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Title: Sponsor souvenir album : history & reunion (1895)
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: United Confederate Veterans
Subjects: United Confederate Veterans -- Anniversaries, etc United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Anniversaries, etc.
Publisher: (Columbus, Ohio : Terry Engraving Co., 1895.)
Contributing Library: Houston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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broad, a fidelity to the decisions of battles unquestionedand sincere, as to challenge the confidence and esteem of patriots in every sectionof the Union. This leads me to recall three remarkable achievements by these ex-Confed-erates in peace which impartial history will pronounce a fitting climax to theirsplendid record in war. The first is the reconstruction, mainly through yourinstrumentality, of the labor system of the entire section. You returned froma long, exhausting and unsuccessful struggle to find the agricultural labor ofyour states not only disorganized, bat as a system (to the management and con-trol of which you were born and trained), it was utterly destroyed. Yet youheroically undertook the task of its reorganization under a new system, and,adapting yourselves to that new order, the success of your efforts is the noblestcommentary upon your wisdom and justice. With no power to control thathitherto servile labor, with no money to pay it, you successfully guided it to a
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40 SPONSOR SOUVENIR ALBUM. plane of self-support and to vastly increased production of the Souths great staple. The second is your astounding success in securing, in spite of the radicalrevolution in the conditions around you, and in so short a period, financial inde-pendence for your families and industrial prosperity for your section. Youreturned from the war poor, the first of thousands penniless, many shot andmaimed, and yet bravely and uncomplainingly laboring with aid from no sourcesave from God and your own self-reliance and manhood. You have fought yourway to competence, provided for our disabled comrades until scarcely a Confed-erate soldier can be found deprived of the comforts of life. At the same timeyour combined efforts have carried these Southern states to a height of materialadvancement from which you may now calmly look back over a land which butthirty years ago was a wide waste of desolation and ashes, and around you overa country now happy in its rebuilt homes and r

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