The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1881-06-24

much more worthy is he OF the
name who removes the rasted
shaekles of Ignorance from the i'm
priSOned mind, and strikes away
the heavy baIs that for centuries
have closed the portals OF knowl.
edge against the entrance of the
common people.
This theme is entrancing and had
not your speaker voiced our
thoughts, We might be tempted
longer t0.detain you.
Welcome 10 Aberdeen meets MS
eyerywhere-all your people greet
us. The inflnt prattier, and that
miQhty old man of God, who hath
been longest on the sentry-pOSt of
all these who mounted guard with
him, to whom the reliet will soon
come; these and all others say
"welc0Ge' in no unmeaning
phrase. So intense appears to us
to be the feeling of yOnr hospitality.
that you have levied tribute upOn
the mind of Reynolds titly To ex.
press it; and even his words oi
sparkling eloQuence, that are nj.
ways potent in the councils OF his
State, do not so Impress us as ito
these sparkling cOuntenances. His
tongue speaks like an angels
tongue the goodness of the great
heart of Aberdeen. His armleSs
sleeve recalls the bond that was
between us in days OF past peril,
aud is itself the counterSign that
admits him and you past all the
pickets into the inner camp OF our
love, aud makes us all ut home in
Aberdeen. Your evident pleasure
at meeting this Association is no.
Interior to our loy in being thus
welccihed. p
"All who joy would win
Must share 1t, happiness was born twin
For the encouragement that your
welcome gives us, we are grateful.
When Ant9us oil old struggled
with Hercules. and was nigh to ex.
haustion, he gathered new strength
from his mother earth whenever,
amid the VARY ing fortunes of the
fight, he WAS thrown upon her hos
om. From every embrace be arose
refreshed, and fought the more val.
hinlly because OF the brief commu.
nion with his mother, aud he was
invincible until the giant, lifting
him bodily, stabbed him while thus
discovered. The people of MisSiS
sippi are to us what mothereurth
was to Antgus, aud so long MS We
maintain their esteem. the Press
will be invincible for good.
This communion with the good
people Of Aberdeen will send the
life current bounding anew through
our veins, aud We shall 90 boldly
hence to renew the fight with the
giants OF irreligion, immornlity and
impure politics. Thusto encourage
MS is the highest manifestation of
human goodness thus to cheer us,
strangers as we are to you, is to add
new and polished plates to our de.
iensive armcr aud at the same time
to give keener points to our aggres-
sive weapons.
"Howe'er u BE-, Il seems to me,
'Tis only noble to be good
Kind hearts are more than cOroncts.
And simple faith than Norman blood
This is fruitful theme, but th e
length of the programme warns me
to desist. | catch new inspiration
when | look i.to the depths of the
eyes of these ladies: "the longer |
look into them, the deep, deep,
deeper they grow, composed of
smile as an amethyst is composed
of light, and seeming something
impalpable to the touch" Fathom-
less they ar ;, because the eye is the
gateway to the soul, and no liue
has measured the depths OF good.
ness that there are yet unsounled
in the hearts of our women.
"Whcn deaths dark stream we ferry ocr,
A time that surely shall come;
In Heaven itself we'll ask no more
Than just an Aberdeen welcomc.'