The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-06-01
Southern States, Declares DR..
Maclachlan, Fought For a
Principle
Gen. Robt. E. Lee
South $ Cross-Bearer
Minister Pays Eloquent I ribute
To Leader of Lost Cause
Seventh Street Church
Packed To Doors

Euloxixing the gray-ciad soldiers OF
tia South. whose patriotism caused
them TO risk their lives for the sake
of the Confederacy and it's principals
and who for four years. endured many
hardshtps while opposing overwheim-
ing odds, Or. II. u. c. Maclachlan last
evening preached his annual memorial
sermon in Seventh-Street Christian
church to An audience which packeo
tho commodious edifice to It's capacity
He asserted that the Southern states
were lighting, not In any spirit Oh
selfsh ACKNOWLEDGMENT. but for prin-
ctple dear to every man OF the Anglo
Saxon breed---the principle Of personal
liberty and seif-govsrnmenI
Ltfe,s Ccmmonplaces.
This, of course. Ii commonplace.
and there are those who say II is
high time to quit thrashinF over again
In every serrnon and memorial address
the old, stale straw of States rights.
declared DE-. Maclachlan- cannot
agree with them I believe 1t wouid
be a calamity II the South should ever
be allowed to forget the real 5usti-
ficatton OF itY gigantic struggle against
overw helnring odds. 1t may be IN
commonplace we are repeating. naf
what would this life OF ours be without
II0 COfn116uH 6GS~--Ihh
sun. the commonplace air,. the com
monplace succession Of spring and
summer, autumn and winter. Especial
ly Is this true Of Virginia. Whatever
selfish motives may have controlled
the politicians Of other States, certain
1t 10 that Virginia went into the f1En'
rs the champion OF nnerty againss
coercion, and OF the free consent 4os
the governed against the bayonats %
a oonQuering horde. need no rea'
to vrou thA facts OF that momen w.
ttme-how. when the sister States Tar
ther South. were. aiming for the con-
iict she steadily refused to separate
herself from the union, her sons con-
secrated with their biood--how men
like General Lee and Jubal Early OPP
posed secession with almost AZ much
veheraence as the aholitionists OF the
North"
DR.. Macl achtan said that the Con-
fedarate soldiers were marching TO the
beat OF a drum unseen and were
charging to the pugIe note Of the
centuries He declared that because
of that they have left behind them as
a precious legacy to their sons and
daughters record of courage, of
steadfaztness. of invincihle hope. OF
military genius. of fighting power. OF
sacrifice and devotion to lost cause
which will shine forever among the
beacon lights OF universal history.
A Spirit Of Protest.
The minister said that Virginia
went into the fight first of all in the
spirit OF splendid protest in what she
believed to be unjust coercion of her
sister States. She had nothing to gain
save honor by taking the side OF
brethren with whose political views
she was not wholly in accord. He said
that she rfsked her own rights to
protect the rights of others.
DR.. Maclachlan asserted that Cen
eral Robert Il. Lee was a typical vir-
gilman. and that he was the cross
bearer Of the South. He declared that
never was a greater prize offered TO a
soldier OF his country than when he
was invited to take Wingfield SCOTT s
De