The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1903-05-30
great European Powers.

These are conditions which we
OF the South fully understand,
and as we possess the richest
portion of the continent, we
need the potential protection of
the great Republic of which our
South is so important a factor
against such threatened assaults.
Thus 1T is that there is no posi-
Dlhty or any more secession on
the part of these Southern States.
1t is not because the South failed
In It's attempt to peaceably sep
arate itself from the Union that
these conclusions have been
reached, but it is because the
great Republic of the Western
hemisphere would not be able
to work out it's grand destiny
except by the uniting and CO.
operation of all it's parts and
powers.
When. therefore, the old sol
dlers of the South and the
young soldiers of the South
paraded yesterday in grand
procession. through the streets
or New Orleans, they, while not
a6ating one jOt of the right for
WHICH the men of the older gen
efatlon stood in battle in the
years of 1876, both old and
young proclaimed yesterday in
their grand march, and TODAY.
as they go about their accns,
toned business, that they are
for the Union against everv
other nation on the earth and
that they will stand for it at ali
hazards, because by so doing
they will be standing for Their
own.
The Old South and the Young
South to-day will bulwark the
Union in the great conflict of
nations. just as the former did f
n that terrible war when men Z
Quilt with their bodies, with a
heir courage, with their powers. t.
vlth their herOism and with o
helr utmost devotion, a rampant :"
or the protection of their homes. s.
heir rights and their loved W
mes. tt
mere was something truly w
aspiring to see the old and tn
r1zzled men who had fought a Gil
undred battles, marching be- CO
Ind the fresh faced youths who ii, ,;1
ompOsed the escort of honor to tn
he Confederate Veterans YES I'M
srday. The spectacle was a pc
eclaration before the whole or
GRID that the sons and the Co
theirs were united in the same fla
rlnc1pleS as we'll CONCERNING be-
le past as the future, and that ma ma
ey proclaimed also that the an,
mon is their country and its cor
lg is their flag against those of sto
the outside world. use, use
'Ihls is what the American or
cpie are told to-day concern of
g the old and the young gene Cit!
tons OF these Southern States eau
proclaimed in the grand in s
fade OF yesterday, and it will A
nav roCr,c5 T. - Avn oi Mo,
1ta1ns a prophecy as well as I
asS ufance, a preSage as well Gil a
pledge. Not many Years
L pass before this South will L.
needed to stand for the de-
Sc OF this Republic, and the p,
'ple Of the South will bulwark SAM,
S devotedly as they assaulted all P
and it's mighty PACK; PACK
lles IN the past, and the spec enfo,
e OF the juniors in the parade
claims to the world that in the Lafa
U tremendous conflict which
shake this hemishere, the
thern boys will be no whit Pu
Ind their fathers in wisdom days
ouncil and in prowess on the ord iSi
~ ie1u. mere may be of all
ng them Lees and Johnstons
and Folks and Ma
tftS, and Stewards and For -
s. ana Gordons and the like.
mayhap another incarnate
onlfcation Of Mars, a verita-
god of war like Stonewan
son. Yes, the Southern II
), the soldiers of the future
De as good as their fathers. I'LL
cannot go beyond that in
ership and courage.
from Il Cat Scratch
e arm, to the worst sort of