The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-23
MAJ. JOHNSTON'S STIRRING APPEAL Camp Hardee'S New Command CT Discusses Past and Present THE DUTY OF ALABAMlANS Deeds of Heroic Dead Should be Worthlly commemorated and
 Cottage for Old and Needy
 Veterans Should be Built.
THE DUTY OF ALABAMIANS

Maj. John w. Johnston, commander of Camp Hardee. U. c. ", has issued an- other circular in which he urges prompt action in raising funds for the cottage at the Mountain Creek Confederate Home and points out the duty or the people of the south in oommetnoratlng the deeds of their heroic dead.
 The letter calls attention to a meeting of several of the committees of the camp this morning at Il o'clock in the camp headquarters in the Tomlinson building. The meeting is very important and Majcr Johnston is anxious to have large number present.
 The camp has opened headquarters in tho TomlinsJn building and Adjutant Darby will be in the office at regular hours every day. The circular follows:
 Confederate Hall,
 Tomlinson Building. First Ave,
 Birmingham, Ala, June 23, 1902.
 The target has been, is and may be changed, but let us never cease firing un- til the Angel of Death gives us. one by one, the summons to join our comrades on the other shorel
 In our youth, we were very proud to be citizens of the great country in which we lived. We were faithful to the constitution and laws which our fathers framed and handed down to us. And we were devoted to our flag the fitting em- blem of the sovereignty of our indepeno ent states, voluntarily competed into one great and needed union, which we fondly hoped would be perpetuated, through all ages, without radical change in form or essence.
 When the dark days came, we went with our respective states-cal 1t seces- sion, revolution, or what not-determined that no southeyn state, our own, or any other should be coerced. We became soldiers of the Confederate States of America, loyal to its government and cause, and devoted to its flag which we followed through many bloody fields. Our record has been made, and we are not ashamed but we rather rejoice in it--and we will treasure, and will teach our sons and daughters, to the remotest generation. to regard and reverence this our proud and worthy record.
 But this our great war has been long since ended. The Confederate government was destroyed, and its armies over whemed by infinite superiority in num- bers and in war material Our cause Is called a lost one; and our flag Is folded. never again to be unfurled in heated warfare whether of deeds or words 1t is all now but little more than sad and sacred memory to us and to our children. But neither we nor they will stand by to hear questioned the honest devotion of our Confederate men and women to this cause and to this fag or to hear lightly treated their sufferings and self-sacrifice even into death. in their loyal devotion thereto and in their heroic defence there- | of.
 We have long since become, and now arc, and we and our descendants will re- main loyal and devoted citizens of the ralf A1 fats nf mi QTQ proud that It is, and will increasingly be- come despite certain deplorable lapses and departures from the theory and the work of our fathers) the greatest and best government in this world of ours And we have again come to reverenc and love our flag. the stars and stripes We yield to no section, and to no State, in this our rrivilege and duty; and we are ready to do and to die, if need be, in support of this oui government, and in defense of this our flag.
 And we are proud of the record of cer- tain Of our Confederate soldiers and sal lors and of many of our sons in support and defense of this our restored govern ment and flag, in the battles of our army on the plains and in Cuba and in the Phil lppines; and of our navy at Manila and at Santiago and elsewhere.
 And we rejoice in the slowly but steadi- ly returning appreciation and good will of mankind at large, and especially of our erstwhile enemies. Confederate graves have been and are being decorated in the north aa we'll as in the south. The work of Confederate camps in the north, nota- Ely at New York City and Columbus, Ohjo are being recognized and aided A handsome monument to the Confederate dead at Camp Chase has been erected by northern men, some of them Federal sol ders, and dedicated with speeches by the governor and a senator of Ohio and oth- CTS Federal soldiers and members of the Grand Army of the Republic. North ern orators and soldiers steadily increas- ing In numbers, are paying willing trib- ute to the devotion, bravery and sacrifice of Confederate men and women, and to the greatness of Confederate generals and to our wonderful deeds in arms on many bloody battle fields.
 Money and Kind Words. Liberal contributions in money and mary kind woid ds are coming from the north to the south in behalf of Confeder- ate m 1numents and other undertakings. A bronze statue Of Gen. Robert F.. Lee, to be erected in our capital city of Wash ington looking across the Potoma to Sees old estate of Arlington, is seriously mooted by Charles Francis Adams of Mf ssachusetts, backed up by kindly edi torlais In such influential papers as the New York Times and tho New York Tribune. In the newspapers of New York Chicago and elsewhere in the north, are found articles contairing praise of the skill and endurance, and of the conscien- tious devotion of our Confederate gen erals, soldiers and women; and even ad- hitting justification for our action-at least from our own honest standpoint or right and duty.
 ba f.d at West point this month-for the first time in its 1istory-en efoquent tribute has been publicly paid to the devotion, the va lar and the serYices of Cnnfedera ta