The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-05-22

her rich / arishes, leaving cane fields
and cotton to the care of faithful
slaves-all, all of these sons were
steadfastly at the front, writing in
the name of Louisiana the richest
blood on every page of that blood
lest chapter in the records of time.
s'Our hats are off to you, Louis
lana. With uncovered heads and
unbidden homage we bring our
heartfelt congratulations on the
patriotic lessons drawn from the re-
Prospect of your eventful past. 1t
is your privilege to look back
through four epochs of service to
different governments, and whether
yonr allegiance was due to France,
or Spain, or the Southern Confeder-
acy. or the American republic, it is
but simple justice to Louisiana TO
say the flag of none was ever tar
nished in her hands. If the honors
that cluster around the brow of
Louisiana, gathered under four gov
ernments could be distributed, they
would make fitting diadems for a
dozen States.
eff | were making this morning a
summary of your great achievements,
| would not exclude even that chap
ter which records the failure of New
Orleans to successfully resist the adj
vance of the Federal army near the
spot where Andrew Jackson wrench
ed victory from the mother country.
In comparing these two tests of
Southern proves, it must bc.remem-
bered that the army which cold
Hickory" so signally defeated had
no iron-clads, and that the red coat
of Pakenham wrapped neither the
heart of an American nor the soul of
a Southerner, whereas the blue uni
form of Farragut, who led his gun
boats through your batteries, envel-
oped the form of an American in
whose veins ran Southern blood, in
whose heart burned Southern fire,
from whose brain flashed Southern
genius.
"And now, dear friends Of New
Orleans, shall close the next chap
ter, which records the entrance into
your city of Gen. Benjamin T. But
Ter, and of his somewhat noted adj
ministration? 1t you do SO oIder, l
obey; but let me break the seal long
enough to point TO one fact which |
think is worth noting, d for no other
reason than because it illustrates the
strange mutations of that marvellous
era. That fact is this, that if Gen.
Butler could have had his way in
1860, the name of the President of
the United States for the four follow
ing years would have been, not
A braham Lincoln, but Jefferson
Davis. But the book is closed
now.
eve will not indulge on this centennial day,
this political miennial morning at other times
in any bitterness We feel none. We pity those
who do We have long since drawn the curtain
of oblivion over the regretful and unseemly things
of the past and we cherish as Americans the valOr
and noble deeds of both armies and OF all sections
We are satisfied with our own record, and the
power that would attempt to make us blush for it
would we both stupid and blind. We are heirs,
joint heirs with the republics children in the in
heritance of freedom left by our sires. We are
proud of all the past. Moreover, now facing
future pregnant with tremendous possibilities
but face it with strength of hope and assurance
born of answering purpose TO discharge our
every duty to all races, and to the whole country.
We are growing old but still stand firmly on
the strip OF land which separates us from a
boundess ocean.
'5And as we go hence will calmly prop our
mantels the shoulders of sons, who will
wOrthily wear them; and in no crisis of the re-
public whether in forum field, will they be
wanting
to give three rousting cheers for New Orleans and
louisiana"