The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-04-06
Yesterdays TALK
q the Old COnfederateS at
The Reunion.
|eCnIIoch and Clark Welcome Them to
Waco The Commander Replies.

Hon. G. G. McCulloch made a
|ery Ieat speech yesterday after.
loon in welcoming the veterans to
he city Of Waco. He said the
kelcome was not to the city merely.
4 ut to every home and every heart
b the city. He referred feelingly
b the dark days from 81 to '65,
md spoke of the reverence in which
he heroes Of that stirring time are
(eld by the younger generations.
BE assured the visitors of the pleas
re it gave the people of Waco to
|ntertaln them, and babe every
member to make himself at home.
JUDGE cLARK's SPEECH.
In his address of welcome on the
art OF Pat Cleburne Camp, Judge
clark said:
"Comrades of the Confederate
y eteran's association, need not
'ay friends, nor need l extend TO
You a formal welcome because you
kuow in your hearts that you had
Nat welcome before you ever came
b our midst. The most pleasing
IND unnecessary duty devolves upon
be to open to you the hearts and
Die homes of Waco and l stand here
comrades, to bid you a royal vel
ome to loyal hearts that live in
Pie home of Granbury and Of Har.
bison and of Ross loud cheering
As ! look upon this sea of faces
md hear the yell that's not unfa.
|hilisr to my ears my thoughts fol-
low soldiers back many many years
ind without bitterness and withou.
(nalice ! stand here to claim
The proud privilege which belongs
10 US all; that We were Confederate
folders. 1t is sometimes said that
bur cause is lost. Some causes,
fellow citizens and fellow soldiers,
IRE never lost. They may be
rushed in defeat, they may 60
Pown in seeming ignominy, but it
Is only to gather renewed strength,
ind at the end like truth crushed to
arth, they rise again. The Con-
kederate soldier was always and un.
er all circumstances true to princi
pie. He gave his life, his wealth
lnd his whole heart to the cause.
Cheers. What did that cause
represent said it is not lost and
repeat the assertion. 1t could not
pc lost. 1t stood first for the rights
Pf the states. Upon that solid
foundation hang the liberties and
Phe prosperity of the whole Ameri.
pan people. Cheers. And within
pieven years after the surrender Of
pur armies, before the greatest judi.
Plsl tribunal that ever sat on earth,
}hat tribunal decided that the states
$re supreme in this nation. The
Electoral commission of 1887 vindi'
Fated the cause Of the Confederates
Py Its solemn decision. 50 we are
pot even indebted to our friends for
MS declaration, but to our enemies,
hey went upon record with the
olemn decision that no matter what
night be the action of the state in
NE selection of president, its &C
Ion was final and not to be ques
ioned by any national government.
p that the cause instead of being
ost is triumphant throughout the
south, the North, the East and the
nv est, as the highest law OF the
highest law of the land.
"There was another great princi
pa Tor which we stood and that il
mat we fought against the inter
erenca of government with the
l gifts and property of the individ
=; Our contest was based upor
Mdea of individual rights of life,
stfy and property. That fight il
stitLpon us. The fight for con
try, tlal guarantees in this coua
our livght to the enj ,yment o.
ment of the right to the enjoy
equal digE liberties and tina
Joy the frui, of right to en-
me the cause?f our labor. Tel
hosts of America lost when thu
oay In defense of'e marshaling to
f faas flag, the flag o sss rights s c AM
it II eaa typifes the n ne old con y.