The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1902-05-16
The South. Her Statesman
and Warriors.
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~ northwest Of the Ohio river, Of
which the starts Of Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin
we're afterwards made; the policy
that made that territory public do
main, the common property Of all the
states, was the policy that has done
more than any other to build up the
union, and it, is indebted for that pol
icy to the wisdom and patriotism of
the southern states of Maryland and
Virginia-to Maryland for proposing
and urging it, and to Virginia for
acceding to it, for that territory be-
longed to her, and in giving it to the
United States for the sake Of the
union she furnished the CrOWnlng
proof of her devotion to that union
and became the "mOther Of states, "
as was already the "mother OF states
men," and the men who blazed the
way for civilization in that vast
region beyond the Mississippi and the
Rocky Mountains, the most famous
American explorers and adventures
were southern men, Lewis and
Clarke.
For nearly two-thlrds Of the period
of its existence has the supreme
court of the United States, the sheet
anchor Of the government, been pre-
sided over by southern men, and their
decisions constitute, by far the wis
est, purest and most luminous pages
of the record Of that august tribunal
1.-THE writer Of our national anthem
was a southern man, Francis S. Key;
the author Of the Emancipation
Proclamation was of southern birth
and lineage, and Of the three contem-
porary American statesmen known as
''the great trio, Clay, Calhoun and
Webster, two were southern men,
and it was two Of these men whose
craftsmanship and patriotism twice
saved the union from dismembsr-
ment.
The first shot in the second war OF
the United States with England was
fired by a southern man, Capt. John
Rogers; the NEST distinguished SOL
diers OF the war were southern laep,
Scott and Jackson; the most COM
plete and overwhelming defeat that
any English army has every expert
enced was inflicted by southern
troops commanded by a southern
man, Andrew Jackson; the man who
performed what Admiral Nelson
called ..t the most daring act OF the
age" and who received the thanks OF
all Europe for overthrowing the Bar
barry powers and putting an end to
their inhuman eruelties, was a
southern man, Stephen Decatur, and
the most pistinguighed soldiers oil the
war with Mexico were southern men,
Scott and Taylor.
Tne first candidate Of the abolition
party for the presidency Of the United
States was a southern man, James e.
Berney; so wasiits second candidate,
Fremont, and so was its fourth and
last and only elected candidate, LIN
coin.
The first Sunday school established
in America was in southern state,
Savannah, Ga; the first Americans
to establish schools exclusively for
the education of young women was
southern man, John Lyle, Virginia;
the first female college In the world
was established in a southern state,
Wesleyan Female, Macon, Ca; the
the first post graduate medical school
in this country, the New York poly
clinic and hospital, was established
by southern PHYSICIAN JOuu "a
Weith, Alabama; the first agricul-
tural journal in this country was es-
tablished by southern map, Ameri-
can Farmer, L, S, Skinner; and the
first native Methodist itinerant in
America was a southern man, Will
liam Walters.
The first man who gave complete
description Of the gulf stream, who
first marked out specific routes to be
followed IN crossing the Atlantic, who
fret instituted the SVStem of deeD sea