Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-05-21
DR.. LEES REMARKS
REGRETTED BY VETS
Atlanta Camp Adopts Resolutions
Indorsing T. X. oglesby's Re-
ply to DR.. Lees Sermon on
Civil War.

The members of Atlanta camp, No. 49,
Tinted Confederate veterans, have adopt
ed resolutions indorsing the article recent
ly published by T. K. Oglesby, of Atlanta
which protested against statements mace
by Rev. DIR. ]. w. Lee, pastor OF TRINITY
Methodist church, in regard to the
souths attitude in the war between the
states. The resolutions state that the
members of the camp have the highest
respect for DR.. Lee, but lament the
statement which occurred in MS ser
mon."
The article published by Mr.. Oglcsoy
was in reply to a sermon by DR.. Lee,
which Mr. Oglesby referred to as "a po-
litico-historical speech framed to show
the unrighteousness of the cause, for
which the south Stood in the war between
the states"
The Atlanta camp declares that in the
war the soldiers of the Confederacy were
honoring God in a manner worthy OF their
sires in the defense of the noblest cause
for which any people ever fought and In
defense of principles as essential to the
perpetuity of our form of government
now as then"
The resolutions adopted by the camp
follow in full;
with high respect for Rev. J. w. Lee.
pastor of the Trinity church, Atlanta, Ga,
we lament the statements which occurred
in his sermon on Easter Sunday, 1909, as
quoted in the article just read from the
pen of Mr.. T. K. Oglesby, as being in
compatible with the truth of history, and
an unjust reflection on our people, and
the cause Of the south in the war between
the states.
Therefore be 1t resolved:
81 That in meeting the momentous is
sues that were forced upon the south by
the northern states in their defying the
DEGREES Of the supreme court and per-
sistently violating the laws of the United
States, and the rights of the southern
states under the constitution, until said
southern states were compelled, as a
measure of peace and safety to the peo-
pie of said states, for the preservation of
their sovereign and equal rights, and by
the laws of self respect and decency (as
necessary among peoples as individually,
II was no crime to resort to the right of
SECESSION;
81 In meeting and resisting the invasion
of armed troops from other states, in de-
Tense of our homes and most sacred
rights, we were honoring God in a man
ner worthy of our sires, worthy of our
selves as a people of long patience and
forebearance in the unequal burdens and
wrongs imposed upon us by the federal
government, and worthy of our record in
the union before and since the war, in
which war we gave the world examples of
heroism and patriotic devotion unsur-
passed If ever equaled in history, in de-
Tense of the noblest cause for which any
people ever fought, and in defense of
principles as essential to the perpetuity
of our form of government now, as then.
49, In our opinion this article of Mr..
Oglesby's should be published in PAM
phlet book form, and given the widest
possible circulation throughout our en-
tire country, and should be preserved by
this camp as a part of its records and
as one of the most valuable papers ever
read before II.
"a That the thanks of camp No. 159 OF
the United Confederate Veterans, are
hereby rendered to Mr.. L. K. Oglesby for
his reply to or criticism of as much of
said sermon as is quoted IN said article,
in vindication of the cause and people of
the southern states, and Of the truth of
history"
These resolutions were adopted unani-
mously, by a rising vote of the camp.
and 1t was ordered that they be entered
upon the minutes, and that a copy be
sent to Mr. Oglesby, with the request
that he publish in pamphlet or book form
the article to which they refer.