Address Delivered at Wadesboro, N. C
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Excerpt from Address Delivered at Wadesboro, N. C: Before the Daughters of the Confederacy and the Confederate Veterans, on the 7th of August, 1903 Daughters of the Confederacy, Veterans of Anson, Ladies and Gentlemen: Could inclination rather than the requirements of custom be the rule of my conduct, I would love to talk to you to-day of "peace and rest and quiet things." to call about me some half-score of these "gray-haired boys" and revisit with them the scenes of fifty years ago: the clay-chinked but close by the "cool-lipped spring" - "The humble home of school boy life: The rough-hewn seats, the slab-floored hall: And carved with many a truant knife, Our rude initials on the wall." And amid such surroundings transport ourselves on "backward fancy" to the dear old days so full of innocence and peace -that "halcyon time" when even the birds of the air did "keep their nests in peace, and the Son of man had place - spacious, large and fair - whereon to lay his weary head:" but inexorable custom demands that I deal with less pleasing things, and so I must tell of stress, and strife and bloody toil. The situation is indeed an exceptional one. Self-exiled from the home of my boyhood and the friends of my youth for more than the life of a generation: an alien, save in affection and sympathy, to the society of the men whose fame and whose services these grave observances were ordained to celebrate. I find myself summoned to assist my surviving comrades, and the men and women of a later generation, in the pious work of renewing ancient friendships, of recalling names and associations made beautiful and dear by death, and of reviving the memory of transactions grown indistinct amid the changes and vicissitudes of thirty-seven years: it would indeed be difficult to imagine a situation more suggestive of noble reflections, or one involving duties more delicate and embarrassing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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