The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-05-18
VETERANS III
BRAZIL To GET
INVITATIONS
BEANCH DACGH-
TIERS OF THE cONFEDERACT
REMEMBERED PEOPLE tx FAR
OFF SOUTH AMERICA WIEN
URGENT LETTERS WERE BEING
MAILED.
spEcIAL 10 ThE JOURNAL.

SPECIAL TO The JOURNAL.
Chattanooga, Tenn, May 10" n941
the local Daughters OF the ConLeoetdC
issued an invita- ZION 10 me eA->1cIl-'zc
crates of Brazil to attend TeceP Ion
here during the reunion, they SEM
great many people to the history cooAS
for inform alton. 1t was the hls1 tne
that an invitation had been acGfesSe0
to those exiles in SCUM Ahle.l ea -
attend a social 1dnclioIt d. o
crate re- union.
At the close OF the war quite mum
Der of soutnernerS refused 10 tafAe e-to
oath OF allegiance ana peSln ire d."
under conditions that they dlo hoe
like Brazil Appealed 10 theIfi' DIV
they went from nearly every soa'n it
state and planted a colony IN lha'
country Tney have a neat, prosper
Gus village, known as villa AInes1celtia'
situated something more tnan I'o l.l1Ies
west of the city of Sac Padlo. some
poernber of the colony grew ureo o.
the Brazilian life and returned aones
hut there are some 600 naen1oers OF
the colony now, or within raolus VI d
few miles. hoots
an brazil. saws that these southerners
are still Americans at heart, put tney
have become citizens of Brazil by plrtn
| or proclamation. They are thirty anu
well-to-do people. The following eH
crents from Mr.. Winters book Will oe
| of interest just now some one
| hed told me that the war was a Ia
| booed subject; that the few older mem
| beers left weue fighting the Datties ossi
| When I met the oldest member OF Inc
! colony. who had left the United 800 4tis
| in 1863. the impulse came TO test TINS TINS
| subject / mentioned the fact that my
| own father had served In the Union
| armv ana fought for his country On
/ that side. This old man, who was Pas
/ the allotted three-score and-t Ten aru
r;or Stonewall Jackson, then toid me
the whole history of the colony ano .ne
II causes that led to it's estaonsnine5m a. :
IT was a mistake he said, but we ol $,
not realize it then, ana aIIerwalJh \. :;
was too late to sacrifice what we lh "a
,are and move back. We still love the
old flag. +he
thread at another point, the secre.al
of state, visited Brazil four yeas Ss
q, his honor on the PauHsta railway
and his name stands out conspicu-
II ously on every time table OF tnae ~
The special train conveying MN passSU
through the Villa Americans, anu .he
was asked to stop and ADDRESS tns
II Anericans When the train stoppeo
many of the older residents met mn
with tears in their eyes; ana, We
Told. the eyes of the dfstlngulsn
American were not dry; and ne ma
aiS +hat ~ was the most pathetic in
c,dent in his trip. He was asKe'
whether 1t would be better for tn
colony TO remain in Brazil or re.url
| TO the United States. Stay wnere yo'
are, he said, and be good 6ra1lltans
You will find the states so cnanse'
tbat thew would no longer seem Xix
home" ear
ror+hs before my visit one OF tn
} prosperous members of the coion
N Texas with the intention or re
nnaining there. He eft his property
the hands of an agent for sale;
few weeks after his arrival in Te%a
he cabled to his agent not to sell ~
property, as he was coming oa ;,,, "a
few months he and his famiIy re
trrned TO the Villa, giving as his rea
son that the old neighborhood ma
changed so much that it ala not seer
| go much like home as Brazil