Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-05-11
HE DEFENDS SECESSION
Of SOUTH FROM UNION
Had as Much Right to With.
draw in 1861 US in l776,
Says DR.. Mcdaniel.
IN LAKEWOOD MEMORIAL. Appu,a,.
Speaker Asserts Cnlon Was Creation
and Not Creator OF southern states,
Which Never surrendered Thclr
Sovereignty Upon Entering Compact

Whlch Never surrendered IhclF
Sovereignty Upon Entering Compact
STANDING amid the 10000 graves
o! our heroic dead, We may hear II
voice like that which spoke from the
burning bush, Take thy shoes from
off thy feet. for the place whcreon
1hom standes, is holy ground.
Thus spoke Rev. Or. George w,
Mcdaniel. u. D. pastor OF First Bap-
list Church, in delivering the pr!n-
cipal address at tie annual Ouk-
wood memorial services held in the
cemetery under the auspices OF the
lakewood Memorial Association yes
terday afternoon. Or. j. y. Cpshur
introduced Dr. Mcdaniel.
~ parade under me leadership {,
Chief Marshal George *. Roper.
marched before the speaking TO the
cemetery where flowers were banked
on The graves Of 10000 Confederate
veterans \ salute by the Richmond
Howitzers. the sounding OF taps, and
singing OF hymns closed the exer-
ciSes.
Richmond is rich in ruins, in mem
DRY, and in history. The perfume OF
tho flowers with which these graves
are decorated is not more fragrant
than the memory Of the heroic dead
through the lapse OF tifty-stN years,
DIR. MCDANIEL declared.
Not War Against Sovereignty.
The war they waEed WAS not
rcbellion-that is a revolt against
sovereign authority. The war was
r. battle between rival conceptions OF
sovereignty. Two ideas had FLASHED
and persisted from the foundation
of the republic.
Nor was /: Il civil war-that is
war between the same country ana
government. Ours was Il war he
tween two Governments With terri
tory marked hv rivers ana noun
tains / should like IL abolish the
phrase The Civil War and suhsti-
tutc therefor the more definite and
accurate phrase War Between the
Sections
= virginia did not fight 10 pcrpctuate
negro slavery. The first slaves wer"
brought here by Dutch ships. and n
negro historian has said that slavery
was forced on the colony Of Virginia.
She made repeated protests and ap-
peals to the British crown against
the iniquitious traffic. The preamble
to George Mason'5 Bill of Rights in
diets the King for his attitude III
neEativing Virginia laws against
slavery The first draft by Jeffer-
son Of the Declaration of Indcpen-
dence said the same thing in effect.
Economic Liability on Son-"
Slavery was an economic liability
on the South, In that II discouraged
manufac turcrs, encouraged the whites
TO think contemptuously Of labor. anG
tended to dcmoralize manners and
morals.
"'Uncle Toms Cabin gave TO the
outside world "A perverted, distorted
and false view OF the general con-
dition of the South before the war.
An eloquent Virginia negro has said
that Slavery was bridge over
which savaGcs crossed to civilization
The white women OF the Souih who
gathered their negro slaves about
them on Sunday afternoon and taught
them. the word of God and tho way
OF life were the first American for
eiEn missionaries.
our two herics. Lee and Jackson,
those twin diviniti.s of constaucy
and courage, the Castor and PolIpN
in the crimson calendar OF war are
buried at Lexington. In the Gene
terry where rcFose iacksou's re
mains there ara. 1.-TWO graves wish
all the North could see. one Is the
grave OF a white man over which
his slave has erected a tomb on which
are carved thcs.. words. Erected to
his memory ~. Ri former slave The
other is the grave Of "a negro under
the shadow OF Jackson's monument.
hnd on his tombstonc\we see these
words He was loved trusted. and
honorcd by three generations.
would not bring back slavery but
would that could bring back the
friendly relations evidenced by these
TWO transcTiptiGns.
Fought for Its flights.
Tho South fought for its rights
under the Constitution. our 5000
600 people had as much right to
withdraw from the Union AS did g.
100000 IN l776. Legally the position
OF the South was the only tcnahlc
one. Wendell Phillips, Horace Gree
ley, Samuel l.. chase. Edward Ever
cit and Pres idcnt Lincoln all showed
that there was no law rs which
Eiavcs could DC freed or state
coerCed We have always held that
the Union was "a voluntary compact
Of Southern States; that the states
were founded on the freedom from
Gren, Britain. and did not surrender
their sovereignty upon entering the
Union; that the Union WAS the crea-
ton and not tn" creator OF TIA"
States. that all rights not especially
delegated were specially reserved
that the Union had no aothorits to
coerce a sovereign state. and that
been provided by New England
States as early a. 1914 in the Hart
ford Convention.