The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-17

a lOSt cause then or a cause that would ever die? When you had accepted the final arbitrament of the sword; when yod had gone back to your rayished homes to drive from your lands the scalawag g and the carpetbagger; to pick up the broken shreds of life; to teach your boys and your girls to be true Americans, and at the same time to keep fresh in memory your intrepid leaders, were you serving lost cause then, or a cause that would ever die?
 When in the distant years the last man who followed the stars and bars to a noble defeat has passed from this land and the army of the Confederacy is unit ed in the whole and goes through the ala- baster gates to pass in grand review be- fore the Commander-in-C Chief of the des- tinies of all mankind, do you think that in the doomsday book of humanity your cause will be written as one that was lost? No It will be written down as a cause that was won.''
 VETERANS CHEER
 SPEAKER TO ECHO
 The band played "DixieY in a frenzy. Old veterans of the Confederacy, their voices cracked with the ravages of time, piped their approval of what the great writer said, and added emphasis to their yells by pounding their fellows on the shoulders, on the head, smashing hats and crying like children. It was the great est ovation ever paid to a speaker in Birmingham.
 General Young was presented with a beautiful gavel by the Daughters of the Confederacy just before the programme of the evening began, and he used it in call ing his command to order. He introduced Col George Taylor Denison of Toronto, Canada, as 8 man who had bailed him from jail when he was charged with vio- lation of the neutrality laws of Canada during the war of the eos. He gave his hearers an inkling of his expedition into Vermont at the head of 13 men, at which time town was burned, the banks of the town footed and 300 Union soldiers kept prisoner for several hours by this little band. And the best of it all was that the money secured by General Young managed tn find it's way into the treas ury of thN onfederacy and was used in the war. General Young did not tell all of the story, but his comrades in that raid gave him the credit that was due.
 General Young said that he was thrown into prison in Canada to await trial. He made friends with Colonel Denison, and cu. d his release pending trial
 Colonel Denison was greeted with the widest applause from the vets, and at the suggestion of grim Kentucky warrior, was made the honored guest of the United Confederate Veterans during the reunion In the course of his brief remarks, he paid high tribute to General Young and to the Confectionery.
 BOTH PLEDGE SERVICES
 Both the United Confederate Vet erans and the Sons of Veterans adopted resolutions at their meetings yesterday pledging lives. fortunes and honor to the government of the United States should it become necessary for the de- fense of this country.
 Following in the wake of the action of the old soldiers at the opening ses- sion of their reunion yesterday morn ing the sons at their afternoon ses- sion adopted resolutions introduced by Clarence J. owens of Washington, past commander in chief of the organization. After calling attention to the fact that the international relations of the Unit ed States call for the highest and pur- est patriotism and the loftiest states manship'' and that in President Wilson, a son of the south, the nation has a worthy leader, the resolutions read:
 Resolved by the Sons of Confederate Veterans in annual reunion assembled, That assurances be conveyed to the chief executive of the nation of the Sympathetic interest of the sons of the southland in the tasks devolving on his high office; of the belief in the prin- ciple of preparedness that we may be ready to protect with power the land try call for the Sons of Conferenate Veterans, to respond with life, fortune and sacred honor"
 WASHINGTON LOOMS UP
 Washington loomed to the front yester- day in the contest for the next reunion when Col. Hilary A. Herbert, Secretary of the Navy under the late President Cleveland, arrived here with the official invitations from the municipal authori- ties and the trade bodies of the capital.
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