The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-05-11
HON. JOHN GOODE
SPEAKS AT LAKEWOOD

TO the point OF complete exhaustion,
surrendered to overwhelming num-
bers and furled forever that stainless
banner which they had so long followed
witt. uplifted brow and unfaltering step.
The seeding States have been read
United into the Union and to representa-
ton in Congress. All the hates and ami
mosities growing out of the war between
the States have been, as we trust, for
ever in the deep bosom OF the ocean
buried The flag of our common coun-
try, as the proud ensign of the republic,
now floats on every sea and blazes IN
every cline.
When the United States were recently
inv olved in war with Spain, and the
President called for volunteers, the men
OF the South responded with as much
a'acrity as the mon of the North. Side
by side they entered the .imr1inen t
deadly breach at Elkaney. Side by side
they emerged from the smoke Of battle.
Side by side they charged up the bloody
heights of San Juan and planted the flag
Of their common country upon the ram
parts Of the enemy.
NOT INCOMPATIBLE
It would therefore be a work Of supc-
1erogation to affirm that when the Con-
feGerates laid down their arms and pro-
fessed to renew their allegiance to the
Union they made no mental reservation.
acIeO III Gppu lSLliii anu lhedNl Hudt
they said. Bat there is no incompat-
hi:Ity whatever between loyalty to the
Confederate dead and loyalty to the re-
store Union While we stand ready to
perform faithfully and conscientiously
all the duties of American citizenship.
VIC are not yet prepared. with our hands
upon our mouths and our mouths in the
dust, to cry out, "Unclean, uncleani We
are not yet prepared with our hands to
III no bo
of any Confederate living, or upon the
grave of any Confederate dead. Let
OF hers think as they may. but for me.
i stand prepared to maintain with my
latest breath against all Corners and
soers that the cause in which our mar
tyred heroes fell was as just and right
coUs a. cause as ever warrior drew
blade In. II Pericles could pronounce
noble funeral Grafton over those of his
ccuntryinen who fell in the first year of
the Peloponnesian war if Charles
Francis Adams could indulge his stately
rhetoric in eulogizing those of his coun-
tIymen who sacrificed their lives IN de-
fence OF the Union, why. I demand to
know. shall we not hold forever in CRATE
ful and affectionate remembrance the
virtues and the herosm of those who for
fuul long years encountered without
mUrmur the hardships OF the march, the
privations of the camp. and the perils
or the field in the defense Of home and
native land?
Since the formation of the Federal
Government there have been conflicting
opinions as to the nature and character
Of its complex system. On the one hand
1t was maintained that the body polite,
known as the United States of America
was national consolidated government.
representing all the people in the agg-e
gate; that all the people had united and
formed one political society. bound to-
gether in one national government, in
which ultimate sovereignty resided and
TO which the paramount allegiance of the
citizen was due. On the other hand it
was maintained that the Federal Consti-
tuition was formed by the States in their
sovereign capacity; that the Government
created by it was one Of weil-defined and
limited powers; that it could exercise no
power not expressly delegated or neces-
sarly implied: that the powers not dele
gated had been reserved to the States
respectively or to the people; that the
States in entering into the compact of
union had not surrendered their sover-
eighty as free and independent COM
monwealths;- that ultimate sovereignty
resided III them and that the paramount
allegiance of every citizen was due to
his own State. These differences of opin-
ion were radical. After they had been
Gs'tbis AAAshiAt'SaAiiSi - 'i'Nii ASSt'SS'i>S
champions for more than half a century
upon the arena of debate and after the
argument had been exhausted. they were
submitted to the arbitrament Of the
sword as the last resort.
NOT FOR SLAVERY.
1t is a great mistake to suppose that,
so far as Virginia was concerned. the
war between the States was waged for
the purpose of perpetuating African sla-
very. While she was a colony she protest
ed from time to time against any in
crease in the number of slaves by direct
importation and enacted many laws for
the prevention of the slave trade. Which
were vetoed by the sovereign power of
England When the Federal Constitu-
ton was formed in 1877 the slave trade
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