Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-06-17

Hf MfIAbilI Vi Wv ~ 'Nh sf''
self-large, wholesome, generous, and free. He
has a heart like his mighty Mammoth Cave; he
take everybody into it, and looks around for
more guests. We are lost in your hospitality,
and will never find ourselves again until we get
out OF Kentucky.
The last time we camo to Louisville We were
impressed that this was not a dry city; and al
though this time the rains have not descended,
or the floods fallen in the same way, We find the
city is still wet in places with a certain ancient
Juice which is supposed to be good for veterans.
Louisville has always been dear to the south.
We have not forgotten the ministrations of her
noble women in the %wartimes, when they were,
indeed angels Of mercy. Nor have We forgotten
the dreadful days when yellow fever stalked
abroad in our land, The gates of this fearless
and merciful city were never shut to the cry OF
distress. The good Samaritans were not content
until a hospital was built to shelter the stricken
ones who fed to her doors from the scourge Of
the pestilence. We rejoice In the welcome you
now give us; but we glory in the welcome which
you gave "unto the least OF these your breth-
rem"
Kentucky Is q name to charm with. 1t Is a
land good for horses, and better for men, and
! best for women. A Kentucky woman simply
exhausts the subject. After you have seen her,
you wonder why there are any others. The
only women who ever surpassed Kentucky wo-
men were their mothers-the immortal women
Of the Confederacy. The career of the Ken
lucky troops in the Confederate army is one Of
the finest things in the history of our racei Not
only dlsowned by the nation, but exiled from
their state, with nothing to lure them on bnt the
high claim Of principles for which their fathers
fought before them; with everything already
lost that men count precious, and forlone and
swiftly falling hope before them, they battled
to the end with a stubbon courage that never
knew defeat. We we're nghting for our homes
and ~nresides; but these Kentucklans were fight
ing for us, because they loved our cause better
than their own lives.
II is impossible for Confederates standing on
| Kentucky soil not to remember that from this
commonwealth came two leaders OF the con-
tending nations, Here was born the patient,
frontier lawyer, trained in the hard school Of ad-
verslty, who, in the hour Of fate was to stand at
the focus OF the world, who was to give to his
tory a new idea of greatness, and to die at least
like Caesar at the zenith OF his fame, sealing his
Immortality with a death whose tragic pathos
will move the hearts OF men forever. Here also
was born the pure and the stainless gentlemen,
who stood at the helm Of the sinking Confeder-
acy, the one and only ruler Of a brave people,
who failed in a mighty struggle for Constitution
al liberty as they understood 1.-THE chained
captive at Fortress Montroe the exile, the gray
haired MISUNDERSTANDING to the last the
+ cause of his people-the best beloved Of all Ken
tucky's mighty sons. Not Clay in the hour of
his glory; not Lincoln in the hour Of his passing
were ever lowered with the love and devotion
which we're given to this brave old man whose
white soul was the mark for every shaft that
passed over the people OF the south. The south
wrapped him living in the mantle of her love,
and poured upon his tomb an Offering Of tears
she never gave to Washington. And when her
heart shall at last cease to beat, there will be
found craven upon 1t, the name OF jefferson
Davis.
One OF the reasons why the Confederacy failed
was that its supply OF Kentuckians was insufi-
cient. The historian of the United States is &C.
customed to picture to himself a united north
contending with q united south for supremacy
the true picture is of a united north contending
against a divided south. The slaveholding states
gave to the armies Of the Union more than half
as many soldiers. as they gave to the armies of
the Confederacy. with her ports all sealed, not
only was the south fighting the north with no.
cess to all the world for men and sunnlies but
the south was egbtino har oun conc IN ~
armies there we're 3a3. 2a3 white soldiers from
the south, and 1913 1887 negro soldiers, The south
furnished about one-seventh of the army which
fought against her. so that II would snne.r s,or,
the record that the south PLAYED no insignificant
part in preserving the union of the states These
things are 10 he remembered. NOT in sorrou, or II
anger, or even in regret. but that N. ,ror,, 49,.
heuin IN undarstond tba m,rooIos ~ uoIon 49,.
DURANGO. Of docped couraea NJ dayo,oa ho.otaa.
shown NV the Confederate eo,dior IN .ho 49,.
NJ the ages the borr had s,r,cl n,hon a,s".os"
should be no more. The south was wounded fnr
the transgression Of the who,a nation sha -.
brnised for tho inioniiioo NJ all Tho,l, Ca,A-.
chastisement bas brought noooa ona hana
the nation has he.n heo,sd 1920
Sometimes tho o,ss,ior 10 oorod rhu
veterans gather At their animal rern,ors Wv
have no pensions to expect, There ia M no,i,i.
cal preference we can look for We coma ~
gether because we love the mast. hecauee our
lives have been linked together hv . eroo, Nv
pcrlence. by the richest. deenest eynor,.noo
that has come to any generation Of Amerioans
by a common story so rich IN beroi.m IN soar,
nce, in patriotism, that evervtb,no olso uo !.
member grows cheap when wo tbinL ~ ,ho a.
federacy. "Out there is A~nnomatto, . aid t1on
nv W. Grady, uwhere the Lord CA ,Ini.A,,
loid upon every ragged gran-can tho au,nns ~
his lmperishable kniehtbood > rrstoos 90 ~ w.
gray-caps, I see today only the grav Nod, h,
the same knightlv hear 1 are beating s,JII W. ~
we meet together, we renew thosa rna. m
cries, these imperisbable frlardsbire T.n sn,
is not far distant when the burden ~ onr sn,or,
talnment will no longer reouire the famous hoa
pitality of a Louisyiile-whe M moantaooa, y
ditorium will be needed for the scs,,aros