Show confederate VETERAN REUNION ex senator reagan proclaims ile he was waa a a patriot nashville tenn june M 2 many mamy special trains arrived today with ex cx con federate soldiery sold lerv and friends who came cam for the ibe purpose of attending the reunion of confederate veterans the ex confederates spent the morning in attending the union at the tabernacle and meeting old comrades prominent among those seated on the platform were gen gem stephen D lee of mississippi judge john johni n reagan of at texas the only surviving member of 0 Jef jefferson ferRoll daviss cabinet col A S colyar and thomas of nash ville and lion hon J D adkins the por nor members of the confederate congress gen SIM Sl moniB buckner of cf kentucky 06 K E P sikes of bulins hoppl gen morman ot of new ow orleans Orle ajia gen W B rates bates dr william jones jone 8 chaplain of 0 the united confederate ato veterans gen clement evans evana a of f georgia Geor sla and gen jose joseph ph wheeler of alabama gen john B gordon was given an enthusiastic reception judge reagan then delivered an ad d drem re sn in which ho he said the facts of history A indicate us against tho the charge of being either cither rebels or traitors ind and show that we were not the author of it a cai nelMS war brought about by ambitious lead loader rn rl but that our brave men fought and suffered find and died and our holy men of god prayed and ou our r liable women suffered buffered patiently and patriotically all the privations and hor her role roie of a great creat war cruelly forced upon us for the purpose of upholding tile the constitution and laus lann of the uni united ted states as preserving the rights of ti tho several states to reK regulate tte their own oun domestic pol policies iciel arid and of protecting the tha people agal tint spoliation and robbery by a dominant majority kome home of w hose members because the holy bible manc cloned slavery every declared that they wanted an ant t slave alaverdi ry bible and an antl anil slavery go god d and who because the constitution of the united U cited states state a iced and protected slavery declared that it was at a league with and hell and coe covenant narit with death whatever has been said in the past in defence of the institution of slavery and whatever may now be thought of the means by which it was abolished in this country the spirit of tit alm ilm pres present ent age la is against it and it hala him pos passed sell away and I 1 suppose no one wishes 1 alg restoration it if that wre were practicable 1 cot anly I 1 would not restore it if I 1 had the power I 1 think it better for the black race that they are arc free and I 1 am sure eure it la Is better for the w nolte hite race that there ore are no slaves 1 I have accepted and do accept in rood road faith the legitimate results of the war and I 1 am and will be as true to tit my Y as any other citizen c can be but I 1 insist initial OR on my right to tart 1 the truths whlor show that in tit that 1 great struggle vt e ebere were gilded and controlled by a sense of duty and by a spirit of patriotism which caused us it to stake nt ikc life liberty anil and property in it a contest v iab at a greatly superior power rather than ba basely sely surrender without a ott buggle |