The Washington herald., 1915-10-17
Sens Of Confederate Veterans
First of Lecture Serfes.

i First of Lecture Series.
To a large and interested audience at
| Confederate Home. 1922 Vermont avenue,
| on Tuesday evening. the first of a Sc
| ries of articles of the two-year historical
course OF Washington Camp. Sons OF
| Confederate Veterans. was read by Mr..
! Lloyd T. Everett. an attorney-at-law of
! this city and q member of the camp.
! The article was entitled "Our Racial
! Heritage: Growth and Development of
| Institutional Self-Sovernment"
! Mr.. Everett explained that this was an
outline history of the rise and progress
Of free institutions. protected by SOL
! emn constitutional and institutional
! guarantees. amongst the Enslish-speak-
! ing races. Beginning with the early an
! mails of the GcrmaniC. Scandinavian and
! Celtic tribes who mixed and merged in
! the British Isles. it was pointed out that
these tribes Were originally possessed of
| free institutions. partaking largely of
! pure democracy: that amongst these
| tribes. both on the Continent Of Europe
| and in these islands. by degrees. the
people lost much of their pristine liber-
ties. their kings and other rulers arro-
eating the powers of government to
! themselves. resulting often b iron-fsted
dospotism. in the case of France and
! Spain: that the British tribes protected
; in larg" part from invasion and constant
J war by the wall of water flowing be-
tween them and the Continent. retained
and regained much more of their rights
than did the Continental peoples; that.
/ h"Ginninc with the Great Charter. wrrlng
from King John by the harons at Runny-
mede. 12l5 the English people from time
TO time set definite bounds to the powers
Of their rulers. as. in the Petition Of
Rights. 16N. the act of habeaS corpus
in the reign of Charles H. the revolution
of l6SS and the Bill of Rights of that
period and the act of Pra emnuni,e of an
earlier time.
wall of water protecting free insttu-
tions' the people of England. Ireland.
Scotland and Wales cand the hardest
and frees: "f them transplanted to Amer
i"a their free institutions. as expressly
guaranteed over and over again in tho
various colonial charters: that the revolt
Of lbs from unla awful unconstitutional
taxation was but in line with Hampden's
immortal stand against the Ship-money
in the time Of Charles l. as was the sue
c.s<ful opposition of South Carolina in
1908. against the tariff exactions of
those times. and that the attempted
peaceful secession of the Southern states
in lSfo-sl was bottOmed on these same
foundation principles of adherence to
written guarantees of reserved rights
against unconstitutional measures and
centralized oppression. the one section
of the country at that time having set
tu work to exclude the South from the
common territories. which had been won
by the common blood and treasure nf all
tho sections. and the John Brown raid
of 1Sa. widely indorsed in the North.
hrinc on par with the melting of do
meSti' Instructions amongst us.
charged in tn" Declaration of Indcpen-
dcnce against George III. The article
was written in the spirit of President
Wilson's recent statement to the u. 4.
K. that the American Revolution was
a beginning not elimination.
1t was pointed out that written safe
guards had been found the most effica-
cious to preserve popular rights against
rulers. and local and State rights against
centralized encroaChments. and that the
appeal of the Colonists in l1I6. of Caro-
lima in the tariff crisis of Jacksons ad-
mnsttration and of the Southern States
in the sixties was always an appeal from
peaceful settlement of questions in
Controversy, the ColonLts and the Con-
fedcrates drawing sword only as a last
resort IN defensive Wdrld1t.
In a brief Introductory explanation.
the acting chairman of the camps his
torlcal committee states that this was
the first of series of ten special arti- !
Cles or addresses on the general subject
of Confederate principles and history, |
five to he given during the season of
1876. and the remainder during 1861. |
These are designed on the plan of show |
ing that history. properly read. Is the
teaching of experience: that the story !
of the Confederacy and its underlying
principles has much to do with the
proper solution of the problems of today. !
as drawn from the sevents of the past. !
for the good of the future. 1t is under |
stood that some of the future articles |
of the series will touch present in !
tcrnational questions. the conduct of |
civilized warfare and the attempts to |
settle disputes between nations by peace !
full means.
Maj +. W. r. Ewing. chairman of the |
committee and author of Legal and His !
torical Status of the Dred Scott De- !
cision. and of other works on Ameri- |
can history. is to prepare the second |
article of the series. for December II. on ;
the nature and status of the Constitu-
tion of the United States. and of the !
government hereunder. Admission to .
the lectures is by season tickets. which |
can be obtained from the adjutant of |
the camp. l322 Vermont avenue. or from
other officers.
The program Was concluded BY piano
solos by Miss Ethel Bsockman. songs by
Mr. Ralph Cady and recitations by Mr..
Charles o. Shaw. Mr. William Z. Brock
man. cnmmandant, presided.
Confederate Reunion. |
Harry Heth Camp, No. l1a. c V of
Virginia. member of the Grand
Camp Confederate Veterans of vir-
mia. will be represented at the reunion
in Fredericksburg, Va. on October 1921.
by Commander Fred Beall. Col Hillary
A. Herbert. Mai. Robert w Hunter.
Leigh Robinson. Magnus s. Thompson,
William A Gordon. John r Callahan.
Thomas w. Hungerford. W. L. wilker-
son. Richard S. Denny. Edward P. Jones,
James T. Petty. Capt. d. c. Grayson.
G. T. Drake, Capt. w. W. Chamberlain.
S. W. E. Pegues. F. NJ. Angelic. Rev.
]. A. Morton. Many OF these will he
by their wives and daugh-
ters, beside other members and friends.
United Swiss Societies.
The United Swiss Societies of the Dis.
trict of Columbia are making prepara-