The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-07-09
THE Blue And GRAY
LOCK ARMS TOGETHER ON FIELDS
GETTYSBURG
FIFTY YEARS IOF PEACE

Great Address on First Day of Gel
ebration to Veterans Who Stand
and Listen in Broiling Sun.
Despite the strenuous efforts of the
regular army to do impossible things,
thousands of veterans spent the night
on GettySurg field with nothing be-
tween them and the starts, but heir
Globes and their courage and nothing
between them and the hard earth but
little more of the same thing.
They kept coming from that hour
until long after daybreak and shortly
after breakfast the rush began again.
Major Mormoyle declared that prob
ably $4,000 veterans will be on the
field by night, 5000 more than ever
have been looked for in the widest
dreams Of the estimators. Although
half that number would fill the camp
in comfortable fashion, Major Nor
moyle said he would see that every
one was taken care of, that nobody
went hungry and that blankets to
warm and tents to protect were
found for all.
Many Of the men Of '63 spent the
night round the fires near the cook
tents, talking and trying to forget
that their bones were not so young
as they used to be and that he ground
was much harder han it was fifty
years ago.
Although the railroads we're not
good to the veterans, nature. was
thoughtful and the usual cold breeze
that springs up in the early morning
hours did not visit the camp, there
was only slight fall Of. dew and
practically no suffering.
In the morning fifteen thousand
blue and gray veterans Of the war be-
tween the states sat in a big hot tent
@on he Gettysburg battlefield and
Joined in the opening ceremonies Of
the first day Of the semi-centennial
celebration.
General Bennett II. Young, COM
mander-in-chief Of the United Con-
federate Veterans, said no man who
loves his country "can fail to read
inthe circumstances surrounding this
celebration the stimulating and up
lifting power of q peoples govern
mert." He declared the scenes at Get
tysburg are the completest evidence
Sof the perpetuity of the American re-
public.
He declared the men Of both ar
mics whose deeds Of valor made this
battlefield forever historic were true
in truth as they saw it and that more
than eight out every ten who partici-
pated in tha Struggle shave gone to be
with the immortals.'
Referring to the tattered battle
flags in evidence on every hand, Cen
eral Young said they are no longer
being waved to lead men into the
laws Of death, 'but to declare and
proclaim peace that in its mcneil
cent power and in its political liberty
challenges not only the gaze but the
admiration OF the civilized world"
He spoke feelingly of the fact that
men who fought half century ago
met as friends, with wars animosi-
lies forgotten.
..There are things in the past that
are rerettable," he said. Claws were
enacted that challenged the equality
of the men OF the south, but, tried in
he erucible Of reason, liberty and pa
triotism, they have all been repealed.
Every state has equal rights, every
man Ms eoul privileges. The war has
Ieft-no badge of inferiority, and the
men who wore the blue ind followed
the flag Of the Union ask for and ex-
ss nothing that is not right of the
men who wore the gray and followed
the stars and bars.
eft may be that the suggestion
lately put into form to give Confed-
crate soldiers the same privileges in
national soldiers homes as federal
soldiers may lead to the establishing
of this right, or that peace, in its de-
mand for the obliteration Of all Bit
terness Of the past, may demand that
that the naion shll pension surviving
Confederes.
81 do not even suggest, or in the
name Of my people, say that it would
be accepted, but this republic is a
great destroyer Of the cherished
ideals Of the past when they stand in
the way Of eompletest justice.
For nearly fifty years the people Of
the south, without complaint, have
contributed millions for the pensions
OF federal soldiers. A nations graft
tude has been meted out through
enormous grants to provide for the
federal soldiers, their wives and chill
dren.
NO murmur has ever come from
the men of the Confederacy at this
vast outlay, and there are some who
predict that the hour may arrive in
national lie when the few and in
drm remaining men who fought un-
der the Confederate standards with
admittedly unsurpassed courage,
should have in their evening time the
comforts and conveniences that their
intrepidity deserve.
"The men who fought in the great
est war Of the ages, made fercer by
the fact that it was civil var, now
celebrte peace that bears no stains
or bitterness from the sad and saw
age desolation, losses and ruin Of
struggle that cost 100000 lives and
such treasure as defes the power Of
figures; a peace that like heavens
stand for the preservation and de-
tense Of the highest and noblest
ideals of republic.
owe noint with jmneasnrahIe