The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-06-04

ate Veterans reunion. The exercises in
Confederate hall were opened at 1920
o'clock a. m, by the singing OF the
DoXology by the delegates and the Of
fering of a prayer.
The report of the committee on Gre
dentials was called for and read by the
chairman of the committee, j. G.. Cuise,
of Alabama. The total representation
of 1859 camps was reported, with an
aggregate attendance of 1902 delegates.
Texas had the largest representation,
with 129 camps with AL delegates.
The report was adopted.
The resolutions prepared by various
delegates were passed up to the COM
mander who read them aloud before re-
turning them to the committee on res
olutiOns. Among them was a motion
that congress be mem~orialized to erect
in the capital of the nation, a monu-
ment to General Robert E. Lee. No
action was taken. but there were a
number of cries of NO" NO"
The report of the committee on con-
federate memorials was read by Chair
man c.. A. Evans. of Georgia. The re-
port showed a total cash in hand of
$S1 1885,; there are $751; 07 in good and col
lectible subscriptions: there is an addi-
ion $685. 900 still due from Charles
Broadway ROuss of New York; other
items bring the total of the
organization at present to S22S, 10.
Appended to the report was a resolution
that the members of the memorial COM
mittee be ordered to meet within ninety
days in Richmond, Va, to make final
arrangements for the laying of the cor
ner stone Of the Battle Abbey. Adopted.
There was q short delay waiting for
the report of the committee On reSOlu-
lions, which was not entirely ready. A
partial report was presented, however.
The first resolution was that the con-
gress of the United States be espect-
fully requested to make sufficient ap-
preparation for the care of confederate
dead in the cemeteries of the north.
The second resolution moved that
thanks be extended to congress and the
president of the United States for the
passage Of an act making ~apprOpria-
ton for the Te-fnterment of the on
federate dead inferred in the national
cemetery at Washington.
These resolutions were passed with
out debate.
adoption of the resolutions General
Gordon said:
My comrades. at last I congratulate
you that the day has finally come when
foes as we'll as friends are ready to
pay tribute to the valor of the men of
the SOUTH
General A. P. Stewart offered a reso-
luton, asking that members of the
United Confederate Veterans each give
one dollar for the purpose of erecting a
suitable memorial to the women of the
south to commemorate h heroism
shown by them during the war. Motion
met with great approval and one dele
gate. who announced himself as Jim
Crow" from Louisiana, handed up the
first dollar.
The report of the Jefferson avis
Memorial Association was then read by
Mrs. N. B. Randolph, of Richmond,
Va. The financial report of the asso-
citation showed a total of cash in hand
of $32,672, with outstanding subscrip-
tions Of SO, 727. Mrs. Randolph made
an urgent appeal for more money.
AT the conclusion of the reading of
the report of the Memorial Association,
General Gordon announced that al last
the hour had come for the holding of
the sacred service in memory of that
we'll Owed daughter of he south-Win-
ME Davis.
Rev. DR.. Perry delivered an eloquent
invocation.
The prayer of DR.. Perry was intended
for the memory of Miss Davis alone, al
though he included in it's scope all the
people Of the south who love the
of which Miss Davis was so powerful
an advocate and as the clergyman re-
stunned his seat, General Gordon an
ounce that it was intended likewise
to hold a sacred service in honor of the
confederate. dead of the war who per-
ished in the prison or OF the field of
battle. no matter where his sacred
L y,s~h% 10 tho ~ x-0r- ~ hic old
comrades were intended for him indi-
viduafly as we'll as for the heroes of
the south in the aggregate.
"I thank God" concluded the speak
er. that at last the day light from on
high. breaking through the clouds of
national passion, has enabled our old
foemen of the north to realize at last
that the patriots of the south fought for
the principles of constitutional free
DOM"
He then i~nt.caueed Rev. George F:
Harris of a1oS who spoke at
some lengthURW people of the
south as ths5aQ was revealed
by four yesSuIV1 "a
The exercises were closed by a pray
er by Chaplain General Jones. General
Gordon then announced that General
A. P. Stewart of Chattanooga had been
appointed treasurer of the fund TO raise
a memorial to southern women n
that all subscriptions for that purpose
be sent him.
At the afternoon session the report or
the historical committee was submitted
and after reading was unanimously
adopted. The report stated that The
chief, probably only, impeachment to
preparation and reception Of a history
impartially dealing with both sides or
the war is prejudice.
Probably the generation now pass
ing away will never completely outlive
the prejudices cngendered by the war
and the contentious and Sappreh
sions which led to it.
The between the north
and the south had it's origin in physical
and climatinc conditions and natural
difference in life and social structure.
The time was when both sections en-
gagged chiefly in the pursuit of farming
and both employed slave labor. This
homogeneity as to interests and labor
was interrupted by the climatic condi-