ASH1NGTON, NORTH C.
TUESDAY AFTERNOON. MAY 10, 1910.
STRtBUTE^W THOSE WHO FOLLOWED 1 EE AND JACKSON
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The Day Fittingly and Appropriately Celebrated.
Hon.- J. Bryan Grime*, the Orator, in Wocdaoi
Beauty and Ornat*ne*s, Pays Just Tribute
to Thoae Who Won the Grey? The
IntclHi Occur In the School Au
ditorium and Are Attetid
ed by Large Concourse
of People.
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ALL HONOR TO THE HEROIC DEAD
They ?r? brother* and com fadea; they
?und afde by aids. >
Their faith aad their hope .to the
Who out tell when the 8prl*g be
gins, who can eey when throb* the
first putoe of aature'a awakening life
? where apringa the firet blade
grass, where sounds the first note of
returning bird*? Wearisome v*nd
Ions 1b the night of Winter, Irksome
the ewny of dnrknee* and cold. The
sense* chafe midst the coTorlo? . si
lence of earth and aky. the flesh
faints under the of death which
rind fyenNtmd field. Cheer
and feeling grown
torp^4K&A of the aenelble sym
bols or beatft*. and melody and life.
Yet nature la not dead. Within a
seeming death ahe yet lives and waits.
Never for a moment has her heart
ceased beating. In root and bud
aleep seed-time and harvest All the
whlls, over the edge of the world,
the -aim has not ceased to ahlne. And
preaently out of the shadow, each day
more and more the patient earth
turna her bosom toward the warmth
of hla rays; esch day farther and
farther the uanrpant darkness re
treats. Gently the Icy bonda are lift
ed, ateadlly the sky takes on more
blue, the air mlnta more of gold.
All at once the brooka and runs a hoif
more of a fringe of green. Wlthoat
warning the willow buahes are furry
with catkins. a bluebird wakena the
?tera4nc -with bte ttapld-graeUag, and
we of North Carolina, the fond Of tin
brave and the home of the free, re
member, 'tis memorial day.
Once again the mouldering records
of time are unfurled and we stand
as It w*re on the Qeld of Bethel, on
the htlls of Gettysburg, aad with bow
ed heads leave the ptolna of Appo
mattox. We of the South never
~t>ads M brow to look, dark nor caus
ed a tear only when we' that wore the
grey were a thin gray line during that
memorable struggle; It Is oh. ao sad
ly th loner aow. Th4 veterans have
tottered tato our mldat? what to left
of them. There to' btrdly enough to
make sremaant as large aa the gal
lant fWr hundred of Balaklavs.
- There 1b abflner specimen of the
human kind than the Confederate
veteran. they are crdsslai the
mystic river.: these men who once
tha waves of ths Potomsc,
an* th# Rappahannock.
The deeds 'ofv, their exploits to the
ostracW of achleveeaeat ? It ' to the
wooder of American history. First at
Bethel, farthest at Gettysburg, tost st
Appomattox. It took a good soldier
Co wto the heritage of glory for North
Carolina and Washington and Beau
rt county is glad to have him to
day within their gatse. Thrice wel
?e is bis. May his stay aaoagst
us be all sunshine snd may he re
turn to his homs a better Confederate
tbsn ever before
Tee. today was the occasion of an
other reunion of those who followed
the Immortal Lee. They are proud of
their work and the entire South to
ready at all times to toy garlands trt
admiration st tb^r feet They are
worthy of every enconlum. *
The .day In Washington, as usual,
wss a memorable one. The comrades
of other yeare once more graaped
hands and renewed the deeda of long
ago when on the battlefield tbey
fought for home and natlye land un
der the leaderablp of "Uncle Robert"
and "Stonewall." While their hal;
la silvered, the furrowed cheek and
weakened step to svldent their hesrts
are still as young ds of yore, snd they
stand as ready today tp defend thai*
country aa when they answered the
roll call and blvouaced on the PoUh
mac 4 5 years ago. The sorrow of ths
old vsterans today was like the gath
ering clouda In morning, ready to
drop every moment in showers. Most
of thoee who donned the gray have
gone, they here left us forever, bit
the Memory of their deeds Mill Urea
in our hearts. It will ever be fresh
and 'green. Th% great Birabeau In his
dying momenta aeked fer music and
flowers and for perfumee to cheer and
brighten hie mortal eclipse. Thoee el
the Confederacy who have pasaed
over the river died bleeeed with the
fragrance of sweetest effectJons. con
see rated by the holiest love, embalm
ed In the tears and eorrow of aabblr
people. The last sounds that atruck
their ears were the echoes of tholr sp^
plauae and gratitude, and their eyes,
cloaed with the light of a kOhrlsitan
promise beaming upon the]# souls.
The day was ah Ideal one In everj
respect. People from all sections of
the county were here to do honor to
thoee who wore the grey. It was r
spontaneous outburst or approval 01
the cause for which he fought.
The princlpel exercises of the daj
took place In the school auditorium
West Second sfrbet. Heretofore thi
oration has occurred In the opera
house and this was the schedule fo:
today up until yesterday when thi
committee on arrangements decide;
to make the change. One Of the mo?
inspiring sights of the day ? of coursc
the old soldiers stands out. preemi
nently ? was th? Children of the Con
federacy. They were Uig signal foi ,
loud and hearty applapse from sll
sides all during the day. They always
do much toward' making the veter
ans eojwy the ooeasion. and., today uc*a
no exception. The Wuhingibh^ Con
cert Band and the Washington Light
Infantry came 'in for their ahare of
praise. The military .appeared for
the first time in their new olive, drab
uniforms. The boys certainly pre
sented a daasltng appearance.
Long before the hour of Ibe exer
cises, U o'clock, the school audito
rium was well Ailed with sll classes
of people, young and old, tb witness
the program which had been care
fully arranged by the ladies.
The rostrum was attractively dec
orated and festooned In Hags, por
traits of Southern leaders, towers,
etc. Rev. W. H. Call was master of
ceremonies and performed bis task
with his usual skill and tact. The
first number on the program was
music by the Washington Concert
Band, after which prayer was offered
by Rev. J. A. 8ullivsn, pastor of the
First Bsptlst Church. "The Old
North state," a song near and dear
to every North Carolinian, was then
sung by the Children of the Confed
eracy. Miss Elisabeth Taylorf fie*
pave a recitation. This selection w*e
excellently rendered. The choir ren
dered the hymn * 'Ten Thousand]
Time Ten Thousand " \
The Belt on U* program was the
Introduction of the on tor bj Hon.
Btepben C. Bragaw. II la needleaa to
?t?te the speaker proved himself
?dual to hie pleasant task, for no man
can perform a similar 4 at; better 01
with more (race. When the name !bf
the orator of the day, Hon. J, Bryan
Orlmes. son of the lamented Major
General Bryan 0 rimes, the (real
Southern chieftain, was announced,
pandemonium reigned for several
minutes. The rebel yell ailed every
nook and corner In the large audi
torium; women wp^ed their banker
chiefs, men shouted and threw up
tholr hate. Mr. arlmea' speech of
the day waa a masterpiece The
speaker eald: .
Ex-Confederate Soldiers of Beaufort
Couaty, Daughters of th&-Oiinted
eracy. Ladle* aad Gentlemen:
It Is with a minded feeling of
pleasure and sadaeea that I greet yon
? ploaaure at the opportunity of
meeting ao many of thoee who are
my life-long fri?tjd<; setting b6tfanM
t? r look' about me, 1 mlaa familiar
faces and palnAiUy realise that yeat
riuslin Underwear
See VViqdow Display.
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?I" i&iV.-s'v
v> V'w i ,
by year so many^ are answering the
last reviell? and passing over the
river to rest under the shade of the
tree..
Today marks the anniversary of
the death of Stonewall Jackson. It
Is also the anniversary of the suspen
sion by president Lincoln of the writ
of habeas corpus ? the great sheet
mchor of our civil liberties. .T*\* U
Indeed a festival of tears, and it is
Qttlng that a day should be set apart
In hodor of the heroes of the Lost
Cause and an hour consecrated to
their memories. The tendency of the
Ume It to forget It. and In teU|ng the
Story of the Republic to overlook the
Booth's part. I would not wafttonly
recall bitter memorise or engender
sectional hostility, but the . truth
ihould be told and the South defead
from the misrepresentations and
i leader* of Its enemlea so coaeisteot
Ly and persistently told that even
many of oar. own young W-!
ieve them. Vad In some cases these
ngtruths are taught In our own
K*o?la Justice to the Smith de
nands that I speak plainly. n It bag
>een customary for Southern speak*
?ra to say that the South fought for
he right as Ood gave her to see the
rljgbt.. As a boy. I believed the oguae
)1 the South was JgttD es a m*a I
Southern offloers
tta threatened to
In *JI the freat develppmenU of
our country those men who have ad
ded meet tqjta expansion were South
ern nea xjpiDas Jefferson added
the great XjdMBtta Purchaae; James
rMonroe *tid?Kthe Florftlt territory;
Jamea *.-? POl>. of North Carolina,
acquired ^Texa* and all that great
Western part dt Our country that be
longed to Mexico ? More thaa an em
The fouimon of Nfiw England's
power- and wMlth was based on her
fisherlea. slate ahlps, the manufac
ture and eal? df rum. and later other
manufacturing Interests. In man?
caaes ladles* were "Christianised"
by being do*44 with rum, shot off
their lands aft* sold into slavery; but
It la of AfrtofcftWarery I would speak.
In the ConMltetlonal Convention. the
ool 7 protest ggalnst slavery came
from Virginia Jefferson charged as
a grievance agtlnst England that she
sold Africa* JHiVm to Virginia. In
1874 when VfWjia voluntarily ceded
to the United litotes the great North
eest Territory, from which were
made the States of Ohio. Indiana, Il
linois. Michigan. Wisconsin and part
of Minnesota, (Virginia) expreee
Ins each other In cannibal orgies to
I the sacrament, ot Christ. (The great
est tribute that the North has ever
paid the South is that they believed
three or four generations of Southern
training made pagan savages worthy
of cltlsenship, and worthy of a part
in directing the affairs of the" great*
est republic ill the world: and furth
ermore. they believed theae slaves
were not only their political, but so
cial equsls.
When Qrsat pritala freed her
slaves she paid their owners v for
them. When France freed her slaves
she paid their owners for them; but
the North sold hsr slaves to the
8outh, pocketed the money, and then
fought as because slave labor com
peted with them and because we re
sisted the dlscrimlnstlons I y their
favor and against us by t^e govern
ment. Tne Constitution gusrsnteed
the rights of the slave holder, the
Supreme Court In the Dred Scott de
cision ( 1857 ) reaffirmed the South
ern view of the Constitution. ' On De
cember 22. 1860. President Lincoln
In a letter to A. H. Stephens writes as
follows: '
? ? "Do the people of the South
reaHy entertain fesn that s Republi
can administration would, directly, or
Indirectly, interfere with the slaves.
.
mow the cause of the South tu
lght and Just.- -Now every student of '
he ynlthd- (States Constitution adraltu
hat the South waa fighting for the
Ights guaranteed by the Federal
Constitution, but which by might and
tot by right had been denied her.
In the measures that brought
bout American Indepeadence the
touth took the lead. In the War of
he Revolution from Moore's Creek,
neausured by results one ot the
a oat Important battles of the Revo
utlon, on through King's Mountain,
Sutaw Springs, Guilford Courthouse
o Yorktown, the South bore the
irunt of the . war and. was the great
ecrultlng ground for the Centlnen
si armies. Nbrth Carolina furnished
irer 38.0(H)- soldiers, though only
bout 9.000 show bt record eo the
?y rolls, as they fought for love of
ountry and not for pgy. When
Vaghlngton, disgusted by the com*
oercial spirit of the New Euglanders
>nd disheartened by thetr want of
?atriotiam croaaed the Delaware, he
raa met by General Nash with six
eglmeats of North Carolinians and
urned about And gave battle to the
Irtttsh at Brandywlne and German
own. While Southern men fought
he battlea of the Revolution, 8outh
rn statesmen also shaped and guld
d the destiny of the ship of state.
Lmong them may be mentioned Pey
on Randolph, president of the first
Continental Congress; Richard Hen
y Lee* the. author of the resolution
leclarlng the colonies free and the
aover of 1ta adoption; Thomas JeS
raon. author of the Declaration of
ndependeace; Oeorge Washington,
ommander-ln-chlef of the army and
Irst president of the Republic; James
fadlson, author of the Constitution;
oseph Hewes, orgahlzer of the A mer
es n navy; John Paul Joneft, the na
al genius who carried the American
lag into foreign porta and made the
(tars and Stripes ;known and feared!
>n every sea. ' Jf
In *the ' second. war for ladepend"
?nce, nn 1*1*. lfhlle Massachusetts
Connecticut, Rhode Island and New
J esse y were raising troop* to the
government. Oo^. Thomas Brown, of
Horth Carolina*' with the North C*r
jllna brigades of Oen. Thomas Da
r 1 9 and Joseph F. Dickinson were
lighting the British at Norfolk. While
Bokton was illuminated in honor of
British yUtyrJes, Johnston Blake*?,
North Carolina. Was sweeping the
high seas. Whilo blue lights , wore
burned on the NOW England coaat to
give information to ther British, old
Andrew Jackson. In command of the
North Carolina and Tennessee back
nroodamen, was hammering tho.tAe
out of the British at New Orleans.
In the Mexican whr when GO, 000
Tohinteers were called for, .47,000
were offered from the South, and this
if stipulated that Involuntary servi
tude except for should he pro
hibited The first slave ship built In
America was at Ifarblehead. Mass..
hi. 1686, the year that Harvard Col
lege was founded, and the last record
1 find of sn American slaver was the
capture of the Boston slsve ship
Nightingale, which with 961 slave*,
was delivered to the government au
thorities at New, York, June 16.
1861, by Ueut. J. J. Outhrle. od
Washlngtoo. North Carolina, then on
the U. s. s. Saratoga. The North
sold the human beings for the thirty
pieces of stiver; the South incorpor
ated them Into Its own unique patrl
acachaj aystem. Slavery aa an instl
or with them about their slaves? If
they do I wish to assure you. as once
a friend, and still t hope, not an ene
my, thst there is no cause, (or juch
fear. The South would be In' no
more danger In this respect than it
was in the days of Washington."
And In his Inaugural addr.^i.
Marsh. '61. Lincoln said: "I have no
purpose directly or Indirectly to In
terfere with the institution of slavery
in thf 8tates where It exists. 1 be
lieve 1 have no lawful right to do so,
and I have no Inclination to do so."
When, the slaves were freed Lincoln
recognized thst be had no legal or
icoagiltutlenal right to free them, bu'
Issued his proclamation sr a war
I AIi OHATOK.
tutlon had tu evils, but It 'was the
grvateat manual, moral ana tntelfer.
tual training a.-hool (or a woak and
Inferior race that the world ha# ever
known. It mar have been Qod'a own
way of tfelllllpg thetfe poor belngi.
The high value of the alavee waa In
llaelf a boad for their kind and hu
mane treatment .and the family ex
ample and teaching eoon eonverted
them from wandering wild men eat
measure. Lincoln violated tfic Con
stltntiorf he had sworn to uphold ami
even Thaddeus Stevens said It *fas
not constitutional. but Wecea sary.
The formation of the.Unlo.i waa a
compact between sovereign State*
which in the language of the Consti
tution delegated to the general gov
ernment express powers, reserving all
other*: Each 8 tate' retains Its sov
irelgnty, freedom and Independence
CURL KELLY 1IGNED BEFORE
CO If YESTERDAY AFTERNOON
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The Trial Is Si >r Tomorrow Afternoon? A. Venire
of 150 Hu Been Drawn? Case Will
Be Interesting.
BOTH SIDES ARE WELL REPRESENTED
C?rl Kelly wm Arraigned In court
peeterday afternoon Just before the
tour for adjournment murder
>f 8am uel O. Taylo^The court
oom was filled with people at the
ime. Kelly through hie counsel,
Stephen c Bragaw, Esq., entered a
>lea In abatement. It was alleged
hat there were Irregularities In the
I rawing of the Jurors by the county
-ommlsslonera a a or this term *hd In
onaequence of thle Irregularity the
lefendant moved that the bill of In
llctment be quaahed. Judge Fergu
ion overruled the moUon and Kelly
iraa arraigned, pleading not guilty,
?nd that he would be tried by Ood
ind hlacountry.
It wm then decided to draw a ve
nire of 150 men from the bo*. Judgs
Furgeaon then atated that he would
hare a night aeaaion for the purpose
of drawing the venire. Thla wa a done
last night. The case la set for trial
Wednesday afternoon. The prosecu
tion is represented by Solicitor H. 8.
Ward, Angus D. MscLean and Nor
wood I,. Simmons Stephen C. Bra
l?w represents Kelljr.
The prisoner wm brought back to
this city last Saturday from Raleigh
where he hss been confined In the
State prison for safe keeping alnce
the murder on the 31at or March laat.
The trial of thla cause will be the
principal caae at thia special term of
court.
r*V?hriV,OWer' ??d
right, which Is not by this confedera
tlon expressly delegated to the t'nlt
Ev.r!,:rf"1 assembled.
ih. V *n of th* ?>" In urging
Dudll^T ?r the re
o" 8t?,e .<!Ver> i ldtS '"Tender
or State sovereignty and eian Hamil
ton resented the Intimation that a
IXTaTh" P?' "" SU'?" ""
? VT P<,a<',' ?' ?'?rl8 was rati.
ITS - an*?f'h Car0"n? " In
"'"I' *"d from S3 to S7 .North Car
and , W?*.R "*lf"gov,>rnlng repuollc
, "uch was recognized by fon
rreat In aeveral act. before It ado?re|
the Constitution and acceded to the
"J"''" Wh#n Virginia. New Vork
and Rhode Island acceded to the
J'1? ,'he>" "Pressly reserved the
right to resume their Independent
sovereignty whenever their best In
terest, reared It. Thit thU inlor,
"as. a compact ot the Siatos was tf.e
view held by every Preside, it from
Washington, Jefferson and Adams on
of /hel. A" "" gr0at
Of the day were of that m.nd^ Haia
e?o'wMSr;bal1, C"y- Cilboun
even Webater admitted It in his Ca
nl""l ?ddr?" U was taught
on the Constitution." Le? OrtMf1
Jmckson Sherman and otheri learned
at the II. 8. Military Academy ihe
principles of State sovereignty Thla
doctrine was embodied In the famous
??. Kand Kentuci' resolutions
"f"e" ** Jefferson and Madison.
Many of the .easons of secession were
learned from .the North as the doc
trlae waa not conflned to the South
In 1807 John Qulnoy Adams notl
President of the United
States that unless the Embargo Act
"" repealed, th. sute of Maasachu
?etts and new England would nullify
* and secede. In 1812 Maaacbu.wtu
Connecticut and Rhode iai.nd re
dsed to furnish troops which waa In
iffect nullification. In 1814 the New
England States In the Hartford con
-entlon openly threatened aecesston
ind amrniCd the principles of the
Nrglnla and Kentucky reaolutlon.
Jy 1833 more than half of the States
lad threatened secession and afflrm-l
>d the principles. of the Virginia and
Centucky resolution. By 1833 more
han half of the Jitatea had proclaim- j
?i the doetrlne of nulllflcatlon Mi ? .
?aloe, Connecticut, Massachusetts.
'?w Yo-k. Pennsylvania. Rhode Is
and, Ohio, Virginia, Kentucky. North .
-arollna, South CaroUna. Oeorgia,
ilabama anu Mississippi. This in
luded eight of the orlgnsl thlrfen .
For the formation of the Union
here was a conflict of Interest be
ween the -cl'-organlied, comm i ial .
.'orth. and unorganlied. agricultural
iouth. The South was prosperous ,
nd rich, and had all the natural ad
anuges. Agriculture was their chief ,
?upallon. The New England poo- ?
?le engaged In manufactures and ,
ommerce and the highest genius of
heir statesmanship was directed to
;ninlng commercial advantages and
'xploitlng the government to their |
Actional benefit. Thomas H. Benton '
Ihows that by 1828. Virginia. North '
Carolina. South Carolina and Georgia '
vere paying three-fourths of the ex- '
tenses of the Federal government. '
md getting nothing or next to iot"n
ng in return, and from that day to
his, the same process of government
il favoritism and discrimination has
">een going on. The tariff of which
f ou have heard so nwch. provoked
Oftter antHt^oigm between the North
*nd South. The cupidity of man nei -
?r before invented such an- Ingenious
system for despoiling one section of a
country ipv the enrichment of an
other? the .North got all its benefits.
The free soil and Urlff agitation grew
rhore bitter each year. In. 18)60 '.here
were four Uckets In the field for pres
ident;
Douglass and Johnson. i '
Lincoln and- Hamlin. j
Bell and Everett,
Breekenbslde and Lane.
By this' di..?on Lincoln was shft
by 39 per rent, of Uw to ting p, p.
Ulatlon. He ra*MaeaMd those els
I merits moat hostile to the South.
Feeling the administration would
convert the/ government into an en
gine of oppression and despotism,
and that they no longer had a chance
to secure their rights in the Union.
I the States of South Carolina. Geor
gia, Florida, Alabama. Mississippi,
Louisiana and Texas reassumed their
sovereignty. As soon as they left the
Union, the Northern party being In
an overwhelming majority, passed
the Morrill tariff art which raised Im
port duties to an average tariff of
60 per cent.
The1 Virginia Legislature in a last
effort lo preserve the Union sent a
commitee to wait upon President Lin
coln to urge measures to secure the
return of those seven States to the
Union and to insist upon the 'e?;ora
lion of a low tariff, but the seven gov
ernors the seven most protected
States of the North got the ear of
I Mr. Lincoln and assured him that if
I he would -maintain the high Morrill
tariff they would furnish the men and
means necessary to coerce the South.
Mr. Lincoln then issued his call for
troops to Invade the South and war
was upon us. (Any one interested
jf U1 and a full, review offethla matter
with official papers In Alexander kL
Stephens' "War Between the StatM"
In which It is conclusively shown
that the tariff was Jthk cause of the
war.) The causing cause of that
great war was not slavery, but the
tariff. The statesmen of the North,
however, were adroit enough to com
bine the elements of philanthrophy.
abolitionist fanaticism, avarice, and
hostility to the South and succeeded
in placing the South before the world
as fighting for slavery when we were
fighting against commercial robbery
and for our Constitutional rights. In
Boane parts of the South there was a
lentlment for the gradual manumte
ilon of slaves. The Federal Govern
ouHit fought the bloodiest war of
nodern times to keep the South In
the Union because they said that un
ler the Constitution the Union was
ndlssoluble. As soon as they had
lubjected us and after peace had
>een made they declared the South
srn States out of the Union and lm
>osed on us the most ingenerous and
lumlllating conditions. North Caro
ina was put out of the Union by
federal despotism and went back on
erms dictated by Thaddeus Stevens
ind his conspirators. We then
dopted the Constitution of 1808 in
rhlch we declared the Union to be
terpetual and denied the right of
eaession.
Greg, the English historian, saya
he South waa forced into war and
he North was tricked into it. The
Jorth had the organized government,
he army, the navy, the arsenals, and
Jmost all the factories of every kind.
The population of the Federal States
iaa twenty-four millions ? the popu
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