The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1917, 1914-05-29
Ell LOQUENT ADDRESS BY
GEN. WEST OF GEORGIA
Tells of the South In Her Great Struggle Gallant
! Wilkes of Anderson Fell At Manassas-A .
Tribute To Jefferson Davis

Confederate lSoidiers
What Truth. Will Write
When truth presented justice to
the world, the muniheent gift was
adorned with flowers ef love and SEN
timent. Since that period. patriotic
sentiment has been the ruling spirit
with the liberal-loYing people of all
the natf0ng. Sentiment was the force
that directed the liberated bird;of the
ark TO return with a tender. sprig in
witness of & Feceding food, giving
notice ito the long imprisoned family
that the time was at hand for the
tremendous work OF rehabilitation
Sentiment provided a shield of bull
rushes for the babe of destiny, and
gave to Moses, the deliverer, the
magic. power to 3 save his people
! through the divided waters of the
Red Sea. Sentiment gave to Damon
his unyielding devotion for Pythias,
and led Joan of Arc 60 sacrifice the
life OF heroines on the alter of her
country's love; continent uerved the
noble manhood Of the South to sacri-
fee life and fortune in defense OF q
cause righteous as heaven is Just! Il
nerved the noble wQmanllood. of the
South to suffer untold pfivations in
cheering on to hattie and to carnage
seldiery whose honor. was the halo Of
the home, and whose patriotism was
the erected glory OF the firesIde; it
is the perfumed essonce of the mea-
dow that comeE waited to US from the
fields of clover, mingled with the
music of lowing cattle and tinkMng
bells: it is the note of nature that
sounds the advent oe Spring. through
the is,nncent chirp of the wren; and
ON V.ir
a season in bloom through the train
ed throat of the moeking bird. II is
the saffron robe, woven from angelic
tears. that Is n thFAwn around the
wasting form of old age, as q pretec-
tion against the cold blastsiof winter;
it causes the heart-springs to play
hide and seek around the sweet mem
ories of the old soaken bucket, and
sentiment, coupled with the pleasant
duty quickens our footsteps In hasten
ing to accept the kind invitation to be
here today, enaf les us again to look
into the eyes "a : these brave men
whose rifles itIfri.y alike ON the1 GREEN
hills OF KentlSeky send the. historic
heights CT aettysberg! These men
here, my friends! wearing the Con-
federate crossss, and their associates.
aFosthe sHsn sslso stood between your
homes 7ahd the enemy al q time when
the same hunger that eiutched at their
tfiroats pIunged It's daEget into theiT
hearts. as they thought or loved ones
furnishing at hCf1e |! a s.
Grim Fokeil OF War.
Memory turns backward today to
that period IN your Country,s history
when the tocsin OF war first sounded
its dread alarm! And when Your
fathers and brothers buel6led on their
l:armors bade loved Ones goodbye, re-
J ceived a mothers blessing. or wife's
warm kiss, snd unwounG, eTTtiiappss Us
| tiny arpss from around necks, closed
the doorsg os their fllUmes behind
them ana reported to their, country
for duty
Soon opened the carnival of gorei
First, the picket's signal gun was
heard, then the rattle of muskets
along the lines, followed by the boom.
ing cannon. and the great Southern
| yeli, which, you, and You so we'll re.
/ member, and which no foeman viii
ever forget! Shall the deeds anL
victories of eucil nlen ever, be neg
4 lected, or forgotten3. Go out all oyFa
this land and ask that dear old moth
Ter, who has toiled day In and day out
with sore hands and bleeding hear
to raise TO honorable Inahhood amt
womaflhood her war-made orphans
anu she will tell you no! Ask tina
poor old woman who has lived In poF
erty and sorrow for the want of
father lor brother who fell at tn;
front, and who isawegFy and anxiou
TO join T. /" loved ones at rest, and slI
will te' on, no! Ask that decrepi
old soldlvi who sits upon the shore o
4 time, and is sanxtotIBeto efosB the rive
and rest with Jackson In the shade O
the trees, end. as the tears tfinkI
+ down his wfinkled faeee he viii tel
you, mol Look UP. and ask the spirit
! of Bee, and Barlow, and Bragg, an
{ breckenridge, and Leo and Johntsof
and thousands Of others who died fc
US. and Heaven Itself viii trembI
i with a responsive MOI e4.s
) Honor for the Brave.
III Come then, to-day, Confederate Sol
: dierss With y0dr wounds ana you
j soaFB. ,sis6ie fair ladies, with You
J smiles i,iid your flowers; come youii
, lmeh ard fair nis.idshs from ever
/ nook and corner I'm thie gratfd al
i County Of Anderson, and honor youi
: selves IN holerltig the presence Of I'll
men who carried their coantryis fla
emiu the eesthqhake thfoes or Shilol
i where Albeft Sidney johnson died
We honor ourselves ia kdhofiug III
i men who held :alOft sIse stars and bat
( amid the ffoode OF living ilfe at Char
, eeilorsville. Ehers StonewAlI Jackso
feiis ;4ebeak today for the me
: whose lips are seHled Ia tleath. b,
! who saw tie ScatherA er9ss fltitte
~ the b loom Of the Niidefnass wiief
B the angry ditiaLofh and corps rRshe
: Upon asnh uthefs clinched and fei
8 Innd rolled Il, the bf0pdy nifrth! {
D epeeIls Tor Tie fIieflS wiI6 eustatfse
1 the lidrneff6I Lee, who FOR foi; ion
! sea IS and Stood as "a wall oil iivihs ri
{ between the CA pifal OF tho ConsiedeF1
{ ty and the mighty lesipns OF n
I fought and fianIsed and manoetl yerl
]. snd marched with that fhundgtrbo
Z Gf war. StoDe@zai Jacksuti. Who.