The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-11-28
A MILESTONE IN HISTORY.
Two Wonderful Occasions-The Con.
federate Monument at Arlington
and the Blue and the Gray as
Gettysburg-Teft's Great Speech
to the Confederacy.
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What the Washington Post said a
day or two ago in a leading editorial
about President Taft's great speech
at the Lotos Club, and also about the
President being much stronger with
the people OF the whole country now
than before the election is very true"
said former Senator Marion Butler,
or North Carolina, at the Willard,
last night. But there are more peo-
pie who are praising and commenting
upon the Presidents speech made
here last week welcoming the United
Daughters Of the Confederacy to the
National Capital. Every expression
that l have heard about that speech,
and l have heard many from both the
North and the South, agree that 1t
was the greatest speech that the Pres
ident has ever made. 1t was a won
derful occasion in the history of our
country, and 1t was a wonderful ad-
dress that met fully the occasion.
Colonel William Jennings Bryan,
who was here, and who delivered
the principal speech at the laying of
the cornerstone of the Confederate
Monument at Arlington, has express
ed the same opinion. Colonel Bryan
went from here to the capital of my
State to deliver one of his noted pre-
pared lectures. He went outside of
his manuscript at Raleigh to say that
President Taft's speech on that occa-
sion was the greatest he had ever de-
livered, and that it was well for the
Democratic party that 1t was made af-
ter the election, for 1t would have
had a profound effect on the cleo
ton"
When asked what he meant about
/ it being a wonderful occasion. Sem
ator Butler said:
THE Daughters Of the Confederacy
were organized to care for the old,
needy Confederate soldiers and their
widows and to help educate their chill
dren, to build appropriate monu-
ments, and to keep straight and pre-
serve Southern history. When Presi
dent Taft was Secretary Of War he
granted them permission to erect a
monument to the Southern dead bu-
ried in the Confederate circle at Ar
lington. The Daughters have now
raised the money for a very hand
some and imposing monument, and 1t
was peculiarly fitting that President
Taft should welcome their national
organization to the National Capital,
the first time they have met out of
Dixie, to lay the cornerstone OF this
monument.
There will be another important
milestone in our history when next
year this beautiful Confederate Mon
ument is unveiled. This will occur
on July 8, 1913, the day before the
fiftieth anniversary celebration Of the
battle of Gettysburg. Thousands up
on thousands of old Confederate sol
diers, who will be present at the un-
yelling of this Confederate Monu-
ment at Arlington, are arranging to
go in a body from here to Gettysburg
to attend the fiftieth celebration of
that great battle, the greatest in the
history of the world.
There is nothing in all history to
equal what occurred here in Wash
ington last week and what will occur
at Gettysburg next year. This Is the
complete proof, If further proof was
needed, that we are again and forever
united country under the Stars and
Stripes"