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

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Providence to vindicate his
course and the people, and with
intellect clear and comprehen-
sive, unclouded by the weight of
years and their dramatic expert
ences of the modification of fail
ure, he sat under the perfumed
shades of Beauvoir, with his
loved ones around him, and
wrouglt with a master hand the
noblest work of his life.
"The rise and fall of the Con-
federate governn1s4C." The lit
erature of the world furnishes
no more-LriIliant and truthful
vindication of a cause nor a more
lasting monument to the heroic
achievements, sacrifice and pa
triotism of a great people. It's
dedication to the Womanhood Of
the South is a sculptured, stat
uesque monument of Anglo-Sax-
on thought and finish that will
live as long as the English Ian
guage is read and spoken.
One of the ablest and most
prominent figures in American
politics and craftsmanship, one
of the most profound students
and expounders of the constitu-
ton and all that it implied, in
terse, clear-cut, logical, vigorous
style, he has presented in this
work a mastery conception of
the constitution, and by all the
rules Of argumental and logical
dedUc ion proves conclusively
the right of secession.
A right that for years was I'M
questioned and shows emphat-
ically that the multiplying en-
crca chment and dominancy of
the North forced war upon the
South regardless Of all the eff
forts of the greatest minds and
most able and eloquent tongues
to avert it.
Judge Fenner of New Orleans,
one of the ablest and most bril-
liant lawyers of the South, a
few years ago in a masterful ad-
Dress on Mr.. Davis and the
lth's living Alcti>s, Rad this r.
say
Il have recently read that
matchless argument. 1t is COM
prised in the fifteenth chapter of
this work and embraces only 112
pages. Speaking with all due
temperance, and strictly as lie.
gal critic, | pronounce it one of
the most powerful and masterful
legal and constitution arguments
of which | have any knowledge
in the English language. In log
ical arrangement, in lucidity Of
expression, in closeness of rea
soning, in the amplitude and pre-
cision with which it marshals the
facts and evidence, in the candol
and force with which it states
and reputes the assumptions anC
arguments of his opponents, ir
the admirable sobriety of its
temper, it stands as a monument
TO his genius and as a constitu.
tional argument which has nev.
eI been answered and it is un.
ansWerable.
'It was intended and it serves
as a complete vindication Of the
right of the Southern states tc
withdraw from the federal unior
to terminate the compact which
they had made with their sister
states and to reassume the pow.
ers which had been delegated te
the agent. .
Buried in the huge tones OF
which it forms a part (the two
large volumes), this grand con
stitutional argument has not at
tracted the attention it deserves,
1t is complete in itself, and | be,
lieve it would be a service to the
people Of this country if it were
published by itself in a small
volume or pamphlet and dissem-
mated throughout the land"
1t should be read by every pa
triot, Northen as we'll as South.
ern. 1t deals with what is today
a purely historical question. The
young men of the North and the
South who are not conversant
with the disputations that led tc
great war between the states
and ninety per cent of them are
not should read it, such a vol
ume especially. They would dis.
cover that the cause of the
! South's contention was not. a
mere rebellion, the result of i'm
aginary grievances, but was for
the maintenance of great consti-
tutional principles and rights, in
grated into the body of the con
stitut on of those great architects
of law and liberty who formula
ted it, and that was sustained
and strengthened by the judg-
ment and wisdom of the giant
intellects of the past OF this great
| government.
Now that ihe question is set
tied by the arbitrament Of the
sword and the South has accep-
| ted the verdict. we turn from