The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-05-09
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Voice Of the People
The SO-CnlIed "Pcace Jubilee I'm April,
ioI5-A ReSpectfuI, but EnrncAs
Protest AHniuHf II.

:, Protest Against II.
10 the Editor OF The Times Dispatch:
Sir have been greatly surprised
anu distressed To see in your paper
recenriy a propositions TO celebrate a
on April 9, 1915. TO commemorate the
httieth anniversary OF the surrender
o. inc Confederate army: and these
FEELINGS were greatly increased by tile
statement that such a movement had
received the unanimous Endorsement of
K. T.. Lee Camp No. I. of this city.
nave no intention or desire TO indulge
IN any harsh criticism towards any
or o, those who may have inaugurated
this movement. and. least of all. to say
anything unkind about Lee Camp. OF
which have been an unworthy mem
but | simply desire to enter my pro-
test against this movement and to say
that ! know that the feelings enter
tanned by me about IT are shared by
many. If not most, Of the good people
in this city.
The attempt 10 carry such n move
ment into execution will create di-
vision among our people such as they
nave never experienced before. and di-
vide them on n question on which they
uniformly ever since the close OF the
late Civil War. This unanimity of
sentiment on the part of our people
material standpoinD this city has
ever possessed. and 10 abandon the
inspired this unanimity of feeling
among our people would, 1 believe. be
real calamity, if not something
worse.
am satisfied that this movement
was started without reflection on the
part Of those who begun it as to what
sSrs nn an a sns nd fss a0S by
Lee Camp either without such refec-
Ton or that those who voted for it
were not fully Informed of it's import.
LIE M ipt
of view is really involved In this
movement: To my mind, 1t seems to
sentiment that is. or should be. both
dear and sacred To the heart of every
true Confederate man and woman in
the South. do not refer only to the
army. nor TO the women who lived
whilst that army was battling in de-
who were so true TO us and our cause
then, and have remained so to this
Day az put l mean as we'll the sons and
daughters: OF those men and women,
and especially the descendants OF those
who gave their lives n "freewill Of
ferinR' Tor our cause.
Are we ready, then, let me ask, to
so stultify ourselves. and to put a
stain upon the memories of our sacred
dead, as to proclaim TO the world that
our cause was not righteous one, and
that we Will. therefore, join with our
late foes in rejoicing that it went
this necessarily involved in Jubilee"
to celebrate the. defeat OF our armies
and the downfall of our cause? And
even if it should be contended that it
is not is it not legitimate inference
TO be drawn by our former foes from
such conduct on our part. and are we
willing and ready to afford them an
opportunity to draw such an inference?
l do hope. from the bottom of my
heart. that we are not.
Why were the Confederate organi-
cations now existing all over this South
land formed. and what do the Conted-
crate monuments which have been
erected by them tyDify? Do they mean
anything else than that we believed.
and still maintain, that our cause was
righteous one; that those who fought
to sustain il. and those who died in
it's defense. fought and died for just
and righteous cause. and that we will
do what we can to preserve the ,prln-
ciples of that cause and defend the
names and memories OF our dead
against attacks from any and every
quarter? If this be the true meaning
OF these things. then why should the
people who think and feel thus about
them have peace jubilee' to rejoice
over the surrender of our armies and