The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1907-06-14

PRESIDENT JEFFERSON DAVIS
INDICATED His OWN CAUSE.

peal to reason? Simply because
the final judgment in relation to
the war of 1861 will in no small
degree depend on it's verdict with
respect to the right of secession
so rea son has a high Office and
duty to perform, for, however
sore her calamities, we still re-
tain that which to every true
man is infinitely dearer than
property or life. The South
still retains her moral worth =
the glory of her Davis, John
sons, Lees, Jackson, and all who
nobly died or suffered in her
cause. These are her imperish
able jewels, and, since little else
was left her, these shall be cher
ished with greater love and with
more enthusiastic and undying
devotion.
History is at this time busy in
making up the verdict on this
momentuous question which is to
determine so much that is most
dear to every true son of the
South. Shall we remain idle
spectators, mere passive lockers
on while the North is flooding
the world with volumes against
the justice of our cause? Shall
we stand like the dumb brutes
around US, having no word to
utter in the great cause of truth,
justice and humanity which is
now pending at the bar of his
tory?
This is the great issue on
which the Southern people, the
dead as we'll as the living, are to
be tried and judged and he who
masses the facts of history and
presents them ably, eloquently
and forcibly to the youth of the
land richly deserves to be heard
AMI read.
President Davis made the
great defense for us-it is unan-
swerable and this masterful
argument in ready and enduring
form should be given to our sons
for instruction. 1t is a volume
that should be prepared and in
all our schools and generously
scattered through the North.
An appeal through the press
and Judge Fenner's speech has
been made to veterans advoca-
ting this special small volume to
be published, but the movement
to do so has not materialized-
and it is now up to the Sons and
Daughters of the Confederacy to
have the publication made most
especially do | appeal to the
Daughters Of the Confederacy-
they are now the guardians and
custodians of the richest and
fairest heritage of the South and
of the past history of the coun-
try. The history of the great
cause is in their sacred keeping
and they alone can perpetuate a
memory Of the dead and heroism
and hold reverently sacred the
chivalry and stainless honor Of
the old Confederate by placing
in the hands of the South's chill
dren the books that are a true
and just statement Of the South S
history. | doubt if there is one
copy to every hundred families
of the Rise and Fall of the Con-
federate Government in any of
our towns or cities and yet
Grants history has paid his fam
lily over half a million dollars.
The Rise and Fall of the Con-
federate Government should be
used as text book in the public
schools and colleges, in every IL
brary and in every Southern
home" along side of the Bible,
and it should be taught by Che
fathers to their sons and by the
mOCherS 10 tnelf QaugnterS, so
that there may be no break in
the continuity Of devotion to
that lost but everything cause,
loyalty to which has been the
bright jewels in the diadem Of
this Southern country"
Then let it remain a statuesque
monument of thought, argument
and defense, as Carlysle says,
"a sort of sulptural nobleness,
finished symmetrically, COM
plete," wrought by a master
hand and brain and left by him
to posterity to postify deeds Of
ancestral valor that should be
craven in gold. John H. Hood,
in Jackson News.