CONFEDERATE MONUMENT UNVEILING NUMBER THE COURIER Gfie COUk VR Laads in BothNev Circulation. J5he COUR.IER Advertising Columns Bring Results. ISSUED WEEKLY PRINCIPLES, NOT MEN ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR T j . x VOL. XXXVI ASHEBORO. N. C, SEPT. 7, 1911 No. 36 ADDRESS OF CHIEF JUSTICE CLARK Ladies, Daughters of the Confeder acy, Veterans and Fellow Citi zens : It has been fifty years, jast half a century, since Nth Carolina, re suming her sovereignty, took her stand with her sister Southern States beneath a new flag. More than four decades and a half hare passed since wreathed around with laurel and with cypress that banner passed into the eternal silence, where live forever the deathless dead. North Carolina sent forth more than 125,000 stalwart sods to mike her declaration good. More than one-third, 43,000, came not back again. Dead by the fire of battle, dead by wounds, dead by disease, from exposure and hardship, 4l',000 of our bravest and best are sleeping their last sleep at Gettysburg, at , VicKSQurg, at Chicamauga, at Charleston, in the swamps of Chick ahominy, around Petersburg, in the valley of Virginia, and wherever in that ring of lire that encircled the Confederacy, we faced the fearfnl odds that slowly but steadily drove us inward. In the four dicadtsand a half which have passed since, the leaden hail cf the years have driven great gaps in the ranks of the sur vivors. Another third, aye, perhaps half of the remaining third, have joined their comrades in the gnat bivouac of the beyond of the daunt less host of North Carolinians, 125, 500 strong who well may be said to have carried on their bayonet points the fortune of the Confederacy, as well as the fame and honor of North Carolina, less than 20,000 are still with us. In 1872 France and Germany went to war. Their population was about equal 38,000,000 each. Each had an army of 400,000 men already we lost a man there was no other to take his place. They put "3,000,. 000 of soldiers in the field. We managed first and last to put into line 600,000. It took the Germans six months to overcome the French, a brave and martial race and their equal in num bers. It took the North four years to travel the 117 miles between Washington and Richmond against a people and an army one fourth their own in numbers. And again and again they were on the point of failure. Had Albert Sidney John, ston's life been spared nee hour long er at Shiloh, Grant and Sherman with the army under their command would have been prisoners. Had Stonewall Jackson not been struck by a bullet from one of our on n men at Chancellorsville, Hooker's army would have been cut til from United States Ford and prisoners of war'. Either event would have end ed the war like a clap of thunder. The valor of our soldiers and the genius uf our general were equal to success. Tney did net comui.md it only because an intiuitelj greater j power than that which the eLemy controlled willed it ot.erwise. As Napier said of Napolon, "Fortune, that name for the unknown couibi-, nations of an infiuite power was wanting to us and without her aid the de&igna of men are as bubbles on a troubled ocean." You can measure the magnitude of our strug gle in another way. In the great ar of the Revolution i l which we won our independence from Gieat Britain the patriots during the en tire seven years left only 1735 men dead on the field of battle and we would have been beaten but for the help of France. In the war of 1812, cur second 1 Ct J V-r Chief Justice Walter Clark qiippjJ for war. The army of France was inspired by the remem brance of the glories of Napoleon. That of Germany by the victories of Frederick the Great. In six months the German army had cap tured Paris and 1,000,000 French troops, and France had surrendered to the enemy two great Provinces and had agreed to pay a war indem. nity of 1,000 millions of dollars. In 1861 when our war began the South had no government. It had to create one. It had not a soldier and not a dollar. It had to raise an army, organize equip and feed it. It had to make a treasury and fill it. It had no arsenals, no pow der and few guns. These things had to be made. The enemy had 24,000,000 people to our 6,000,000, many of them colored. They had an army and navy ready to hand. They had an overflowing treasury and ready access to the outside world, from which they drew re cruits to their ranks and supplies of every kind. When they lost a sol dier, killed or wounded, they could fill his place with three more. When war with Great Britain, we had only 1,23a killed outright, though that war saved to us the country beyond the Mississippi and in the war with Mexico which united us to Texae, California and the great territory lying between them, one third of the Union, we lost only 1047 men killed. In our war North Carolina alone had 5,016 men killed in bat tle and including the deaths from wounds 14,000. Add to those the deaths from disease, this State lost more than 42,000 men. In the long centuries that are to come, legend and song in this fair Southland will keep bright the story cf the Confederate soldier. His mem ory will sparkle in the fountain; the mountain peaks will recall remem brance of his marches. "The meanest rill, the mightiest river, i Bolls mingling with his fame for ever." Posterity will recall too the sim ple faith and courage with which when the end came, you turned your mm Confederate Monutnaat, Asheboro, N. C. PROGRAM r,I "E Unveiling Exercises Confederate Monument, Saturday, September Second Procession From Court House to Graded School. Music Winston Band. Song America, Invocation. Double Quartet Tenting Tonight. Presentation of Speaker Col. Jame3 T. Morehead, Greensboro, N. C Address Hon. Walter Clark, Chief Justice Supreme Court oj: North Carolina. Song The Old North State. Music Procession to Confederate Monument. Music by Band. Ur.veiling Monument Miss May McAlister, Presi dent Randolph Chapter, U. D. C Decorating Monument with Laural Wreaths Child, ren of Confederacy. Music Dixie. Presentation of Confederate Monument Mr- E. L. Mofitt. Acceptance for Veterans Col. W. P. Wood, Auditor of State. Acceptance for County Mr. H. M. Robins Acceptance, Town of Asheboro Mayor J. A. Spence. Music Maryland, My Maryland. Eulogies to Old Soldiers Hon- Robt N. Page and others. Music Band. Dinner. Col. A. C. McAlister, Master of Ceremonies. faces homeward, and there picking up the web of life, where the sword had cut it, you began again where you had left off four years before. Your powerful aid dissipated the evil influences that had come over your native land. .You raised up the broken and discarded statues of Law and Order and replaced them with Honor upon their pedestals. You cleared your fields of the brambles that had grown up and yonr government of the badmen who bad climbed to power. At your bidding prosperity again started the hum of its wheels, and honor and integrity became again the attend ants of your public service. You did all this and more that will stand to your everlasting honor. In the strenuous struggle of 1861-65 you were faithful to the highest ideals of the soldier and in the years following you were equal to the highest duties of a citizen. Patriotism is no with you an ac quirement to be laid aside at will. It is a part of your very existence. The stress of years and the storm of battle have reduced your mem bers and enfeebled your steps. The heads of the survivors have whitened with the snows that never melt, but your patriotism has not diminished with your numbers or your strength, and the State has no sons more jeal ous of her honor or more obedient to her laws than you. Truly of the Confederate soldiers no le-is can be said than Pericles, the great Athenian, more than two thousand years ago said of his own countrymen, who had fallen in a great war : "Whenever, in all time, there shall be speech of great deeds, there shall be thought and memory of them." On this occasion it will be appro priate for us to recall, even if briefly, the story of the companies which Randolph county sent to tbe front and to whose memory this monu ment has been erected. It will be well to recall somewhat of their ser vices, where t'ley went and what they did, that it may he seen with what jaat pride this monument will bear to future ages the inscription, RANDOLPH COUNTY'S UNVEILING DAY For weeks the people of Randolph county have luoked forward with anticipatian of pleasure to Satur day, September 2nd, as Unveiling Day. I he weather was ideal, the clear skies, cool breeze and bright sunshine, making a perfect Septem ber day. Early in the morning, throngs of people began pouring into tow n, and by ten o'clock, probably thr ee thousand were on the streets. All the principal business houses an d several residences along the line of march were gay ly decorated with the Confederate colors, red and w hite. In fact the whole town was i n holiday array. The Procession At 10:30 o'clock the proceesion formed in front of the court bouse Mr. J. D. Ross led the march, old boy ridiigup and down the Confederate lines when all the other soldiers were ' hugging the ground", and how some much older man had snatched him to the ground, saying, "You fool, they will Bhoot your head cff." Col. Morehead then intro duced the hero of the incident, "the busiest man in North Carolina," Chief Justice, Walter Clark. Judge Clark's Speech Judge Clark made an able, iitjr estii g and instructive address of siderable length. He told in ex cise form just what Randolph sol diers did in the Civil War, a far as could be ascertained from reordi. Every son and daughter of Rnli'ph should read this speech .published elsewhere in The Courier. followed by the Winston band ! sung, the procession formed in thi and speakers of the day. order it had come and inarched Then came the Confederate veterans, back to court ho ise square. about 100 in number; next the Ran dolph Chapter U. D. O., followed by the children of the Confederacy, the young sons and daughters of the chapter. These children ranging in age from three to seventeen, all bore laurel wreaths and added much to the beauiy of the procession. Following the children; came the wives and widows of the veterans, then the waitresses who had been chosen from the town and county, and last the general public. O ne feature not to be overlooked was tbe presence of the delegation from High Point Camp of Veterans. These "bojs" headed by Mr, J. Mat llnveilliifC There Miss May D. McAlister, President of the Randolph Chapter U. D. C., pulled the cords and the beautiful monument stood in plain view of the audience. Then to the inspiring strains of Dixie and while cheer upon cheer rent the air, the children marched around and decor ated the monument With the laurel wreaths which they had carried in. toe procession. Mr. E. L. Moffitt, former Presi dent of lon College, in a short but appropriate speech, presented the monument. Col. W. P. Wood, Continued on page four -4 HON. ROBT. N. PAGE Who Eulogized the Old Soldiers on Unveiling Day.' Sechreet, Commander of the Camp, came in nniforn and marched under a handsome banner. When the procession arrived at the graded school building, the spacious Auditorium was soon filled to overflowing, and more were left on the outside than could possibly get in. When the vast audience had been called to order by Col. A. C. McAlister, Master of Ceremonies for the day, (.11 joined in singing America, titer which the invocation was pronounced by Rev. J. A. Mc Millan, pastor of the Asheboro Bap. tist Church. The minister asked for special blessings on the grey- haired heroes of the sixties. -After the invocation the Daughters sang "lenting xonight." Col. McAliBter then, in a few words, presented Col. James T. Morehead, of Greensboro, a gallant Confederate soldier, who, he said, needed no introduction to a Randolph audience. Col. Morehead then spoke in his usual bright, breezy and interesting manner for a short while. He told a war-time joke of a fourteen -year. State Auditor, made tbe speech of acceptance for the veteranf ; Mr. H. M. RobiLS, County Attorney, in a few well-chosen words, accepted the monument for RandoiDh county: and Mayor, J. A. Spence, for the town of Asheboro. The band then played Maryland My Maryland, and the vast audience repaired to the commodious auditorium of the new court house to hear Hon. Robt. N. Page on a eulogy to thebravery and lofty principles of the Confedirate soldiers. Dinner The last thing on the program was dinner which was served on the Presbyterian Churoh grounds. Just in front of the church a table had been arranged and tastefully decor ated with flowers and red and white bunting, at which a bountiful din ner was served by the Chapter to the veterans, speakers, marshals and memter8 of the Winston band. Around the outside of the grounds,' Continued on page five.

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