The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-13
LAUDS GLORY OF
 LOST CAUSE AT
 REUNION OF VETS
Hallman Stirs Hearers By Narrative Of Their
 HerOism


 HerOism
 MEMPHIS, Tenn, July 12.-AmonC the notable addresses made to the Sons of Veterans and the veterans themselves at the recent Confederate reunion here was the glorious story of heroism told by Henderson Hallman, member of the Atlanta bar. MT. Hallman said:
 Ladies and Gentlemen I salute you, of the blood royal of the Anglo-Saxon race, and the blood royal of our liber- ties and of the constitution. I, too, am of the blood royal, the son of a southehrn soldier, born in the hills of North Carolina, of Revolutionary stock and Christian parents, but a Georgia volunteer, company B, Fourteenth Geor- gia, Thomas Brigade, Wilcox division, A. P. Hills corps-one of Stonewall Jackson's men.
 I greet you, men of the constitution and of the Confederacy-sons and daughters of the constitution of the Confederacy-fellows all, of the consti- tuition and of the Confectionery.
 I have taken as my subject tonight theme that will tell you of the deep- CT significance of the greatest monument of this day, and it is my hope to un- fold before you the vision, and the liv- ing. breathing embodiment of the sublim- ' est memorial of all time-an eternal vindication of the men who wore the Gray.
 In past geologic eras, due to the si- -multaneous depression of the coastal .I,s.. al al nE kLa Piedmont plateau and the Appalachian areas, the Archaean rocks, the oldest physical structure of the earth, were barred to the weathering and disinte- grating agencies of sun, frost and winds, and the granites of this old formation endure as one of the ribs of mother earth, extending from the New. England coast to where they bury themselves in the alluvial clays of Alabama and dip beneath the foundations of the capitol of the Confectionery at Montgomery. This old formation in it's right hand holds the coastal plain to the blue waters of the Atlantic. In it's left it lifts to the blue sky of heaven the glories of the White and Green mountains of New Hampshire and Vermont and the Blue Ridge mountains of Virginia, the Caro- linas and Georgia. On it's breast it bears the traditions of American lib- erty. There is not one mile along the line.of these old granites but that some blood was spilled and some blow struck by our forefathers for the sovereignty of the 13 original states.
 It was of and on these old granites that our Pilgrim Fathers pended their knees in their first prayer of thanks giving for freedom of body and faith on Plymouth Rock. It was these same rocks that struck the fire from the hoofs of Paul Revere's steed as he sounded that never-dying call to arms i; and, at a later day, vt was the same rocks that caught the flecking foam from Sheridan's horse, with Winches- ter 20 miles away. The Rapids of the James, by whose waters the cavaliers landed at Jamestown, are of the ledges of these rocks. It was on the same old formation that the men whose blood of the Revolution flows in our south ern veins, met and drew the first dOcu- ment of American freedom-the Meek lenburg Declaration of Independence, at Mecklenberg county, North Carolina. And we are of the same pure Anglo Saxon strain of the men. of the hills and plains of the Carolinas, who reach ed above their fireboards for their squir- rel rifles, and, swinging their powder horns across their shoulders, went down to the battles of Cowpens and Kings Mountain, along the line of this living rock, and turned back the tide of Red Coats on southern soil and gave to the American colonies their freedom.
 And from this old formation Stone Mountain rises, as if with predestined knowledge of its security and nativity in the lap of the southland, a symbol of our liberties and a monument to that immortal instrument which was the cul- imitation of the great struggle-the con- stitution of the United States.
 The men of the Revolution won the constitutional men of the south de- tended it.
 We. know the result of that awful strNEsfe. Victory perched on northern