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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 17. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The race problem in the South —Was the Fifteenth Amendment a mistake? (search)
The race problem in the South—Was the Fifteenth Amendment a mistake?
An address delivered at the national cemetery, Memphis, Tenn., Memorial day, 1889. by Maj. T. B. Edgington.
Comrades of the Grand Army and Citizens:
We have met to decorate the graves of our comrades with flowers.
We have come to beautify for one brief day the resting place of a small fragment of our nation's heroes, whom our mother earth so tenderly presses to her bosom, covered with this mantel of green.
Small as this fragment of the Grand Army is that lies within these walls, yet it is twice as large as the white male population of this entire county capable of bearing arms.
It is more than one-third the size of the grand army which Alexander the Great marched out with to conquer the world.
The custom of floral decoration is one of great antiquity.
When Troy fell, Aeneas with his Trojan band started on his tempestuous voyage to Italy, where he founded an empire which afterward ruled the world.
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 17. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Lee