The Pascagoula democrat-star., 1902-05-09
1T TIE THING you DO.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.

1Cs tne tnluS you IoeVo uuuouo
That gives you hit Of heartsche
At the setting of the sun.
The tender word forgotten;
The letter you did not write;
The flower you did not send, dear,
Are your haunting ghosts tonight
The stone you might have lifted
Out Of . brothers. Wy;
The bit Of hesrtsoaos eounsel
You were hurried too much to say.
The loving touch Of the hand, dear,
The gentle winning tone,
Which you had NO time or thought for
With troubles enough Of your own.
These little acts Of kindness
So easily out Of mind,
These chances to be angels
Which we poor mortsls find.
1t isn't the things you do, dear,
It's the thing you leave undone
Which gives you bit Of heartache
At the setting of the sun.
A WORD ABOUT "TRAITORS."
Times. Democrat.
Inasmuch as the motives OF the late
Jefferson Davis, and inferentially the
motives OF all men who sustained the
Southern Confederacy, have been i'm
pugned by a President Of the United
States, II may be we'll to examine for
a moment the purposes which actu'
ated the representatives OF the South.
ern people a little more than two
score years ago.
In his farewell address delivered 10
the United States senate In 1851, Mr..
Davis said:
II rise, Mr. President, for the pur.
pose Of announcing to the Senate that
l have satisfactory evidence that the
State Of Mississippi, By solemn or.
dinance Of her people in convention
assembled, has declared her separa.
tion from the Uuited States. "
st Is known to Senators who have
served with me here that l have for
many years advocated, as an essential
attribute OF State sovereignty, the
right Of a State to secede from the
Union. l hope none who
hear me will cOnfOund this expression
OF mine with the advocacy Of the
right OF a State to remain in the
Uoion, and to disregard its 0bliga-
tions by the notification Of the laws
Such Is not my theory. Modification
aud secession, SO often confounded,
are indeed antagonistic principles.
= Secession belongs to a differ.
ent class Of remedies. 1t Is to be JUS
titled upon the basis that States are
sovereign. There was a time when
none denied it. = A State,
finding herself in the condition In
which Mississippi judged she is, In
which her safety requires that she
should provide for the maintenance
of her rights out Of the Union, sur.
renders all the benefits land they are
known to he many, deprives herself
of the advantages (they are known Il
be great), sewers all ties OF affection
land they are close and enduri0g)
which have bound her to the Union
and thus divesting herself Of ever,
benefit, taking upon herself every bur
den, she claims to be exempt from
any power to execute the laws Of TIN
United States within her limits.
II we'll remember an occasion wher
| Massachusetts was arraigned beior'
the bar OF the Senate, and when thcl
the doctrine Of coercion was rife ant
I to be applied against her because o
the rescue OF a fugitive slave In Bos
ton. My opinion then was the sam
that II is now. Not In q spirit OF ego
tisln. but To show that am not in
fluenced In my opinion because tn
caseis my own, l refer to that tim
aud that occasion as containing tn
opinion which l then entertained, an,
ON which my present conduct IS based
| l then said, II Massachusetts, follow
inR her through . stated line Of cor
duct, ch0Oses To take the last ste
which separates her from the Unio,
It Is her right to do so, and wi
neither vote one dollar nor one ma
Tn coerce her back; but will say to h,
God speed, 10 memory OF the kind q
sociations which once existed betwee
her and the other States"
In his inaugural address at Mon
gomery, Ala, Feb. IS, 1881, Mr.. Dav
said:
I'VE have changed the const;tue
, parts, but not the system Of our 60
eminent. The Constitution form,
by our fathers Is that OF these COME
: crate States In their exposition of
: and 10 the judicial construction II h
I received, we have q light which
yeals It's true meaning. Re
. erently let us invoke the God Of O.
I fathers t0 guide and protect us 10 o.
;, efforts to perpetuate the principl
J, which, BY His blessing, they we
able 70 vindicate, establish and tran
0 NIT ~ their posterity."
b We present now these extracts fro
2 the epeeClles OF Mt. Davis not for 81
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