The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-06-17
SPEECH OF JUDGE
j. c.
Delivered at the UnvaiIing of Confederate
Monument in Grenada, June 3.
touches On High Character of Southern Soldier and
Trials of South's Heroic Women.

NCiiIaSiIlCI.
The striking event we have met her
today to celebrate marks the consum
nation of the hopes and efforts O
years. 1t had its beginning more tina
Gecade ago, when, as | recall, Banks
dale Camp and the Daughters of tn,
COnfederacy originated the idea of al
enduring monument to Statham, t.
Farreh and to the Confederate soldier
Ttferefore the occasion is memorable
and will be so in the annals of this
county, in the history of that splendid
camp, and in the record of the Daught-
ers of the C~onfederacy. Any event in
human life which marks a consumma-
tion-a browning achievement-in best
Ing highest hope. aspiration and effort,
II suspicious and splendid.
II this solemn bat impressive occa-
sS,n is but one of others similarin char
zc1er that have occurred throughout
the South, it is only to the credit
of the people of the section and express
Sive of the patriotism Of the people.
Larger the number of shafts, statues
and monuments, the wider and greater
must be the Acknowledged force of the
principle and sp:ric which prompted
them. 1t has been the custom in the
oldest countries Of the world TO build
monuments and t. fiji cities and county
sites with memorials in stone and
bronze to men who have done great
deeds for humanity. Not only to war
ricrs and statesmen, but to great spirits
IN science. in invention, in art, in phi
lanthropy, IN all the broad fields of
grand human achievement. 1t may be
stated, as almost an axiom. that a
country of monuments is a country of
magnificent history.
The only reason there is not in the
South q monument OF every spot made
glorious by history Of men or deeds, is
that there has been no wealth, no re-
sources, equal to the loyalty and re-
membranes of the people.
| have always loved to recall that
story of the people OF Rome who once
rose almost in revolution against the
removal of the classic monuments and
5tatuary OF the Immortal City, G;s&p-
pearing, as they were, before 1 ram
pant pillage and commercialism. The
people said the monuments were his
tories, for present and future genera
tions, and should remain as a stimulant
to present high and noble actions and
as incentives and aspiration to noble
living and doing in future generations.
So. of this handsome shaft before US.
1t is a history and will be q history in
the future. Today, the history of this
memorial brings a thrill to the heart,
= tear 70 the eye, and elevation 20 the
soul and spirit Of those who love great
actions il human life.
Ii is useless co5ay u li>cuzs the Is
Sues ,nich We~- settled 73cA Ire going
down OF the Sun Of sae Gonfeder2cy st
Appomatsoy. The have been irreyc-
settled b. the s-srn a~rbitramert
Of war, by the acceptance Of results by
the people. and by q magnificent na-
1ional development. ,
But, my friends, a great cause, a {
great controversy may be &igrifed ard
in two ways. First, by the ,
.soundness and business Of the principle {
which it is founded: and second, by ,
Aba b;rb oboroo+o- ~,,~I--- ocS ,oO+i~-o
of the people who espouse and support c
that cause. Certainly, in all the annals +
Of history, never did any cause have
oobler devotion of nobler spirits than =
did the cause of the Southern Confed- 4
Fly friends, at the foundation of this f
government there lived a man, almost .
Godlike in his love of humanity, who :,
2enned the most immortal document +
chat human tongue ever dictated and r
hand eXpressed-the Declaration Fl
Of American independence. The author o.
was termed the great Father of free o
republican principles and institutions. o
Before the illimitable reaches of his
n magnificent mind and soul, the declara- l.
ton and conception Of a perfect human O.
government, just, certain and benig- 81
want, stood out rounded and complete. ;,
That great document contained the ut =
which President Lincoln said :,
was 1.-THE immortal senteHce."-'AN -
governments derive their Just powers y
from the consent Of the governed" r.
My friends, if Thos. Jefferson had lived u
1860, by the logic of his life and ;,
craftsmanship, he would have been len a.
in close sympathy with the South +;
.rn C~onfederacy. ~
There was another. He was called 6,
the Father of his country. lie advo-
secession from Great Britai n. l.,
He twice practically refused sovereign ~
IT,. Loving Virginia, essentially Vir- NJ
and SoathorD-ha Coorra