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SVIll NICLE VOL. 1. THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 4, 1888. NO. 57. CLARK r"mvTT"T OHIiO Ho. 1 Franklin Street Call your attention to Ji sncL&i3? Lsarge Stools. -OF- Drugs, Patent Medicines, Paints, Oils, Window Glass, &c. 'To country merchants and country physicians we propose to wholesale f all goods in our line as cheap as they can be bought anywhere. We solicit RETAIL AMD PRESCRIPTION TRADE knowing that our facilities are not'surpassed by anyone for giving entire satisfaction. And we do not forget to return thanks to our many friends for past favors. Hardware, Stove and Agricultural Implements, Olds Wagon 8, Old Hickory "Wagons, Itoad Carts, ' Mcikle The best in the world for HI fsiff$9 1 Walter A. Wood Self-Binder, Keapera and Mowers, Hay Kakes and Forks, Malta Double Shovels, i s -A. S. S 3ES X T3EIB NEW PUBLIC SCHOOL BUILDING Will be finished in a Monday, September 3rd at 9 o'clock ASKEW & Wish to inform you that they have complete stock SCHOOL BOOKS and SCHOOL SUPPLIES 4 Anions which can be found a largo assortment of School Bags, Straps, Tablets, Pencils, Killers, Erasers, blat.es, reus, inKS ana averything that is needed in the school room. j&TWR WILL GIVE A HULKIt TO EACH PURCHASER OF A HOOK. C03IE EAltLY. 1 , m DM. W V JLi FOB, BOYS The greatest rJ m m m SAhnn nofis ever IVMWV " ville. Every pair the Plows, And' Oliver Chilled Plows. Tobacco, Corn and all crops. and Walking Cultivators. W ! 3FS. 3E5 . tew days and will open a. m., and E rk at se m added to their stock a new and ot all kind or AND GIRLS. line of Children's j j rt i nrouffnt 10 uiarKS- O - warranted, by urU . - . FII The Brave and Gallant are Our Quests. Thel Koar . of Cannon is Over, But the Echo of Daya Past Comes Back Again. Forbes' Bivouac Doing the Hon ors, Assisted by Clarksville City Guards And a Band of Noble Women, Whose Ministering Services Have Blessed Mankind From the Beginning of the World. The Day and its Doings are Here Including in Full the Speeches of Several Dis tinguished Veterans. This has been a gala day for the survivers of the lost cause and many of the old soldiers who "fit, bled and some of them nearly died" for the es tablishment of their rights are here. They do not meet a revival of past issues but for a hearty hand shake and an exchange of those tender emetines which only men who have endured, side by side, the dangers privation and evils of war can feel and express. They are here by invi tation of Forbes' Bivouac and that association is certainly doing itself credit in the manner of it- entertain ment. Clarksville is delighted to welcome these heroes and with one accord it is demanded that they have the freedom of the city. There has been music in the air all clay and it will continue far into the night. This morning the sun came out with a bright smile for the occasion while the crisp autumn weather has been warmed into a bright genial atmos phere. The late morning riser was aroused from his slumbers this morning by strains of martial music and the sound of military tred. The first train from the north brought Caldwell's Bivouac from Eusscllville. When the train arrived the Bivouac was met at the depot by the Clarksville City Guards headed by the Clarksville band. The march was then made to town the rear of the procession being brought up by the ltussellville band. On arrival at the court-house the Clarksville City Guards as a guard of honor formed in front of the Arlington and Cald well's Bivouac were marched in a body to the Chancery court-room where for several minutes they were presented in person to the various members of Forbes' Bivouac. The Clarksville City Guards stacked arms iu the court-yard, their arms remain ed under a sentinel until 9:15, when they were ordered to report to the court-house again to act as a guard escort for Cheatham's Bivouac and other visiting delegations from Nash ville who were to arrived on the 10 o'clock train. Caldwell's Bivouac which also marched to the depot to meet the Nashville delegation, is composed of the following members: G. R. Beall, president; J. B. Briggs, vice president; G. T. Price, C. M. Swan son, W. S. Ludon, G. T. Morgan, J. M. Dale, R. Lyles, R. Small, Wm. Orr, J. II. McGinnis, V. O. Ander son, Geo. Settle, Green Clark, II. A. Sale, T. F. Snail, W. R. Browder, W. M. Bryan, J. A. Peak, R. II. Caldwell, Alf Perry, Mac Penick, Wm. Frasicr, L. W. Mason, J. T. Duffer, Frank Shipper, D. W. Cald well, Wm. Fallen, J. W. White, J. E. Small, J. W. Johns, J. M. Beall, M. Valentine, Walker Kelly, W. B. McCarty, Joe Barklcy, C. Cornelius, R. Gill, J. C. Campbell. Train from Nashville was consid erably late and it was after 11 o'clock, before the Nashville delegation, es corted by the Clarksville City Guards, the Clarksville band, the Caldwell Bivouac and ltussellville band, arri ved at the Court-house. During the interval the crowd was kept from be coming impatient by the rendition of several selections by llaydens band of Clarksville, whose services were gratuitously tendered as a special compliment to Forbes' Bivouac. TIIK rROCERSION. On arrival of the Nashville delega tion, the procession was formed and marched to the tread of musical sound to the lovely grove surrounding Mr. Patrirk Hrnrvs beautiful place. The Headed by the Clarksville band, and then came the Dixie Drum corpse from Nashville, followed by the Frank Cheatham Bivouac, next came McEwen Bivouac of Franklin, fol lowed by Caldwells Bivouac in a body, followed by members of Forbes Bivouac. The procession moved to Henrys' grove where dinner was be ing prepared to accommodate the large crowd in attendance. Before the exercises were formally opened, there were several cannon salutes by the Nashville Artillery, while the band plaid Dixie and the old rebel yell went up again. Capt, Polk G. Johnson called the crowd to order, and immediately the exercises were opened with a fervent prayer by Rev. Dr. D. C. Kelly, of Nashville. CAPT. POLK JOHNSON'S SPEECH. After the close pf Dr. Kelly's prayer, which met with a devout amen all over the audience, Capt. Johnson said : Ladies and Gentlemen, and Fellow Com rades : The Confederate Holdier who remained steadfast to the last, will always receive a hearty welcome from any people who value fortitude, devotion, and self-saortflce, for the facts of the. struggle have already beeu re corded and will be handed down to .the ages that follow. The Confederates, with armies, first to last, of a little over 000,000 men, fought for four Ions; years the, armies of the United States composed of 2,8.59,132 men, being two million, two hundred thousand more men and nearly five times their number. It cost the Government of the United States to defeat them 86,189,929,909 in money and the lives of 278,38fi men. These figures may seem extravagant, but they are taken from the official records at Washington. The glorious fields of battle upon which their banners waved In triumph, the eighty two National cemeteries with their thousands of monuments erected to the memory of the b ave Federal soldiers, the graves of more tiian a quarter of a million of lueu, aud the annual expenditure now of 880,000,000 in pen sions, tell the earnestness of the struggle and the valor and courage of the Confederate sol diers. The loss sustained in single battles are un paralleled in all the annals of war. The greatest Jogs sustained in any single battle on either side was that of the Twenty-Ninth North Carolina Regiment of Holt's Division at the battle of Gettysburg, where it lost eighty-two per cent.; that is, eighty-two men in every one hundred fell dead or wounded in this engagement. Many other regiment's loss in a slnglo battle was from fifty to eighty per cent. "Our own Quarles' Brigade in a single charge at the battle cf Lick Skillet Road, Atlanta, lost fifty-two per cent., and the Forty-Ninth Tennessee Regiment forty three per cent, at the battle of Franklin. In the charge of the Light Brigade, which has been Immortalized by Tennyson, the loss was only thlrly-slk perceut.,andthe heaviest ioss in a single battle in the Franco-Prussian war was that of the Sixteenth German In fantry, which was forty-nine per cent. With snch a record, history will take enre of the motives which influenced theConled eratcs and accord them a patriotism worthy or their forefathers of TO. No thought or question of expediency was thotrs. A great principle was involved, and they were will ing to endure any hardship aud make any sficrltlce rather than surrender it. No com promise could have been made whereby they would give up their convictions. Theleaders would never have consented, and the men in the ranks would never have submitted to It. They accepted the Issue as a life and death struggle to bedeterniined alone by the results ot war. Bo they fought for four long years by night and by day, hnlf-fed and half-clothed. Their ranks were nearly destroyed, but not demoralized. If defeated to-day, new to. morrow. Their final overthrow came not by defeat in battle, for the army of Northern Vlr giuia in Its last battle at Appomatox droy the enemy two miles, capturing two cannon, and many prisoners, and the Army of Ten nessee in Its last battle, at Bentouvllle, de. foaled the enemy in every engagement, cap turlng its breastworks, four cannon, and nine hundred and three prisoners, and Iheir killed and wounded exceeded four thousand. Ac cording to official reports tho Confederates had fourteen thousand men and the Federals sevenly thousand, the enemy having five times their nnmber. j Hut they were compelled to yield to over whelming numbers and resources. They pre ferred that their flag should go down by the lrreslstable force of the enemy, rather than yield one iota of the principle for which they began their struggle. They stood In line of battle as eager and ready for the Gght on the last day of their military life, as they had on the first. Pending the negotiations between Generals Lee and Grant at Appomatox, Sher idan demanded the immediate surrender of Lieutenant-General John B. Gordan' com mand, which was In advance and engaged with the enemy, with the threat that in the event of a refusal his army would be annihi lated. Gordon refused to surrender and in vited the annihilation. The struggle ended, they returned to their homes, In the language of General Lee, '-with tue satisfaction that proceeds from the consciousness of duty faith fully performed." For such soldiers, the people of Montgomery county and thecity of Clarksville have always a hearty welcome. A county which cast all of it votes except thirteen for separation, and a city which cast all but one. A county which furnished its full quota of troops to the Confederate Array, all of whom were volun teers, and whose dead heroes sleep on nearly every field of battle from Donelsou to Gettys burg, nearly every family iu the county bav in a representative. Bui comrades, I am here to welcome yon in the name of Forbes' Bivouac. What can I, shall I say. We were engaged In the same cause with yon. We have camped with you, marched with you, drunk from the same can teen with you, slept under the same blanket with you, laughed wit h you, wept wilh you, fought with you, bled with you, and surren dered with you. Welcome ! a thousand times welcome to our homes and our hearts. Welcome as s part of t he old guards of the old South. Tba South that sough! ! elevate her sons In all that wss great, true sr..l good, that defended aud protected the weak and feared not the strong ; that cherished character more than reputation and bowwl not to the God of Mammon; that taught "how much bet .... ' 'n - r-tvn hnti eold.nn i t set understanding, rather to be chosen than silver;" that contended not for "the old flag and an appropriation," but for those undying and inalienable principles of government se cured to them by .heir forefathers; that gave us in Statesmanship a Jefferson, wnose prin ciples of government have won the admira tion of the world ; In warfare a Lee, without a peer when the grandeur of his whole char acter hs General, a man and a Christian is considered, and in science, a Mauiy, who sounded the depths of the sea and told of the winds and currents of the ocean. The stars had secrets for him ; seas Kevmled the depths tiielr waves were screening: The winds gave np their mysteries, The tidal Hows confessed itieir meaning. Of oceans paths the tangled blue lie taugnt. the nations to unravel, And Bhowed tue trail where safely throntrh The lightning-looted thought might travel. Who, In all his sclentlflo research, never for got who was the author of the great volume which Nature spread before him and taught the harmony of science and revelation. The pages of our nation's history are bright est where the names and deeds of her noble sons are recorded. While we enjoy the pleasure 'OT-trsoclal re union to-day, after so niatiy yeans of separa tion, we must not, and will not, forget our old companions who gave up their lives for the cause so dear to us all. They died lu the dreaded hospital, on the weary march, on the lone picket beat and in the shock of battle, but all freely gave up their lives for what thsy deemed '.he right. What nobler sacrifice docs the world furnish than that of giving one's life for another or a cause. We wit nessed their sufferings and trials and their triumphs, too, for to die nobly Is to triumph. When we remember that the eiiemy wns be tween them and their homes aud loved ones, and know that they regarded home, country and liberty all at stake, who can dpubtthat the glorious inspiration of the breath of pat riotism made them rather prefer death in the Intense and exalted excitement of battle, than life with the defeat which awaited their com panions. We will keep their memories fresh and green until we too. shall "cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees." "Old comrades of mine, by the fast-waning years, That move to mortality's goal. By my heart full of love and my eyes full of learn I hold you all fast in my soul : And I march with the May, and its blossomy charms r txiitlMi i V IhV ml LillH Htnl And pray they may rest there, old comrades) iu arms, Like a kiss of forgiveness from God." After Capt. Johnson's very patrio tic and eloquent address, Capt. Thos. II. Smith was introduced, and spoke as follows : Comrades of Tennessee Division of Confed erate Veterans : Ladles and Gentlemen Captain Johnson, on behalf of Forbes' Bivouac, has spoken to you words of welcome, to which the heart of every citizen ofClarksvlUe most heartily re sponds. I come before you to-day delegated by the city authorities of Clarksville, to say in their name aud on behalf of the citizens of our town, to bid you welcome to our homes, our hospItttTTrj'7and the entire freedom Of our city. The people for whom I speak have al ways been true and loyal to their convictions of right, and when war betweea the States waB brought upon them, they espoused the cause of the South, were true and loyal to that cause so long as it existed, and yet hold saored the memories of those days of trial and suffer ing. Among the first to respond to the call for men, Clarksville and Montgomery county organized and equipped her sons, aud sent them forth to Join their brothers from other portions of the State In defence of our cause. Our people were early brought to face the stern realities of war, the horrors of battle, when from Donelson our mothers, wives and sisters, with a devotion only born of woman, received and cared for the mangled forms of the wounded heroes of that bloody field, swallowing their tears, not knowing but the next boat would bring their own loved ones, mangled or dead. Among the first people of our State to fall under the rule of their then enemies, with all the annoyances that rule implied, they were still true. Oppressed, but not conquered, they again equipped and sent forth their loved ones to battle on the' field of Kigglus' Lane, from which bloodless field they gladly received their own again unhurt. These people, animated by the same spirit which carried them through those trying times, welcome you to-day as representatives of the manhood of Tennessee and the chivalry of Kentucky, feeling that in honoring you, we honor ourselves and the memories of our own loved ones, whose graves mark the bat tle fields of the entire South and the prison pens of the North. Again we bid you wel come. Capt. Smith's speech was brief, but was recieved with a round of ap plause. Capt. Jno. W. Morton, the Captain of the celebrated Morton's battery and Chief of Forrest's Artillery, was next presented to the audience and spoke mast feelingly as follows : Ladies, Friends and Comrades; In returning thanks of the visiting com rades for the patrloticaud felicitous addresses of welcome you have Just heard, allow me to say that it is beyond my power to adequately give expression to the thoughts that would be appropriate at this time. This occasion Inaugurated for the purpose of preserving rcmlnlsences, is In itself his torical. It murks lu the history of us all, my comrades, the first lime many of you have seen these hills aud vales since we were on march from Bowling Green to Fort Donelson. Then In the lusty strength of youth new with gray locks and many memories. The war of guns reverberates no more on the air, the deeds of daring have parsed away;tbe cause that mustered us. then, no lonacr lifts it's banner to the sun. The hum of peaceful industry Is now ou the breeze ; the hands grap the Implement of varied pur suits, but learns war no more. 1 he boys are in touch of elbow nndcr the flag of a re-unl-ted country. The muster Is no longer msrtlal, but social; the Intent la no longer hostile but benevolent; We here swing no center before the altar of war; we breath no not of that spirit which learns nothing and forgets noth ing; we are not massed here to raise the mendicants cry for help'for our disabled comrades. We ara here to congratulate each oth( that ws can taka car ot those who are wrecked In the storms of this world's adver sity : save them from destitution in life and glvs them honorable burial in death. Our's lsamUion of benevolence and fraternity, Proud and poor, Independent and manly, j the Confederate ia Illustrating his Integrity and' self-maintanance in peace, Just as ha nile his devotion illustrious on a thousand fields in war. ' Our banners hear names well known and dear to us. First, the dim eye of the veteran will see in this column the name of Frank Cheatham floating on the silken air of peace, ai cnl mly as if it had never known the temp est of battle; next, Forbes and Leonodas, Polk and McEwen and Ingram ; Daniel 8. Donel&on aud Woldrldge and Frlerson and McDonaldson aud Palmer, give name and Identity, here, to bivouac's of men who have seen the camp-fires In eleven States, glitter along the line of battle that divided a conU nent, like fire-flies on a summer's night. From the little gathering at Nashville on a winter's eve last December, behold how (treat a fire has been enkindled? Twelve hundred strong. Within this circle of Home no dastard dares come ; no self-seeker will ever proMJ tute our glorious standard to base uses. Ia the mantling goblet of our friendship, there is not a drop of political slime, nor of the venom, sectional hate. Here Old Mortality cleanses the mossy marble, that the legend o( our dead comrades' honor, may be plainly read, and rears the stone to the memory of our unknown dead. -- ' Wo vindicate the troth of history and lay the chaplet of unfading glory upon tho brow of the Confederate Soldiers. But not alone am I called upon to accept ' welcome from comrades; tho keys of the pround city of Clarksville have been laid at our feet. Her hauds have woven a wreathe for the boys in gray, and the hands that wove it are of Montgomerys' fair daughters. The dearest welcome of all, comes.from eyes and h earts of our women. When did the Southern girl ever forget us, and my comrades when can we ever forget her. We may have been conquered, she was'nt. Her hand bound up the wounds of" war; her voice gave courage to the fainting heart. It is to the women of the South that she owes her rapid rehabilitation, all honor and love to her, the fairest and bravest and best gin of God to man. Capt. Morton had remarked to a comrade just before being introduced to the audience, that he had much rather face a battle than an audience, but before his speech was half finish ed, the audience were of the opinion that he could face a crowd with the same boldness which characterir.cd meetings with the enemy. Gen. Basil W. Duke, Morgan's right hand bower, was next intro duced by Col. Young, but his re. marks were interrupted for a time by the intrusion of one of the bands which seemed compelled to turn its melodious strains loose. When quiet was restored, Gen. Duke said : More than a score of years have rolled away since the great contest was lost "and won." We look back upon it as we might re memember another existence. Our remiues. cenccs of those days of ardent convictions burning impulse and earnest efforts are be coming dimmed as time and age creep on us. Thut which was once a vivid and glowing realty seems now scarcely more tangible than "the stuff that dreams ore made of," aa wo gaze on it reflected iu the mirror of memory. And, Indeed, the diflerenco' between dream life and every day existence, between tho world we know and a world we can imagine, is hardly more distinct and positive than the contrast between the life before and during the war and that of the present day. The political- consequences of that convulsion are scaroely perceptible, now that the dangers threatened during the years of so-colled re construction ; except lu so far as that merely sectloual idoos, aims and interests find llttlo if any expression In political declaration and autlon ; but never before, in modern history save by the revolution which destroyed abso lution aud aristocracy in France, and oblit erated every truce of feudal influence has so completo a soclul transformation beeu ef fected. We who saw the beginning, progress and conclusion of tho greut controversy can not regard it as we did when intoxicated with Its Inspiration. Removed from the period of nctual strife by almost the life of a generation we can realize clearly now what wo could not then discern, that while the causes which In duced it were resistless, the results which came out of it wre, In the nature of things, inevitable. The sectional pride and partisan bitterness which impelled tho conflict, the pusslonato patriotism which urged men on both sides Into that terrible struggle, silenced for the Utile all other suggestions. In the agonies of hope and feur with which that war wns waged; In the fierce grapple when the spirit of battle was upon us, we could hear no voice save that which bade stern aggression ou the one side, or stubborn resistance ou tho other ; could listen to no counsel which did not stimulate combat and promise victory. But the survivor, Federal or Confederate, of that fiery ordeal, who can still cherish tho angry thrill of jronfllct; who falls to recog nize the wiso dispensation which preserved the Union and the good Providence which protected constitutional liberty In saving the South from subjugation, Is strangely lacking in appreciation of the true meaning uud moral of the great historic drama he has wit nessed. The generation which hos grown to man hood since the .carls subject to influences so unlike to those which produced It; lives un der social conditions so changed and different that, while it may revere the efforts and sac rifices, itcan scarcely understand the motives of the men who fought and fell. The very fact that the issues submitted then are all tried and determined, the question iu con tention ull settled, the problems which the adoption of the Federal Constitution and tho estahiir bment ot the Union had left unsolved have been removed by tho decision of tho sword from the region of disputed coiuuruc- j ti.m, renders it, almost Impossible for those who SCO only ine aujusiuienv w ejiiii'it:iciiu the difficulties through which that adjust ment was attained. He who knows this country only as It 1 now, the fierce debate which agitated and well nigh divided it ended ; its animosities allayed, the wounds of war all healed, and the blessed Joflufncesof peace fast obliterating even the Kent", can un derstand the agony throucluwht h it has pawed as little us the stranger t ho gazes rot the first time on some btautlful landscape can realize the blood and toll which won it from the wilderness. Much of the crimination which each side has visited on the other has been Induced by . the very honesty aud intensity M the iK vlctiun which both entertained. The actors ! in the passionate perioas oi nisiory ore vw thoroughly persuaded that tho purpo with Continued Oil Third Vagt. "'1