Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-02-09
''Justiee 10 the Martyrs Of a Noble

Cause
The Sun gives a report of a mass meeting
held In Baltimore Saturday night Sin response
to the call Of the Maryland Association of the
Army and Navy Of the Confederate States in
reference to the Southern Historical Society ~
The SAN says enthusiastically: "Considering
that the snow was over SIX inches deep on the
ground, and the winter night the worst of the
year, this large meeting was very encouraging
to those who had assembled in the name Of
truth to aid the historical movement which was
set afoot last summer at the Virginia springs.
By far the greater part of the assemblage was
composed Of ladies, who were very enthu-
siastic-
Judge j. X. Inglis presided and in stating the
object OF the meeting said the purpose OF the
Society was ''the gathering, preserving, and
compiling Of all evidences and facts relating to
the late war, in order that the true result should
be presented; the truth, in simple justice to the
martyrs Of a nO6fs cause, and in satisfaction to
those who still survive and preserre the same
opiaiOns fhat Ted 10 ne conflict. lApplause.l In
this matter the state of Maryland and the city
of Baltimore in particular could not fail to be
interested. Nineteen thousand sons of Mary-
land had fought for the cause, and there could
be no failure Of feeling, no Indifference, in
Place whose sympathy had been so great" ZAP
plause.J
Speaker, said: 1--WE owe 1t not to the dead who,
struggling in expressions bcrong, boe-e lost we owe
1t not to the living, who know 30 well their sac
rihce and desolstion, but we owe ii to the world
to show the erits that result from so-eallsd free
dom; to chow the world that no perfection can
exist In government that USUrpS the pol0er Of
Ti9M and sacrifices erery principle Of manhood
truth and honor" 1.-The city of Baltimore -
Mr.. Wallis said, els the most wealthy and pop-
MAR in the south. What our sympathies pere IN
The late struggle IL lcoHld be needless for me 10 tell
what we have suffered each one who knows can
feel as well asI; for from the first reyerberation
at Bull Run to the last shot at Sailors creek,
each can claim some chapter. Our Maryland
hosts were gathered together by no conscrlp-
ton; they fought for love, not lucre; and where
springs blade of grass on southern fields there
lies some recollection of a fallen friend to each
one present."
Mr.. Wallis In concluding introduced Gen.
Wade Hampton "in highly complimentary
terms" and General Hampton "who was most
enthusiastically received, after expressing his
gratihcstion at being commended by Mr. Wallis
proceeded IN his address. He felt that he was
not among strangers, and was honored by the
exhibition of that hospitality which had been
EXTENDED Dy the people of Baltimore to himself
and others heretofore" 1.-The object" he said
prompted by pride in the glorious past and oblfo1-
hons 10 the future. 1t was to put out that which
would justify hs struggle and show the motives
that animated the south" "By the co5pera-
ton, he said, ''of all who have not lost faith
or hoPe IN the cause the end will be secured Is
TINS not worth struggling for? Are we willing
mat the hands that UsUrPed our institutions
should stgmatize us? Are we of the south
ashamed Of our history? No, thank God, we
are not! Immense applause.l"
The San, in concluding its report, SAYS that
a letter expressive of sympathy from W. W.
Corcoran Of Washington was read, which ia
not surprising in view of the heretofore in
terest expressed by Mr.. CorcOrsn in the organi- !
zston OF this Society-a Society that, accord |
ing to the speakers at Baltimore, is composed
OF those who shave not lost faith or hope in the
cause, !" and has for its object "justice to the
martyrs Of a noble cause, and satisfaction to
those who still survive aud prsserue the saas
opinions that led to the conflict