The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1907-06-06
REUNION OF CONFEDERATFS
Veterans of the Lost Cause Splend;dlv
Entertainedin Richmond, Virginia

selves long before the adpotion Of
the Federal constitution.
''For the purpose of this occasion
we care not how the African slave
first placed his unhallowed feet on
Southern soil. Suffice it to say that
although the South had at one time
no ineonsiderable career of maritime
adventure, mo ship or sbipmaster Of
! hers had ever In a single case been
implicated in the illicit African slave
maintained slavery to be the most
dangerous element in the country.
From the beginning the statesman Of
ihe South scented 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 emanci-
pated serf9
The Evils of Slavery.
Much as | deplore slavery said
Patrick Henry, Il see that prudence
foI bids its abolition Henry Clay
asserted that The evils of slavery
are absolutely nothing in eompari-
sen with the far greater evils which
would inevitably follow from sud
; den emancipation And again lie
says: IF | were to invoke the
greatest blessing on earth which
heaven, in It's mercy, could bestow
'n this nation, it would be the sep
aratlon Of the most numerous
races Of It's population and their
comfortable establishment in distant
and distinct conntlies.' Mr.. Mason,
OF Virginia, went farther in declar-
ing The traffic is Internal. To per-
NIT 1t is against every principle &c
honor ard Safety Mr.. Calhoun was
OF the opinion that the existing reIa-
tons between master and servant
cannot be destroyed without subject
ing the two races to the greatest .a-
lamlty and the section to poverty,
desolation and wrctchedness.'
Virginia in October, 1878, and
Georgia, in 179S, passed acts pro-
lhblting the importation of slaves.
The former act provided for pen
atty of f:000 pounds, and also every
slave imported contrary to the true
interest and meaning Of this set
5faII, upon such importation become
Tree, thus, to the everlasting credit
Of the South, upon whose devoted
head tie vials of holy wrath have
been SO unjrstly and brutally pour
ed cut for propagating, nouris!ling
and harborlng slavery, she leads the
wcrId III an earnest attempt to pre-
vent the very thing Of which she is
accused.
:" How can the Union he saved ?
thundered Mr.. Calhoun from the floor
OF the Senate II years before the be
ginning Of hostiiities. There is but
one way by which it can be, with
certainty. and that is by a full ana
final settlement ON the principles of
justice, of all the questions at issue
between the two sections. The South
asks for justice, simple justice, and
less she ought not to take. She has
no compromise to offer but the Con-
stitution.'
"When the red curtain of war
rolled upon the American stage it
revealed the South in arms ready
and willing to defend all that
makes life worth living, the Free
dom of country, the honor of the peo-
PIE, the sanctity Of home'
To Rect Next at Birmingham.
The Grand Camp, United Confeder-
ate Veterans reelected its general
officers as followins:
Commander-in-chief General Steph-
Ell D. Lee.
Lieutenant General, Department
Army Of Nortehrn Virginia, Gen. IT.
vine Walker.
Lieutenant General Department Ut
Tennessee, General Clement A. Ev.
ans.
Lieutenant General. Trans -Missis
sippi Department, Gen. w. l.. Ca
0ell.
All the officers were chosen by ac,
clamatio
Birmingham was chosen as the
city for the next, the eighteen, ar.
nUal reunion cf the veterans. Other |
cities competing were San Antonio
and Nashville. The vote at first
stood about 1000 to 500 in favor Of
TIE Alabama town.
The report of the committee on
resolutions was adopted without de-
bate. 1t recommends that the speech
es of Gen. S. D. Lee, Senator John
". Daniel and Col. R. E. Lee, Jr., be
printed in pamphlet form for distrl- |
hiticn and endorses the objects and
aims Of the Arlington Confederate |
monument in Arlington National |
Cemetery.
On the correct representation OF
tbe Confederate battle flag the reso-
iuilons committee submitted as sub
stitute "that the action of this as
seclatlon, at its convention held In |
Nashville. Tenn, in 1904, be en-
acrse1 and reaffrmed.