The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-04-07
HIS HEART TURNS
TO MISSISSIPPI
AN ELOQUENT FORMER RESI-
DENT INDUCES IN FOND
"REMINISCENCES.
History ofsState Has Been a Splendid One
No Mean Line of Great
Men.

The following tribute is paid to Mis-
sissippi by DR.. Boiling in the Commercial
Appeal:
Born in Alabama and reared in Tenn
essee, l love them both. but somehow
when | think of having home and sleep
ing, wrapped in the embrace of mother
dust my heart longingly turns to old Mis-
sissippi.
There | found the finest, biggest
hearted people have ever lived among.
OF course every forest has its saplings and
scrub trees, but the human forest in Missis-
sippi has very few The people as a rule
are open-hearted, brave and true, and you
know where to find them on any question
and at any time, and then they are south
ern to the core and not two-faced, either
in social or political sense. You may fool
most of them for a time, but when they
get a chance they swing into line, al
most solidly for fairness, justice and the
right, and Doodle has compare tively little
influence among her steady yoemanry 1t
may buy some legislators now and then,
but it cannot buy the great people of old
Mississippi and the man true to the peo-
pie will find, when the test comes, the
people true to him.
The history of Mississippi, as territory
and as state, has been a splendid one.
With no mean line of great men. Prem
tiss, Foote, Davis, George and Lamar are
names which would grace any cline and
any time. While Stone, Lowry and many
other of her public men were men of fine
mind and unimpeaceable integrity. What
splendid man was Stone, in war and
peace alike, for no Drawer soldier ever
trod the battlefield and no finer gov
ernor ever presided over the affairs of
any commonwealth.
Lobert Lowry, big-brained, brave
and honest was the peer of the mob
lest of the Romans, and like Stone,
in war and peace, he was credit to
Mississippi, to be which no man could be
small. These men were scorn to pur-
chase place or to scheme in the dark, as
some men do, loving darkness better than
light, because their deeds are evil" An
open life and an open ballot appeals to
the honest yoemanry Of this great state,
whose people love fair play.
During the great civil conflict be-
tween the north and the south it was
my fortune to serve side by side with
Mississippi brigade commanded by
Rev. and Gen. Lowry, and better SOL
diers were not to be found in Cleburne's
division, division inferior to none in the
armies Of the Confederacy. Forests in
comparable riders were largely Missis-
/ sippians, the flower of the youth of the
state, and no higher praise could be paid
them than to say that they satisfied the
demand of Bedford Forrest, for loyalty,
dash and bravery, and the lingering rem
! nants of his great command hold men
as true as Dixie today, as they were more
than forty years ago-nen who make no
compromise with the enemies of the south,
TO matter how much money and commerce.
al usufruct they may hold and enjoy
Nine out of ten men in old Mississippi
are Democrats, as true to the principles
of the party as is the needle to the pole,
and the conditions now prevailing in Ten
nessee would not be possible in Mississippi