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The Walker county Messenger
Is a modern country weekly.
So fat we are at peace with all
our ex - hanges but “man knoweth
not what the next day may bring
forth.”
While we didn’t make a speech
at the barbecue as expected by Bro
Stern, of the Ledger, we would
have been glad to have seen our
hungry neighbor of Kensington,
enjoy a feast of Dade county
“hash.”
The Democratic party should
heed the reasonable demands oi
the Farmers Alliance for more
money etc., while the F. A. should
forget the sub-treasury scheme and
fall into line with their Democratic
friends.
It Is Over.
THE BARBECUE A SUCCESS.
Last Saturday morning dawned
bright and cloudless. It was just
such a day as every 4th of July
should be upon these United
States. Ere the sun was up a mov
ing column of humanity began
pouring into Trenton upon every
road and upon every train. The
4tn of July barbeeuo in Trenton
was to be no small affair.
Friday afternoon tables had been
put up and a speakers platform
provided near the sulphur spring.
After sundown Friday the meats
were slaughtered 'and at 10:00
o’clock were being placed over the
pits. At 2 o’clock Saturday morn
ing the smallest and last piece of
meat was slowly cooking over the
bark fires. Mr. W. H. Johnson,
with three assistants, r?as kept
constantly employed all night,
turning and placing the meats.
By 11 o’clock between six and
seven hundred people had gathered
about the ground enjoying the rare
music furnished by the Jackson
Miss., band, which had been en
gaged for the occasion. Promptly i
at eleven the speaking began by
the introduction of Cape. J U
Oountis, who defended in an r e
manner th.? cause for which he so
bravely fought. State Senator \
B. McCollum, Representative G.
W. M. Tatum and Col. T. J. Lump
kin each were introduced and spoke
in the order named. Well did each
speaker perform his duty as at
tested by the rapt attention
given by their h r?.
It was one o’clock rvhen prepara
tions began for dinner and the
baskets were being unloaded upon
xhe tables, while sliced barbecue
sheep, goats, beef and pork were
being distributed rflong the tables
out of large dish pans. Fresh
loaves of bread was sliced and dis
tributed all over the tables Oc
casionally a halt b isbel pan oi
“Bruns’vic Ctew” was set upon the
tables, "tanked by tin cups. Din
ner wa now ready and the word
was given for the crowd to gather
around he tables, which were ai
r ngen in aT. shape. Rev. J. C.
Lays asked a very appropriate
blessing and then caipe the many
amusing incidents characteristic 01 1
a picnic dinner.
The meats were cooked to a
queens taste and a taste of the soup ;
v. a; a perfect realization of all the j
good things th? most hungry had
hoped for. At' • o nr< - - |
lounged, walkc i or <•: i
gaged in just whatever .:noy che
ated.
Late in the afternoon a dance
upon the bare ground was start
t,p by some wh > tancied that sort
ot amusement, although such wa.
r.pt ; down'upon the programe.
D was after sunset when t he tast
remnants of the crowd departed to
carry home with them reccollec
tions of the 4th of July 1801, never
to be forgotten. Upon every band
and even from those who arrived
too late for dinnru. were heard un
stinted praise*of the speaking, the
music, tin dinner ami the general
ar ran gem - nts Li.c ail were free
t.o admit that success had crowned
The undertaking with joy unbound
ed. In days to come, we will
proudly re me mb ■ now a worthy
undertaking triumphed over the
-efforts of those who strove to m ike
l\ failure.
SPEECH,
OF HOX. J. B, WCf OULUM.
In 1866 these words fell from
the immortal lips of Benjamin H.
Hill. Then was a south of slavery
and cecession. That south is dead.
There is a south of union and free
dom. That south thank God is
living, breathing, and growing ev
ery hour.
From the very hour that ruin
completed its full work and death
came to our prosperous, grand old
south, the seeds of a greater pros
perity were sown: And in the pres
ence of such gigantic ruin, no na
tion, no kingdom or people has
ever accorded such a victory, such
progress as the new south has made
in this past quarter of a century.
From the very day the revolution
ended and the surviving heroes of
our beloved southern confederacy
received their parols, and one by
one, footsore and half starved, took
up their painful march to behold
their once beautiful homes now
wrapped in the slumbers of desola
tion. We see them as they ap-
proach their ruined, but not for
gotten homes; their own dear
i children fail to recognize them,
and the noblest of mothers, “with
hearts as loving as ever welcomed
heroes home,” notwithstanding
they had borne their dear hus
bands in the surest.places of their
hearts during the entire revolution,
still they almost failed to recog
nize their pallid faces. But as
they come all over our beloved
southern confederacy, we hear the
mingled voices ot rejoicing and
sorrow. We hear the glad shouts
of the noble mothers and fair chil
dren as they bath tin :• husbands
and fathers brow in tL -ir w meat
tears. The world has never beheld
such rejoicing since the day the
prodigal son returned: And these
were with hearts of gold, like the
Gracious Father of the prodigal
son would have rejoiced to have
killed the fatted calf, but they had
none to kill. They would have
gladly placed a ring upon his fin
ger, but their wealth was all gone.
They would have delighted in hav
ing a great feasi, but they had
nothing left save one-half loaf of
bread out of which to make it.
They would have been overwhelm
ed with joy to have placed a costlyi
robe upon his manly person, but®
they had nothing to offer save the
homespun dress the southern la
dies wore. On the other hand we
bear the lamentations of sorrow
from the widows and orphans as
the}' remember that tneir husbands
and fathers bones still glitter like
diamonds on old Virginia’s battle
fields, or their graves that dot her
historic hills. Now the war is all
over and they wipe away the tears
of both sorrow and rejoicing and
with a heroic manhood and glori-j
ous womanhood, they View the j
situation. They at first beheld the
dark clouds that compassed them
about, They saw the lightnings;
of chaos and despair as they made
sport of their situation. They
heard the muttering thunders of
famine as it unfolded no uncertain
sound aroiufil their beloved homes.
In a word, they saw that in noag
of the past that ruin had been so
overwhelming. Now 1 ask in the
midst of ii?s full grown ; ■ ' ■ dtv,
at did they Jo? r situation j
\ns enougl .o y . ’tiie hearts I
or the < . s.ill the j
;rsin of a com mo.'. >eople. But I
.hank my God today* that ours
was not a common people. The
blood that coursed .he veins of rav
people was not common blood. The
hearts that, throbbed in the breasts
of these living leones weie not
common hearts they wore first in
war, first in peace, first m laying
the. foundath a or a greater pros
perity that sha’ V the heritage o:
future gene ratio ~ . In the mids :
*
of this unrivaled ad r "-ity, over
whelmed with the eleme 'sofV*:s
pair, shrouded with the nr mo of
their heroic lathers, sons and cora
| oanions, who spilt their blood on a
hundfod bat'd j fields. By 11 i<?i
heroic .grandeur and ueparaited
greatness, out of the dust and a she;
i and death of oltr beloved old south
’limy laid the sure foundation of
the golden edifice of the new south,
| which today forms the present
part of the fabric of this great re
public. The solid south ugainst
the powers of oppression, the solid
south against centralization, the
solid south for equal rights to all
and special priveleges to none.
Now, in conclusion to you my sur
viving heroes of the last cause, I
desire to say that notwithstanding
yours was a lost cause —it was an
honest cause, if w r e could hear
the combined pulsations of both
veterans and people who have con
victions, they would thunder in
concert that ours was an honest
cause. If the immortal Robt. E.
Lee could shake off the shackles
of death and stand by the noble
shaft that marks his last resting
place right from'the arms of dsath
and the presence of Heaven, you
• ‘old hear him say that ours wa
an i n.-.st cause. If it were possi
ble for you to take wings this
morning and soar away into the
bills of immortality and gather
from their shining portals, one of
their brightest jewels, (lie immor
tal Stonewall Jackson, who died in
the midst of the Revolution, and
bring him before ns today, with
an approving smile and steady
voice, you would hear him say,
that ours was an honest cause. You
may go now and touch tho- electric
wires, that find their way into the
presence of the immortal John B.
Gordon and nsk h;m if he is asham
ed of the i eteran.scars that he is
destined to wear and the returning
sound with dechic fire you would
hear him say, “my fellow . unlry
man. ours was an honest cans..”
And now may the inspiration of
heaven bind the hearts of eioran
sons and people with an eq . ti le
votion to the cause of un. •
freedom. And the high’ -md 11.
low, the sick and the poor, from
one end' of this great government
to the otner, understand the true
situation —and by the strong arm
of conservation, select a leader
ship in 18fig a: will unfurl to the
breezes the banner of a true...peo
ples government and raise it so 1
high above suspicion that it can
never trail the dust. * ,
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