ADDRESS DELIVERED BEFORE THE SOCIETY OF ALUMNI OF THE VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE, JULY 4TH, 1871

ADDRESS DELIVERED BEFORE THE SOCIETY OF ALUMNI OF THE VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE, JULY 4TH, 1871
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1871 · Wytheville

by Patton, Col. John M.
Wytheville: D.A. St. Clair, 1871. 26pp. Disbound, toned, light foxing. Good+.

An unreconstructed Southerner's July 4th Address, with an unusual imprint. Patton's whole family had gone to VMI. Two of his brothers, he says, "fell amid the 'din and roar of battle,' beneath the southern flag." Here he celebrates, not the Nation, but the VMI family, and dwells at length on the VMI experience, which emphasizes "the great principle of SUBORDINATION...to all lawful authority-- for this, and this alone is duty." The antagonist of this principle is Universal (truncated)
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