The National tribune., 1911-01-05

tol when We took the palmetto nag.
II. c. Macarthur says there was no flag
on the new Capitol when Goodrell went
in and put up the 18th Iowa banner.
comes up over the question which is
the first rebel flag? I claim this pal
metto flag iE the only rebel flag, for 1t
was made in Columbia, s. c.. and taken
, to Montgomery, Ala, and hoated over
the convention that passed the first
resolution to dissolve the Union. Their
first official flag was the oas described
in the letter Of the CUSTODIAN three
feet by eight, seven stars in b circle on
| q blue field. red, white AID red, IA
inches wide.'' and this traftSr flag was
not adopted until after thei Confeder-
ate Congress met in Ricklnond, Va,
long after the Secession CONVENTION in
Montgomery, Ala, which was the legal
! body, If they had a legal body at ALL
which I contend they did not have
Chief Justice Chase decided it was a
reasonable rebellion. Now. no rebel
1t succeeds. They failed, and history
on both sides says: 1T was lost
cause" Lincoln told them, IF you sue
ceed you will be heroes; if you fail you
Will be traitors" ana Attorney General
Speed legally pronounced them traitors,
in a traitors garb, under a traitor flag,
and that wearing traitor garb and
carrying a traitor flag was hostility to
the Government.
How true all this is on us now A
camp of United Confederate Veterans,
displaying these traitor flags and wear
ing Confederate emblems is wore than
anarchy, for an anarchist can be sup
pressed, but this traitor flag and traitor
garb seems to find friends in the new
National issue in the Attorney-Gener-
ais office constituting law to favor them.
comrade, by mistake, walked into
Confederate Camp, III, at 1922 Yer
mont avenue, Washington, d. c., and
asked if it was the Grand Army Head
quarters, and they informed him yes.
He looked around and saw the big pic
ture of Stonewall Jackson. He said,
why have that traitors picture here? ?"
and was met with the reply, That is
our military chieftain, and IL the North
ern army had not murdered him, you
would not be drawing a pension of SIS
a month" The one-legged Union sol
dier said: "It looks as il i got into the
wrong place This cannot be the Grand
Army of the Republic Headquarters"
Yes, it is; for that Confederate army
led by Gen. Lee was the grandest army
of the ReDublic that ever marched on
the earth" Then he said: .If this is
the Confederate Headquarters. why do
you have the u. S. Flag hanging there
with those Confederate flags?" The re-
ply was: They will not let US display
our confederate fiaSS unieSS we place
the American Flag alongside of them"
The question arises who Is the au
thority that, has decided this can be
done here in Washington, ID. c., q? for
say the legal opinion of Attorney-Gen-
eral Speed Is the law Of this Territorial
Government. We Will be branded as
towards. If our patriotic bodies fail to
denounce the outrage and call Congress
man and Senator to account for Te-
glecting TO protect what you fought for.
The traitor flag, the traitor uniform,
the traitor song Dixie written by a
negro minstrel clog dancer born in Mt.
Vernon, Ohio, and who would never
tell where he was during the rebellion
only to say he was not in the Union
army, will soon become a thing ofecOn-
tempt by all classes. This ts1e Of Sc
cession, rebellion and disgrace must be
discussed until the traitor flag viii be
hid away, as il was for many years,
until Cleveland became President, and
under his second term the u. c. V.
Camp was organized Feb. 25,f 1891, and
this Camp marches In Washington, ID.
c., often. Patriotic orders of all kinds
should insist on the legal opinion of
Attorney-Goneral Speed being the law
until it is reversed by competent au-
thority.-David w. Wood, Co. G, Goth
Ohio. Washington, ID. c.