The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-22

Rattle of Chickamauga was done by the celebration of the anniversary or at which General George P. Harrison of Opelika. Commandes of the Alabama Division of the Confederate Veterans was the honored speaker. His oration throughout the hour in which he held ton.
 Thee, were a number of distin- around General Harrison, who were in vited to be present. Among these were Governor Jelks. Judge J. B. Fuller and and Camp Lomax. On account of be- ing unavoidably detained elsewhere, General William c. Oates. who was on the program for a speech, was absent, but due tribute was paid to his heroic deeds In the great event which was commemorated
 Judge Fuller, c,mmander of Camp posed of veterans. men. women and children of Montgomery, was comfort ably seated in the refreahment pavilion. the scene being moved from the circle middle of the park to this point.
 General Harrison's Address.
 Because of the absence of General Oates, General Harrison of 0pelika. who came to Montgomery yesterday by special invitation, was the; sole speaker of the evening. He extolled the yaIor and patriotism of the Confederate sol- no little of his oration to rebutting the charge that this hero was a rebel and not a patriot.
 Can we picture the half-clad soldier lighting without sustaining food. hay ing. left home of affIuence and plenty and say that he was not patriot?" asked the speaker. "If he was not a patriot, pat then Georsee. Washington was there have never bee patriots"
 The patriotism. said General Harri- son. lay in the magnificent defense of a patriot that answers the call to war when that war means the protection of the homes, of mothers, sisters and daughters against the invasion of an
 General Harrison said that he was not in the Battle of Chickamauga, but he was informed enough of that impor- tent crisis in the affairs of the Confed- was that of last evening. He was proud of the honor to the Confederay which Tals s IS signined by the Stars and forty-odd years after 1t wa f.st raised on a battlefield. It showed the per petuity Of the cause for which the old soldiers fought and stamped this cause
 Defends Southern Principles.
 The speaker emphasized his belief that he and his comrades were right mn not 'ne nsaS prit .o eipies & of the war; He did Tonl6s or Hill tr any other giant figure or the times to prove that States Iients were right" and are right still. this doctrine. General Harrison told of It's practice now in the North and fts growing ropulsrity.
 Next General Harrison put in one of sne stroEsest appeals that has ever been Tnade to the sons and jauRhters oi tne Neteiens to ret up fitting monu- ments to mark the memory of the dead who are buried on ChickamauRa field. H was sorry to know that most of' tbe marked graves there are through the industry of the North and are those which which eontair the bones of those who all Tight for the Northernefs, thought General Harrison, and if is a noD ,n undertaking, but to the unknow- dISrarit ,dnS .nere would seem to have been a d1nsparity Of valorous deeds in that Jre eaqiui battle between the Federals and the Confederate with the scaffered stones oyer the latters' graves looking S0.-'aw ~ew 1T, comparison to those of the
 HerOiam at Chickamnu9n.
 Particularly eloquent were the en- comiums placed by the distineuished aAgs tbe AIahon,s on the oy bravery and heroism of ga. He declared that history does not Iurnish examples of more remnrkahIa vaior Tn either the Federal or the Con teoerate ranks than was displayed by the Alabamians on the fields about Chattanooga.
 The importance of the battle to the cause of Dixie was dwelt upon briefly oSo,h oy general sa Harrison. It went well asters of Missionary Ridge destroyed the hopes that were arising in fhe hearts of the comrades. The Ridge separated Chickamauga from Chatta- nooga and could not be held. It rivsIled Gettysburg almost in the import of the victory to either side.
 To mark the graves of the dead Con- tederates of this battle General Har- rison said the comrades living, if they could not bestow the physical tribute patriotism of the Sons of Confederate Confederacy. He praised the wonder full devotion of the women of the cause since the war.
 Allusion was made by the speaker of the war. The carpet-baggers and negroes came in for a series of odiums and the declaration was made by the speaker that he would have rather conflict than the ordeal of reconstruc- tion.
 Late President Mckinley.
 Typical of the reunion of the two that the living Confederate is a hero now in the eyes Of North and South. General Harrison told of the incident of President McKinley's visit to Georgia during the reunion of Veterans Of that division. There unsolicited and with all reverence for the occasion the late chief executive of the nation put on Confederate badge and wore 1t on the lapel of his coat back North.
 Another sign of the force of the Con federacy's example. he said. Is in the magnanimity of Congress in ordering the return of captured flags. Although