The Sentinel=record., 1911-05-17
R. c. Caves Address

peare, as we'll as the poets, appeal ing to history. as well as the constitu- ton of the United States; citing such authorities as Daniel Webster, and setting forth what he termed
 The principles on which the Union, as formed by the Fathers, was found ed,' R. c. Cave, of St. Louis, who de- liyered the annual oration to the con lvention of the United Confederate Veterans. here today, said that he ac- Icepted the changed conditions brought about by the war between the sections,' but, while wishing it understood that he was merely dis cussing the facts of history, finally declared
 T hold that the responsibility for the war, with all the blood and treas ure that 1t cost and all the desolation and ruin that it wrought, justly rests upon Abraham Lincoln and his ad- visors."
 The speaker began with tribute to the South, he discussed the mem ories kept alive by reunions of the veterans and their descendants, he deplored any effort to keep alive bit ter sectional feeling, and said:
 q most earnestly desire to see the people of both sections ruled by the spirit of fraternity and harmoniously working together for the welfare of our common country; but I do not think the men of the South shoulH be asked, or expected to sacrifice the truth of history, and go down to pos terity branded as rebels and traitors to secure that end. .
 Mir. Cave declared a fallacy the theory that reference to war history in the South frightened away capital from the North, asserting that north ern money usually goes where it will yield it's owners larger returns than elsewhere, Tn support of the theory that financiers are nonsectional, he declared that investors of New Eng land leaned their money to Great Britain during the war of 1872, rather than furnish it to their own country which the speaker said was in sore straits for funds at that time.
 Constitutional governments admin istration. according to the speaker brought about the war of the early sixties and he asserted that the Soutl stood for the constitution against the North Slavery he declared to be but an incident in the controversy pre- ceding Lincoln's sending of warships forcibly to enter Charleston harbor which. he said, caused the lombard ment of Sumpter and precipitated tho war. Lincoln again exceeded his au lthoritv under the constitution, declar cd the speaker, when he called out tho militia and called for 75,0O0 men tt invade the South, and, but for thi' unlawful procedure, it is safe to say there would have been no war
 Here the speaker paid tribute t Ithe bravery of both northern an' southern soldiers, but said the fac rama;ns that. in the war, the soldier If the South won the larger measur' of glory
 When the Confederacy fell accord
 ing to pr Cave. the republic, as form ed by the fathers. perished' the state ! were robbed of their independence and became subject provinces of
 centralized national authority "an
 they tell us that this is best, and
 may be so; but I beseech you to par don an old Confederate soldier wh is perhaps blinded by memories Una
 sometimes fills his eyes with tears he cannot see it so; and believing, a history teaches, that patriotism most ardent and freedom most secur lin small communities, would toda rather have his own state as hl 1 crowned queen, and owe to her hi highest political allegiance that !
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