Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-09-22
ADDRESS OF WELCOME.

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Unveiling of the Monument at Brooks
vile last week. The address is publish.
ed by request of the Vetrans, through
DR.. J. S. Stanley ]
The Maids and Matrons Club
and the Noxubee Rifles Chapter,
U. ID. C's! have given me the
privilege of expressing their wei
come to you on this beautiful and
happy occasion.
| am grateful, but / feel that
they have given me an impossible
task, that of putting into words
what our hearts feel. Shakespeare
says: 'Welcome ever smiles" and
] am sure that you will know you
are welcome 10y our smiles if no
other way.
We extend cordial greetings to
all friends and organizations but
especially do we welcome that no.,
BILE body of men who are veterans
in the sacred cause we are assem-
bled here to honor.
Our devotion to the South en-
braces those who maintained her
birthright- constitutional liberty!
Our reverence for Sou thern his
tory extends to those who wrote in
sacrificial blood the record of the
war between the states.
Our enthusiasm in glorious mem
Ories includes those who made the
memories possible.
Years have swept, and years are
sweeping,
Many memory from our keep
ing.
But recollection of those gallant
young men, though they have long
since passed through the "gates
ajar," remain fresh and green to-
day as we come to welcome you to-
the ceremonies of unveiling this
modest monument as Slight tok.
en- of the honor in which we hold
their memory.
In the sixties the mission Of
woman was to inspire, now the
mission of woman Is to commence
rate, and in cOmmemorating ip.s
spire future generations to be like
the mothers of the South, like the
Veterans of the South.
In the sixties woman wove the
gray uniform and kissed the pa
triots sword that would defend
home and children. Now she plants
flowers on Confederate graves and
establishes Confederate homes.
In the sixties woman by sacri-
flee and practical management
made possible the maintaince of an
army to defend country and rights
Now by sacrifice and practical
management she makes possible
the erection of Monumental stones
that perpetuste the principles for
which that army, fighting :died or
lived and indured.
Conspicuous among the heroes
Of the state of Mississippi, whose
valiant sons made her star one of
the brightest in the galaxy of stars
On the Bonny Blue Flag, were the
companies in which the Brooks
vile and community boys enlisted
Noxubee Guards, Prairie Guards,
and NOXubee Rifles.
The Prairie Guards became Co.
3. of the 4th Mississippi Volun-
5eers and went into the battle of
Gettysburg in Heath's division
with 80 men, rank and file, but
they came out after a hard fight,
with only one man able for duty
5he next morning, and he was
none other than Corporal John T.
Morgan.
There were fifteen killed and all
5he rest wounded. This record is
)nly one instance of the many,
many made by our noble Brooks
vile and N0xubee County boys of
The Southern Confederacy.
Then someone may say that fsOld
South" is dead, never, not while
such records as this is told. Dead? |
If we say that the glory of the old
south is dead, we say truly that
the chivalry of man, the purity of
woman, the honor Of the South are
laid in the dust forever.
Men Of the South let your chill.
iren hear the old stories of the
South, by the 6reside, in the
,chool.room, every where, apd
they will preserve inyiolate the
sacred honor of it. Let them hear
Of the officers, indeed, but let
them hear also of the privates. Let
them hear all this, and write out
your record for them, write the
names Of your battles, your officers
the places where you received
your honorable scars.
Confederate heroes, the old stars
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