The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1888-06-01
DAUGHTER OF STATES.
A TERM FITLY APPLIED TO OUR
OWN LOVED MISSISSIPPI.
The Proud and Lawful Descendant OF
Eighteen Sovereign States-Where the
Early Settlers Came From and
Who They We're,

DR.. B. F. Ward, of Winona, made
the following address before the
Press Convention banquet when
called upon to respond to the sent
iment, "Mississippl:" :"
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Our genial and philosophic
friend, Bill Arp, in one of his at.
tractive and instructive letters, al
ludes to Mississippi as the "child of
Georgia ; but l am happy TO greet
you tonight in her behalf, and pre-
sent her to you as The proud and
lawful descendant OF eighteen SOW
ereign sisters, distinct in the ele-
ments and orga 1ization OF her pop
ulation from any other State IN
this government.
While Virginia is loved and ven.
Grated as the "mother of States,"
Mississippi sits, gracefully and
in the national family
circle as the bright and beautiful
DAUGHTER OF STATES.
Just as the great river which
washes our borders gathers its wa
ters from a thousand tributary
streams, so the bloom of Mississip-
pi comes courslng from as many
rich and varied sources. History
has verified the physiological pro-
position that mixed blood is the
strongest and mixed races domin-
ate the world.
AS the highest type of race de.
7elopment and race supremacy,
stands the Anglo Saxon, the off |
pring Of Briton, the Roman, the |
saxon and the Norman. Numer
cally less than one fifteenth of the
luman family, it holds dominion,
o-day, over more than one-thlrd
Il the earth's surface and governs
more than one-fouIth of the worlds
Every race debarred by natural,
ocial or legal restrictions from the
pportunities of progressive and
nlimited TRANSMISSION, is doomed to
levitable subordination. What is
rue of nations is equally true of
heir subdivisions into families
nd generations.
The same physical laws which 5
Overn the trunk. also form and
Ishion and vitalIze the branches. G
Law governs everything in the ]
inverse, from the microscopic
ON to the motion of the spheres, Il
I'd from this fixed and definite j,
ly sIological law which evolves e
creased strengh and higher attri- S
ltes from the union of blood-cur- p
nts, arises, to-day, the physical, S
oral and intellectual forces which
Iaracterize the State of Missis- d
ppi. 9
For more than one hundred Ii
'ars, while three of the great ma L
)ns of the earth were struggling s
r supremacy on this continent, V
e noblest and bravest of the n
lights Of England, France and b
,ain met and shivered their Ian S,
5 on Mississippi territory, i'm d
esslag their prnwess on her earl g
it history and transmitting their a
ingled heroism to the generations 81
at followed. n
After the establishment of this I
vernment Tor nearly three j
lrths Of a century more, two dis q
lct tides Of immigration moved pi
sadIly across the continent from z,
ST to west, starting from widely eI
vergent sources and gradually sc
merging 10 a point Of confluence el
the territory Of Mississippi. az
This is a demonstrable fact, due OF
natural causes and geographical d.
iuences. The tide from the W
nth Atlantic States moved di III
,tly west and halted, FOR a long es
he, at the Mississippi river, then d
= western boundary Of civiliza- OF
n. The other, extending from eI
rginia 10 the most remote corner II