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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Address of welcome (search)
Address of welcome by ex-Governor Francis P. Fleming, Chairman of the Committee of arrangements.
Ladies and Gentlemen, my Friends, and Comrades:
In behalf of R. E. Lee Camp, United Confederate Veterans, and the committee of arrangements, it is my pleasure and privilege to welcome you to an occasion which will ever be memorable in the annals of our city and State, and to bid you join us in dedicating a monument to heroes and patriots.
As we look upon this beautiful shaft, surmounted by the figure of a Confederate soldier, what memories of the past crowd upon us!
In the retrospect of thirty-seven years we may recall the States of the South, not by rebellion or revolution, but each in solemn convention, in the exercise of its sovereignty, withdrawing from a union that had ceased to be fraternal.
We see another compact formed, another republic created, upon the plan of that which the South had helped to build, another nation born and baptized The Confederate States of Americ