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Robert Stkaxge, 79 K. B. Thigpen, ' 01 Edwin E. Murphy, ' 03 John M. Craig, ' 03 Harry M. Jones, ' 03 Neill Ray Graham, 04 Eugene J. Newell, ' 09 Marc Spencer, ' 15 Robert M. Davis, ' 93 David S. Whitaker, ' 00 James W. Scroggs, ' 05 Ernest C. Ruffin, ' OS J. W. Murray, ' 96 David P. Stern, ' 02 H. B. Short, ' 02 W. R. Edmonds, ' 10 Lauchlin McLeod Ivelley, ' 05 Henry Weil Jerome Stockard W. T. Crawford
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giving for tlie first time the documentary proof that Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee were taught at West Point, tliat secession was considered one of the reserved rights of the States, by the Framers of the Constitution, and more than 6,000 copies of this paper, in four editions, have been called for from all parts of the country. In December of lOO-i, Colonel Bingham was one of the fom- men inA-ited to speak at the Annual Banquet of the New York Southern Societies in the Walil(nf-Asic.ri:i. liis subject being the Status of the South Before 1860; the Decay of that Status mihI Ii- lIiMm:,! i.m. This paper was received with most marked attention and has been rcpruilucuil ami iiKly distributed in the South and in the North. In October, 1908, as President of the North Carolina Historical Society, Colonel Bingham treated the whole subject of Secession: I. As viewed by the Framers of the Constitution; II. As practiced by the U. S. Government in the Secession from England; in the Secession from the Articles of Perpetual Union, which lasted only 13 years; as sustained three times, in the Secession of Texas from Mexico; in the Secession of Cuba from Spain; in the Secession of Panama from the United States of Colombia; and resisted only in the legal and constitutional, but most unwise. Secession of the Southern from the Northern States; III. As attempted by the Confederate States. This ]ia|)iT lias liccn called by many an unanswerable ainunii ' iit in faxor (if the theory of Secession as a iiirrrh aradi ' inic question, wliili- I ' lmdcniniiig the iIicoin whin alh-mpted in practice. Cdlnncl liiiiLiham has been called iin often tci address n.lh-e au.lienee.s, Y. M. C. A. Asso- ciation , .Ma-onie I,i l;ies, educatiiinal meetings and the like, in this and in many other States, and has always Ijciii lisieiied to with close attention because he always has something to say, and says ii in iiniin and simple English. Some years ago he was called on for a teni]ie Vance called the best temperance speech he had e ir In anl. Ashcville is the only place in the Soiith where ( iiii|mlsory Education with the necessary APPROPRIATION inn Hm.iiiMis AMI TKAi iii;iis, i ill siieii ssful ( i] leiat ion. The Labor LTnions and nonunion men a-ked ( ' olonel Hin liani to speak lo them in joint meeting twice, and again to their wives, molliers, sislers, and ilaiiulileis onee, and ananisl ihe u ishes of many of the larger property holders llie measure was carried liy the Labor ' ote, ' ' only one man voting against it, and they all agreed that ' olonel Bingham carried this important nieasiiie, and that no other man could have carried il atjaiiist the strong o])]iosition of the largir laxp.iyias. Having dealt, during the Civil War, with the 124 non-slaveholding men whom he carried to Lee ' s Army, he understood this cla.ss of men and knew how to lead tlieni in peace, as he had done in war, realizing that they are the very bone and sinew of the country, brave, strong and loyal, and of the purest Anglo-Saxon blood to he found now anywhere in the wiirld. But the most striking and elfeelive of liis addresses w ' as in the LTniversity Chapel, June 3, 1907, at the Fiftieth .Kiiniversary of the graduation of the Class of 1857. This was the largest class that had ever graduateil, (ill in all, every one of whom entered the Confederate Anny, and after fifty years liul tifteen were left, rari nantes in iin;iili m.slo, a few survivors still afloat on the great dei p which had engulfed so many, ten of whom wia-e present. Being the youngest member of the I ' lass. Colonel Bingham was made Class ( )ialor, and he told of what (liis remnant, some of them de.re|iii with age. and some with wounds, had seen and been part oi m i!ii-e most wonderful fifty M ' ai m the world ' s lii toiy -inee tin ( ' In i tian laa. The scene was iiio i realistic, dramatic and patheli( The tears of the outgoing generation mingled freely with llio.se of the incoming g(aieiation, and no one who was present can ever forget how the audience was swayed. Colonel Bingham has passed his seventy-sixth year; but his eye is not dim and his natural force is not al ated. We repeat the wi.sh for him which Hora ' e made for .Vuguslus, Serus in Caelum rcdeas. speech in Charlotte, which Governor
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