The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-30
VOX POPULI.
DR.. MORRIS REPLIES REGARDING
CHILDREN OF THE CONFEpERACY
; Pensacola Journal.

Editor Pensacola Journal.
It seems that my little article about
the Children Of the Confederacy" is
about to get me into trouble. Addie
Lee Bats raped me over the
knuckles, and the secretary of the
Children Of the Confederacy'' is now
pelting me with shot and she'll.
I was aiming to keep silent, but
Miss Margaret fails to locate me, and
can't conceive how any Southerner
can be against any organization which
perpetuates the Confederate soldier"
etc.
/ would say 10 Miss Margaret San
dusky that I live IN DeFuniak, Fla 4,
was born in Kentucky, stand related
to the best antebellum families, viz:
Morrises, Buckners, Ptckets, Marshalls,
Hoards, OTTises, Blackenbys, etc. If
you will look into the American Bas'
tile you will see where my uncle,
Judge Buckner Morris. and wife, Of
Chicago, were arrested during the war
for treason, taken to Cincinnati, Ohio,
and placed on trial. His wife, who
was Joe Blackburn's sister, was con-
demned to be shot, but the sentence
was finally committed to exile until
after the war. And for what? For
helping poor starving, freezing Confed-
crate soldiers who were taken prison
er and consigned to Camp Douglas, To-
Gated in Chicago. Again, Miss Ma
garet, I have a distinct recollection Of
old black nanny" who always loved
her white chillun" and would make
many sacrifices for them.
So you see 1 am Southern, strictly
and intensely Southern, but the issues
of the Civil war (the Yankees would
say rebellion) are over and now let
us have peace. When the Spanish
American war cloud hung over this
country, who was the first man to
sacrifice his life on the altar OF his
country 1t was Worth Bagley, a
Southern man.
A few years ago a little Southern
school girl, under a Yankee teacher,
refused to sing Marching Through
Georgia" Down here in DeFuniak, on
Lees birthday a little Yankee school
girl under q Southern teacher. refused
to join in the exercises of that occa-
sion.
Lees monument, placed in the hall
at Washington, has aroused the latent
war spirit In some places. A G. A. R.
camp in Chicago passed a resolution
condemning 1t, with only one dissent
ing voice. The speaker on that occa-
sion turned loose thusly:
Put Lee in the hall and they will
put blood on the hands of Abraham
Lincoln. Was it not enough when the
Daughters Of the Confederacy a short
time ago unveiled a monument to
memorabilia the vilest murderer in the
western world, WirZ, the keeper Of the
living hell, liberty's temple, the house
of Lee, the memorial abode of Jeffer-
son Davis. These three-Davis, Lee,
WirZ-treason's triumvirate."
Now little Margaret, what do you
think of this? l see your brows knit.
and that little fist clinched and facial
expression indicating a train of
thought, easily interpreted.
Now in conclusion, let us have
peace. The Spanish-American war did
much to settle sectional differences.
l crossed the bloody chasm" and cap
tured a Yankee girl and brought her
down South seventeen years ago and
only few skirmishes have been the
result, as my capillary deformity,
near the crown of my head, will show.
Turn your organizations into help
full means 10 lift up the fallen, to help
the weak wherever found, North or
South.
Come down TO DeFuniak on Veter-
ans Day, during Chautauqua, where
you will see the Blue and the Gray.
Here you will see old glory and the
stars and bars. hear Yankee Doodle,
Dixie" and the rebel YELL
When you come inquire for DR.. Nor
ris, onehalf block north of the depot.
Stay with us for dinner and witness
the spontaneous hospitality of my
Yankee wife and girl.
Yours for peace,
C. P. MORRIS.
DeFuniak Springs, Jan. q, 1910.