Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1896-01-04

Roderick DIN md Douglas bold
Let the y NJ ~ the South
arise, and do for her what Sir Wal
ter, a Scotchman, did for Scotland
History's pages can show no NOR
patriotic chiyalry, nor daring BRAY
ery than a thousand battle field
attest of those who wore the gray
The banner they bore has beef
tenderly furled by Father Ryan
Let us cherish his memory as
patriot and poet who gave to Oh
"Conquered Banner" place ii
the temple of fame, which only til,
poet eau reach. But let not the in
SEPARATION cease. Ma the Star,
land Bars" with the principles they
represented, ever BE- theme fol
the poetic muse. The Spartan-lik,
devotion and courage of the moth
er>, wives and rdau, hters Of thu
South Though four long years O
bloc dshed aud carnage. in many
instances combining THE patriotism
Of Joan Of Arc with the heroism 81
the Maid'of Sarag'iIAssa, are worthy
a place in history and romance.
With John Esten Cooke, joel
Chandler Harris, Thomas Nelson
Page Will T. Hale, Frank L Stan
ton, Paul Hayne, Mrs, Burton Har-
rison, Miss Murfree, Miss, French.
Mrs Buckner, Mary E. Bryan.
Catherine Cole, Pearl Rivers Grace
King, Mrs Catherin Warfield and
many other graceful, piquant and
forcible writer's, "who are studying
our dive sifed social conditipns.
and rejecting them to our. pleas ure
and profit in their works." We feel
that the South can vie with any
section IT nation in the quality O.
her literature. Edward Pollard,
author of The Lost Cause, Lee and
his Lieutenants and mahy. other,
works of decided merit: has-been
styled the most industrious and
conspicuous historian Of the Confed
eracy. Col. John F. Claib rne, the
historian Of Mississippi is a writer
of marked ability. i. Frank Fl. ALL
friend has gained place in South
ern literature by his Life of JeffeE
son Davis, with the cause and mer-
its Of the civil war, from n southern
standpoint.
Many and varied are the books of
travel, biography and fiction that
here and there from the
pen Of some busy, active lite,s who
can only indulge in this literary
diversion at rare intervals. Were
tl.iis oyls.arIr lung enough | would
not omit one name whosespen, has
portrayed on phase of southern life,
character or sentiment, but would,
in eulogistic trims, commend each
effort of our Southern writers to
and enshrine the mem
Dries Of the past, and depict the
glorious future of our owsl- loved
native South. She is wearing
some garlands now.
When Sidney Lanier thrilled
America by his cantata "From the
Hundred-Terra Height" as it,
was sung as the opening ode at the
Exposition in Philad4l-
phia in 1876, the land he Lived so
well shared his laurels, and when
James D. Lynch. of Mississippi,-
threw wide tie doors Of welcome in
America greeting the Nations at
the great Worlds Fair in Chicago
in / SO, a national. yea, an j ter
national encore was given to South
ern talent.
And what shall we say Of Henry
Grady, who electrified the nation
by his brilliant and patriotic adj
dress before the "New England
Society" in the great metropolis of
our country ? Eight years later
Henry Watttrson in an adj ess
before the same society said she
was the greatest boy ever born.in
Dixie or anywhere else. y But his
..a.aY4aF i4f NN W"
star went out ere. it re 'ched ',,its
zenith, as aid thoseeof Henry Tim,
rod and John B. Wardlaw, whose
early deaths were an s'irrepafable
loss to Southern literature = ~
Let reading clubs, lyceums and
public libraries be esta lshed.for
the further development Of higher
culture, and, quoting again from a
young and feivid writer, "let US
remember that if we would come
into lasting greatness as people,
and produce a worthy literature,
the prime condition is that we to !
he true. Nature sueaks