The Grenada sentinel., 1903-07-18
el,ae refr.,n Of the music of tn. sunay

hling refrein Of ths music Of the Sunny
survivors of the 1000 heroes Mississippi
marshaled under the meteor nag. your en-
ssy q
justice and honor, during the years sue.
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How glorious your present reward! i
though aoa i. sria%pss crowa sr the scene
mighty Mississippi bears to the ocean the
1erday we're panerodden @d. e,tles
In all forms OF modern development. south
Aissi:sippi has become an empire In itself,
The very pencilings VI God are In the heart
Of its curly pine, and the dream Of Mr..
Of Gulfport destined soon to become the
proooest comhiefclai emporium OF the en-
sipp. % 4' ars everywhere eeS % ehrobbns WITH With thou
81 o9nI progress: aee6 Our Hsr,euit"r., M and ae:
cry avenue OF industrial life with skilled
to the nnished product gold has heretofore
gone abroad to Duy: Aud, better than all.
nrst founder Of an industrial college for
her equipment for Mes ssrusE!es IL Here;
State over the vast range OF whose indus;
tries the fancy may .oatiate at win. and
ent and far mightier future the heart Of
her citizenship may swell With !,h. exaltins n,
ade the e6ee our tstes Of this
Psralls1ea ADVANCE IN material Greatness, .;
fort. No human tongue can picture the
vastness Of their wealta. the myriad dis; dis;
comfort, the bewilderin9 maxnincence Of
their advance In all the arts and sciences.
the limttless expansion OF national terri:
| tory.
principles Of virtue kept pace with this tri-
on this occasion mar the harmony Of uni
versal good feeling by filling in the dark
spieaaors Of mere 1a1e m.tera
But t, BSrts s.y.: We must soften with With
than a patriot who does not realize the need
endure. en- e Without Stopping to particulari.e.
It must be Obvious to all that there have
sess IN
With triumph; have had viii scarce an
government. and the tendency has been.
the usual one with conquerors-morea and
and more and more toward centralized and
irresponslble power: the illegal accnmuis- ln,ais
| tien, the reckless annexation of unassimila-
Bile provinces, never to become States. until
| we have come to hear it as familiar doctrine
that that ss eensre:s es must so7ers at viii ssa!
not offend here by drawing aside the Veil
1e: .o Ss9 st
public conscience stands In mute horror, ap-
palled: l shall not enurnerate the long list
can. / invoke the conscience Of the great
IS Of
| sented by Charles Francis Adams. Hoar,
caa
at home al we'll rs in the provinces. and
when the patriot voices solemn protest he
SO thought the fattering optimists Of Bah
Of 90 one @ and the hundred T gates Of the other
Of every nation that has ever hourished
| tomb their buried glories. Greece. the land
Of scholars and the nurse Of arms" SO
dreamed. But Byron wrote:
'spirit of Freedom! When ON Phyllis brow
Thou sat-st with rhrasybulus and his
Couldts thou forDode the dismal hour which
Dlms the green beauties of thine Attic
Not thirty tyrants now enforce the chain.
Nor raise thy sons. but idly rail in vain:
Trembling beneath the scouree OF Turkish
From birth till death enslaved; In word,
! In deed, unmanned.
Rome, the Eternal City, 30 dreamed, yet
1.-THE time came when darkness settled on
all her hills when foreign and domestic
whom ignorance and despotism filled the
places where Laws % ana tnd ar. arts. and Liberty
trenpSed taa on the ton tombs e Of IN her ~ consuis and
echoed only to the voice Of savage tri.
In all these forty years of progressive
disregard Of the constitution irreverence for
ras psrt 'es' Of the controilns forces IN tne % na
tion's life, the SoYth has stood .powerlesa
a:pte;;s 81 *. to f.y isy tns the
% tions Of % our i imm3rtal a ancestfy. but iterst.
Ing and reiteratine her sublime protest
her iSs" korthern 'h brethren % possibly could. 81.
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aught else. she has lifted her voice, calling
back the nation to its ancient faith, to
censtit9tionsi government Our brethrea
and acknowledge the subllmity Of your pos!
tion. Stripped Of property. clad In ruins
se a1d to as
dls IN .!sfZ patriots cheek the a;a blush ..
least OF al. fa
4 repressive forces legislative and CONNER
cial, rising. In thine own unassisted might
4 and unique grandeur, thou, whilst building
anew the foundations of social, commercial
Industrial and educational greatness. hast
ion to its better self And unto thee, from
the great deep of the eternities, comes the
i voice Of thy king, saying:
Il hated. so that no man went through thee
Il will make thee an eternal exce1lency, q
j bring gold. and for iron l will \bring sill
4 yer. and for wood brass. and for stones
i iron will also make thine officers peace
4 and thine exactors Righteousness Violence
Il shall no more be heard In thy land vast
l ing nor destruction within thy borders =; but
a thy gates Praise.
u Thy sun shall no more 60 down, neither
d shall thy moon Withdraw. itself: for the
! the days of thy mourning shall be ended
Will our country heed the truth that there