Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1894 — THE LOST CAUSE. [ARTICLE]

THE LOST CAUSE.

“Truth on the Scaffold, Wrong on the Throne,” During the exercises incident to the unveiling of the monument to dead Confederate soldiers at Richmond, Va., May 30 the orator of the day, the Rev. R. C. Cave, made an address which was much applauded. and which has caused much comment,. Among other things he said: "I am not one of those who, clinging tc the old superstition that the will of heaven is revealed in the immediate results of the "trial by Combat,” fancy that right must always be on the side of might, and speak of Appomattox as a judgment of God. I do not forget that a Suwaroff triumphed and a Kosciusko fell; that a Nero wielded the scepter of empire and a Paul was beheaded; that a Herod was crowned and a Christ crucified; and. instead of accepting the defeat of the South as a divine verdict against her, I regard it as but another instance of "truth on the scaffold and wrong on the throne.” [Tremendous applause. 1 Gen. Thomas L. Rosser, 'a prominent Confederate brigadier-general, of cavalry and a Populace candidate for Congress in the Seventh district last fall, also made a speech, which has created a sensation among the ex-Confederates. General Rosser denounced the Government for granting Federal soldiers pensions. It the course of his remarks he said: I despise the man who gives United States money to a pensioner. This country can’t stand when it makes one citizen support another. I shall never vote for a Congressman who is in favor ol Government pensions. I would say tc Massachusetts, you pay your pensioners as V irginia pavs hers. General Rosser then went on to say that the Grand Army was banded together to get pensions, and if he had been at Birmingham he would have voted against the proposition to invite them to Atlanta. He didn’t want them to come to Richmond!