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C.y SEPT. 7, 1911 No. 36 ADDRESS OF CHIEF JUSTICE CLARK RANDOLPH UNVEILING DAY old bov ridinsr nn and down the For weeks the people of Randolph county have luoked forward with 0 i Confederate lines when all the other soldiers were hugging the anticipation of pleasure to Satur day, September 2nd, as Unveiling and how some much older man had snatched him to the ground, saying, Day. Ine weather was ideal, tne clear skies, cool breeze and bright "xou fool, tney will shoot your head cff." Col. Morehead then intro.

duced the hero of the incident, "the 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 numbers.

Ic 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 1 Ladies, Daughters of the Confederacy, Veterans and Fellow Citizens It has been fifty years, just half a century, since Nrth Carolina, resuming her sovereignty, took her stand with her sister Southern States beneath a new flag. More than four decades and a naif have passed since wreathed around with laurel and with cypress that banner passed into the eternal silence, where Ipe forever the deathless dead. North Carolina sent forth more than 125,000 stalwart sons to make her declaration More than one-third, 43.000, came not back busiest man in North Carolina," sunshine, making a perfect September day.

Early in the morning, throngs of people began ponring into tow and by ten o'clock, probably three thousand were on the streets. Chief Justice, Walter Clark. Judge Clark's Speech All the principal business houses an several residences along the line of march ere gayly decorated with the Confederate colors, red and hite. In fact the whole town was Judge (jiarK made an able, laiar. estir and instructive address of 3 siderable length.

He told in C)a-cise form just what Randolph soldiers did in the Civil Wir, a fir i could be ascertained from reordj. Every son and daughter of should read this speech elsewhere in The Courier. i holiday array. The Procession II At clock the procession i er at Bhiloh, 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 ow men at Chancellors ville, Hooker's army would have been cut eff from United again. Dead by the fire of battle, dead by wounds, dead by disease, from exposure and hardship, of our bravest and best are sleeping their last sleep at Gettysburg, at fViotsDurg, at Chicamauga, at formed in front of the court house, Mr.

J. D. Ross led the march, -t The "Old North State' was then sung, the procession formed in tha followed by the Winston band and speakers of the day. order it had come and mirctm States Ford and prisoners of back to court ho ise square. Then came the Confederate veterans, about 100 in number; next the Randolph Chapter D.

followed war. Either event would have ended the war like a clap of thunder. The valor of our soldiers and the Unveiling There Miss May D. McAlister, genius of our general were equal to i President of the Randolph Chapter U. D.

C. pulled the Cords and the beautiful monument stood in plain 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 beauty of the procession. vuoiicovuu, iu uuo ovrauipo uj. ahominy, around Petersburg, in the valley of Virginia, and wherever in that ring of fire that encircled the Confederacy, we faced the fearful odds that Blowly but steadily drove ua inward.

In the four decades and a half which have passed since, the leaden hail cf the years have driven great gaps in the ranks of the survivors. Another third, aye, perhaps half of the remaining third, have joined their comrades in the great view of the audience. Then to the inspiring strains of Dixie and while success. Xney did not command it only because an infinitely greater i power than that which the ecemy controlled willed it ot.erwise. As Napier said of Napoloo, "Fortune, that name for the unknown combinations of an infinite power was cheer upon cheer rent tne air, tne Following the children; came the children marched around and decor ated the monument with the laurel wives and widows of the veterans, then the waitresses who had been 1,511 chosen from the town and county and last the general public.

wreaths which they had carried in. he procession. Mr. E. L.

Moffitt, former President of Eton College, in a short but appropriate speech, presented the monument. Col. W. P. ne feature not to be overlooked was the presence of the delegation Confederate Monument, Asheboro, N.

C. wanting to us and without her aid the designs of men are as bubbles on a troubled ocean." You can measure the magnitude of our struggle in another way. In the great war of the Revolution la which we won our independence from Gieat Britain the patriots during the entire seven years left only 1735 men from High Point Camp of Veterans. These "bojs headed by Mr, J. Mat PROGRAM LI bivouac of tne beyond of the daunt, lsss host of North Carolinians, 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 wtr. Their population was about equal 38,000,000 each. Each had an army of 400,000 men already 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 Unveiling Exercises Confederate Monument, Saturday, September SecondProcession From Court House to Graded School. 'A 1 4S 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 North Carolina. Song The Old North State. Music- Procession to Confederate Monument. Music by Band. Unveiling Monument Miss May McAlister, President Randolph Chapter, U.

D. C. Decorating Monument with Laural Wreaths Child ren of Confederacy. Music Dixie- Presentation of Confederate Monument Mr. E.

L. 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.J Eulogies to Old Soldiers Hon. Robt N. Page and others. Music Band.

Dinner. Col. A. C. McAlister, Master of Ceremonies.

'i i i 7-yW 3 HON. ROBT. N. PAGE Who Eulogized the Old Soldiers on Unveiling Chief Justice Walter Clark war with Great Britain, we bad only lippaJ for war. Tne army of Sechrest, Commander of the Camp, 1,235 killed outright, though that France was inspired by the remem faces homeward, and there picking np the web of life, where the sword had cut it, you began again whsre vou had left off four years before.

oame in nniforn and marched under war saved to us the country beyond brance of the glories of Napoleon. Your powerful aid dissipated the evil influences that had come over 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 rjtate has ao sons more jeal. ous of her honor or more obedieat to her laws than yon. Trnly of the Confederate soldiers no less can be said than Pericles, the great Athenian, more than two your native land.

raised np 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 crown no and Jour government of the bad men who ad climbed to At your bidding prosperity again started the thousand years ago said of bis 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 State Auditor, made tbe speech of acceptance for the veterans; Mr, II. M. RobiLS, County Attorney, in a few welLchosen words, accepted the monument for Randolph 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 Confederate 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-ncr was served by the Chapter to the veterans, speakers, marshals and memters of the Winston band. Aronnd the ontaide of the the Mississippi and in the war with Mexico which united ns to Texar, 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. tie and including the deaths from wounds 14,000.

Add to thoe the deaths from disease, this 8tate 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 itorj cf the Cos federate soldier. His mem. ory will sparkle in the fountain; the mountain peaks will recall remem. brance of his marches "The meanest rill, the mightiest titer, i Bolls mingling with his fame for 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 git in. When the vast audience had been called to order by Col. A. O. McAlister, Master of Ceremonies 'or the day, (.11 joined in singing America, tfter which the invocation was pronounced by Rev.

J. A. McMillan, pastor of tbe Asheboro Bap. tist Church. The minister asked for speoial blessings on the grey, haired heroes of tbe sixties.

'After the invocation the Daughters sang "Tenting Tonight." Col. Mo Alii ter then, in a few words, presented Ool. James Morehead, of Greensboro, a gallant Confederate soldier, who, he said, needed no introduction to a Randolph audience. Col. (Mortheod then spoke In his nsnal bright, brei sy and interesting manner for a short while.

Ua told a war-time joke of a fourteecyear. That of Germany by the victories of Frederick the. Great. In six months the German army had captured Paris and 1,000,000 French troops, and France had surrendered to the enemy two great Provinoel and had agreed to pay a war indem. nit of 1,000 millions of dollars.

In 1861 when our war began the South bad no government It ha to create one. It had not a soldier and not a dollar. It had to raise an army, organiav equip and feed it. It bad to make a treasury and fill It. It had no arsenals, do pow.

der and few guns. These things bad to be made. The enemy had 21,000,000 people to our 6,000,000, many of them colored. They bad an army and navy ready to hand. They bad an over flawing treasury and ready access to the outside world, from which they drew re emits to their ranks and supplies of every kind.

When they lost a sol dier, killed or wouaded, they could fill his place with three mare. When memory or tnem. Oa this occasion it will be appro, priate for ns to recall, even if briefly, the story of the companies whioh Randolph county tent to tbe front bum of its wneela, and nonor and integrity became again the attendants of your publio service. You did all this and more that will stand to your everlasting honor. In the strenuous struggle of 1811.65 you were faithful to the highest Ideals of the soldier and in the years following von were equal to the highest duties of a citixen.

Patriotism is not with you an ao- to be laid aside at will, tis a part of yonr very existence. The stress of years and the storm of battle have reduced your mem and to whose memorv this monument has been erected. It will be well to recall somewhat of their services, where fiey went and what they did, that It may he seen with what jant pride this monument will bear to future ages the inscription, Continued on page four ever. Posterity will recall too the lim pie faith and courage with which Continued on page five. when the end came, yon turned your.