The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-06-07
GREAT ENTHUSIASM is
AROUSED BY CARMACK
Bl illiant tennessee Orator Captures the Old
Veterans in an Eloquent Defense
of the South.

Hanl address IndL dONSco the emu
nous audience that heard him to tn
highest pitch Of enthusiasm. forme
Senator Carmack, Of Tennessee. spok
on behalf OF the United Daughters Q
the Confederacy at the unveiling o
Jefferson Davis monument here today
The former senator's speech was
patriotic discourse; the strongest de
tense of the position Of the Soutl
taken by any OF the speakers and h
aroused the widest cheering and ap
plause. In fact the senator was thu
recipient of more applause than wai
accorded any other speaker.
Senator Carmack was at his best
His voice and words carried convic
ton to his hearers. His closing perora
ton in which he urged the south to
assert its proper place in the galaxy
of states, was especially effective. The
speech in full follows:
"Mr. President, Ladies and Gentle
men: 1t is my privilege to appear in
the exercises of this great occasion as
the representative of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy, whose
noble part it is and has ever been to
keep the fires of chivalry alight in
hearts of gold Let me add that this
monument to the souths great leader
is no less a monument to the south's
great women, who have wrought into
1t their devotion to the memory Of
his heroic services and his stainless
life as we'll as to the cause of which
he was alike the foremost champion
and the most illustrious victim.
No Justification Needed.
1t is no part of my task to justify
this monument. Let me only say that
If the unselfish devotion of all the
powers of a great mind; if patient
and heroic suffering de-
serve a grateful remembrance, no mau
ever builded more surely than Jeffer-
son Davis the foundation of his fame.
Great in all the years of his active
ife, he was surprisingly great in
hose last years in which mistaken
malice laid on his devoted head all
he supposed sins of his people. With
he serenity of a great and uncon-
Luered soul he bore the fury of perse-
ution and opposed a mighty and mag |
luminous contempt to the, crawling
alumnies of his defamers These
AVE lived their summer day and died; |
While the fame of Jefferson Davis
athers new splendor with each pass
ng year.
Here let me say that there is no
outhern soldier pusillanimous enough
, accept that lenient judgment some
mes proffered by the charity of his
rites, that he was the innocent, de-
lded victim of a wicked leadership.
% soldier of the South, however
lined in fortune or broken with
ounds, no wife bereft of her hus-
and, no mother bereft of her son,
as ever raised an accusing voice
sainst the leaders Of the south. The
'uthern people are not of that cow
d breed that seeks vicarious suf-
rer for its own deeds.
Let no map mistake us--the
uth-the whole south-gave both !.
art and hand to the war of seces-
On: and as history shall judge Jeffer- :
n Davis, SO let 1t judge every soldier :
40 fought beneath the flag Of the 8
nfederacy. Yea. and so let 1t Judge
of a new generation who ask for 5,
rselves no higher honor and mol J,
ouder fate than that by their deeds
} may be judged, and whose most :.
vent prayer is that the sons Of !,
sse heroee may be- worthy OF their !
es. No. my countrymen. 1t is not >,
a trembling penitent that the south ),
proaciaes' tins Judgment bar Of his- !
" : :.
This Was Our Hero. h,
Standing In the presence of this vi
,le and impressive monument we
'udly front the world and proclaim tr
the present and the coming time he
is was our hero and his cause was cl
$. Whether for chieftain or for &C
vate, we make no confession of so
ing, we plead for no forgiveness of