Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-06-03
JEFF DAVIS
NATAL day
CELEBRATED
Representative W. ID. Up
shaw and DIR. Z. }.
Owens Orators
MUSICAL PROGRAM
Successful Affair Given by, omteo
Daughters of the Confederacy-
introduced by J. NJ. Johnson

Representative William D. Upshaw,
of Georgia, and DR. Carence .. ow-
ems. of Washington, the latter pres
ident of the Southern Society, were
tbe war between the states and ne
tion of the birthday of Jefferson Da-
Wis held in Lee Camp Hall under the
auspices of the United Daughters OF
tbe Confeedracy. During the even
inc an interesting program was
given. Refreshments were served.
The speakers were introduced py
John NJ Johnson.
A number of selections were given
by Miss Estelle Wentworth ana
others on the program included MISS
Margaret Manly. viollnists; and the
Misses Virginia Riley, and Mildred
Sberrott, and vocal selections by Mrs
Sherman B. Fowler. Music was FUR
nished by the Alexandria High
School orchestra.
DR.. Owens told of the part played
bv tho women Of the confederaccy IN
the war between the statas and ne
also spoke on the plan for acquiring
| the Manassas battlefield.
The affair was greatly enjoyed by
all present.
The speech of Representative Up
shaw follows:
The beautiful and patriotic custom
of the Daughters of the Contederacy
of holding annual celebrations OF the
birthdays of those great southern
ctieftains, Jefferson Davis and Robert
+ lee. means that these loyal hand
maidens of the South intend to for
lever teach their children that we nave
q past of which we are not ashamed;
II is the conseeration OF that sacred
sentiment which has made the land OF
the Cavalier, no less than the land OF
tbe Puritan. the conservator OF all
that is high and holy in the realm OF
lofty patriotism. Indeed, 1t is the
duty. as we'll as the priceless privilege
of Southern manhsod to stand with
uncovered head before these fair and
yieilant guardians of our historic
mast who. like vestal virgins, keep
the fires of patriotism burning on the
altar Of radiant chlvalry and death.
less devotion. This devotion Is not
only Southern--it is national, tor'
from the heart of such loyalty to the
traditions and the heroes OF the
South springs the truest proven loyal
IN TO the Flag of our reunited coun-
trv. That was great utterance IN
President Harding's speech at the
dedication of the Lincoln Memorial
when in a passionate panegyric OF
national fellowship he declared: Glow
it would comfort Lincoln's great soul
to know that the states Of the South
land ioin sincerely in honoring him,
ard have twice since his day joined
with all the fervor Of his own great
heart in defending the flag"
And be it remembered that the
same fair hands of the women Of the
South that strew flowers on the
"yocal graves" Of the Confederate
dead and weave chaplets for the
princelv brows of Jefferson Davis,
Robert f. Lee and Stonewall jackson,
were busy-ioyously busy but yes
terdav in preparing for the needs and
binding up the wounds of the sons
Of the Blue from the wind-swept
North" who met on the fields OF
France the "sons of the Gray from the
sun-kissed South" This is national
fellowship. fellowship emphasized ana
cemented by the common travail ana
the common victories of the Soanlsh-
American and the great World war.
We of the South, conscious OF our
righteous devotion to a great con-
stitutional birthright, have waited
long for another great utterance-
God grant it TO be an epoch-making
utterance-in the Lincoln Memorial
speech Of President Harding, which
drowns into a stammering hush the
hind critics Of the South who have
never vet learned the difference be-
tween such leaders as Jefferson DAVIS
and Robert F.. Lee, on the one hand,
and Benedict Arnold, on the other.
Hear the confession, as well as the
affirmation of President Harding
when he said. There was an ambi-
puitv in the Constitution which could
only be wiped out by baptism Of
blood"
I could have risen from my seat
and shouted for the very JOY that
utterance brought to my loyal South,
ern soul. II President Harding told
the truth. land no honest student OF
history should wish 10 deny it,, then
let it be acknowledged evermore with
ont bubble or question that the SOL
diers of the South were heroes and
not traitors that they were neces-
sarv sufferers in the great proWden-
tiaI scheme for the purging OF the
Constitution and the firmer and
stronger building of an "indissoluble
union of indestructible States"
It was, indeed. the strife Of broth
ers; and when the necessary dispute
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