Durham, March 28—For failing to give the Confederate veterans of the state an increase in pensions, the general assembly of 1925 was ridiculed here today in a meeting of the local camp of Confederate veterans in resolutions adopted.
They expressed appreciation because the legislature did not erase “from our statute books the Confederate pension laws.”
The resolutions said in part “That R.E. Webb camp of United Confederate veterans desire d to hereby extend to each and every member of our last general assembly our heartfelt thanks for not erasing from our statute books the Confederate pension laws. We also thank them for creating new offices over our state and raising the salaries of the old ones. God being willing, we have a few more days on earth and we will try and make out the best we can on 30 cents a day by eating hard tack as we had to do in the sixties.”
From the front page the Concord Daily Tribune, March 30,1925
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