The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-06-20

ditions of the old South, the veterans
of the Confederate armies officially
opened their annual reunion here to-
day. The convention was called to
order by Gen. William B. Freeman,
commander of the Virginia division,
and Gen. Julian Carry, commander-in-
cffief, who later took charge. The
session was given over to speech
making.
Richmond, Va, June 10.-Confed-
crate reunions will be held so long
as there are two Confederate veterans
left to attend, was the assurance of
Gen. Julian Carr, commander in chief,
United Confederate Veterans, in re-
ply to the hope of Gov. E. Lee
Trinkle that this would not be the
last reunion, speaking at the open
ing session of the Confederate South
em Memorial association today in
the jefferson hotel.
Governor Trinkle may be assured
that his wish will be granted and
that many more Confederate reunions
will be held" General Carr said amid
the applause of distinguished audi
ence of Southerners. The people we
honor, and are descendants of, rep
resented the finest civilization that
ever lived under any flag. We can
always point with pride to this fact
and be at ease in any company dis
tinguished for heroism and fortitude.
England has no such heroes as have
we. There is not one in Westmins-
ter Abbey so great as was Lee and
Jackson. The Confederacy holds Lee
as contributing the greatest heroism
to the world ever known. The South
venerates his memory with a love
that passeth all understanding.
"No band of men ever met in this
state as welcome as the Confederate
veterans and their families" Cover
mol Trinkle declared. eve hope that
Confederate reunions will be held so
long as there are two Confederate
soldiers to attend and trust that as
the years pass Richmond may be
honored again with their presence"
"God did more for Virginia than
any other state or country" is the
opinion of Gen. Julian Carr, COM
mander in chief of the Southern Con-
federate veterans. "He gave her peoa
pie the courage of lion and beau
tiful country; righteous cause to
fight for, and as a crown, the glory
of the woman of the Southland. A
man that could not fight for these
things is not a man."
"The South can not be robbed of
her memory and the history of al
most unbelievable bravery" declared
Mayor George Anslie in his welcom-
ing address.
"If the South is not the home of
democracy, then we have none," Mrs.
Livingston Rowe Schuyler, president
of the United Daughters of the Con-
federacy, said. "In this age many
tongues are spoken, but we of the
South speak but one-the speech of
human liberty and freedom"
The world does not willingly ma
-lign the South and the world will ac-
cept the truth if history is written
in a spirit of fairness, Fitzgerald
Flournoy, Rhodes scholar from Vir-
ginia, and the United Daughters of
the Confederacy scholarship holder
at Washington and Lee university,
declared.
"Injustices to the South lie more
in what is omitted than in what is
actually written. The most insidious
false history is that which tells no
actual falsehood but which tells only
half the truth. The part taken by
sy has been even more maligned than
her civilization.
"By. painstaking research, by deep
philosophic understanding and inter-
probation, the history of the old
Southern civilization, it's acts, it's
ideals, and it's atmosphere must be
placed before the world. 1t must be
written so that the world will read
it and conceive in such a spirit of
fairness that none can take offffense,
but it must be written"
All the affection and sentiment
that an unforgetting community
could express today was bestowed by
Richmond people upon the gray clad
soldiers who, from every section of
the South, once more have gathered
within the historic city's borders.
AS if sensing, in some measure, the
possibility that this may be the last
time when th1 fast thinning band of
men who fought for the Confederacy
will meet together in the city that
was once the heart of their beloved
cause, Richmond people in countless
ways are showing these aged vet
erans that they are. not forgotten,
and that the South still cherishes
with abiding pride the deeds that
gave the gray armies undying fame