The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-10
Rlehmond Reunlon conslnued.


 The next morning found even Nature tired. as If from the excessive emotion of the previous day. There waa a film across the blue. sky; there were little puffs of breeze that died away as if faint But Humanity rose under the whip of the will and once more great multitude streamed toward the huge building of the horse show, for here the veterans and sons of veterans, and all the visiting Southerners with Northern guests. were to listen to the grandson of the South's great chief tain. to Robert E. Lee, IT.
 It was a breathless moment for him and for them!
 It was Q distinct shock to everyone who then saw him for the, first time. that he resembled his great-grandfa- ther in not one feature or line of form. Yet when the vast audience had time to catch It's breath. 1t gave him an ova- ton that belied the Americanisnn that 1t mattered not who your father was. A perfect whiriwind of emotion sub merged that young scion of Americas best. Lee, yes, but there was a custis as well-and the shade of Washington added gloryi So modest was he, and so openly did his tears--for those Rriz- zled followers of his family's fortunes and for that glorious past-fiow, that blessings fell upon him from all. "Why, God bless him, if he, don't favor Marse Robert, he's surely got his spiritI"
 "Oh. boyi Come down here to your fathers n your grandfather's old sol diers. n let 'cm hug you. boyT Yelled the veterans. But how could one man last" through the embraces of that army He held out his arms to them. while they held our theirs to him. "Oh, comrades of my fathers. thank your' Then tears choked his utterance.
 It was good to be there. It was also good to see the deep qualification of the Virginians-was he not theirs?
 Said one Virginian: We don't love Bob Lee because he is Robert E. Lee. Jr, but because he is another specimen of the perfect Virginian gentleman, as his fathers were before himl"
 It was truly royal, the manner in which the fine young American flung back his shoulders while his voice rang like Stuart's bugle. as he ex- claimed. T am tired of excuses and apologies for the South! Let us have the truth! There has never been a more critical period of American his- tory than that which ushered the year 1880 upon the worlds stage of action. The trouble was not of recent origin, IL was not the spasmodic outburst of an hour. nor the stubborn and senseless resistance, factious maintenance of groundless opinions. but the result of existence, Of antagonizing forces operating for a long time in the coun- try-the seeds of which being first sown by the forefathers, some in the fertile valley of the James and some on the rock bound coast of New Eng Ian. Sectional differences exhihItod themselves long before the adoption of the Federal constitution. For the pur- poses of this occasion. we care not how the African slave first placed his un- hallowed foot on Southern soil. Suf- flee 1t to say that although the south had, at one time. no inconsiderabIe career of maritime adventure. no shin or shipmasters of hers has ever been implicated in the Illicit slave trade Her greatest men always maintained slavery to be the most dangerous ele ment in the country. From the begin ming, the statesmen of the South scent ed danger In the great race problem With which they were being saddled and the question that was uppermost in their minds was what shall be done with the emancipated serf? Much as deplore slavery. said Patrick Henry I see that prudence forbids its aboli- tion.'
 Henry Clay asserted that the evils of slavery are absolutely nothing in | comparison with the far greater evils which would inevitably follow from sudden. general and discriminate emancipation And again he says, If we were to invoke the greatest bles- sing on earth which Heaven in It's mercy could bestow on this nation, it would be the separation of the two most numerous races of its population and their comfortable establishment in distant and distinct countries.' Mir, Mason of Virginia went further | in declaring The traffic is internal To permit 1t is against every principle of honor and safety