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

Just God will say to Lincoln and his
wicked abettors and instigators, de-
part from me, you accursed workers
OF iniquity; l know you not. And in
this l do not include the officers and
rank and file of the Federal army.
The north fiaunts her hostile flag OF
defiance in our face; she comes into
our country with sword in one hand
and torch in the other; she throws
down the gauntlet of battle and the
south, preferring death to dishonor,
glrds her loins, prepares as best she
can for the inevitable conflict, and
calmly standing on the defensive,
awaits the advance of the ruthless in
vader The noble Curtins leaping into
the yawning abyss, that his beloved
Rome might be free, gave no grander
proof of sublime patriotism than did
the sons of the south when the loud
tocsin of war summoned them to arms
in defense of all that free men hold
dear.
They left the ploughshares in the
mold,
The flocks and herds without fold;
The sickle in the unshorn grain,
The corn half garnered on the plain,
And mustered in their simple dress,
For wrongs to seek strong redress,
Go right those wrongs, come veal,
come woe,
To perish-or o'ercome the foe
These are our jewels said the
Spartan mothers of the long ago, in
presenting their sons to their coun-
try's service and giving to each his
shield with their parting blessing
with or on it, sent them forth in the
defense of their homes.
The same spirit that prompted these
ancient matrons to place their all upon
the altar of their country found a re-
sponsive chord in the hearts of the
noble women of the south when the
heel of the despot polluted her sacred
soil. The war is now on in earnest,
and the north bending every energy
with her boundless resources, both at
home and abroad, takes all means for
its vigorous prosecution. The south,
standing strictly on the defensive,
with no navy, her ports blockaded, has
to rely entirely on her own limited re-
sources. Nobly, grandly, did her peo-
pie respond to every demand upon
their patriotism, and for four years
maintained the unequal contest with a
grandeur and sublimity the world
never witnessed before or since. No
grander type of manhood ever existed
than that developed in the southern
soldier. His love of country never
grew less, defeat never discouraged
him, victory never rendered him over
bearing; in battle as fearless as lion,
the battle ended, gentle as dove,
ministering to his wounded enemy as
though he were a brother. In heat or
in cold, sunshine or storm, day or
night, bare footed and ragged, often
with parched corn only as his ration,
whenever his name was called for
duty he answers Here" True as he
was to his country in war, he is today
as faithful to her traditions. AS i'm
mutually as has stood Gibraltar for
ages, so stands he, incorruptible, and
is not for sale. In vain will you
search the pages of history for rec
ord as brilliant, as valiant as that OF
the southern armies. Contending
against odds, both in men and re-
sources, they achieved victory after
victory on many a hard fought field
that find no parallel in warfare. With
an enrolment Of six hundred thousand
against three millions on the part of
the north, victory perched upon our
III every pltCuou UdILle VI IuG
war where the odds were not over
whelmingly against us. And now.
with the lapse of four years of carnage
and desolation. the very foundation of
nature fails, our heroic armies having
fought through twenty-five hundred
combats and battles with a valor, cour-
age and endurance unparalleled in the
annals of time, succumb to means and
resources. They are no longer physi-
cally able to combat. With less than
one hundred thousand men scattered
throughout our entire territory, con-
fronted on all sides by two million or
more of men, our cause became hope
less, longer resistance to the inevitable
useless. With nothing left but man.
hood and womanhood the south falls
prone upon her shield and all is lost,
lost and gone forever
Fallen, yes, bleeding at every pore,
the south furls her once triumphant
banners DER her decimated legions.
Wide DER the fields waste of ruin
laid,
And not rose of the wilderness left
it's stalk
To tell where the garden had been"
The south, proud even in her DESC
latiCn, noble in her decline, venerable
in the majesty of her religion calm as
in the compcsure of death, with no
tinge of shame resting upon her fair
brow. conscious of her own rectitude,
she defantly points to her record, as
white as the everlasting SHOWS on
Alpine heights and says to high
heaven these hands are guiltless OF in.
nocent blood, and the angelic hosts,
with loud acclaim, shout amen
Had | the time 7 would paint to you
in hideous colors the accursed recon-
struction forced upon the bleeding,
helpless south by Federal bayonets
when the civil war ended, when black
heels were placed upon white necks,
vice over virtue ignorance, intellect
and perfect pandemonium reigned SUI
preme. Suffice it to say that era will
ever remain the blacklist page in the
history of the world from which future
generations will give the lie to the
boasted civilization, high culture and
Phariaical religion of the civil war
people of the north whose ancestors
in the early history of this govern
ment actually burned pure, innocent,
helpless women at the stake for being
witches and severely punished hus-
bands and fathers for kissing their