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Long may our land be bright With freedom's lioly light; Protect us by Thy might. Great God, our King.

HU-ss Thou our native land! Firm may she ever stand

Through storm and night; When the wild tempests rave, Ruler of wind and wave, Do Thou our country save

By Thy great might.

For her our prayer shall rise To God, above the skies;

On Him we wait; Thou who art ever nigh, Guarding with watchful eye, To Thee alone we cry,

God save the State!

THE MONUMENT UNVEILED

By Miss Sarah Elizabeth Call.

SALUTE OF THIRTEEN GUNS

By Wilson Battery.

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 con- vention, in the exercise of its sovereignty, withdrawing from a union that had ceased to be fraternal. We see another compact formed,