
Confederacy, occupied a unique place
in the annals of American history Ed
ucated at the National Military Acad-
Rmy, as a young man we find him
subduing the Indians in their ravages
against the whites, and blazing the
way for the settlement and progress
OF civilization in the great Northwest
bordering on the Ohio and Great
Lakes-Later On shedding his blood
on the batt1efieIds of Mexico, and at
the head of his gallant Mississippians
planting in triumph the flag of his
country upon the walls of the Monte
zunas- Retiring to civil life he sways
listening Senates with his eloquence"
and wisdom. Called to the Cabinet he
revOlutionized the art and science of
war. and was famous as the great Sec
retary.
SIN the evening OF his life, called
To preside over the destiny of his be-
loved South, he was misrepresented.
abused, vfliffed and maligned by his
enemies, bounded and hunted like
wild beast, a ruler of millions, in
prison and. in chains, at home and
among his people. and yet without
home and without country. Amid all
the stress OF the raging storm he
stood erect and unbending as the stur-
dy oak when swept by the gale Firm
1y rooted and grounded in the eternal
principles of right and justice, he was
as firm and immovabIe as the ever
lasting hills, from whence came his
help.
..It took England more than two