The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-07-02

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woods; that she was sorry that she had al
WAYS treated him SO badly. and that now |;
he would get furlouRh and come home she
would marry him.
Then. as II fearful that this temptation
misht prove too strong to ne resisted there
was little postscript scrawled across the
blue Confederate paper: Don't come without
a furlough. for II you don't come honorable
l won't marry you.'"
After the war. sociations--regimental bril-
rade and others--were formed. and finally
the United Confederate Veterans association
in an endeavor to brins together in ono or.
ranization all those who served honoraby In
the Confederate nrny or navy. without regard
to rank--and the privates are the prouiest.
Proudest because In the language OF Judge
Reagan. their services were given for the
llcve Of the country and for the protection OF
tho homes of the mothers. wives and daugh-
tess ard In the defense OF the constitutional
rights sne liberties OF the people. They were
uninfuenced by ambition or bv the possession
or eApectetion OF public honors. which In
some measure NAV have influenced and slim
ulatci to duty those who held commissions as
officers. To the private soldier who SO served
| is due tie supreme honor awarded to disin-
terestel patriotism combined with heroic
valor.''
| The cheers with which. at their late re-
union. the Grand Army OF the Republic re-
spcnded to the kindly words spoken by the
president in regard to the soldiers Of the
South touched a responsive chord in Southern
hearts: but in the North there is an organ
ization. the LOYAL LEGION" which seeks to
make distinctions in enthusiastically those
who served as officers In the Union army
and their eldest direct male lineal descend
ants being eligible to membership. That a
like organization shall never be ATTEMPTED
among Southern soldiers we NAV rest as-
sured: the monuments erected all over the
South by Southern women. with statues CT
DISTINGUISHED leaders at the base but crowned
always with the statue Of the hero on whose
ragged gray can the Lord God Almighty
laid the sword OF His imperishable knight
hood"--the Confederate private soldier-forbid
the proclamation
NY purpose In this article. as duty to our
brothers who died for the South. is to point
out and to give emphasis to the PRINCIPLES that
animated the Old South and produced the
Confederate private soldier. whose place Is.
/ believe. unique in history. OF his
bravery In battle, 'nagnanimitv In
victory. and his fortitude IN defeat,
those who fought him bear witness. and ne
will rank in history with Caesars Tenth
legion and the Old Guard of Napoleon. among
the best soldiers the world has ever seen.
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OF the momen of the South can not put
my conception in words; that they made It
easy for us to believe in angels is the sober
statement of fact without the slightest ex-
aggeration.
What the Old South has done since the war
gives 1t, IL possible, higher title to honor
than what 1t did in the war. The New South
is a myth that no one believes in any longer;
1t is simply the Old South under changed con-
ditions. At the close of the war the great
body Of the men of the South of II years and
ever were in tho army, and when, after the
South was crucifed, dead and buried and de-
soended into hell for ten years or more of re-
construction, these were the men who brought
about the resurrection. Almost every man In
the State governments of the South as well
as In congress, when the Southern people were
finally allowed to elect their own rulers. had
been a Confederate soldier. and 1t so con-
tinued until our children. trained and In full
sympathy with our traditions. came on to take
our places. II the young South we are proud
in believing that we still have men Who
when honor is in question, never count the
cost. and. though It would be a bold man who
ut this day would advocate return to the
"code" in settlement of private difficulties,
we shall at least be allowed to take satisfac-
tion in the thought that, when the sanctity OF
the home Is invaded, our descendants trust
to the equity of the rifle rather than to the
arbtrament of the courts and pecuniary COM
pensation a measure of damages for LAGER
ated affections.
That the Old South had its faults no one
will deny. but that have been led into I'm
warranted extravaganza In eulogy OF what is
so dear to all those of us who remember 1t in
its prime let the following extracts from
speech delivered by Senator Hoar-not partial
10 us certainly-in the United States senate,
In 1889. be the answer:
They have some qualities which I can not
even presume to claim In equal degree for the
people among whom I myself dwell They
have an aptness for command which makes
the Southern gentleman, wherever he goes,
not peer only, but prince. They have a
love for home: thew have, the best of them
and the most OF them. inherited from the
great race from which they come the sense of !.
duty and the instinct of honor as no other
people on the face of the earth. They are
overs of home. They have not the mean
rats Which grow up somewhere In places
where money making is the chief end OF life. .
rhey have above all and giving value to all.
hat supreme and superb constancy which.
without regard to personal ambition and with
'ut yielding to the temptation of wealth, with
tut getting tired and without getting diverted.
AN pursue great public object, In and out. !
fear after year. and generation after genera !
ion"
ChicaRo's Parks.
Mr.. Peter B. Wright in the July Pail Mall D
Magazine writes: 1t vs. the parks and boule- s
ards that have been the most potent factors b
\ Chcago's architectural DEVELOPMENT which | c