Fort Pierce news. (Fort Pierce, Fla.) 190?-1920, 1909-04-16
n BIRTHDAY OF LINCOLN.
Florida Cracker Recalls His
Southern Devotion.

4 his recent message to the leglsla'
Governor Gilchrist took occasion
.. HThe three greatest men this
In has produced we're George Wash
IN Robert e. Lee and Abraham
Doln. - and 1T is recommended that
-uary 18th, the anniversary of the
Of Abraham Lincoln, be declared
bal holiday"
"a birthdays Of Washington and
are already legal holidays in
ida.
IL recommendation kicked up a
Ire among our august representa-
in the Senate Of the State and
IN were the criticisms hurled at the
brnor.
ur personal opinion upon this ques-
NAV be worth very little, but few
lust here may not be amiss,
has been forty-five years since the
Of the Civil war. Conditions and
siment have largely changed, but
South as a unit adheres to the
hciples and ideas OF half century
and we of the "New South" are
hV 10 an age and under environ
MS entirely different from those in
En- the war veterans participated,
LET US hope that we have lost none
Bat southern manhood, Southern
Hairy and Southern pride which has
N handed down unsoiled and unsul-
from those brave fathers who wore
|gray,
|yield TO no man in reverence for the
|thern cause and all that Southern
llment and sympathy implies. Not
Southerner, but a Floridian,
b, reared and full.Aedged, it is an
|Or duly appreciated that l write as
buthernor.
|am tired and weary of apologizing
IL. Yankee for anything. We have
ID for no quarters and we don't
\ any. We pension our soldiers,
the dear old gray uniform and its
litions, and shall never cease in that
!. We have a vast and varied land,
cheeffully welcome our Northern
nds as citizens and as visitors so
as they come with the full under
ding that we Southern, yea, Florida
lckers" propose to do as we please
b every proposition which confronts
we want to lynch a negro-or
10 man for that matter-we are go
TO do it If he disobeys the mandates
public opinion and oversteps the
lteous law. If he commits that
le which calls for sure. swift and
'dy death we are going to lynch him
auter, and we have no apologies to
e TO Mr.. Yankee or any one else.
entirely our business.
we want toplace our Southern wo-
hood upon pedestal which gives
n all honor and protection and
Cd says, "Here is theshrine at which
Worship, and here Is the altar of all
is grand and noble with u.s." yes, If
wish to preserve that exalted idea
outhern purity and virtue and mod
In our women 1t is our business
we ask not the sanction Of Mr..
'kee or any one else.
2 have rescued this Southern land
the ashes ofpoverty and illiteracy
nat Of prosperity and enlighten-
and can go on in our good way
10 our good time. While we ex-
. cordial welcome TO our Northern
lus and appreciate their coming
ng US, whether as visitors or home
ers, and have ample room for thou
3 more OF the desirable citizen
Ivy, we ask not their wisdom or
ce In the management ofour affairs
elal or governmental--and, ''by the
'nal'' we won't have anything save
'nern ideas. Southern methods and |
'nern principles.
y We are broad enough, liberal
'Rn and great enough TO recognize
!. and true manhood wherever
= and most cordially say amen to
recommendation Of Governor Gill
y 10 honoring Abraham Lincoln.
IAN afford to honor and revere his
osy. He was worthy Of it. He
: man among men, and Southern
uOOo has not SO far degenerated as
~ IT'S eyes to the good in any
''can, Il matters not whence he