The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-05-03

CONFEDERATE HOSTS WILL AS
. II IN f1FlAVAVzzAksSf4f3H0F0N " 4 FOR

In the Msck Of june 3O,oOO Con
fedeTate soldieTs will march, in triumph
I through the streets OF Washington, from
4 along theenafe 1ls1gth 6fPeHnsylvania
ftaYenase it will he sstheSSouth I'M the sad
! Ole, .aRd riding glarionsay:'I Fifty-Six
1 years ago this G0nfident announcement
! would have, created national panic.
+ Today 1T is welcome proclamation of
patriotism and peace. -
Camped at last in their country's capi-
| tai and lighting their bivouac fires be-
tween the WashingtonI mOn6ment and
the pofticos of the presidents home,
these battered and decrepit veterans of O
son ana Lee-wiM have conquered at
last the hearts Of Washington, and
achieved in peace what they failed to ac-
compliSh at the point of their bayonets
! in war. Never before have the Confed-
crate veterans held reunion in their
countryssy capitol. Theyo have. met for
twenty years in, every Southern
city, holding their last reunion but one
in Richmond, the capital Of the old Com
federaey, amid the glad hands and the
reminiscent tears of that great old Vir-.
giniaf breed that made them welcome
there. Z .4:IG aeIg-s1 e.5%i
- They cross the Potomac I'm June, fer
the first time, the, rtweRty-seyenth re-
union, of the United Confederate Vete-
rams, the twenty. second reunion of the
Sons of VeteranS, and come to hold their
e .eatest and perhaps their last assembly
in Washington, the capital of their coun-
try newland forever. The Grznd Army
of the Republic has held tits reunion in
Washington, time after, time.z, With flags
flying and brass bands blaring and can
k1.nS, Lo5 H. %
toric avenue with fefveht and tender
cheers. But the 'fatteadmelionS of
Lee, snow good AmeficaR citizens, who
for years looked grimly from the Vir-
gina hills upon, the state1yf dome of the
CAPITOL have never before tlinked these
faded stars and bars in loving fellowship
with the star=spangled banner in its Of
ficial home.
- 1t will Be good for the nations capital
to have these Confederate veterans here.
June A with fhem will make a nObler
union at Washington cannot fail to carry
a national significance. They could
never come to a better plrce alta better
time. The sight of them-the sound of
them-these old men with gray heads
and broken bodies and brave hearts
all the love and honor, the
respect and reverence shO1En them after
fifty two yeArs of rneuaorye~+will tell the G.
republie some things that it:needS at this
time Iv7 10 j: Femembers. = GG...:.-:7a,
manhood of this crucial day. facing the
perilS of possible war, and to the faces
of the pacifStS blowing obstruction into
the nations honest effort to prepare
that men who serve their own land ac-
cording to their own convictions and
have been willingssto offer their fortunes
and their lives upon the altar of a peO-
pies convictions, have never yet been
forgotten and never will be forgotten by
the people for whom they fought.
That it iS-a great brave race from
which we Americans CoIne-that we are
the "sons of the sires''-that we are the
spawn of heroes who knew, how to fight
and did fight as men haYe seldom fought
before. These are the men who faced
at Gettysburg heroes OF similar strain
even il from a different Sectf0n, and
over those graves at That great battlefield,
Ab1ahamsL Lincoln spoke for. the inspira-
ton of all Iour history hfs Immortal joint
tribute to the imReEishable .valor OF
American, arms. l., ~ - "a
These men in. their presence will
breathe from the battlefieldS OF. 1S6165s
capital. j The North, South
East and West are itSlaownerS and it
lovers. 1t belongs to. MS aHs born of ou1
brain and our money. and the genius of
our institutions, i; is the final capital
Of every citizen with soul. The South
is whole part Of the great republic.
through whose veinG pulses now the red
blood 6f1oyalty unelotted with a single
bitter memory. jane Nshouldshe made
Il national holiday. It,4 carries ithe !ast
great convincinx. scene in the, mighty
drama Of = restored sand forever ''indiS~
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