Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-07-11
I" President Davis"

The Mississippi Press Convention
was in session at Pascagoula on the 4th
inst.
Suddenly u telegram was received
that read as follows:
"Will be down on the 927 train to-
night. JEFFERSON DAVIS"
When the name of Jefferson Davis
was pronounced the whole house be-
came subcharged with the electricity of
enthusiasm, and when our chieftain
walked up the aisle, few minutes
later, leaning on the arm of Hon. Ethel
Barksdale, he was saluted by cheer
after cheer. There was a white cloud
of fluttering handkerchief, followed by
rain-storm of roses that bt 1t, whirled
and drifted round tho form of our
President until his path led up through
shining flowers and subtle fragrance.
When silence had been partially re-
stored he rose to speak.
The tempists of seventy winters had
whitened his locks, but there he stood;
tall, straight as an Indian chief, with
the quenchless fires of his pure proud
spirit blazing in his eyes, and the old,
masterful melody of his eloquence
thrilling through his speech.
II NEVER SAW A SOUTHERN WOMAN"
said he, "wHo HAD BEEN RECON-
sTRUCTED."
Here he was interrupted by hurri-
cane of huzzahs.
THE CHILDREN OF THESE WOMEN
WILL YET RISE TO vINDICATE OUR
PRINCIPLES"
When this prophecy was spoken as
only Jefferson Davis could speak it,
there went up one grand, passionate,
glorious cheer that rang out into the
night and went tingling to the tropical
stars-a cheer that welled up from the
holy of holies in the breast of every
patriot present-a cheer that proved
the undying devotion of our people to
the principles symbolized by the Bonny
Blue.
The Radical party, by and with the
help of the bastard Democrats, are
seeking through press and forum and
thousand secret and insidious channels
to create the impression that this Con-
federacy of States is Il Nation!
Let them be warned in time that they
may beware in time.
That doctrine will never be tolerated
by the men who fought, or the sons of
the men who fought for State Sover-
eighty.
NEvERl
And II you of the North should forget
yourselves 80 far as to seek the unifica-
tion of our country into one vast CEN
tralized power, you, and you only, will
be held responsible for the result.
Before this people will submit they
will tear your Stars and Stripes from
mast and staff and toss the lying rag
into hell fire.
Nor think that you will conquer as
you conquered in 1865.
There will be no surrender nf our
| chivalry to your hlrellngs and Hessians.
If you want to Mexicanize this Re-
public and make IL land of perennial
revolutions, you will turn your backs
on the ,Jeffersonian doctrine of State
sovereignty and inaugurate a despotism
under the plausible but imperial name
of the Nation.
"T BELIEVE THAT YOU HAVE DONE
RIGHT, AND DO NOT FEEL THAT HAVE
DONE WRONG"
These words should be craven in
gold on pillars OF Parian marble; they
should be printed in the textbooks of
our schools, colleges, and universities;
they should be blazoned on our State
banners, and handed down from gem
Grafton to generation until the last day
of time.
The defiant ring of that sentence
stirs the impulses of our chivalry like
the blast of battle-trumpet. We for
pet the trucking of our weak, pitiful
| Conservative COngressmen-who have
| dared-DARED ask pardon for our past,
and we renew our VOWS of lealty to
the righteous cause of State sovereignty
and secession-a cause that is sweeping
onward and upward to supreme vim
dication.
When Jefferson Davis concluded
there came a thunder-clap of huzzahs
that shook the building to its founda-
ton; flowers flew through the air and
fell at his feet, and then the audience,
with simultaneous accord, sprang for
ward to congratulate our President.
Jefferson Davis, and Jefferson Davis
only, of all men living to day, could
have evoked this deep, intense degree
of enthusiasm in the hearts, brains and
souls of Mississippi Press Conven-
ton.
WhyP
Because he is the truest and best
tried representative of the sacred and
sublims principles for which our peo-
pie offered up the red blood of human
sacrifice; because he has continued To
uphold the cause in defiance OF calumny,
persecution, and dungeon chains; be-
cause he has never traded in gush nor
trafiicked in the gibberish of mock
Cancellation; because he has never
sought to placate our guilty conquer
ors, and because he never made an
apology nor asked a pardon.
We wish to the seventh heaven that
every bastard Democrat in Yankee
dom could have heard the speech OF
Jefferson Davis, have witnessed his re
ception, and been startled by the spon
taneous cheers and huzzahs that rang
and surged, and rose, and swelled up
ward in his honor from that vast ant
brilliant assemblage.
We know it would have ground them
to the quick, for it gave the lie to thei
infamous statement that the ObOton'
States is not keeping step to the musi'
of Mississippi.
Jefferson Davis stands forth on th'
theater of public life as the central rep
resentative of the Southern half of ou
States-Republic. He holds this proud
position, not only by right of his re
markahle intellect and phenomena
magnetism of character-not only be
. . cause he has suffered and struggled fo
: our people-but principally because h
! has scOrned 10 make n single concession
to the thieves, cut throats, and traitors
who conquered us.
Prava sarene marvellous mani Ii,
!, occupies to-day the proudest position
: on earth--a position far higher thai
that of any prince or potentate, for IN
throne is built in the popular heart, ui
! crown is the love of his people, and hi
; kingdom is their firesides.
Sooner or later he will stand highe
than Washington in the affections OF tn
whole American people,