Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-06-02
Convention Is Greatly Stir
red by Appeal From
Southern Women.
CALLS ATTENTION TO
BLESSINGS OF PEACE
Men Worn Out With Victory De-
plo:e Great Contest Raging
in Europe.
TWENTY-FIFTH REUNION OPENS
Survivors OF Lost Cause Are Gladly
Welcomed to City They
Defended.

In the midst OF their acclaim of the
Confederate cause. and while the rebel
yell was being sounded, there came to
the session of the convention Of the
United Confederate Veterans yesterday
afternoon a letter asking that a
prayer for peace in the warning ma.
tions OF Europe be uttered at soma
time during every day OF the veterans
meetings. The letter was signed by
Mrs. Norman " Randolph, Mrs. Archer
Anderson, Miss Sallie Archer Anderson.
Mrs. Charles e. Boiling. Mrs. Charles
Q. b. Cowardin, Mrs. Abbey NJ Gwath-
mey. Mrs. Edwin A. Ezekiel. Miss Annie
Christian and Mrs. ]. Taylor Ellysoni
In voice strained with the emotion
Of remembered things. Adjutant-Gen-
cral Mickle read the simple message
The letter said that the people OF the
Confederacy could understand better,
perhaps. than could other people the
stress which the people of Europe are
now undergoing.
WOULD CALL ATTENTION
TO BLESSINGS OF PEACE
1T seems to u.s." the women wrote,
that such prayer. coming in tho
midst OF the business OF the session,
would recall to men the blessings of
peace our own country enjoys. that
1T would be a great help to all who
hear II and would be an Inspiration to
those In other sections Of tho country
who might read It,"
The veterans bent their heads in
assent. and in this gathering of men,
who hold to them still the memory of
~
the suferings of war which once they
underwent, and who remember the
ravages of their farms and the ruin
OF their homes, Rev. J. w Bachman.
d. d., chaplain general OF the United
Confederated Veterans, prayed God
that peace might come again to Bel
gium's ravaged soil and to the hapless
sons OF France and Britain and Rus
sta and to all the German people In
his prayer. Chaplain-General Bachman
recalled the sufferings which the peo-
pie or the South had undergone, and
he asked Providence to remove the
pain and anguish which now have
come upon the people overseas
MEN WORN WITH VICTORY
DEPLoRE EUROPEAN STRIFE
1t was fitting. 1t seemed. in such an
hour and upon such a time that those
VINO had been worn out by victory and
tired with it's sorry spoils should ask
the God OF nations to look down with
pity on others who are passing through
the pain and vain regret of causeless
strife. DIR. Bachman's prayer was the
feature OF the afternoon session, and
when he finished his urgent plea there
was not voice in the auditorium
which did not utter a solemn amen.
The convention was opened in the
m n n la @p-
Thompson Brown. commander of the
Army OF Northern Virginia. and prayer
Tor Divine guidance and assistance was
offered by DIR. Bachman A choir of
500 voices. led by Professor W. c.
Mercer, sang songs of the South, and
veterans whose feet were feeble, and
whose steps Jagged as they walked
down the long aisles. cheered the
young cho!risters with their rebel cry.
FOR time there was something akin
to pandemonium. All the lust Of youth
and all the vigor of their earlier days
seemed to return to the men OF Gray!
The cry which had made them dreaded
on SO many battle fields broke from
their lips as song breaks from mating
birds In spring, and not General Harri.
son nor Miss Mary Custis Lee nor Mrs.
j. f. b. Stuart could stay them. The
- ""s as welcome 10 tnem AS to the
veterans, and il brought visions which
the soldiers see low only when thew
gather about their camp fires or re-.
tire to their htful slumber
GOVERNOR STUART
WELCOMES VETERANS
. Governor II. c. Stuart. nephew ~
General j. e. r. Stuart, welcomed tha
veterans on behalf of the State Judpa
ID. Gardiner Tyler. who expressed tha
welcome for the veterans OF Virginia
recalled that the irreconcilable differ
ence between those who lived north
OF the Potomac and those who abided
south or the Mason and Dixon line
was as TO the location of the paramount
sovereign. 1t was not his effort To
revive the unhappy differences Of the
past nor yet unduly to recall the trial
and agony OF those who fought NOT
lot slavery, but for the right OF seces
sion, a right SO freely granted bv
writer's OF the North before and since
that immemorial day of 81 Instead
extended that welcome due from the
Mecca city OF the South and bade the
open hearths.
10 Governor Stuart. too. had coma
the desire OF world en- ncirclino neac.
and he said: IF ever the dream Of ,rri
Eersai peace shall be realized IL Will he
due 10 the acceptance by the nations az
the principles for which the Confeder
ate soldier died--the cause for which
Washington threw or his alleRianco to
Great Britain. and that for which gall