The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-10-28
EXILE UT.-GOV. STANDS
Delivers Patriotic Address Before
Featherston Camp, c. V. at
Water Valley Reunion

Camp, u. c., at its reunion at Water
Valley on the 10Th. His address is Sc
broadly patriotic and contains so
much that should appeal to the
thoughtful mind regarding our rela-
tiOnship TO the balance Of the cOun-
try, that we gladly give it space in
our columns. Below is the address:
"COmradeS-We are confronted with
some conditions as citizens OF MSSS-
sippi, which called me from the re-
tirement of my study to speak to you
today. What | shall say is said in
loving reproOf of friends and not i'm
cauStic criticism of enemies.
Tho the predominance of Confeder-
ate sentiment is acknowledged by all
of our public men in their earnest and
eloquent appeals to that history which
most StirS the imagination and fires
the passions of the old soldier. This
practice no more prevails South than
North. We are yet SO near the late
war between the States that elections
to office are most easily won by Secur-
ing the soldier vote and influence.
| sometimes :eel that we are being
worked, if may be permitted to use
that very expressive slang word, and
that we are not, at all times, careful
to distinguish between the tribute of
praise which springs from a heart
which loves us because of our suffer-
ing and valor, and those insiduous
and inSinuating appeals which
mean votes. However this NAV he.
some Of cur public men pile fiattery
upon US and arouse our prejudices by
inflammatory speech until we become
lncautlouS. We are made intensely
provincial by this narrow and selfish
treatment at the hands Of those who
should lead us along higher paths.
The thought is engendered that it is
enough if we keep Mississippi solidy
Democratic, without regard to what
may be our relations to-, and what is |
thought OF us by, the other states of |
the Union, and by the Government at |
Washington.
FOOLISH AND SUICIDAL. !
Comrades, this is unfortunate, to |
say the least of it: yea, more, it is
foolish and suicidal. We ought to be
broader and stronger, and ought not
to be led by our prejudices. We are
sometimes made 10 walk up and deliv-
er our votes for The man who uses the
strongest language denuncatory of
the other sections OF the Union. of the
unfortunate and often vicious race by
which we are surroundtd,a and by caus-
tic cenSure Of high officials of the
Comrades, l vas de lighted wien l
read on Tuesday that the Confederate
camps at Birmingham were organizing
10 meet and escort the President of
The United States when he shall come
there next week on his Southern tour,
and that the granddaughte of Admir- {
III Raphael SemmeS of Confederate re-
Pown Is to pin upon him badge, in
expression Of Confederate esteem for
Juf highest public servant. How I
much better is this, than to be, as we S
ire, in state, in that hide bound i
'rame of mind which is supposed to
Exist in Mississippi, and which does +
.XiSt, If the utteranceS of some of our t
most highly hon0red public servants 3
Ire test Of our feelings. For my /
elf, a Confederate soldier, and pri- T
'ate citizen Of this commonwealth, to /
whose advancement | have given all |
he mature years Of my life, l say nay, e
'erily.
PERTINENT QUESTIONS.
Can it be true that FeatherStOn
amp Of Confederate Veterans is glad
nat the President of the United
'tates is not to touch MiSSiSsipp; yea. <
more, is deSignodly, it may be, skirt Z
ny around it to avoid touching it. be- y
ause we have made no show Of hos e.
Itallty to BIN: Should werefuse to "
he occupant of this high office the re- p
pect aDd honor due to it, simply be- IL
auSe the incumbent may fUrSOoth, i'm d'
INES past, have said some unkind II
'ordS OF us or those whom we loved 81
nd honored in the past, and whose Ell
lace in our hearts can never be sba- al
en- by the misguided utterances of any I'll
IAN? I'll
What is to be gained by this pol to
" OF sectionaliSm and hate, save Of te
ceS for those who promulgate these v(
angerous doctrines? Whom do we al
urt but ourselves in thus shutting i
3 in our shells?
Comrades, it is high time that
should be said to 90 out to
he world teStifying that some voices vi
hich ring loud and clear do not ring 4.
together true. We are not SO stu. th
d as the balance of the world be- ex
ewes. Veterans Of Alabama are our ce
bone of our bone, and flesh 20
our flesh. With us, side by side
ley breasted the enemy's works at 10
anassaS, Fredericksburg, Gettys-
lrg, Franklin, and on thousand
her fields. AS they feel we feel, pc
we are only given a chance to give ri
terance to our pent-up emotions. ta
hey are not wiser nor more patriot be
than we. We are patriotic not for dis
ississippi alone. We are loyal not Or
ly to our State Government of our an
N immediate choice and election, TT