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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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ppropriate that the survivors of the.Confederacy should meet in fraternal reunion. This great state is honored byyour coming and it is the proudest of my official acts in her name to welcomeyou cordially to her soil and the hospitalities of her people. It is fitting that thebrave should meet here, in a noble city named for Houston, within cannon-sound of the battle field of San Jacinto, in a state that has measured glory with,the ancients, and upon whose every hearthstone the fires of patriotism still burnCrowned with the glories of battle and decked with the flowers of peace, When the golden sunset Fades into the distant west,Rays of its parting- splendor Fall on your place of rest ;Then to the silent churchyard Loves footsteps shall fondly strayTo pray for the souls of heroes Who fought for the south and the gray. X « X O «H w ti o 0 ■^ w p—1 > w g m M ** U2 «* 3 g s( > i—i w jij H W d 5C > C/3 <^ o ►H 2 cn ;/) <2 *l C/3 a 3 M « 3 z n X w o • r^ oa K O 2
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38 SPONSOR SOUVENIR ALBUM. GENERAL GORDONS SPEECH. General John B. Gordon, commander-in-chief of the United Confed-erate Veterans Association, responded to the welcoming addresses asfollows: Governor, Mr. Mayor, Comrades and Fellow-Citizens—It is my official dutyand high privilege to respond in behalf of my comrades to this gracious welcomeand tender of munificent hospitality by the city of Houston and state of Texas.When I have said that they are characteristic of this city and state, mylanguage is capable of no stronger expression. What higher tribute could bepaid to this great people than to say that their hospitality is worthy of Texas?Around the name and history of Texas are gathered associations glorious andhallowed; and in her future career are centered high hopes of richest contribu-tion to the republic. In fifty years of statehood she has risen to a commanding position amongher sisters; and the imagination can scarcely keep pace with her assuredprogress in the fifty years t

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