The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-11-10
THE DEVOTION OF
THE (0IFEDERATES
Patriotic Address by Colonel
Thomas Smith Before the
Grand Camp.
CONFEDERATE PRINCIPLES
Although Secession Is Dead,
They Are as Mucl, Alive To-
Day as During War.

FOLLOWING Is the response OF Col
Thomas Smith to the address of well
come 10 the Grand Camp, Confederate
Veterans in session in Norfolk, Octo-
Der IS. 1907. Colonel Smith said:
4 Comrades: / am grateful ttas time
has allowed to US the pious privilege
OF uniting again, in fond fellowship,
to proclaim our devotion to the memo
ries of our cause and its heroic mar
tyrs. and / congratulate you that this
reyerertial ceremony is to be ce,e-
brated among this people unfalteringly
faithful throughout the perlous period
nf their imprisonment behind the blue
lines of our foes. In the intensity of
their resentment at the invasion of
Virginia, they reViled the situation
that permitted the occupation of their
separation so soon from their mother
land: but in enduring the agony OF
such fate they We're. brave in their
fortitude and unceaSing In their fidel-
ity to the colors OF their Common
wealth.
an .ethren of the Pickett Buchanan
Can.y-a most felicitous combination
In compliment to distinguished Off
GERS of brilliant service in co-opera-
tive arms--be assured that we pro-
foundry appreciate your gracious greet
ing, and In the genuineness of such
welcome we rejoice and know that we
are at home with friends united by
retrospect rich in recol!cctions. radiant
with right and hallowed In honor. And
as | remember those whom you have
favored as your commanders. | fancy
I hear the tramp of the boys a-march-
ing and the echoes of the voices that
are soundless. cheering TO charges that
heroism like theirs gave to immor-
tality. He whom Divinity endowed
with genius II at sang of the South's
glory in rhythm of beauty and melody
was fittingly honored by you as your
first commander. and Pickett-Buchanar
Camp in its organization, enhanced
the rpcstige of it's name by the selec-
tion for its presiding official the dis
itinguished veteran, James Barron
Hope, whose pen battled brilliantly for
his State e'en after the fash of his
sword slept in its scabbard. Such
grace in the beginning could but have
been assurance of continuing consiG-
.eration in choice of successors, and in
the recital OF those who followed him.
Rogers. Cecil. Garrett, Browne, Nash
Henry, WoodhoUse. Myers. Greenwood
tHagGard. Burwell, Dobe, Kelley, and
others, there Is demonstration that you
deemed those only worthy who. SUR
iviying the cause, did not desert 1t lost
And your achievement in charities and
granite tributes testify that you real
lie our dead are heritage to you. to
provide for their living, and To perpet-
uate their patriotism in forms that will
attest to ages the splendor of their
vaior for liberty.
There is indsad inspiration in such
! environment, ard in ..the deeGs done
almost within sound of my pttcrance
which must be imperish ably trans
rlitted to the remote future by his
tory's students. Even now there are
reverberations from the cornba, that
startled the naval world and reveal ID
+ the genius Of naval Confederate Off.
Ger. who, unnided and without equip
ment, constructed an invn!nerahle