The Brunswick news., 1909-10-12
NORTHERN TRIBUTE TO JET
FERsoN DAVIS.

vision of the average northern eye Is
being brushed away and that the his
toriaH of the present is in the act Of
doing justice to a great national fig
ure, great confederate chieftain,
man who wrote his name alike in the
temples of fame OF the brief confed-
crate union and the enduring nation
we all know and love, is more than
imminent.
"a few days ago a number of north
ern journals devoted considerable
space to criticism of the plan of Dlac-
ing the statue of Jefferson Davis in
the hall of fame at Washington. Fin
ally southern newspaper took up
the cause and challenged the New
Haven Register, TO be open and frank
in the discussion of the subject. The
Register always evenly tempered in
the matter of debating such subjects,
purged itself of every scintiIla of pre-
judice and accepted the challenge of
the Charleston News and Courier in
the following splendid fashion:
very well, The Register on its part
accepts the challenge. There is some
thing to say about Jefferson Davis and
his admission to the national Temple
of Fame 1t is high time that it was
said. 1t is high time that the mist
which for half a century has distort-
ed the north's view of this son OF
the south was cleared away. 1t is
in Justice time that the man who in
his day suffered more than any other
southerner for the cause in which he
believed should cease to be reckoned
traitor and coward, and be esteemed
for what he was-a brave, true SOU
thern gentleman.
Jefferson Davis had his faults;
the south which knows best what they
we're admits them, The south under
stands that had its president been
a man more after the Lincoln type
The result might have been differ
|ent. But the south will never cease
to admire and honor the man of iron
nerve. of dauntless courage, of cease
less loyalty, or unsullied honor, of
ltireless energy, of peerless chivalry
who suffered and dared, and all but
died for the cause he loved and lost.
Of that host OF true men who gave
their best and their all for the confed-
eracy because, in their deepest hearts
they believed they were doing right
none was more sincere than he. OF
that multitude who lined up for the
struggle against their brothers of the
north none was drawer and none was
nobler. His sacrifice was as extreme
as ii was sincere, and his treatment
by the victors after the crash came
was sore medicine for a heart that
was breaking.
1T is a century and a year since
Jefferson Davis was born. 1t is near
TO half century since his cause
was lost 1t is twenty years since
his death What better time could
there be to signify, by the placing
of his statue in the nations capitol
that the wounds of that war are
healed. that in the blood of brothers
shed the Union is forever cemented
on foundation that standeth sure.
There let his presentment stand, erect,
noble. commanding, impressive, as
he stood in the days when he was
master of the destinies of half a ma
tion. Let it there remind the south
that It was mistaken and the north
that It misunderstood. Let 1t pic
ture martyr to a cause that, though
lost, was not wholly vain. since it
taught brothers to appreciate rela-
they were in danger of for
getting. And not inappropriately
might there be carved on it the in
scripuon which an unknown poet Of
the south once suggested for his
statue:
s.
Write on it's base We bowed him!
All these years,
Since that torn flag was folded
we've been true,
The love that bound is now revealed
in tears,
Like webs, unseen, till heavy with
the dew"
We would like copy of this mag
nillcent effort to reach the eye of ev-
cry southern and every northern eye.
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