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to a corps commander in the absence of the general-in-chief. His use of that alleged discretion, together with the improvident use of the same prerogative on the part of Stuart, A. P. Hill and Ewell, combined together to inscribe Gettysburg in the annals of the South- ern Confederacy as a lost field.

[From the Richmond, Va., Times, October 22, 1899.]

THE VINDICATION OF THE SOUTH.

BRILLIANT ADDRESS OF HON. B. B. HUNFORD.

An Array of Facts The Right of Secession is Set Forth

Unmistakably.

THE SENTIMENT IN THE NORTH.

The South Not Alone in its Interpretation of the Constitution Vir- ginia's Love for the Union The Institution of Slavery- Good of the Negroes.

At the unveiling of the monument to the Confederate soldiers of Accomac and Northampton at Parksley, Friday last, Hon. Bever'ey B. Munford, of this city, delivered an address which excited wide- spread interest, and brought out facts unknown to the majority of the present generation.

Mr. Munford, after an appropriate allusion to the West-Harmanson Camp of Confederate Veterans, under whose leadership the monu- ment had been erected, proceeded to portray the heroic conduct ot the Confederate soldiers from Accomac and Northampton counties. Cut off from the balance of the State, their section early passed under the control of the Federal power. Uninfluenced either by the safety of their situation, or by the fears of the dominant power, the men of this sea-girt land sped to the succor of their State and to their breth- ren on the other shore of the bay. Mr. Munford paid a high tribute to the valor of the men in whose honor the West-Harmanson Camp was named, of the various officers and privates from Eastern Shore