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

our republics history. Blot out
these and all they mean. and they
blank the proudest memories OF
great nation.
Without fear of contradiction
in the presence of this vast audi
ence I affirm that from defeat we
won imperishable renown. Los
ing, we have crowned our dead ma
ton, it's heroes and its living peo.
pie with a glorious Immortality
Wonderfully illustrious record
There are no stains Oh the South
ern shield. Confederate men and
women did all they could do,
They we're defeated, not because
they were wrong and unfaithfu]
in any respect whatever, hut be-
cause al everything Providence
decreed their downfall in the so.
luton of a divine policy for the
government of the world into
which human ken cannot place
or venture. But this does not dim
the splendor of their heroism, the
glory of their patriotism, or the
grandure of their sacrifices.
If tho enquiry shall be made,
whence these Confederate dead =;
the nswer will be from homes lii
Florida where the roses never fade
and flowers never cease to bloom
and where men are valiant and in
trepld from the mountains and
hills of the Empire State, Georgia,
always pathetic, always true;
from the valleys and plantations
of South Carolina, where mingle
in such the blood of the Huguenot
and anglo-Saxson, creating a
knightly manhood worthy Of ev-
cry call which duty makes; from
North Carolina, a Commonwealth,
whose soldiers, on all of our great
battle fields, exhibited a courage
and heroism, and suffered a de-
elimination that stand unparal-
leled; from Virginia, whose soil
drank so much blood Of our prec-
ious dead aud whose sons por-
trayed a valor and chivalry
worthy of the cavaliers from
whom they sprang, and worthy OF
her who has given to u country
countless wealth in military and
civil patriots; from Tennessee,
that great Volunteer State, the
spirit of whose people no calamity
could break and whose love of
country shone with a lustre that
no misfortune could dim. They
come from the plains IF Alabama,
whose offering of more than 49,
900 gallant sons attested the zeal
and loyalty of the Commonwealth
within which was organized the
Confederacy; from the Deltas of
the Mississippi, where soldiers by
their impetuous ..heroism Oh all
the great battle fields, from the
Father of Waters to the Atlantic,
have made a glorious memorial
which will abide forever; from
the praries of Texas whose chill.
dren breathe freedoms air and
who catch noblest courage from
the chainless winds which sweep
her bound!ess plains; from Ar
kansas, whose soldiers at home
aud abroad filled out the highest
measure of manifest devotion ano
unfaltering bravery i'll defense OF
Southern rights.
A COMMON CAUSE.
They came too, from louisiana,
with the fire and dash of the
French quickened Ivy the doggee
determination and unfaillng pa
tience of the Anglo-Saxon ane
won renown and glory upon every
fold on which they fought; from
Missouri, whose men, expatrlatee
and exiled, never ceased to low
that holy cause to which they hat
consecrated their splendid man
hood and whose %sutferings en-
hundred battle fields showed cost
lest sacrifice men could make TO
liberty ard right. And Maryland
chivalrous Maryland, whose horse
men and footmen always sough'
the head of the column, who glo
ried III marching whore danger
were thickest and in whose Con
federate soldiers the world has al
example Of lntrepidity, c%onstanc.:
and fearlessnass which will for
ever shine on the ecutcheon O
their native Commonwealth wit