Birmingham age-herald., 1894-12-25
SUNDAY CHAT.

From the Sunday Morning Star.
 Dr. Orion T. Dozier's recently published volume of poems should be in the home of. every southerner.
 It is a mirror of the true southern senti- ment and it's pages present only the refiec- tions of truth, courage, honesty and pa- triotism in their purest forms. One can not read them without being ennobled by their influence.
 Dr. Dozier is an unreeonstructed ex-Con- federate, and while brayely accepting the inevitable, does not COW CT at the feet of his conquerors "that thrift may follow fawn- ing.' That he has no sympathy with that sickly, hypocritical sentimeutality shown in recent years by some of the south's leaders in their attempts to "bridge the bloody chasm'' for the sake of yankee greenbacks is shown by the following lines:
 A WISH. l long for the day and pray for the hour When the cause of the right o'er the wrong When the south shall have gained the means To make the foes of her liberties quail. And To see once more our banners unlurled, Whilst the rattle of guns and the clashing of Shall announce our cause still alive to the
 world.
  And long for more leaders like Jackson and To lead us once more our foemen 10 meet. 9'hat we, by the flash of their saDers, may sec How to follow the course of their Lroien re-
 treat
 And long to see die the last vanda in blue And 10 dance to the notes of his funeral
 kneH,
 And long for hole in the ground to look Vixen he joins with all his companions in
 h-l.
 
 Those lines were written twenty five years ago, W hen the south was under the rule of the ignorant and oitentimes vim dctive ex-slaVes and worse, their leaders, those miserable, thieving carpet baggers, who hyena-like followed in the wake Of the northern armies 10 snarl and night among themselves over the bones of our dead and pillage the homes of the widows and children.
 Southerners who remember those times will not wonder that the doctor, whose home was under carpet bagger rule for number of years, has never felt like re- tracting his lines, but they usually rather say amen.
 1t is probably fortunate that the princi- pal part of the south's business IS con- ducted by the younger men, who have but little recollection of the trials which their parents underwent.
 But from his wish in this one instance, made under most trying circumstances, our northern brethren must not hastily ad- judge the gifted author entirely devoid of charity, for his book contains many evil dences of that mem Der of the sacred trinity of graces; one in particular, plea for the fallen women, is a beautiful satire, full of pure and most charitable sentiments.
 His patriotism and filial devotion is evi. deuced by several beautiful tributes to his home and mother, while his chivalrous na- ture is shown in many lines to the sweet hearts of his boyhood, and there are many lines which are convincing arguments for the divine cause and which will be highly appreciated by religious people. In the cause of temperance he has also some splendid verses.
 Dr. Dozier is quite as pleasing in the hu- morous field as in any other, and his "Ser- mons by Uncle Mose, Truthful Boler's Narrow E cape' and "I Think l Trunk a Lie'' are especially good, and have made for him national reputation in that field. There is not dull line in the book from cover to cover, and when it Is fairly in the market 1t will prove one otthe most popular of southern literary gems though the author has made one mistaKe in em mbodying sev- eral poems on political subjects of purely local interests.