The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1905-06-06
CONFEDERATE
MEMORIAL DAY
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laws aEl not by an appeal to arms. 1t
had paid the North for it, Slaves and
demanded that private property he not
taken for the public good, except on ad- |
equutt compensation previously p2ld
The South Pointed to the Con
,titution and the North gra>pcl ITS
hayonet> and wheeled its cannon> into
ine. You prayed for peace, AMI the beat |
ing drum and screaming fife was the
answer to your prayer.
But YOU never turned your back to a |
foe. and the world paused to gaze on
The battle Of brothers. Humanity was
staggered at the awful carnage Of war.
1t wcpt over the hallowcd dead of the
proud Caucasian race, sleeping on the
fields of the North and of the South.
Peace came like gentle angel and
stood over the graves Of your dead, and
wept over the devastated homes of the
Southland 1t heard the cry OF the or
phan and listened to the widow weep
| 1t saw the swopp of the vu!turrs who
came to humiialc and dcvour all that
was left of glorious land. 1t tried t.
STAY the hand of hatred that wrote III
the. organic law the equality of the
races! 1t tried to plead with the glut-
ted victor for chivalrous treatment to a
fallen foe! But in vain!
| Words can not paint, language can
nut describe imagination can not picture
the damnab!e humiliation that was i'll
nicted on the South i'll the Starlcss night
of reconstruction But as became the
sons of a proud race. you passed through
the night into the day. You answered
| The Fifteenth Amendment with a Section
| Five. commonly known as the "Granl-
father Clause" of our Constitution. \ on
answered their force bills by scpara-
ton of State and national elections. You
met hv brains the conditions which bat
tile and Drawn had forced upon YOU
You wrote in your constitutions that
1.-The good and virtuouS should rule. OF
fenacted into your statutes, not Ill SO
Imany words, but plain and true. that by
the eternal God the Caucasian race
i should and would control the destiny Of
1.-The South. When told t. at we have vio-
lated the Constitution of the United
/ States. we point them 90 the laws Of
rock-ribbed Republican Massachusetts,.
which SAYS that a voter shall be able to
Tread and write. When told that an TN
lerstanding clause. which excludes tbs
lnegro. is wrong sXaeznEzsesd"to them the
good moral clause" of Republican Con
lnectcut. When the ''grandfathcr clause
Of our own Constitution is attacked. we
, will point them to the retroactive clause
of the Constitution of Michigan with
its Republican sway and say to them,
5 Go do as you would have us do"
I The war did not end at Appon1atox.
The battle of balls stopped there but
: the greater struggle had only begun
e The measure of force against force was
= ended but the contest Of brains against
: power, the struggle of civilization
: against Authorization had only begun.
When you came home. you found all
save honor swallowed in the maelstrom
Of war. You found homes burned, plan
tations devastated and villages and
churches RACED by the order of the in
vadng foe You found that you were
no longer citizens of this great Repub-
lie, with rights to be respected, hopes to
be cherished. or ambitions to be real
lied. You found that the cruel greed of
The cOnqueror had placed above you
your former slaves, and provost mar
>hals with imported bayonets were ready
and willing to enforce the inl1uman de-
cree.
Reconstruction with its darkest night
md deadliest hate has passed away, but
: not yet has the full effulgence of the
: dawn appeared. In the councils of the
nation, the South is still denied it's
pFoper place-a place it has earned by
: its brains, its patriotism and its love.
There is drawn across this continent
Mason and Dixon's line, an ugly scar
across the breast of the Republic, to live
south of which means political ostra-
cSm and national distrust.
| Not wanting are it's citizens i'll love of
country, home or flag Not deficient in
brains and experience in public affairs.
Not wanting in those nobler attributes
which make man great and grand. Not
wanting that patriotism and pride in
their country's past, and faith and 10y
lalty in their countrys future. Proving
their fealty and fidelity in every walk
iof life-in peace contributing to its
greatness and its glory. as citizens add
ing to its progress and its splendor-n
war. answering its call for men and
money-in battle, giving their best
blood and the lives of its citizens to up
hold its national honor And yet. and
yet-bol1 would be the political party,
Trash would be the convention assembled
TO dare to nominate for the presidency