The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1906-05-02
The Lexington Dispatch.
Wednesday, May 2, 1906.
A GRAND TIME
For Confederate Veterans at New
Orleans.

New Orleans, La, April 26-The
formal business of the sixteenth sn.
nual reunion of the United Confed.
crate Veterans came to q close this
afternoon. One day of the reunion
proper is left and that will be devot-
ed to the parade of the veterans.
Richmond. Va, was selected as
the place for holding the next reuu-
ion, the choice being made by accla-
nation. The fact that the monum ent
of Jefferson Davis is to be unveiled
in Richmond next year was a potent
influence with many of the old SOL
diers.
Gen. Evans prefaced bis report
proper of the historical committee by
q few words relative to the material
prosperity of the nation at large and
the South in particular. He then
said:
''The reputation of the people Of
the South is so dear to themselves
that they insist upon fair portrait
ure in history. The true story of
the people who formed the Confed-
eracy and fought it's battles is of
more value to the future citizens of
the South than all the property lost
in that struggle.
''The one great principle, however,
which must be sacredly regarded by
all writer's is that the essential truths
of United States history are the
rightful common property of all the
people of our country. The artful
suppression of important historical
truths must be construed as an in.
territorial creation of false impress
sions. It is a criminal hiding of
piece of the common property and
therefore this body of Confederate
soldiers has uniformity and earnestly
Insisted on fullness, fairness and
facts in the history of our common
government.
I'VE have condemned with special
emphasis the unfairness of those
school books which treat Southern
questions in the sectional spirit and
we are still in earnest in driving all
such books out Of the schools. Why
should Northern boys and Southern
boys be taught any known untruth
as part of their country's history?
Why should not both be taught to
respect each other and thus lay q
foundation in the schools for the
subsequent relation which will come
in manhood? Why should there be
education in prejudice rather than in
patriotisms"
The following resolutions were
presented by the committee on reso-
lutions and adopted.
"That any camp which has failed
to pay its per capita tax for five
years may have it's charter suspended
after due notice has been given.
"That all camps be urged to use
every effort to raise funds for the
monument to Confederate women.
"That the action of the grand
camp of Confederate veterans in the
department of Virginia in attempting
to preserve the earthworks in and
around Petersburg be endorsed"
The chief new measures of i'm
portauce to be adopted were one
which will recommend to the differ
ent States that pensions be paid to
slaves now living who followed their
masters to the war, and one which
declares in favor of the setting apart
of one day in the year by each camp
of the organization for memorial SER
vices in behalf of the Confederate
dead.
The day closed with great ball
in honor of the visiting veterans,
which was held tonight in the audi
torium. TIE parade tomorrow is
expected to be the feature Of the re-
union. A number of brilliant feat
ures have been arranged for the
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