The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-06-07


the indomitable men. who being con
quered In war. yet resisted every e.
fort OF the conqueror TO change their
laws or their customs, and this. too.
not only with unyielding stubborn
ness. but with success" He admits
that in all this they showed the 'eie-
ments that 90 to make up a grand and
kingly people. and that their triumph
was incredibly grand that it was
the most brilliant revolution ever &C.
complished
south's Proud Beast.
And grand Il was. not for the south
alone, but for the whole country; for
free government could not have long
survived under the rule Of the worst
elements of the north combined with
the ignorant negroes OF the south.
Let it be the proud boast Of the north
that by the power OF the bayonet and
the force Of numbers 1t saved the
country from disunion. 1t is the
proud boast Of the south that with it's
naked hands it saved it from degre-
dation and destruction.
MY countrymen, let me say that
such are not the deeds of conscious
criminals-they are possible only toI
men deeply convinced of the justice
of their cause. The world has paid |
its just tribute to the confederate |
leaders and the confederate soldiers.
History has placed the statesman. the
military chieftains and the armies of
the south beyond the reach of calum
ny or detractions. President Roose-
welt has written that the southern
soldier was more effective in battle
than his northern adversary Those
who would apply the name Of traitor
to such men are but teaching the
youth of America that treason is a
nobler school of manhood than loyalty
and that crime can outrival virtue in
the greatness of its deeds and the
SuDllmlty or the Suf1erlngS.
Speak the Truth.
my coutrymen, the doctrine of
secession is dead; but because it is
dead, because it can never again
plague the councils or disturb the
repose of the nation we can afford to {
speak and teach the truth about it.
Our children have a right to know 6
that the doctrine of secession, from
our earliest history under the consti- S
tuition was. taught by the ablest pub e
licists of the north as well as of the G
SOUTH that the very first treatise on $
the constitution, written by the then f
leader of the Philadelphia bar, taught c
the right of a state to secede from the t
union; that standard work on the
at West Point when p
Jefferson Davis was student there, n
aught the same doctrine, and that n
Jefferson Davis learned his lesson of o
secession from the government of the )
United States. Senator Lodge of 81
Massachusetts, says that the very men Il
Who framed the constitution regarded o.
as an experiment and did not doubt
he right of a state peaceably to with
raw from the union. In fact, the 3
rst secession movement in this coun- .
ry had it's origin in New England
nd only sixteen years before the
tate of South Carolina actually In
eceded, the state of Massachusetts vi
y solemn act of its Legislature threat
ned to secede. C;
Glory OF the Union. wi
I'VE have right to teach these NJ
lings to our children, teaching at the
anne time that the causes that once at
lreatened to divide us have passed Be
nd that henceforth the strength and
ory of the south are bound up for at
1er with the strength and glory of
lie union. After all, this union is fro
,und by stronger ties than the
,rases Of written constitution--itl frc
bound by common interest, COM
on heritage and a common hope. wi
Our union is river, lake, ocean and we
sky,
Man breaks not the medal when Vii
God cuts the die. mo
"Ali these things are now glorious !
emories. Proud of her glorius his roc
ry. proud Of every drop of blood Pie
NJ has s,ished from tlae veins Of herb !
MS, proud Of every grave and every list
In that proclaims the splendor of J
r deeds wahia ID maniss tlta failnre OF fra
r hopes, the south turns resoluteiy str,
I'm the ashes of the past to the
Its of the future. We may strew 90
r flowers and let fall our tears upon D
, hallowed mounds where valor O