The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-06-04
JEFFERSON DAVIS
SOULFUL TRIBUTE TO GREAT
CONFEDERATE LEADER.
LIFE'S ACTIVITY sl'SpEDED
For Five Minutes as Suggested by Gen.
Stephen D. Lee-Memorial Exercises
in Oakland Cemetery and in the Court
House-An Outpouring of the People.

Monday, June 3, is chronicled in
Shreveports history with the patriotic
achievements which are enshrined in the
hearts of the people of the South. 1t
was Memorial Day and a legal holiday
dedicated to the memory of Jefferson
Davis, and without DEPRESSING from the
subject, it may be said that it is not pos
sible to discredit Jefferson Davis with
out rejecting on Gen. Robert E. Lee.
However, it is noted with regret that
frequently, as if pandering to the SEN
;imental side of the South, Lee is mag
nihed by Northern men of prominence
while they would blur the memory of
Mr. Davis; and into this error of judg
ment men Of the South, who should be
better informed, are inadvertently mis-
led into this censure of man upon
whom was thrust all the anathennas of
sectional hate on the side of the North
and the resentment of factional discord
Of Southern men. 1t is so easy to find
fault and to criticise adversely and un-
generously. While we praise the peer
less Lee. we should be equally fair to
the heroic and the fearless leader of &hs.
Confederacy, Jefferson DaFiS n AI~
The initial sA4Nk<H @1Mastsd
in the forenoH oHrhS-eommfftee Of the
Shreveport q apter Daughters of the
Confederacy and the General Leroy
Stafford Camp No. 8, U. c. V, in the
cemeteries, where the grave~-of each
Confederate soldier was marked with a
Confederate flag.
In the afternoon Camp No. 3 was es-
.orted to Oakland cemetery by the
Caddo Rifles and there was conducted
the formal and official decoration of the
graves Of the Southern Heroes, sleep
ing in the enclosure dedicated to their
memory These exercises were preced-
ed by an impressibe invocation by Rev.
J. H. Spearing. Having completed the
formal tribute to the dead, a salute was
fred by the Caddo Rifles and then came
taps by Bugler T. J. Leaton.
Resuming the march, the military and
the Veterans and their friends returned
TO the court house, where an assemblage
Of ladies had gathered. The district
court room having a capacity of six
hundred people was crowded. The
decorations by the Daughters were SIM
ole but strikingly effective and won the
unstinted commentator OF the au-
dience
The musical numbers, Bonnie Blue
Flag "Tenting Tsnight' and Dixie
were rendered exqu,sitely by the vocal
ISIS Of the Shreveport Chapter and their
friends. THE Last Rose of Summer
by Miss Freund was charming
The exercises were preceded by a
heartfelt invocation by Rev J. K. Smith
The commander of Camp No. 3, T. B.
Chase, presided. Col. John S. Young
of the Camp read the list of the dead
buried in the cemeteries in Shreveport
and vicinity then came the address by
" Grosjean of Camp No. 8, which COM
smanded the closest attention. His au-
ditors seemed to be enraptured III the
subject Of his discourse, and at its close
he was greeted with an outburst of en-
thusiastic applause His address fol-
lows:
Mr.. Chairman, My Comrades and My
Friends:
appreciate sincerely the compliment
rendered me by the Shreveport Chapter,
Daughters of the Confederscy, assign
ing me to address this assemblage of
lovely women and gallant men.
The subject of my discourse is JEFF
ferson Davis, and should | fail to meet
your anticipations, trust you will veil
my shortcomings with the broadest
mantle OF charity.
In Richmond, Va, today there was
unveiled a monument dedicated to JEFF
ferson Davis, President of the Confed-
crate States Of America, and, to the
Daughters of Virginia and their sisters
If other States, must be credited this
achievement Of patriotism
Today. in the Capitol City af the Con
| federacy, are gathered battle Scared
Veterans, who won imperishable re