The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-05-28
My Friends and Confederate Com


any man than that of being accorded
the privilege and ,pIeasure Of par
ticipating today in these sacred, In
teresting exercises.
South Carolina, cooling her brow
I'm tho pure air of her lofty mountains.
and Iaving her feet In the warm wa
ters of tho Atlantic. and utilizing the
brains of her sons and daughters,
will yet realize the dream of her ma
terial greatness.
And the splendid people of this
beautiful growing city of Anderson.
and of this historic old county, tell
US In unmiStakablc tones that In
honoring the presence of Confederate
soldiers here today. no token of es-
toem can be too profuse, no mark OF
sregpect Gan be too emphatic, and no
EFoDd'toi o. ..uIior can be, too con-
spic.uuS.
The hand upon the dial cannot he
Been az it moves, but 1t does move
nevertheless and 20 Eurely. as 1t
kGepB pace with the circling sun, so
surely Is tho fame and glory of these
Confederate Soldiers safe In tho hands
OF these patriotic daughters OF the
Confederacy.
All good people respect and admire
South Carolina for her glorious MEM
ories, hor gallant SONS and her fair
daughters. W. love South CarolinH
too, for her fertile folds. and her
tlesolate battle SCARED old hills; we
love South Carolina for the rights
Bhc has maintained, and for tho suffer-
Ing she has endured; we love her for
all OF her bravo men Wllnsef ~ blood
Gtalned almost every battle field, but
we love hor, best of all for the sacred
dust sha holds OF General Wade
Hampton, and thousands of others
who suffeFed and endured iforaus. ~
Reyerts TO Stirring Days.
Reverting today to that period in
your conntry's history when this fair
land wes submerged In war and
bloodshed and recalling .fts dangers
and discomforts. and its tolls and its
trials, oftentiIns with napght In haver-
sack save porched corn, we would
not, IL we could, blot out one days
record from the memory. Over its
somber shadows fell then, and falls
now, that light that comes to every
zieart I'M the pntlI of duty. There
comes. too, across the waste OF years,
n vision OF that knightly soldier.
Samuel NJ. Wilkes, adjGtAnt of the
9TH South Carolina Regiment, who
yielded up his young and promising
life on the altar OF his country In the
first battle OF Manassas. Methinks
we SEQ him now as he rode the lines
with the light of hattie in his eyes and
the thunderous charge upon his lips
BE rode into our hearts, the imper-
sonatlon OF chivalry, and he rides
there still These cuif buttons in my
cuffs, with tho palmetto tree and the
coat OF arms Of South Carolina on
their face. arr valued far beyond the
computation e dollars and cents be-
cause they are tine buttons that were
taken from the Confederate grey coat
worn by Adiutnnt wilkes, His deeds
and virtues are being perpetuated and
sacredly guarded by his worthy son,
: Colonel Samuel w. Wilkes OF, Atlanta.
J The body OF Adjutant Wilkes was
buried In your cemetery here, and
rests today beside that OF his beloved
wife, one OF the sweetest and noblest
women have ever known.
AS long as lookout Mountain rsars
its head above the bloody plains OF
Chickamauga like the Chimbarazo of.
the Andes. no. long will the sacrifices
OF such men remain bright upon the
. pages of history.
Cohfetsfiite ARMY Superior
The worlds histories fan to give
an account OF any army under aud
general, on any field. that equals the
Confederate Army. It was that army
y whose first shot. .fiEbd ut Fort SUM
ter, In your State. In 1851, that echoed
( ss.th 81 s.the throne OF royalty the world
over, and was, mptfled into freedDm's
Tong In every household where tIfe op-
comrades. who composed that army,
you gave Manassas to Beauregard;
You .wove she music OF. the battle of
Seven Pines into laurel wreaths for
Joseph y. Joiinston, and you caused
the waters OF the sGhicemauga to
Inurmur eternaily the name OF Brax-
ton bragg II Is beyond the reach
OF either bruEh or Ghisel4to redeem TO
the! tmaginatlon such scenes and such
men as shine forth In the history OF
( the $500 battles mud combats OF the.
Southern war, and not until some
newborn Homer shall touch the harp
can mankind be penetrated by q
senFe of their, heroic deeds, and then
alone IN the grand majestic minis.
tTelsy of epic song! ftH
In my imagination I have seen Ma
poleon putting down the mob In
Paris; have seen him at the head
of his army In Italy; have econ him
ON the Alps. minSling che eagles of
Franco with tho eagles OF the crag |.
i have seen him at Mafengo and AUS
straits: have seen him In the shad-
: ow OF tho pyrsmids. when he told his
soldiers forty eefttuFies would look
down upon them 1 have seen him
crossing the bridge at Lodi with a tfi-
color In hin hand haze sasss:;sss d i 81. 81.
y ! : 4asssiii1iSins siii up an empire nut OF she
ruins OF Europe by means ot his own
Ingenuity, but, with all that, would
rather have the record OF my loyebte
friend, General c. A. Reed. who left
his right arm in Virginia fighting Tor
she Southern peppla---I repeat, i
would rather nave the record of Gen.