. Minutes . ST. JOHNS CHURCH, Broad, between 2Uli and 25tli-Famed by Patrick Henry. INlMsKIOK SI. .M)ll N,S CIIU Udll Vi^T ;$ i I ► 124 Seventeenth Reunion, Richmond, May 30-June 3, 1907. more Federal troops than it possessed. This is amazing, andcannot be surpassed by the military aehievements of any people. History cannot furnish another instance than that oftlie Southern people, where armies almost destitute of ware(iuipments won great victories from armies far larger, sup-plied with the latest and most efficient arms. AVith indomi-table and amazing genius the Confederate soldiers wre
. Minutes . ST. JOHNS CHURCH, Broad, between 2Uli and 25tli-Famed by Patrick Henry. INlMsKIOK SI. .M)ll N,S CIIU Udll Vi^T ;$ i I ► 124 Seventeenth Reunion, Richmond, May 30-June 3, 1907. more Federal troops than it possessed. This is amazing, andcannot be surpassed by the military aehievements of any people. History cannot furnish another instance than that oftlie Southern people, where armies almost destitute of ware(iuipments won great victories from armies far larger, sup-plied with the latest and most efficient arms. AVith indomi-table and amazing genius the Confederate soldiers wrested fromthe enemy the very meaiis and the very equipments for wagingwar. Sirs, I firmly believe that if the South had had accessto tlie seas, and could have disposed of her great cotton ajultol)acco crops and received in exchange arms, annnunitioiis andthe various stores of ^var, she would have triumphed and wonlier independence. ^i\\ modern civilization with all its complexities of com-merce, that nation must prevail finally that is supreme onthe seas. A nation with its ports bloc
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