The Sweetwater forerunner. [volume] (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1867-1869, 1868-10-29
The Women of the south.

The Women of the South.
The following beautiful compliment to
the daughters of Mississippi, is equally
applicable to all the fair daughters of the
South. 1t 10 from recent address deliv-
cred by General Albert Pike, in DeSoto
county, Miss, 1t is gem of oratory, and
compliment as we'll deserved as it was
happily bestowed:
"Mothers, wives, sisters, daughters of
the men of Mississippi, I cannot speak to
you. No angel has touched my lips with
the burning Goals from the altar of the
sacrifices. l leave to others the fine phra.
ses and the empty compliments that you
would not value. What you have done
in the past, is sufficient guarantee of your
heroism aud devotion in the future. You
have more than rivalled-you have ex-
celled-the women Of Saragossa and
Verona, and the Hebrew matrons and
maidens who help to defend the Holy
City of Jerusalem against the lcgions of
Vespasian. You will, also, do your duty
in the days, dark or bright, that are to
come. You will teach those who love
you, fidelity to principle amid all ;ompta-
lions, to prefer honor to prosperity, and
the dangerous truth to the safe and profit
able falsehood; consistency, and courage,
and the manly and hopeful endurance
that BELTS man.
You are the conqueres who take all
men captive, and whose silken letters,
stronger than tempered steel, we are glad
and proud to wear. Into our souls your
eyes shine like stars, and we bow down
and worship, and in love find new strength
to undertake great enterprise or endure
great calamities. o! flowers brought to
us by the Angels from the gardens of
Paradise, you bloom here to bless, to en-
courage and to console. We are all your
willing slaves. Age gives no exemption
from that service for, in the sad and
sober autumn of our days, we still covet
the living smile and the loving look that
can be ours no more.
The sober autumn of our days! For
you, dear girls, the violcts and roses; for
us, the leaves redeemed by the frost and
soon to fall. For you, the bright and glad
anticipations of the future, the dreams
that makes youths happiness; for us tho
memories of the Past, of joys and sorrows
interminglcd, of the hopes, and loves, and
bitter disappointments and cruel losses,
of the days that are no more.
Our country, also, our own dear South
land that you love so we'll, has its memo
ries of the Past, of a glad, bright Dawn
and morning full of promise, that dark
ened into day full of gloom, and terror,
. and disaster. Out of that darkness the
faces of our dead look sadly, and plying
ly, and loyinly upon us. They have not
died in vain. The land they died for
shall yet reap the fruit of the great sacri-
fee. Our country, also, has its hopes,
that are not delusive, for the Future.
To it, the sober Autumn days have not
come--nor, even those of life's Summer.
For it, the rosy days of Spring have not
departed, though the immortclles, planted
by Angels, bloom on many graves.
Mr.. NJ. H. Hardin Clerk of the Georgia House
. of Representatives, has had handsome tea set
presented to him.
A bloody ARRAY occurred in Maysville, Ala,
on the 18th, between VIM. H. Workman and X.
Connalty. Cause-whisky.
Aaron Butler, Esq, one of the earley settlers
Of Liberty county, Miss, died recently at the
e advanced age of 81 years.
i s. Alroy Jonas, the talented editor of the Alb
erdeen (Nliss.) Examiner, is the author of a
little poem of great tenderness and beauty, en-
| tillSu OHuer luc uTup5, mliiCH ID uOW lhc
rounds of the press.
Mrs. Leonidas Polk, widow of the distinguish
e ed Confederate General, and the former Bishop
f of Louisiana, will open her select school for
young ladies in the b, sement of st. Paurs
:. Church, New Orleans, on the 26th inst.
Highway robbery obtains in Mobile.
New sugar is being received in New Orleans
. The Radicals and negroes are trying to get up
: o riot in Breshear, La.
The Texas press are ventilating Reynolds and
0 Jack Hamilton.
e Two hundred German cmigrants arrived in
Galveston on the 18th inst.
Waldran, the Memphis radical, has had Chand'
Ter bound over for beating him.
: DR.. Eppes, an old citizen of Russell county
s Va, died on Thursday night last.
y Z. Remer Diamond was killed at Cedartown
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