The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-06-01
ADDRESS or COLONEL LEE
Convention Of United Confederate Vet.
Grams Yesterday Morning.

ay Morning.
| ported contrary to the true intent and
importation should become .froe. ..l'nls
to the everlasting credit OF the South.
upon whose devoted head the Walls OF
holy wrath have been so ,tnjustly and
brutal!y poured out for propagatinR,
nourlshin1 and harboring slavery, she
| lead the world In ar carnest attempt
to prevent the very thing OF which she
| is accused.
resulted In the Missouri compromise,
so little had slavery become a political
question. and ~ further proof tho
Southern states had not at that early
period banded together 81 support Of
| the system the States OF Virginia. Ken
lucky and Tennessee wore earnestly
engaged in practical movements for
gradual emancipation OF their slaves.
and this good work continued until
It was arrested BY tho abolitionists
mails those who were so we'll disposed
4 to bring about the very result at which,
they themselves protested to aim.
"'Promised emancipation refused to
submit itself to hateful abolition. I'm.
der the Euise OF philanthropy and hu.
that England had liberia tod four nun
dred thousand slaves al stho cost OF
Twenty million pounds paid to their
owners. the abolltlon!sts demanded the
the great majority OF which were In
the South. Such q Wholesale attack
on private property by the State has
no parallel in history: the nearest ap-
proach to It Is the suppression OF the
inconsistencies by Henry VIII. and Talley-
rand's famous measure tor the apolia-
ton Of the church during the French
Revolution. under the sophistical plea
that 1t belonged to the nation.
schemins Politicians.
FINALLY. schemnE politicians, In
! yincible In peace, invisible in war took
aneirs. adopted slavery for their slogan
land vehicle for their selfish ends. ~
! self.seskinE and ambitious dcmn-
KoEues. the peat OF republics. disturbed
s y pians. S nd co ws5e ase
worst Of all public calarnities--civl!
war Tbs question Of morals had ms
little as possible to do with the result.
Philanthropy might have sighed, fana-
vain. but for tho hope OF office and the
desire OF public plundor on the part OF
man who .wsre neither, phtlanthropists
nor fanatics. Thus slavery was the
occasion and not the cause e., Of tho re- e;
iamlty, ana not hsr crime" Two most
significant facts remain IN this connec-
ton. First. there was incorporated y,
tho organic law Of the Southern Con.
an absolute prohibition OF the foreign
slave trade. The Anal act was the
ema ncipation Of the slaves by the votes
Of tho Southern States -
uary. 1853. was legally absolutely void
and ineffective. The negroes wore
freed bythe thirteenth amendment to
tho Constitution, When this was
posed Of thirtyrsix states. The nftl
article OF the Constitution provides
that no amendment to the. Constitution
& shall become part thereof until rat1'
fourths Of the States. Therefore, |!
reduired twcnty-seven votes to ratlf.
the amendment On the 18th OF De,
cember. 1885, the Secretary OF State
reported twenty. seven States having 81
ern States. Nine Of those States re
fused to vote for tho measure. ant
the remaining. eleven required to make
up the Two thirds were the Southern
States, The mueh-n ,aligne1; slaye-tor
the serf. 1t is ono Of the ironics o
history that the South, which had dom
: so much to prevent,and stamp out tn
black terror. should be called on I,
) ions OF those who were In n larg'
measure responsible for the existence
OF the African within her borders.
North Preached Secession.
THE South Is charged with a deair
to destroy the Union, As fair and I'm
partial q Judge as Lord Wolseley fall
: into this error when no says "few fin
fault with the men OF the North 10
their manly determination. come wha
70 rests. every every orort Of mi
Union"
s,se,;s,on was net nroe shsa for =
pointed out by the Ret. DR. Mck!m
seds was te sesiea Gssf1a il Il
! lima seeded. The first came fron
csoet Timothy r'yynd P'eksr'nE Mnsss
Tia aeaaisit!on Of Louisiana; me seeon
Z from Josiah Quincy, another dlstln
B aulshed citizen OF Massachusetts, owe
) the proposed admission of Louisiana q
tn Hsrtford convsntlon. in whteh tly
States were represented, over the dis
satisiaetlon occa stoned by the wa
with Great britain, and fourth frol
I tbs LHglslAtYre Of Massaehusettss., !. DC DC
t 70 Ii. = Fss a pl'GGy niea, y - ~
Ths steady dsYa!otnent. Of the sovtl
esnsclally, territorially, stirred N IN
North 4 Erest n!ealous anxisty," !.
Of pclitLeSl power, The Yenershl
North to take possssFlen Of the gov
diIsssso Hit,os, Of til. Union itself" Vile
LoIlsiana Knocked at the door Of tn
rsdtr4! fasa!ly,.tt 20 stirred this dig
r nan That. ne boldly declare
III this bill passes II Is my deliberat
opinion that II Is Virtually n dlssolu
tIon OF the unloni that, it frees. tn
States from thar moral obligation
ana, o. 1t Will be tho right Of al
y to prepare Tor a separation, amicabl
II They can. Violently. u they must
. 10 such = pitcbgthet they Issued a
9 addysss deelarirg that the annsXatln
ef gsxys would b 80 tnJvsi9us \