The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-07-02
SOUTH'S
AGED VETERANS
Until That Is Done, Complete
Justice Will Not Be
Achieved.
YOUNG MAKES SUGGESTION
Confederate COMMUNICATIVE Chief
Addresses Assembled Hosts
at Gettysburg.

Gettysburg, Pa. July l.-Complete
evidence Of the perpetuity OF the United
States az a nation is presented by the
reunion here of the Union and Confed-
crate veterans who nifty years ago en-
gagged in the historic battle of Gettys
burg. declared General Bennett H
Young, er-in-chief OF the
United Confederate Veterans, IN an
address TO the veterans to-day
He declared the men Of both armies.
whose deeds of valor made this battle
held forever historic, We're true to
uuth as they saw il, and that moro
than eight out OF every ten who par
ucipated in that struggle have gone TO
The immortals"
Referring 10 tho tattered battlefiags
/ evidence on every hand. General
Young said they are no longer being
waved TO lead men into the jaws OF
death. but to declare and proclaim n
peace that in it's bcnencient power and
in its political liberty challenges not
only the gaze. but the admiration OF
the civilized world"
Wars Hntred Forgotten.
He spo..e feelngly of the fact that
men who fought a half century ago
n ect to day as friends, with wars ami
II; ositics forgotten
There are things in the past that
are regrettable," he said Laws were
Sh"ctcu 'h't cnaIIenScd the equality OF
the men of the South. bur. tried in the
crucible of reason, liberty and patriot
ism. they have all been repealed Every
state has equal rights. every man ha c
equal privileges The war has left no
badg" OF inferiority. and the men who
wore the blue and followed the dag of
'he Union ask for and expect nothing
that is not the right OF the men who
wore the gray and followed the stars
and Bars
1T may be-" he said, that the sug
gestion lately put into form to give
Confederate soldiers the same privi-
lcges in national soldiers homes MS
Federal soldiers may lead to the es.
tablishing OF thI right. or that peace
in its demand f5r the ohliteration OF
all the bitterness of the past may de-
mand that the nation shall pension sur
Viving Confedcrates, do not even
suggest or. In the name of my people
say that IL would he accepted. but this
republic is great destroyer of the
cherished ideals of the past when they
stand in the way Of the complrtcst
justice. For nearly fifty years the pco-
pie of the South, without cornpla int
have contributed millions for the pen
sions of Federal soldiers. A nations
gratitude has been metcd out through
enormous grants To provide for tho
FederaA eoldiers. their wives and thcir
children.tso murmur has ever conIo
from the men of the Confedcracy at
this vast outlay. and there are somo
VINO predict that the hour may arrive
In national life when the few and in
trm remaining men who fought under
the Confederate standards with admit
tedly unsurpassed courage should have
IN the evening time tho comforts and
conveniences that their intrepidity
deserved
His Sublimcst Height.
William Mckinley reached the SUI
blimcst heights OF statcsmanship when
he allowed II little daughter OF tho
South to pin n Confederate badge on
his breast, and when. gifted as few
men with the power of forccasting po-
iitical events. he urged that the graves
of the Confedcratcs who had died In
Northern prisons should have, at the
cost OF their nations treasury. n stone
TO tell who they We're. whence they
came. and whore they died. No great
cr triumph of generosity was ever wit
messed than when the United States
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