The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1910-05-12

the occasion and formed an escort OF
honor to the Veterans. Capt. W. ID.
Wester, Jr., was in command, with
First Lieutenant Richard J. Jones
and Second Lieutenant Perry Rose.
This was the first time the company
had appeared in public since the re-
organization, or change in the per-
sonnet of the officers, and they made
a fine appearance and acquitted
themselves with credit.
Luncheon was served on the
grounds to the Veterans, visitors and
military company by the ladies. The
repast consisted of sandwiches and
coffee OF which there was an abund-
| ance.
Dinner over the procession formed
and a goodly portion of the crowd
went to the cemetery to decorate the
graves after which the shooting
match between the Veterans (men-
toned elsewhere) took place.
| At night a public reception was
given by the members of the CrOatan
Club and citizens of Vance county in
the handsome and well appointed
club rooms, complimentary to Sena-
tor Overman, the Daughters of the
Confederacy, and Confederate Veter-
ans which was largely attended and
proved a most delightful affair.
Introducing Senator Overman Mr..
Zollicoffer spoke as follows:
| Mr.. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
At the solicitation of the Vance Coun-
! ty Chapter of the United Daughters of
! the Confederacy, and with the kindly as
sistance OF our able representatives in
| that body, the General Assembly of
North Carolina, at its session in 1909,
| passed resolution authorizing the May
or and Board OF Commissioners OF the
town of Henderson, and the Board
of Commissioners for the county of
Vance, to appropriate, and pay, out
| of the public funds in the treasures of
| the town and county, sums not exceed
| ing one thousand dollars each for the
town and county, to the Daughters of
the Confederacy, the same to be used
by them in the erection of a suitable
monument in the town of Henderson to
commemorate the bravery and heroism
of the Confederate soldiers, who took
part in the great civil war, from 1861 to
1865; and especially those who were en-
| listed from the territory now comprising
the county of Vance, many of whom lost
| their lives, and many others of whom,
having survived that memorable strug-
gle, have since been called to their final
reward, or are now nearing the end OF
| life's journey.
The funds thus provided for, were not
to be available for that purpose, how
ever, until the Daughters of the Coined
| eracy had, by private subscription, do
nation or otherwise. raised the like sum
of one thousand dollars.
Encouraged by that resolution, and
with the same spirit of love and devotion
which they have ever manifested, and
which has always shown them to be the
fairest, best and greatest OF Gods Gre
alton, and which characterized their
mothers before them, during those dark
and gloomy days of the civil war, when
they freely gave up their best beloved
ones, and sent them forth in defence of
their country, and who in the absence of
husbands, fathers, brothers and sons,
spent long and weary days and sleepless
nights in caring for and protecting those
left behind and dependent upon them
say, that these glorious women, these
angels of light and hope, these patriotic
daughters of the South. went faithfully
to work, and, to-day, by and with the
aid of generous and liberty loving peo-
pie, and by the assistance OF our true,
noble, faithful and public spirited officials
of this we'll governed town and county,
they are happy and radiant in the enjoy
ment of the fruits of their labors, having
raised the amount required by the act of
the General Assembly, given an order for
the memorial, and have now met with
this brilliant audience, these consecrated
| Masons, not with feelings of resentment
or bitterness toward any, but with
sweet love and charity for all, to lay the
cornerstone on which shall be erected,
and soon unveiled, the monument of
granite, quarried from the hills OF War
rem county, designed and to be built by
| the sons OF gallant Confederate soldier,
| which shall stand as reminder to gen.
erations yet unborn, that in the most
memorable conflict history has recorded,
| North Carolina. out OF a population of six
| hundred and thirty thousand white peo
| pie, sent about one hundred and thirty
| four thousand of the flower of her youth
| and manhood to battle for the Confeder-
acy-that about forty thousand of these
| were sacrificed, dying either upon the
battle field, or from wounds or disease,
received Or contracted in the service
| that not only were these precious lives
| lost, but of her substance she spent $26,-
| 600, 900 to aid the Confederacy in carry
| ing on that Wharf.-The monument shall
stand, not alone to remind those who
shall follow us of the valor and heroism
of our soldiers upon the field, but also of
heroines-of their love and devotion
| their faithfulness and loyalty to the State
and the South; how that when our sol
| diers were almost naked and starving,
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| last three months of the year 1861, de-
prived themselves and their children of
many of the necessaries of life, and sent
direct to the lines, in addition to what
they contributed through the authori-
| ties, money and supplies to the amount
OF three hundred and twenty five thous-
| and dollars. 1t shall also stand as a
| lasting memorial to the untiring energy,
zeal and loyalty of these Daughters of
| the COnfederacy, and shall constantly
| bring to memory the fact, that verify
| North Cardinals people, soldiers and
women, and this includes not only those
| born upon her soil, but also those who
| by adoption dwell within her borders
were and are first in war, first in peace,
| first in love, first in all that is pure and
noble and uplifting.
Some thirty years ago, after that great
struggle had ended, and the smoke Of the
| battle fields had passed away and the
| people of the South had begun to recover
| from the ruin and desolation wrought
| by the war, and commenced to rebuild
the waste places in the State, and to es-
tablish and build up New South, the
citizenship of this section OF North Caro-
lima, in what was then parts of Granville,
| Franklin and Warren counties, with no
desire to be freed or separated from their
friends and neighbors save as the ext
gences of the times required, appealed to
the General Assembly of North Carolina
for the establishment of a new county,
which should be carved from the three
counties above referred to.
When the proposition had been discuss
ed, the lines mapped out, and the details
agreed to, then came the important