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

But will lift nay poor, chained hands
And for my children pray and for
my foes.
Beside the graves where thousands
lowly lie,
l kneel, and weeping for each
slaughtered son,
L turn my gaze to my own sunny sky,
And pray, 20 Father let Thy will be
DONE
The so-called apostles of progress
and commercialism tell us that the
war forever obliterated Mason and
DiXon's line, that there is now no
north, no south, no east, nor west, but
one grand brotherhood of peace, har-
mony and mutual good will between
all sections of the government; the
assertion is an infamous lie; bayonets
don't make brothers; that line was a
geographical one marked by degrees
and minutes of the compass, it is now
traced by q line of innocent blood so
wide and so deep that time can never
bridge it nor can all of ocean and
mountain pillows ever submerge it.
There is no new south as claimed by
those who would fain sacrifice our
glorious heroic past upon the altar of
Mammon. The old south still lives
and will yet Phenix-like rise from her
ashes and become the greatest, best
portion of the government, developing
the highest, purest civilization of the
world. Grand, glorious old south /;
God made your dirt, your men and
your women,-made your history
which they will remain unsullied as
long as Heavens glittering dewdrops
/ shall kiss the blushing rose to bring
forth her spotless beauty and match
less fragrance.
Now, 1 stand upon facts, and these
are the incontestible facts, which will
forever perpetuate the truth of my as
sertion that upon the Federal govern
mens rests the Inauguration of the
civil war between the two sections of
this country. No part of it's respon-
sibility rests upon the southern states
They were not the aggressors in any
single instance. They were ever true
in their plighted faith under the con-
stitutiOn. No instance of a breach of
its mutual covenants can ever be laid
te their charge. The open and palpa-
bic breach was committed by their
northern confederates. No one can
deny this. Those states of the north
which We're false to their constitu-
tional obligations claimed powers not
delegated and elected a president
pledged to carry out principles openly
in defiance of the decision of the high.
est tribunal known to the constitution.
Their policy tended inevitably to a
centralized despotism. 1t was under
these circumstances that secession
was resorted to; the war was begun
and waged by the north to prevent the
exercise of this right. All that the
south did was strictly in self-defense
even in their firing the first gun. The
United States government, after keep
ing Jefferson Davis in prison two years
{ a portion of the time in manacles)
liberated him without trial. And why :?
Because it knew trial would result in
acquittal which would forever prove
and establish the right of secession
under the constitution and history will
so record 1t. Every decision of the
United states supreme court from its
foundation down to the present time
where states rights and states SOW.
ereignty were the questions for adju-
dication, has sustained the principle
and doctrine, and | challenge denial
and refutation of this fact.
Young men, God forbid you should
ever be called upon to face the fiery
ordeal of war. II in the future. how
ever, duty shall call upon you as it
did upon US forty-iye years ago. for