The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-03-31
ELOQUENT WORDS.
The Invitation to the Annual Reunion OF
Confederate Veterans at Richmond
This Year-A Literary Gen.

The committee " prepare IOT lHe
annual reunion of the United Con-
federate Veterans to be held in
Richmond, Virginia, beginning June
20 and continuing three days, has
issued a circular letter of invitation
10 the surviving comrades which for
eloouence of words and pathos of
sentiment is worthy place in every
southern heart and home. 1t is as
follows
RICHMOND, VA, March 25, '96.
To the United Confederate Veterans
Everywhere.
Your sixth Annual Reunion will be
held at Richmond, Virginia, on the
SOth June, 1st and 2nd days of July
next.
Widely scattered since the war by
the ties of family and old-time fire.
sides, by the demands of business,
by your natural energies, and by the
necessities of life, you are coming
home-home to the city which is
yours by the supreme tests of the
rain of fire through which you went,
and of the the sea of blood through
which you passed, on the mission of
her and the common defense. You
have been no prodigal sons, for you
inherited only the remnants of a
rapacious ravage that was rampant
everywhere in your land; bs cause
you had nothing left but the man
hood from which you were INSOFAR
able. But the fatted calf shall be
killed for you, and we shall be merry
together, not because of pity for
your SINS. but because pride in your
fame demands.
You shall traverse again the streets
which thrilled to the tread of your
legions while they were passing to
the ran of the best army that the
world ever knew.
You shall be confronted by the
Yirginians wio were TIE comrades
of your IN Mortal glory a:;l VINO are
your brothers forever.
You shall see again the women
VINO nursed you bac,5 to v-igor from
the feeb!eness of wounds and want
from the wretched Noe OF youI
losses, and who pointed the DIVING
gaze of your fellows 20 The HEAVIER
which stopped to enfold them.
Your eyes shall behold for them
selves the city which pro"dly wrapped
herself i'll your patriotic fames, from
which she has emerged 4 thing Of
beauty and joy for always.
You shall revisit the battlefelds
which have been consecrated byyoul
blood, and where, if you lost youl
country, you found a fame that fill.
the world
Hear helped by our city and hel
citizen, e are building for you q
place OF reunion in which ten thous.
and of you may make the welkir
ring to the music of Dixie and to the
chorus of the rebel yell.
On some appropriate day of the re
union you shall be part and parcel OF
the rearing of that monument which
shall be to Jefferson Davis, not mere
y because he was your president ano
owelt as such in the capital of youl
Contederacy, but because he was the
unspeakable type Of that ineffablt
manhood, which made the armies o.
the South.
During your stay here there will bt
many bivouac, where, not in brav
ado or dislOyalty, but for sweet mem
ory's sake, will be sung over agair
the Old songs, told over again the ole
taies' fought over again the ole
nshts, yelled again the old yell, ant
raised again the old flag.
come, then. Come to our hearts
ana homes and to these bivouacs
before we pass to the great beyond
we ought to have one more bout anG