The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-04-27

VI any OtneT occasion. Go, see what
nave seen; feel what have felt; suf-
Ter what l have suffered; go learn
what know, Of the injustice, outrages
and prosecutions that have been
forced upon us of the south by the
United States government since the
hrlng Oh the first gun in the civil war,
10 this very day, and you will not
wonder at the earnestness and depth
OF Keeling with which I shall address
you. | shall nothing extenuate or
SET down sught in malice but will
new to the line, let the chips fall
Wnere fhey may" / shall call spade
spade, because it is spade, and will
not mlnce words in matters pertaining
70 absolute, incontroyertible facts.
AND now what means this sea of up
turned faces; age, with his wrinkles,
burdens and cares: youth in her beau
W, joys and smiles. The answer is, in
your silent city of the dead, where
sleep the true, the brave.
On flames eternal camping ground
IheIr silent tents are spread;
ana glory guards will solemn round,
me biVouac Of the dead
AS the sunflower turns on her God
when he sets,
The same look which she gave when
he rose"
so today from the placid waters of the
pSautlful Potomac to the turbid tides
or the raging Rio Grande, from the
ueW-klssed blue grass of Kentucky to
the fragrant orange blooms of Florida,
we turn to that grand old flag, around
which linger so many sad, sweet, ten
ger memories, with the same death
Tess love. with which we hailed it's
glorious birth, when we unfurled it to
the propitious breezes Of heaven and
ioIloWed its spotless folds through its
storFly, bloody life in defense of con-
sti1utional liberty and the right of self
government. AS long as the lusty
eagle shall wing his lofty flight to
snoW-capped peaks; as long as the
preeze shall bear the pillows foam; as
long as true manhood and noble wo-
flannood shall inspire pure patriotism,
SO long will Dixies brave sons and
Dlxfe's fair daughters meet on this our
annual Memorial Day, and with earth's
palrest, sweetest flowers pay their
tribute OF sweet love to the memory
or our Confederate heroes-the grand
est army of martyrs the world has
ever produced; they went down to glo-
rious death amid the discharge of
righteous duty. Caesar had his le-
glons; Leonidas his Spartans; Wash
lngton his Yorktown; Bonaparte his
Imperial Guard; Wellington his Water
100; Bala Klava its light brigade;
Grant, his three millions from the
civilized world, with Africa thrown in
as sweet smelling SAVIOR for good
measure, to be hurled against south.
ern breastworks by its white allies in
the rear to shield their coWardly car
cases; but the deeds of all these sink
into utter insignfficance when COM
pared to the manhood. valor and
courage of the boys who wore the
grey, and who for four years fought
tne world until they actually wore
themselves out to perfect frazzle by
nghcing and whipping the Federal ar
mics. tbs said that Alexander the
Great conquered the world and wept
because there were no more worlds to
conquer. Could we have had man for
man during the contest, when the war
ended we would have been crying be-
cause there. was no more blue to shoot
at save the blue dome above. The
United States pension roll proclaims
the fact that every soldier we had en-
rolled during the war killed, crippled,
wounded or scared to death a Yankee
and half. From the bloodstained
heights of Gettysburg on the east to
the rolling plains of the far west, from
the icicles of the northern lakes to
Florida, are the graves of countless
who, wearing the grey,
went early to their rest.
"T'he cocks shrill clamor and the
echoing horn.
No more shall rouse them from their
bed
And why these premature graves?
Who is responsible for the blight with
which our country has been cursed?
Let the CALLED jade vince my wethers
are unwrung; shake not thy CORY locks
at me-"
Thou can'st not say | did it." For
the answer go to Plymouth Rock
Where landed the old Mayfower, she
was the Iliad of all our woes, the Pan
dora's box from which sprung all the
ills and troubles with which this coun-
try has been afflicted. The seed there
sown brought forth and developed in
TINS country the same spirit that
prompted the Puritans to leave old
England and seek a home in New
England. their object in coming here
"%s 10 40 as they pleased and to
make everybody else do the same. In
their greed for gold in the course of
time against the wishes and earnest
protest Of the south they produced
African slavery in this country, which
Is we'll known was the primary cause
of the late war between the two sec
lions. When the original thirteen
colonies each Is a sovereign state
formed general government for mu-
tual protection and benefit, slavery
was recognized by the different states
the confederation, and was
protected by each as we'll as by the
general government. The slave trade
was carried on exclusively by northern
men and northern money. The very
first vessel fitted out for the purpose
was from Boston. Finally this trade
was abolished and those sturdy old
Puritans being no longer able to steal
with impunity his brethren in Africa
and sell him for shining gold to the
south and experience having convinced
him that his labor could not be made
profitable 70 them concluded to quit
the niger business, and did so by sell
ing out, lock, stock and barrel" little
big, young and old to the south. If
there was ever one freed by a Puritan