The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1889-03-01
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shoulders of the States that paid
her tribute.
To care lOr your wounded and suf-
ferlng, and 10 commemorate the
memory Of your dead, are obIiga-
tons which your chivalry, patriot
ism, manhood and gratilute de-
mand fulfiIlment. Your mothers,
wives, sisters and sweethearts have
been truer TO your fame and name
than yourselves.
The radical State of Ohio, State
that sent a hundred thousand SOL
dlers TO the war, voted 10000 from
her treasury to protect the graves
of your Confederate dead from the
sacriliglous feet of the passer will
you do less than they? Shall the
appeals of your ialr women be
made in vain2
In my Imagination | see the wo4
men of your State struggling to
raise that shaft. | see their arms
extended, bearing upward. | see
them as they pityingly call upon
you for help, aud you shrink, and
ask yourselves if it is p0pularg
God help The man that will not re-
pond. The sentiments uttered by
the gentleman from Mobile, If ut
tered generally in 1861, you would
not have had a Conlederacy, or an
army or a President DAVIS.
Mr. Speaker, served nearly five
years in the war. During that time
no woman ever asked me for pro-
lection and was refused, and no
child ever asked me for a cracker
but what it received the contents
of my haversack. | never took a
dollars worth of anything that l
didn't pay for.
| have never forgotten to remem.
Der that my mother was woman ;
that my wife is woman, a daugh-
ter of your Southland. | would
not view woman IN the little child
with SIOUX untouched by sin, with
arms entwlned around the neck of
some kind friend, imprinting on his
cheek kiss as sweet as the breath
of May for some paltry trinket OF
stick OF candy, nor IN the little
miss whose elastic step and modest
mien foretell The coming woman,
yet fearful Of her own shadow; l
would not view her in the full
blown flower, whose splendid form
and many graces add charms and
dignity to home, society and
church, and at whose shrine the
brave man pays his court, his
wealth, his all nor In the blush
ing bride who steps out from her
fathers door to be enshrined in
some mans heart as queen; | would
not view her in the young bride
mother, as she clasps her infant to
her breast and feels within her
heart a new born love akin TO
naught but that of Gods for man
nor in the aged matron whose meas.
ured step and wrinkled face tell of
The many years we'll spent in the
service of her God, society and
home no, not in any of these wonld
| view woman, but in these, all
these, | would view her-a sublime
symphony of inconsistencies and
harmonies, of positives and mega
tives, The grandest combination
under heaven baby, playmate,
companion, wife, mother and moth
in-law; mans heIpmeet, his all
in all, the alpha and omega of his
happiness in this life and second
to none but God and Christ in work
ing out his salvation in the future.
The man who would wrong her is
a wretch, those who would drag her
down from the high pinnacle upon
which God has placed her, as moth
er, wife and queen of home, let
them be sccursed when God curses.
| am going to vote to give your wo-
men what they ask for in this bill.
| came here backed by the largest
vote ever given to representative
from my county since the war.
| would vote for this bill ifI
knew | would be burned In efigy
in every county in the State. |
would vote for it if knew by not
voting | would go to Congress in
two wears.