Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-09-26
u. G. V. and Sons Go on Rec
ord Periodically at Ses-
sions Yesterday.
BR0UGH PLEASED VETERANS
Arkansas War Governor Said
He Was in Favor Of RAM
ming Kaiser's Throat.

President Wilson knows thi!
morning that the southland is squar,
behind him in his prosecution OF the
war.
Confederate soldiers from every
part OF the nation, and especially
from south OF the Mason and Dixon
line, and their sons-those not al.
ready under arms-pledgcd every
resource OF their home states to the
prosecution OF the war.
Both the Confederate veterans
and their sons passed strong reso-
lutons on the prosecution OF the
war. Later copies OF the resolutions
were wired President Wilson.
The morning session OF the L, G..
'. was presided over by Gen. II. A.
Snoed OF Sulphur, Okla, one OF the
nig men OF the state veterans. Tate
BRADY, chairman of the reunion
committee. and who fathered the
idea OF bringing the convention 10
oklahoma, was introduced, and In
response made an address of well
come on part OF the men who have
put the reunion over. In part, he
said the following:
Address OF w. Tate Brady, General
Chairman Reunion Committee.
Commander in Chief, Confederate
Veterans, Sons OF Veterans, La
dies and Gentlemen:
1t Is my proud privilege 70 be
among those who, in the name OF the
great state OF oklahoma and the
city of Tulsa. to bid you
welcome within our borders, our
homes and our firesides. 1 assure
you, one and all. that our hearts are
glad today that we have the priv
ilege OF extending the hand of well
come TO you and proclaiming for you
the freedom OF our city. Our hearts
are open, our gates are ajar and a
Confederate uniform is a sufficient
key to the front. doors OF our homes.
Torn asunder by divergent inter-
pretatlons Of our federal constitution,
years ago this land was
plunged into fratricidal strife. We
are not here to consider the reasons
and the causes for that conflict.
They have been well defined in these
words:
whether in the United States the
citizen owed allegiance 10 the fed
eral government as against his state
government was a question upon
which men had divided since the
birth OF the republic"
The men Of the north responded TO
he call OF that sovereign--the fed
,ral government-to whose alleg-
ance they subscribed. The men OF
he south decided that their first
allegiance was to the state govern
nent, and they followed the flag Of
a In
heir views.
The civil war was. therefore, a bat.
lie between rival conceptions of SOW
'reignty, rather than between a SOW
'reign and its acknowledged citizens
rhe issue involved was submitted to
he sword. and by this bloody arbitra-
nent II was forever settled.
Destiny decreed that one un-
,roken republic. under one flag,
hould stretch from Canada TO the
Rio Grande and from the Atlantic
o the Pacific. For many reasons we
would not blot out of American his
ory one page OF the epic that re-
cunts the rise and fall OF the Con-
ederacy; for. though dim with tears
nd tragic in its grief. II is no less
ruitful in Its lessons.
Out Of the memories OF this hero
E struggle out OF the flames and |
OF war. which tested to the
ttermost the mettle OF the men
orth and south-aye, out of the |
lood that was shed on battlefields-
ave come our national life and
trength, our unity Of heart and pur
ose, our supreme devotion to a flag
{ a reunited country, which today
loats above US and fills our heart
nth patriotic love.
For the twenty-e eighth time you
re met in annual reunion How
roud II makes us to know that at
his fateful hour. when the war
rum beats around the world in the
reatest war the world has ever
nown, that that war is pitched, SO
ir as we are concerned as a nation,
n the highest plane upon which
'eedoms battle has ever been
ought. In the providence Of God
his war is being gloriously and
led by a great American
rmy composed Of sons and grand
ons. north and south. OF the men
'ho fought the war between the
ates. They are now citizens of one
Iorious. inseparable. indestructible
MON. Today "over there" these
escendants Of Lee and Jackson,
rant and Sherman, Forrest and
ordon, Hooker and Mcclellan, two
Iillion strong, and more to follow.
ave sworn that liberty shall not
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