The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-08-11

0 poSh hail d century |
afterward. bearing Olive Branches in
our hands n preaching the doctrine
OF reconciliation, a reunited country.
one neart, one hope, one destiny. one |
nag from sea to sea-" to the bread
tnat ne then asst upon the waters. re-
turning to them after these SO years,
there seemed to come a great hush
through the immense audience and T
snail remember to my dying day, |
those earnest, sympathetic, upturned
races, looking as though they were
actually holding Communion with the |
spirits of the dear dead departed.
As a prisoner of war and while
travellng by slow stages to Goldsboro,
then the Parole Camp of the Confed-
eracy, and after that, northward, by
way or Wilmington, where we saw
many Of the cities and the people of
Old North Carolina, I have ever since
been greatly interested in it's progress
and advancement.
Col ScarbOrough's Address.
At Gettysburg in July, 1913, I sat
one day. right directly under the Flag
OF North Carolina and listened with
great interest to one Of the best
speeches made at Gettysburg, in my
Judgment, by your late Superintend-
ent OF Education whose name l do not
while writing recall (may be you
haven't got to that point of life when
the names of your best friends slip
away from you) and his word picture
OF the State Of North Carolina from
the time Of the outbreak of the Civil
War down to the present, was an
eloquent and mastery effort, and
ought to have been published word
for word and scattered broadcast over
the whole country. Aside from our
public reception as the New York
Monument Commission and survivors
| of Understandable at tho oifXy IF Col;c
bury, I received the finest Of treat
ment personally, from Mayor Wood
son, Colonel Boyden and others whose
fine courtesy to me, I shall never for
get.
In Wilmington in '65.
On March 4, 1865, I was in the city
of Wilmington just occupied by the
Federal forces and there learned for
the first time that Abraham Lincoln,
for whom as a boy Democrat, I a
cast my first Presidential vote in Oc-
tOber before on the front line of the
Army OF the Potomac and within plain
sight and hearing of the soldiers OF
the Army of Northern Virginia, had
been reelected, 1 not having seen q
newspaper or a book of any kin
except the Testament 1 carried in my
pocket from the time Of my capture
October 80, "a, until then, and having
received no letter or communication
Of any lind from the North. At Will.
mington, l walked once more a free
man and one Of the little things that
I remember Of that city was the fac
that there were SO many nanny
goats running the streets, young anG
old, all sorts and sizes, and one of GU
diversions was to attempt to catch thu
little kids, all Of which failed because
Of our physical weakness and theil
greater ability.
VIyh;1o r o~ hy NOV of ;1I,r&ro+;o~
mentioning some things pertaining tt
the Civil War, I noticed that you
wisely, 1 think. omitted all reference
to it in your great speech at Sile.
City.
Looking to Future, Not Past.
: I am Of the opinion that that is tn
best for the present and the future
: for while on such days as Memoria
$ Day, North. South, East and West
: we must and should speak kindly an
eloquently of the dear dead VIII
4 gave, "All that they were and al
r that they hoped to be" in followin
i their respective Flags and fightin
most bravelys and loyalty to the yer
4 end under those Flags, yet I believ
that as a Nation and as individual
e 1--WE cannot always stand beside
O grave, but must give our bes
strength and efforts to the duties Q
: the present hour, remembering tina
h we are now Zone Country, One Pee
g pie" and that what we most need
e to understand and practice the SEM
e ment expressed by your great South
f erner, L. Q. c.. Lamar, at the bier
Charles Sumner. my %countrymen
know one another, and you will low
" one another"
Pardon my thus visiting with 70
q as a stranger, but l become great
70 interested in you from your speec
\ made at Siler City and want to as
d sure you that in this, the home
" Seward, we feel with Major Londo
k when introducing you to your aud
ence, that you were equal to the OF
~ casion and I feel that you may re
% gard it as one Of the compliments
4 Your life that my friend, Major Lor
don. saw fit to send me two copies
'The Siler City Grit containing yot
at speech, as marked items.
assume from what 1.-THE Siler Gil
,r Crito saws of YOU, that o must (