The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1909-05-29
vARDAMAN LEG
TURES AT CHRONICLE
CHAUTAUQuA.
For The Sea Coast Echo.

For The Sea Coast Echo.
Speak gently tbs little thing
Dropped in the hearts deep we'll;
The good, the joy, that it may bring
Eternity shall tell"
L never knew he was a man of
such tenderness" These were the
words of commendation, eugolistic of
Ex-Governor Jas. K Vardaman, just
after his grand and glorious lecture.
The Impending Crisis at the
| Citronelle Chautauqua, Citronelle Ala.
on Saturday evening, the 3rd, I'll,
timo, uttered to me by a man prom
lnent in the commercial and religious
life of Mobile, and they were words
not lightly spoken, possessed no
ephemeral gush.
Yes. Governor Vardaman is both
tender, and true.
My heart bursts into blossom
| At the mention of thy namet'
! Possibly $500 strong, the vast
| throng assembled, visitors from far
and near, to listen to the distinguish
| ed Mississippian at the Citronelle
! Chautauqua's auditorium, were held
spell bound for over two hours yield
| ing rapt, undivided attention and very
frequently prolonged applause.
Charmed by his manly frankness and
soothed by his peerless eloquence,
with not sentence to shock the
modesty of even a schoolgirl, Gov
ernor Vardaman virtually took the
hearts of all by storm.
"As sweet and musical
AS bright Apollos lutte, strung with
his hair;
And when Love speaks, the voice of
all the gods
Makes heaven drowsy with the
harmony"
The discourse was classical, com
nonsense, colossal in bizarre beauty
and irrefragible facts, fully poised,
fraught with fundamental, enter
nal truths, genuine good only; ;seemed
to verify overflow each incentive list
ener with 'flagons of joy and rivers
of pleasure" certainly an Inspiration
to all. His strong appeal for the
right, his chivalrous words for the
gentle sex, his lofty ideal of the
home, was freighted with the frag-
rance of the lily, and as gentle as
Gulf zephyr, like the notes of dying
swans-too sweet to last, as Sc
rene as the tender love from the
Prince of Peace, or the approving
kiss of God But his lack of toler-
ance for the low and sordidS actions
of men of high or low estate, his
condemnation for the burly brute
seeking social equality, who would
touch and taint and blight and blast
with rapinc AID murder the sweet
flower of eirlhood or womanhood-
they who have our homes IN state
of siege today; the sinful and shame
full travesty upon justice, plttlng OF
negroes and whites by unjust laws,
created in the whitehead of passion
and prejudice, by wartime retalla-
| ton and enforced by unthoughtful,
unpatriotic politicians, eventually TO
| the utter disaster of the negroes and
displeasure and disapproval Of the
really honest and purely white peo-
pie. arouses alike Governor Varda-
mans righteous Indignation, for he
strenuousl, advocates a repeal OF
the 18th and a modification Of the
| 14th Amendments to the Constitution
Of these United States, and at once,
| as the one and only solution, permit
ting thereby, each commonwealth to
pass and perfect such local laws as
will prevent the clash of the races,
preserve peace.
"a little fire is quickly trodden out;
| Which, being suffered, rivers cannot
quench.'
For the Caucasion must and shall
rule this, his country. AS a matter
| of fact, the 14th and 18th Amend
ments to the Constitution of these
| United States, are the direct lnstfu-
ments and lineal descendants of vi
cious men, full of malice, devoid of
equity ,unsanctioned by due process OF
| law. And
"Didst thou never hear
That things i'll got had ever bad
success?
And happy was it always for the
son
Whose father for his boarding
went to He'll"
On these last themes, Governor
Vhrdaman. with the soul of seer,
with the eagle eye of the prophet for
seeing, penetrating far into the in
ner confines of the future, verify,
bristles and bubbles with patriotic
pride and earnest, eager zeal for the
safety of his brother and fellow
country men; and he likewise shud-
ders to contemplate the ultimate dire
results of our country's inaction, If
the impending crisis be not met with
the proper expedient and that during
the present exigencies Of that criu-
cal situation, thereby averting the
crime of it ALL In fact, Governor
Vardaman turned aloose such vo-
luminous array of facts and flgures,
such an avalanche of words, hercu-
lean. forceful and convincing, and
with such convolutions. fire and
fevor that, methinks, all the guilty
of the past, present and future yet
tremble upon their desecrated
thrones; for his logic was clear-cut,
his arguments were CONNECTIVE,