Goldsboro weekly argus., 1909-01-21
In Honor Of
Gen. R. E. Lee
Appropriate Exercises We're
Held Tuesday Afternoon
In the WOman's Club
by the Daugh-
terS.
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ADDRESS BY Mr.. A. {. WOLFF
January 18th, Great Memorial Day
of Southern People. The
Great Sacrifice Of a Great
General. His Cause
Not Lost.
ADDRESSBY MR.. A. T. WOLFF

Not Lost.
The birthday of that great General
who won renowned recognition
dhro Ighout the word during the fghi
Tor the Lost Cause, was fttingly cele-
brated today by the Daughters of :; he
%Confederacy.
The exercises were held in the Wo-
man's Club room this afternoon at $3.50
O'Clock, and consisted of an address
by Superintendent A. E. Woltz, of the
@Goldsboro public schools; exercises by
the Graded School children and a re-
aeital of 1.-THE Sword OF Lee" by Col.
Jos. E. Robinson.
@1ered:
Recitation, ''Sword of Lee''-CoI.
Jos. E. Robinson.
Song-Dixie.
Renediction.
Song-Carolina.
Prayer-By Rev. E. H. Davis, chap
4ain
Introduction of Orator-Capt. T. w
1Slocumb, master of ceremonies.
Address-Prof. E. A. Woltz.
Solo, Old Folks At Home-Mrs.
Murray Borden.
Mr.. WOLTZ'S ADDRESS.
1t was wise custom among the
Roman people to erect statues of their
heroes in public places, that their
youth in contemplating these statues
might be inspired to emulate the no
bic example thus placed before them
Indeed, how can we be better fitted
: for the stern and important duties of
: life than by the study of those lives
(which have illumined the dark places
of history and by their struggles and
sacrifices have lifted the race nearer
TO God What lover of liberty does
not feel his country nearer and dearer
to him as he thinks Of the noble sac
ET1f1ces Of those great lives whose de
Votion to the cause of liberty laid the
foundations Of our beloved American
Republic? Or what friend of this fair
Southland of ours does not feel his
heart throb with emotion at the con-
temptation of that other name-the
only one that the muse of history has
thought worthy to stand side by side
of the hero and warrior Robert Ed
!. ward Lee.
xsLet US look for a few moments at
the inner life of this great man. Truly
in this case we. may believe with
oliver Wendall Holmes that mans
Z character is formed a hundred years
before he is born. Indeed, it seems
that in this case Nature invested the
randsire's ability and compounded it
for the grandson. Just as it took sew
en- generations of clergymen to make
ready for Emerson, even so the blood
= of seven generations of brave and pa
triotic warriors flowed in the veins
of Lee. the inVincible. Robert E. Lee
had perhaps more illustrious, trace
able lineage than any American not
of his family. His ancestor, Lionel
Lee. crossed the English channel with
William, the Conqueror. Another
scion of the clan fought beside Rich
ard the Lion-hearted at Acre in the
Third Crusade. To Richard Lee, the
great land owner on Northern Neck,
z1he Virginia colony was much lndebt-
ed for royal recognition. His grand
son, Henry Lee, was the grandfather
of "Light-horse Harry Lee" of Revo-
lutionary fame, who was the father
of our subject to-day. Born in West
moreland County, Va, the same coun-
qfy that gave to the world George
Washington and James Monroe, and
having behind him long line Of an
eestors who had distinguished them,
selves in war, it seems that all the
advantages that a kind Providence
could give were used to swell the in,
sfellectual streams and moral tides
which flowed down from the ancestral
hills and emptied into the soul of this
peerless leader.
But it is not my intention to give 9
biography Of this great man to-day
but to speak briefly only of some Of
the characteristics that made hin
great, Of the noble work he did which
has endeared him to us, and which
has made January 10Th the great Me
mortal day Of the Southern people
-xhink one of the greatest blessing:
fhat Divine Providence bestowed upo1
us in giving us Lee is that it put be
fore us an exemp1ar in time wheI
the South was land of desolatlo1
and ruin, in time when there wa'
scarcely a home in all the countr!
that did not mourn the loss of its owl
dead. a land of disconsolate widows
and helpless orphans: when ever!