Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-04-27
CONFEDERATE REUNION.

SIX th0u6and O0nieIefet) veterans
asse MI bed for the annual rualon OF tie
Uuited C)nfederet, Veterans 10 Mobile
yesterday.
General Bingham had been assigned
he sutj Get Of "Jutice t, the gu h."
and he began by reciliug tae dying
commissioner OF General Stephen B. Lee
to the sons of Confederate soldiers, the
famous commission to defend and emulate
The men who were the gray. He next
read SONS Of the resolutions passed
by Grand army posts, especially In
Massachusetts,, protei ting agslast erect
ing 10 the national capital tie statue CT
General Robert E Lee atlred IN Coz
federate u storm.
IL, declared that no had BOT read
It ,ess blsa slanders'' with any idea O.
answering lhsm because they GAINED no
credencp, even Among the ltlpidest AID
most ignorant OF Cur people,"
"It is but simple justice to sdd," the
speaker couli, IL d, that not all the pao.
pie of Massachusetts, are so wretchedIy
igu0rant, 80 stupidity partisan, as tie ax.
tact from the resolutions read to you
would indicate"
Then Gen. Bingham told bow Charles
Ffancis Adams, of Boston, bad declared
that had he been 10 Lee's place he would
have acted ss Lee did. Bingham d.
cisred that it Was The dnty Of the psople
of The south to teach their Children, 10
eDlighten th.it fellow-countrymeu, 10
tell to the world The circuu:tiDces which
brtugh! on the war, the Issues that d.
Vidcd brothers, t. see that fl tlre generF-
items do justice MT only to the stub tu
ID our country aud our race.
A sttiking feature of the reunion was
when q slerdar, black-slad, frightened
girl tt,od on pIst'orm, and, while
5000 veterans cheered end while the
bands played Dixie" a score or more
gray-bearded Confederate officers passed
10 reviaw before her and with uncovered
heads kissed her hand, The girl was
Miss Lucy White Hayes, grsrddsugate:
OF tho only president OF the Oonfedsracy.
The big tent, which is said to seat
5000 persons, Tss packed to ils tor
most tier OF sea.a. The aides bad be:n
rsised, and the throogs outside bad
pressed 10. When the sd u,hter Of
the Oonfederacy" was bsirg pressr It'd
t, The convention the old vetersns
went mad. The baud Has playing
"Dix!e"-.hree Of them were-Iu tie
combined brassss could rot drown out
tae cheers.
The veterans surged forward, tu! The
ropes stopped them. Then, enc By one,
the t,tely officers on the siege moved 10
review te!ore the frightened. trembling
girl and each kissed her hand as ne
passed.
Miss Hayes eyes filled with tears, and
she seemed overcome With ems ton as
she passed back 10 her seat on the arm
of her maid of honor, Miss Ella Nit.
chell. Miss Hayes is the "sponsor for
the S;u bern Coufederscy" 10 the re-
union, sDd takes rank over all other
SPONSORS and msids.
The afternoon sesaion Hss brief. The
Confederate choir ssDg audi Judgs L. B.
Mcfarland, Of Memphis, delivered the
orst on of the dag.
The Sons of United Confederate Vet
Grams continued their sessions last night
The principal events were the election
of officers and the listen ng to the address
of R. W. Bingham, Of Louisville, KY, on
Justice to the South"
Then followed the election of officers,
All of the OLD officers were reelected, in.
GLIDING Commander -in-C Chief Clarence J.
Owens, of Abbevile, La, by unanimous
vote.
The Sens decide to make permanent
headquarters at Memphis and voted
81, 900 for propaganda work.